Dramatic dance scenes depict Rapanui survivors

Scientific dance mash up
Sacramento News & Review, CA - Nov 1, 2007
The dramatic scenes with actors tell a story—by turns humorous and apocalyptic—about a man and woman who appear to be the only survivors on Easter Island, ...

2009 total solar eclipse/Rapa Nui

Tours are aligning to the east for 2009's total solar eclipse
USA Today - Oct 25, 2007
The next big eclipse occurs in 2010 over Easter Island, but don't get too excited unless you've already made plans. Limited air access and lodging on the ...

Ecosystems and Economics forum/Rapa Nui

Veteran ABC News Science Correspondent Ned Potter moderates panel ...
E-Wire (press release), TX - Oct 24, 2007
The lessons from history are daunting: From Babylonia to Easter Island, thriving civilizations fell as they destroyed the natural environments that ...

Chilean folk dancers perform Rapanui dances/San Jose

3 THINGS TO DO TOMORROW
San Jose Mercury News, USA - Oct 24, 2007
... CollegeChilean folk dance troupe Araucaria will perform dances representative of the various regions of Chile and Easter Island, 7:30 pm Thursday. ...

First-hand account of archaeological summer on Rapa Nui

Anthropology Club plans slew of events for upcoming months ...
Michigan Journal (subscription), MI - Oct 9, 2007
... Swindler and Vice President Lowell Steiner bring first-hand experience in archaeological field techniques after spending a summer on Easter Island. ...

Rapanui educators to visit Cleveland

Cleveland Children to Get a Glimpse of Rapa Nui Culture
All American Patriots (press release), Sweden - Oct 8, 2007
Visiting the Cleveland area October 1-13 are Ana Maria Arrendondo, a headmaster of the municipal school of Easter Island as well as an artist and a ...

Surfing Tournament to be held on Rapa Nui?

Ramón Navarro is setting South American big wave bar
Global Surf News - Oct 3, 2007
... top ten with the possibility of participating in the Master’s Tournament, which will close the Chilean season in December, possibly in Easter Island. ...

Keynote speaker at Kauai sustainability summit drew from Rapanui experience

Kaua‘i represented at sustainability summit
Lihue Garden Island, HI - September 28, 2007
Drawing from his personal work with the Hopi Indians and Rapanui people of Easter Island, Tamminen explained it is up to the state culture to either work ...

Ohio dance collaboration with Rapanui choreographer

A busy season promises to keep troupes on their toes
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - Sep 22, 2007
One of the biggest projects for Bill Wade's modern company is a collaboration with a Rapa Nui choreographer from Easter Island in October as part of an ...

Rapa Nui representative spoke at UN event

At the UN, Declaration of Rights for Indigenous First Nations ...
Inner City Press, NY - 7 hours ago
The speakers went on for more than an hour, including an extensive speech by a representative from Easter Island. UN Television filmed it, but did not put it online.

Ithaca museum displays Rapa Nui photography

Ithaca museum displays photos of world's spiritual landmarks
Elmira Star-Gazette, NY - Sep 13, 2007
He later photographed holy sites in Syria, Jordan, England, Scotland, Mexico and Easter Island. A practicing Buddhist, Izu has more recently focused his energies on Buddhist and Hindu sites in India, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam and Indonesia.

Moai to be topic at October meeting in Huntsville, Canada

Geographer to share travel observations
Huntsville Forester, Canada - Sep 12, 2007
by Rick Stronks STILL A MYSTERY: These enigmatic statues on Easter Island will be just one of the topics discussed by Trisha Healey at the nature club’s October meeting.

International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific

Gotland and Easter islands struggle to preserve heritage
International Herald Tribune, France - Sep 10, 2007
Landscape was an essential underlying theme at the 7th International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific held last month on Gotland, a 4500-square-kilometer, or 1740-square-mile, landmass a 3-hour ferry ride from the Swedish coast.

Rapa Nui lunch event

What's going on
Elmira Star-Gazette, NY - Aug 17, 2007
GLOBE TREKKER: CHILE AND EASTER ISLAND, bring lunch, coffee/tea/treats provided; 11:30 am Horseheads Free Library, 405 S. Main St. Free. 739-4581. ...

Learn about highly advanced civilizations

Learning and fun at the library
Newsdurhamregion.com, Canada - Aug 10, 2007
Children aged six to 11 can learn all about lost, but highly advanced civilizations such as Atlantis, Easter Island and Pompeii by attending the Ancient and ...

Make your own Moai at the Woodbury Public Library

At the Woodbury Public Library
The Photo News
Jul 28, 2007

Monday, July 30, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Middle School “YNK - You Never Know” activity program at the Central Valley branch entitled “History’s Mysteries.” Explore Atlantis, Stonehenge, crop circles and make your own Easter Island Moai. Open to all residents of the Town of Woodbury and the Monroe-Woodbury School District who are entering Grades 6-9. Call 928-2114 to sign up.

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Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes for book club reading

Book groups, other resources available
Holly Teasdle
South Lyon Herald
Jul 26, 2007

Nov. 21, 2007: Easter Island: a novel, Jennifer Vanderbes. It is 1913. Elsa Pendleton travels from England to Easter Island with her husband, an anthropologist sent by the Royal Geographical Society to study the colossal moai statues, and her younger sister. What begins as a familial duty for Elsa becomes a grand adventure.

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Photos from Rapa Nui on show in New York

The Listings
Downtown Express
Jul 6, 2007

Robert A. Virga, “Images: Without Time”In this selection of black and white photographs, the artist aims to capture images that exist outside the constraints of time and place. Also on view: Ellen Schaefer’s “Easter Island – Its Moais and Its Volcanoes,” Richard Shevlin’s “On the Road: From Mumbai to Madurai” and more. Through June 30. Soho Photo, 15 White St. 212-226-8571, www.sohophoto.com.

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Tribal exhibition in New York features Rapanui work

Art in Review
Holland Cotter
New York Times
Jul 5, 2007

General physical resemblance is sufficient reason for displaying a Nepalese shrine figure, an Easter Island ancestor figure and a carved Tlingit dagger ...

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Wyoming event features Rapa Nui photography

Photo exhibit on display
Green River Star Online
Friday June 8, 2007

From photographs of Easter Island Moai to the abandoned gas pumps west of Green River, visitors to the White Mountain Library will find something to intrigue them in the 25-piece exhibit. The program includes comments from Halter and Pieper about each photograph in the exhibit.

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