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25/03/2022

Making cold-pressed coconut oil with the Mystic Organics team

01/11/2021

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The Etep Rural hospital is at the brink of closure should funding from the PNG government be delayed any further.

The Hospital is located 15 kilometres inland from Wasu Station of Tewae-Siassi District, Morobe Province. The hospital does not only serve Tewae-Siassi but caters Kabwum District as well as Rai-Coast District of Madang Province. The hospital is a mission run facility under the Lutheran Health Services and serves almost 100,000 catchments of the 3 districts.

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The Etep Rural hospital is at the brink of closure should funding from the PNG government be delayed any further. The Hospital is located 15 kilometres inland from Wasu Station of Tewae-Siassi Distri

16/09/2020

Happy 45th Independence Day from the team at ✨🇵🇬✨
May the future of PNG be filled with and guided by the hearts and minds of our youth who will grown up and carry our stories, cultures and kastoms forward while leading in a way that will ensure our beloved country progresses into the future in a way that benefits all of its citizens, built on a foundation that reflects and honours our ancestral past, with a vision for a much brighter future.

05/09/2020

Uncle Lungol explains the different kinds of drums used to create the beats used for the energetic dancing from Manus Province and the cultural dance group Paluai Sook Sook.

02/09/2020

26/08/2020

Timothy from Garaina village in Bulolo District, Morobe Province talks about some of the bilas used by the Guhusamane during their dances.

Video produced by: Kalolaine Uechtritz / Oceanic Productions ©2020

26/08/2020

Yumi Stori's Ellen Morgan learns some Kuanua language basics from a visit with Aunty Minia.
https://youtu.be/pZpHvMeBnOw

Yumi Stori's Ellen Morgan learns some Kuanua language basics from a visit with Aunty Minia.

26/08/2020

Yumi Stori and Miss Frangipani ENB 2019 Ellen Vera Morgan sits down with Aunty Minia to stori lik lik lo 'Tabu' - the traditional shell money used by the Tolai people of East New Britain, PNG.

Video: Kalolaine Uechtritz

19/08/2020

Yesterday Timothy from Garaina village in the Waria Valley of Morobe Province shared sampela lik lik stori na sing sing blo ol ‘Guhusamane’ 😄
We’re looking forward to sharing a little more about what we learnt about the Garaina people, their tok ples, bilas and fun facts soon!
Stay posted to and don’t forget to get in touch if you want to feature your culture on our page.

17/08/2020

⭐️CULTURAL STORYTELLERS:
Get featured on 🇵🇬🇵🇬
We’ve currently got producers on the ground in POM and ENB and we’re on the look out for more individuals or small groups to share some of their culture and kastom with us so we can keep celebrating the beautiful, unique and diverse cultures that can be found across Papua New Guinea.
If you can:
✅ Tell us a story about “ples blo yu”
✅ Teach a dance or song
✅ Show us your bilas or how to make a certain cultural item or craft skill
✅ Share some basic Tok Ples lessons
✅Based in POM or ENB.
👉🏾👉🏾 Then we’d love to connect with you and produce a story for our ongoing series that celebrates the wonderfully diverse cultures of PNG. 🇵🇬🇵🇬
Also, if there any any media makers out there who would like to contribute from their own provinces/ villages, feel free to send us a message as we’d love to connect with content creators who’d like to come on board and share stories from your corner of PNG.

13/08/2020

Reigning Miss Frangipani ENB 2019 Ellen Vera Morgan shares with Yumi Stori the Sisilipak song from her hometown in New Ireland Province.

This videos are part of a series of work that are a collaboration between Yumi Stori and Matavai Pacific Cultural Arts, who teach Pacific Cultural Arts classes in Sydney Australia, but have now created online classes to share the beautiful cutlures of the Pacific with anyone, anywhere, around the world. For the full lessons, check out Matavai Pacific Cultural Arts.

07/08/2020

We met Aunty Minia while out and about looking for stories about the use of shell money in ENB but especially during the lock-down period.

We wanted find out more about stories we'd heard of an increase in bartering and exchange methods coming into play during the SoE as people were faced with the sudden loss of income through restrictions on movement and doing their usual market stalls.

'Tabu' is an existing currency in East New Britain province and can be used to buy goods, pay fines or taxes but is most commonly used during custom ceremonies.

We'll share more from Aunty Minia when we drop our video.

Stay tuned

06/08/2020

05/08/2020

Today drove out to Keravat lo painim sampela stori blo Tabu (Shell Money).
We were lucky enough to find Aunty Minia na mipela stori lik lik.
We even managed a quick lesson in Kuanua Tok ples... we’ll post more to our stories and a video soon.

Coming to you from the land of the unexpected! @ Keravat, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea

04/08/2020

The song of the dragonfly 🐉🦋
Sung by Tehue & Lois.
A song and dance that talks about a dragonfly who wants to go and swim in the water, but gets scared to go out in the hot sun.
More highlights from this soon.

03/08/2020

🔥VIDEO DROP🔥

MS. Jolina DELA CRUZ shares how she got the lucky opportunity to sing on Dj Dirty Fingerz-PNG new collaborative remix of his song “Lukim Yu”

We also get a sneak peek & listen to the track while Jolina and Trembone Studio Production we’re recording in Kokopo over the weekend!

Enjoy!

03/08/2020

💥Niupela Stori💥

ENB born artist MS. Jolina DELA CRUZ speaks with the team about her newest singing opportunity with Dj Dirty Fingerz-PNG and watch for our video where you’ll get a sneak peek & listen to a new collaboration REMIX soon to be dropped by the talented artist.

01/08/2020

Tsilahi!

Today the Yumi Stori crew spent a few hours with Tehue and Lois learning some language, songs and dance from beautiful Bougainville.

Check out our stories for what we’ve been up to and keep an eye out for our video.

31/07/2020

Jenna Tobi, Gunanur Market vendor (reseller)
“My name is Jenna Toboi and I (re)sell onions, garlic and Maggi Cubes that I buy from K-Central and Anderson’s Supermarket. My business hasn’t really been affected by the State of Emergency lockdown, in fact this market at Gunanur has been better than the Kokopo market for me. When I would go to the Kokopo market I would have to waste money on bus fare and sometimes when I didn’t sell my fresh produce I would have to throw it away. Here, there are plenty of customers and everything sells out.
I have been selling onions and garlic for the last 4 years but before I used to just sell pit-pit, kumu, aibika and karakap.
I don’t know how old I am, but I came to East New Britain in 1976, on January 28th. I came here because of my husband, but I am Sepik. All my children have grown up here and go to school here, but sometimes we visit my family in my village and then we come back. This is our home now.”

30/07/2020

VIDEO DROP >>> “NO MORE” violence against women music project.
An incredible collaboration of some of PNG's Female Musicians.
Originally sung and composed by Mereani Masani, this song is an appeal to our FATHERS & BROTHERS to stand up and be the first to defend the most vulnerable group in society - our women, our mothers, our sisters, children and daughters. We would like to honor and remember those living in violent circumstances and remind them that they are not alone. Mipla tingim yupla stap. You are stonger than you think. RISE Up & SPEAK OUT!

This video is a little snippet produced by Kalolaine Uechtritz as part of the yumi stori PNG team and in collaboration with Ellen Vera Morgan Danielle Morgan and .
Check out Mereani Masani Officialon Facebook for the official video clip version.

29/07/2020

Aunty Christine Valvalu shows us around her plantation where her and her husband facilitate integrated farming with their local community.

Their produce is amazing! And one of their goals is to work with the local and provincial governments to help create skills training so more people can create and maintain their own abundant gardens for more sustainable and healthy living.

29/07/2020

One of the positive things to come out of the SoE lockdown was a heightened appreciation for garden food.

stori tellers got out and about visiting local food producers across ENB province to check all the incredible produce being grown on our fertile land.

More on this story coming soon!

29/07/2020

CULTURAL DANCER'S WANTED:

We're producing a series of short dance lessons for a Pacific Cultural Arts organisation and an online audience.

We're looking to produce 6-8 dances and cultural lessons that showcase the beautiful and diverse cultures of PNG.

The first one was produced with Ellen Vera Morgan sharing the Sisilipak Dance from her home province of New Ireland.

We're looking for dancers based in ENB or POM who would be willing to share some dance and culture for our videos.

OR those based in different parts of PNG who have the ability to produce good quality video of their dance lesson from your location.

If you're interested, please contact us for more info:

7237 5614
[email protected]
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28/07/2020

Our team has been raun lo Kokopo markets collecting stori's recently, keep an eye on this page for our videos - coming soon!

28/07/2020

Welcome to yumi stori PNG where we aim to tell local stories from across PNG.

This is a creative and collective space and we welcome stori ideas and contributions from other stori tellers from across beautiful PNG.