Rainbow Community Creative Workshops

Iatua is a multidisciplinary artist who has performed as a poet in Jafa Poetry slam, as a actor and dancer in theatre productions and dance productions, a previous member of Auckland Theatre Youth Company, also serves as a freelance journalist/writer for the Big Idea NZ, and a guest author and contributor for the Craccum magazine at the University of Auckland. Formally Iatua has a BA in Drama and Pacific Studies, Postgraduate Diploma in Dance Studies, Master of Dance Studies with First class honours and is a University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship awardee and currently will be pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Dance Studies. Iatua's research is centered around the empowerment of Rainbow (LGBTQIA+ / MVPFAFF+) people through mediums of performing arts specifically targeting Siva Samoa in relation to the Samoan community. His passion as an artist and aspiring academic as a whole is to help elevate stories of underserved communities and allow them to grow safely in their creativity and love for the performing arts.