For this last BEFORE of the season, the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac invites visitors to explore the world of the LA PIERRE SACRÉE DES MĀORI exhibition. Organized on Friday June 30, BEFORE offers visitors a great evening around the Pacific theme to share with family, solo or friends with an introduction to haka, a temporary tattoo workshop, a DJ Set, unusual tours, performances and many other experiences, allowing everyone to discover the exhibition in a friendly and festive way.

A special feature not to be missed, this BEFORE offers a round trip, on both sides of the Ocean, through a focus on surfing: demonstration of painting on board, concert of surf music, photo studio in the colors of beaches of the Pacific Islands… It's vacation time!

Workshops offer visitors an immersion in traditional Polynesian cultures, by offering a temporary tattooing session freehand by specialist artists, an introduction to the art of plant braiding where visitors can leave with their own crown or even to the haka dance, led by a troop of Tahitian artists.

Visitors are also invited to discover different variants of sculptures: on wood for the artist Jérôme Laojia Hansel, who devotes himself to a performance of "tiki carving", as well as on plexiglass, for the māori artist George Nuku, who assembles the pieces of a pirogue to the rhythm of Marianne Sytchkov's tale, for a discovery of the legend of the boat…

Throughout the evening, a Tiki Bar-themed catering offer offers dishes with exotic notes and fruity cocktails designed for the occasion. Finally, the enchanting DJ Set by Laurent B. & Sunny Buick will end the evening with tropical notes. A sensory journey that will appeal to music enthusiasts as well as to the curious in search of new experiences.

The highlights of the peaceful before

Workshop: temporary tattoos

Want a tattoo for an evening? Visitors choose a motif inspired by traditional models of Polynesian cultures, produced by a show of hands by artists specializing in temporary tattooing… Hibiscus flower, tiki, or even Māori motif? To each his own style !
With Emmanuel Ducruet aka Batmanu & Matthieu Boom
From 19:30 p.m. to 22:45 p.m., 30 mins / session, Cloakroom Foyer

Workshop: making ti-leaf lei

Visitors are invited to learn the traditional art of plant braiding, called lei in Hawaiian, through the making of a ti-leaf crown, a sacred plant and good luck charm. They leave with this sign of affection offered as a testimony of friendship and esteem, that is to say of Aloha.
With the Association France Hawai'i
From 19:30 p.m. to 23 p.m., 30 min / session, Cloakroom Foyer

Introduction to haka

Led by a troop of Tahitian artists, the Terii Nui Tribe led by Teriitehau Taputu, these initiations to haka introduce visitors to the different variants of this dance, on traditional sounds (ukulele, pau, fakete, guitar and songs).
At 20:30 p.m. and 21 p.m., Foyer Nord

Dj set: Laurent b. & sunny buick

Exotica: the word evokes a tropical and mystical paradise! Popular musical genre in the 1950s and 1960s, it is the ideal soundtrack for forgetting everyday life and dreaming of the South Seas. Laurent B and Sunny Buick, members of the collective "La vie Facile", offer an enchanting set from exotic and Hawaiian music.
From 21:30 p.m. to midnight, Foyer Nord

Exhibition of the sacred stone of the Māori

New Zealand green gold, pounamu in the Māori language, is honored at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac from May 23 to October 1, 2017. Designed by the New Zealand museum Te Papa Tongarewa and iwi Ngāi Tahu, the SACRED STONE OF THE MĀORI exhibition highlights the very rich collections of the New Zealand museum.

Green stone is found mainly in the southwest of the archipelago, in a protected territory, bordered by glaciers and fjords. New Zealand's green gold, pounamu, lies in the rivers of the Te Wai Pounamu, literally "the waters of the green stone", the region to which it gave its name. Noble material, symbol of strength and object of fascination, this prestigious stone, erected to the rank of sacred treasure, is at the heart of many beliefs, stories and legends of the Māori people.

The exhibition presents, through a course in 5 sequences spanning several centuries, more than 200 rare taonga (treasures), cut from the precious mineral, including a collection of 96 hei tiki (pendants of human form), of 20 mothers (clubs short), and 4 "touch stones". All are vectors of the mana of their owner, sacred power inherited from ancestors and gods and embodied by high-ranking characters.

An immersion in the rich and living culture of the Māori which allows us to understand the origin of the pounamu (components, varieties, stories, myths, etc.) as well as its multiple uses, its remarkable solidity, the beauty of its ornaments, its preciousness or even its various symbolisms. The exhibition ends with the presentation of more contemporary pounamu works, proof both of the persistence of Māori techniques, and of the symbolic fascination exercised by the green stone.

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