{"id":62773,"date":"2024-10-07T10:25:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T17:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/?post_type=campaigns&#038;p=62773"},"modified":"2025-02-18T06:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:55:20","slug":"mia-kami","status":"publish","type":"campaigns","link":"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/fr\/what-we-do\/voice\/campaigns\/artist-changemaker-program\/mia-kami\/","title":{"rendered":"Mia Kami"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n                                                            <h5>SINGER\/SONGWRITER<br \/>TONGA<\/h5>\n                <button type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#shareModal\"><\/button>\n\t<p>Mia Kami (she\/her) is a Tongan singer\/songwriter and is currently teaching at Tupou College Toloa in Tonga. Mia is passionate about Indigenous sovereignty, climate change, ocean conservation, education and youth work. She attended the University of the South Pacific where she majored in Law and Politics. Mia channels her passions into songwriting and uses her music to tell her stories as a young Pacific woman. She believes that art is the strongest form of storytelling that connects Pacific and iIndigenous people to their ancestors and their descendants. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC7wt4FvVoaKmxjW690qqhUA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to Mia&rsquo;s songs on her Youtube channel<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/miafilohivalu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow her on Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n        <blockquote>\n                        I&rsquo;ve been fortunate enough to be in the climate space as an artist for over a decade now and songwriting has played a pivotal role in keeping me in these spaces. I often say that I am not a scientist but instead I am a storyteller because I try to talk story through song.                    \n                                                        Mia Kami\n        <\/blockquote>\n\t<p><strong>What role do you think art can play in social change?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Art amplifies the human experience in social change, activism and social justice movements. It gives voice to people who are not often given a seat at the table. It has the power to remind decision makers of the humanity that is in their hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>How would you describe your artistic practice as it relates to supporting social movements?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For as long as I can remember, music and song have been a part of my life. As I got older, I realized that I am incredibly non-confrontational, but with songwriting, I was able to confront issues that I felt were important to the Pacific region. Since then, I&rsquo;ve been fortunate enough to be in the climate space as an artist for over a decade now and songwriting has played a pivotal role in keeping me in these spaces. I often say that I am not a scientist but instead I am a storyteller because I try to talk story through song. Since I started working at Tupou College, I&rsquo;ve made efforts to incorporate art into my teachings as often as I can. This particular experience of writing songs for the school has been really interesting for me because it has allowed me to take on a different form of storytelling that is much closer to home, literally. The songs I&rsquo;ve written for the school reflect the spirit of this school in a way that only music can.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\tFeatured work\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/mia_kami_mana_salt_water?subtitle=en\" width=\"1024px\" height=\"576px\" title=\"\"Mana\" \/ \"Salt Water\"\"  frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen onload=\"window.parent.postMessage('iframeLoaded', 'https:\/\/embed.ted.com')\"><\/iframe>\n\t<p>A song titled Salt Water<\/p>\n                                            <h2>Make an impact<\/h2>\n                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/join.globalfundforwomen.org\/a\/donate\">\n                                    Donate                                <\/a>\n                        Sign up for our newsletter\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shirley (she\/her) and Araceli (she\/her) are the artist-duo of Cooperativa Visual, an interdisciplinary DIY collective of Bolivian women. In the past few years, they have been working with themes relating to the preservation of memory, through the mediums of image and sound to encourage critical reflections and new ways of thinking. They also work with a variety of communities who are being affected by extractivisms \u2013 extraction including deforestation and mining &#8211; within their territories and also with women whose lives have been damaged by the structural violence of patriarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":62709,"parent":50600,"menu_order":1,"template":"","tags":[147],"campaign_category":[],"class_list":["post-62773","campaigns","type-campaigns","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-changemaker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaigns\/62773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaigns"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campaigns"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaigns\/50600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62773"},{"taxonomy":"campaign_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaign_category?post=62773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}