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Suva, Fiji
Peter Sipeli has more than two decades of expertise in using and managing advocacy through artistic expression. He is an Arts Manager, and supporter of the Spokenword arts movement in Fiji. Peter founded ‘The Poetry Shop, Fiji’ 6 years ago and facilitates regular poetry events in Suva & Poetry circle discussions with new and emerging Fijian writers.
He works as a gay activist using story telling as advocacy. Peter founded an arts online magazine called ‘ARTtalk, Fiji’ that in 2017 ran 10 issues showing arts in Fiji and across the region, ARTtalk, Fiji will be from 2018-2020 be incubated at the Oceania Centre for ARTS, Culture and Pacific Studies, and began a Podcast Series, an audio component to ARTalk.
Peter is passionate about developing the literary arts in Fiji and addressing prolonged silences in the art form. A SLAM poet with a large following, he is a champion of the revival of the literary movement in Fiji, working to provide spaces for new and emerging poets and artists