Season 6 of Life-Con Pacific held from 16-18 August endorsed the best in the Samoan creative arts by showcasing fashion, design, performance, music, and visual arts. 

It was a feast for the senses that began with an official opening on Wednesday evening that wet the appetite for the grande finale last Friday evening at the auditorium of the Cultural Art Centre at Malifa.

Appreciating the value of the creative arts in Samoa, the creator of the Life-Con Pacific events, Vaagi Kevin Schuster firmly believes that all the creative arts benefit society by revealing culture, traditions, and values. 

Vaagi invited performers from Don Bosco, fashion designers from Samoan and American Samoan fashion houses, visual artists, and musicians from the National Orchestra. All these creatives gave their best to put on a memorable event of fashion and the creative arts.

The curator of the visual arts exhibition and artist Dr. Vanya Taule'alo was invited to select a dozen artworks. Most of the artists invited were from the Vaosa (the Visual Artists of Samoa Association). Two young emerging artists were also part of the exhibition. 

The artists from Vaosa were Lalovai Peseta, Nikki Mariner, Nadya Vaa, Jessica Jacobs, Vanya Taule'alo Tito Pritchard, Pele Tamiano, Agelo Tausi, plus Joseph Kaiser from EMD and Irae Tanuvasa from the National University of Samoa.

They presented artworks that were contemporary visual commentary on Samoan society today; concerns regarding identity and ownership of our cultural symbols, religion, tattooing, love and loss, legends, and female empowerment, and our beautiful and fragile Samoan environment that is threatened by global warming.

The artworks invited the viewer to connect to the beauty of Samoa and contemplate the social changes that are occurring around us. Designers and artists are motivated to display their best work. It must be appreciated that creatives whatever their art form takes, enrich our society, and provoke, thrill, excite and stimulate our imagination. 

The audience was energised by such events and were uplifted, happy, and excited, by the array of talented works that formed the three-hour finale on Friday.