Lindsay Reva McNicol
President for Reva Tahiti Productions
Ia Orana, Manava, Maeva,
On behalf of Reva Tahiti Productions, I warmly welcome you to our second largest Tahitian Annual event to which dancers and musicians will perform and sing for us to celebrate together our love for our islands.
One of my goals is to continue to work together as a community and reinforce our solidarity to highlight our culture and traditions.
We are celebrating a new theme this year: Te Aroha.
We look forward to another memorable celebration where our Pacific Islander Community can proudly share our unique cultures and may our children also experience a sense of pride in which we are as a people.
Our Heiva San Diego weekend is August 10
- 12, 2012
Location is the beautiful Sheraton Harbor
Island
Enjoy Heiva San Diego!
Mauru’uru
Te aroha ia rahi
Lindsay Reva McNicol / Chairperson
Reva Tahiti
Productions
Reva Tahiti Productions is an
organization whose purpose is
to share the cultures and
traditions of Tahiti and South
Pacific islands with the United
States.
Contact Us
Lindsay Reva McNicol
President
Email me at
heiva.revalin@gmail.com
Maeva Tarahu-McNicol
Please email for general
inquiries
Email me at
heiva.maeva@gmail.com
Communication
We are honored that our event is
now posted on "La France aux
Etats-Unis" newsletter.
Read article
We are in the Tahiti Newspapers (la
Depeche / Les Nouvelles).
Read article
Please join our Facebook Page
for timely information on this
year's events
Emcees
Our emcees for the weekend will be:
Babe Valero
Hula Ramos
Tahiti
Legendary Tahiti, isle of love,
has long been the earthly
paradise. Explorers Wallis,
Bougainville, and Cook all told
of a land where the climate was
delightful, hazardous insects
and diseases unknown, and the
islanders among the handsomest
ever seen. A few years later,
Fletcher Christian and Captain
Bligh added their remarkable
tale to Tahiti’s legends.
The list of famous authors who
traveled to Tahiti include
Herman Melville, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Pierre Loti, Rupert
Brooke, Jack London, W.
Somerset Maugham, Charles
Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
(the Americans who wrote Mutiny
on the Bounty), among others.
The once obscure French
painter, Paul Gauguin,
transformed the primitive color
of Tahiti and the Marquesas
into powerful visual images
seen around the world. When WW
II shook the Pacific from Pearl
Harbor to Guadalcanal, French
Polynesia got a U.S. serviceman
named James A. Michener, who
added Bora Bora to the legend.
Marlon Brando arrived in 1961
on one of the first jets to
land on Tahiti and ultimately
acquired his own “private”
atoll, Tetiaroa.
Heiva
Heiva
is French Polynesia's most important
festival which takes place every year in
July. It is a celebration of colorful
traditional costumes, skills and music of
the beat and sound of the drums, a hypnotic
groove in a celebration of life and
traditionally preparation for war.
Dates to remember:
August 10, 11 and 12, 2012
Heiva San Diego 2012 from August 10 to
August 12, is the largest Tahiti Annual
Cultural Festival in San Diego, California!
Festival includes:
- Opening ceremony of the Heiva San Diego on
Friday August 10
- Miss Heiva & Mr Heiva Competition on
Friday August 10
- Heiva San Diego Orero Opening and Solo
Dance Competition: Saturday August 11 and
Gala Dinner
- Heiva San Diego Finals Solo and Groups
Competition: Sunday August 12
- Heiva San Diego Awards Ceremony Sunday
August 12
The three-day Heiva San Diego’s event will
take place August 10 – 13, 2012, at the
Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina on
Harbor Island in San Diego, California.
This location, perfect for our guests flying into San Diego, is just 3 minutes from the San Diego airport. Nestled at the edge of spectacular San Diego Bay, the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina enjoys panoramic views of the bay and the city skyline yet is just 10 minutes from renowned attractions including the San Diego Zoo, Old Town and Balboa Park.
Heiva San Diego event was created in recognition of the love of Tahitian Dancing. 2012 is a special year for Reva Tahiti Production. We are introducing more international artists and varied activities including tattoo artists, a Tahiti Village, authentic food from Tahiti, and spectacular music (ukele,drumming) performances.
REVA TAHITI PRODUCTIONS is a cultural organization dedicated to promote friendship, understanding and cultural awareness between the people of French Polynesia and the United States through dancing, singing, education and the cultural arts.
If you’re not a member of our community yet, stop by and sign up for our newsletter at our next event. Everyone involved with the Heiva San Diego are all volunteers. Each one of them donate their time, expertise, energy and optimism to all aspects of the event. If you think you might be able to help and would like to get involved, please contact us: heiva.maeva@gmail.com
