Voices Across the Waters
Voices Across the Water connects the experience and practice of Pacific educators in Australia with our people in our island homes. It is APEN's platform for sharing practice, resources and partnerships, so we can support each other, grow educational excellence, and carry what our communities are living through, especially the realities of climate change and its impacts on education.
Moana Women Rising
When: Friday 4 and Saturday 5 September 2026
Where: National University of Samoa
When: Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 September 2026
Where: Tuvalu
Moana Women Rising is APEN's Pacific women's climate storytelling initiative. Women and gender-diverse teachers gather in talanoa, grounded in vā and fa'aaloalo and led by fāgogo, to share how climate change is shaping their classrooms and communities. The first phase runs in Samoa, with the National University of Samoa and the Tagata Moana Writers Hub.
Tupu Toa
Coming soon
TUPU TOA
APEN's youth and student leadership strand of Voices Across the Water. Grounded in education as its foundation, it connects young Pacific students in Australia with their peers across the islands, building leadership through cultural identity rather than around it, through culturally grounded mentoring, ancestral knowledge, and shared talanoa across the water. Tupu Toa grows the confidence, voice, and pathways students need to lead in their schools and communities.