Pasin Tumbuna Festival

It will be a fascinating twist on the standard festival with the focus firmly on traditional skills and knowledge.

The event will showcase the skill and expertise involved with traditional crafts including carving, basket weaving and bilum making.

This will be the third year that the Nature Park has put on the event with the support and backing of the PNG Tourism Promotion Authority

The festival will also coincide with the third APEC Senior Officials Meeting and provides a great opportunity to showcase PNG culture to the international guests.

Today’s festival celebrated the traditional skills and daily practices of our forefathers.

Loop PNG took to the Nature Park this morning to witness groups from all over Papua New Guinea showcasing their special skills.

Skills ranged from food preparations, face paintings, carving making, traditional dances and songs passed down from generation to generation from their fore fathers.

The event saw many expatriates moving from one stall to another, tasting the different dishes, asking questions about the songs and dances and trying on different attires for pictures.

With the focus firmly on traditional skills and knowledge, the event will showcase the skill and expertise involved with traditional crafts including carvings, basket weaving, bilum making as well as showcase the preparation and making of traditional foods, bilas preparations and others.

This will be the second year that the Port Moresby Nature Park has put on the event with the support and backing of the NCDC and the PNG Tourism Promotion Authority. 

Set for a week after the 42^nd anniversary, the annual festival, will be held on September 24.

The day sees traditional skills and daily practises of the forefathers reborn once more.

Last year’s Pasin Tumbuna Festival saw performances include sago making, carving masks and totems, basket weaving, traditional painting, dances, fire making, and food processes such as aigir, maget, cassava cake and kulau jam among others.