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Faiva is described as a role model for 'disabled and non-disabled artists and audiences'. She has been a performer for the last 30 years, and considers her career to be her greatest achievement. Faiva is a founding member of New
Zealand's Touch Compass, a professional performance company that is
119:, Faiva was taken from her birth parents and placed into an institution by the state. Ted and Peg Jones fostered her at the age of two, and she was reunited with her birth mother at the age of seven, and discovered her Samoan (Patamea, Savai'i) heritage. She grew up in
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disability-led, producing performance works and arts activations. She has performed for the company in all its major shows in New
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is an autobiographical performance based on her early childhood years spent living in institutions, which she reprised in 2002 and 2007. Described by
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one of the most impactful works I have ever seen. This was truly ground-breaking work
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into a full-length show to tour around the country in the near future.
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323:See also
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394:Awards
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