Noma Sio-Faiumu

Noma Sio-Faiumu is an event producer and arts manager She has worked for over 30 years as an arts administrator within the New Zealand arts industry. Her work is cross-cultural and spans a wide social spectrum facilitating multidisciplinary art projects independently and for leading arts organisations. Within arts administration, Sio-Faiumu served as the lead facilitator for the APO (Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra) Remix the Orchestra for a decade. The show received an International Music Council Musical Rights Award from the United Nations in 2013. Her family migrated to New Zealand in the late 1960s and settled in South Auckland. They settled after a journey from Samoa to Fiji on the Tofua boat, followed by a flight from Fiji to Auckland. and began her lifelong relationship with Otara Music and Arts Centre through a youth development program. This helped to create a young orchestra that was ready to compete on a national level. The programme was a collaborative effort between the Auckland Arts Festival and Auckland communities, featuring five projects celebrating creative intergenerational conversations.

2016 - 2020

Auckland Arts Festival - Whanui Programme

(Contracted)

Project Coordinator for the Whanui Programme

2016

Otara Music and Arts Centre

Being a part of the team who initiated the Manukau Secondary Schools Performing Arts Awards which is now Stand up Stand out (SUSO)

2017–Present

37Hz Productions

Co-founded and currently serves as the Managing Director of 37 Hz Productions, a digital creative production company, since 2017

2018

4 THA LUMANA'I

Producer of 4 THA LUMANA'I

2019–Present

SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music

Co-Chair / Toihau Matarua of the Board of SOUNZ

2021

New Zealand Festival of the Arts - 37 Hz Productions: Resample Tatau

Produced Resample Tatau with her co-founded production company 37hz Productions.