'We are Samoa Gala' - Sisa Grey & 'O le Olaga o Samoa'
The Grey family is proud to announce the launch of the Jerome Grey Performing Arts Scholarship Fund, a program designed to provide scholarships, mentorship programs, and resources to young Pacific Islanders looking to pursue a career in the arts.
Whether it be a career in music, acting, theater, dance, fashion, painting, or culinary arts, there are so many budding artists out there in the Pacific community aching to pursue their dreams, but often it becomes a matter of access to resources, information or just the encouragement that IT. CAN. BE. DONE!
Jerome Grey's daughter Sisa gets raw with us & shares her personal experience of working towards a standard education or a degree that didn’t feel authentic to her and didn’t fill her cup. It was only when she stepped into her truth to pursue her love of acting that she was able to bring together a very, very rare opportunity to combine her love of acting, her love of the Sāmoan culture, and her love and deep appreciation for her Dad’s music to the small screen.
Check out the moment when Sisa brings a Sāmoan character to a show on Showtime, where she teaches a young girl how to dance the Siva Sāmoa to the Fa’anānā Jerome Grey classic, “O Le Olaga O Sāmoa”, a song that talks all about the beauty of life in Sāmoa.
So to all you young musicians, actors, fashion designers, dancers, choreographers, painters, chefs out there who are dreaming to do the thing. We hope you give yourself permission to do the thing.
Do the thing that is gnawing at your soul, bring your best self and passion to it, because that is where magic happens. Funds raised at the We Are Sāmoa Gala will go to supporting three very important initiatives that are inspired by the Grey Family story and all of which support the Pasifika community: 1) General Academic Scholarships; 2) Diabetes and Heart Disease Awareness Programs; 3) the Jerome Grey Performing Arts Scholarship.
Follow @wearesamoagala (on Instagram) to buy tickets or learn how you can get involved!
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Sisa shares a bit more of her world with us here -