Mekar Bhuana Aotearoa - Mekar Bhuana Centre

In March 2022, Vaughan and Evie founded Mekar Bhuana Aotearoa in Wellington, New Zealand with the aim of further spreading the beauty of rare classical and archaic Balinese music around the world.

Mekar Bhuana Aotearoa has six gamelan sets: Semara Patangian, Five-tone Semara Pagulingan, Seven-tone Semara Pagulingan, Selonding, Gender Wayang and Rindik.

Mekar Bhuana Aotearoa offered both gamelan and dance courses at Miramar & Maupuia Community Centre, Wellington. Watch this space should we offer courses again in the future.

Gamelan

Our Gamelan Semara Patangian Course 3 that started on August 17 2022.

Check out the results of just eight sessions in Course One!:

https://youtu.be/7cGjib0DSyk

Check out our postings on Instagram about our course sessions.

Dance

We held a number of courses in 2022 but had a break in 2023 to focus on collaborative performances where Evie both taught and learned from Caraka Seni, an Indonesian dance troupe in Wellington.

Past MBA Events

An ad for our end of year ‘open rehearsal jam’ at MMCC:

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