Emele Ugavule’s bold vision for NZ’s Pacific arts community - Stuff / The Press Weekend Magazine – 2024
A feature exploring Emele’s strategy for nurturing Pacific-led creative practices in Aotearoa.

Melanesian recognition overdue says leading Pacific writer - Pacific Media Network - 2024
Emele Ugavule highlights how more to be to support the Melanesian diaspora in New Zealand.

Lessons from Emele: Empowering Pasifika Stories - Mila's Books - 2024
In this heartfelt feature interview, Emele Ugavule reflects on her ancestral roots, the founding of Rarama Ink, and the vital role of cultural care and story sovereignty in independent publishing. She shares insights on nurturing emerging Pacific storytellers—and why reclaiming our narratives matters deeply.

Emele Ugavule: Storytelling and the vitality of contemporary Melanesian culture Radio NZ – 2024
A feature on storytelling as a living practice essential to Melanesian identity today.

Emele Ugavule – “Looking at how people from Oceania use social media” ABC Pacific / Pacific Beat – 2020
A brief feature about Ugavule’s research into how Pasifika and Pacific communities engage with social media — and what that means for identity, connection, and cultural authority.

Te Molimau: How rising sea levels erase culture – Sydney Morning Herald – 2019
A feature exploring how climate-driven sea-level rise threatens the cultural survival of coastal and Pacific communities, showing how the loss of land erases ancestral sites, traditions, and identities.

Te Molimau – Belvoir St Theatre / RNZ Pacific – 2019
A powerful, tri-lingual theatre show directed by Emele Ugavule that dramatises what the climate crisis could mean for a Pacific community’s survival.

Te Molimau — Emele Ugavule & Co-creators on ABC Radio National – 2019
A short radio-feature about Te Molimau, a theatre production created by and starring Tokelauan and Torres Strait Islander artists that imagines the loss of Tokelau to rising sea levels.

Te Molimau - Review / Suzy Goes-See - 2019
A review of Te Molimau

Exhale - Review /Suzy Goes-See - 2019
A review of Exhale, presented by Black Birds and Griffin Theatre Company

Brown Skin Girl - identity & the colonial gaze - Review / Archival Decolonist, 2019
A review

Brown Skin Girl - Review/Suzy Goes-See -2019
A review of Brown Skin Girl, presented by Black Birds at The Old Fitz

Brown Skin Girl – Black Birds / ABC News – 2018
A feature on Brown Skin Girl, a bold stage show by Black Birds — co-founded by Emele Ugavule and Ayeesha Ash — that confronts the lived experiences of Black and Brown women in Australia.

Black Birds - Review / Time Out - 2017
A review about Black Birds by Ayeesha Ash and Emele Ugavule at Q Theatre.

Black Birds- Review /Sydney Arts Guide - 2017
A review about Black Birds by Ayeesha Ash and Emele Ugavule at Q Theatre.

‘Black Birds’ actor Emele Ugavule wants to talk to you about her hair – HuffPost Australia – 2017
A feature on how Ugavule’s experiences with her “hair identity” reveal the everyday boundaries, stereotypes and racialised interactions faced by Black and brown women in Australia, and how these themes shape the storytelling and purpose of Black Birds.