[3] In 1996 the Sisters were invited and also received funding from Creative New Zealand to perform in Samoa for the seventh Festival of Pacific Arts: Tala Measina.
[1] In 1998 their performance Tribe Vibe and the Extended Family Mix was selected as part of Sydney's Pacific Wave Festival.
The opening exhibition included Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists, "a celebration of mana wāhine, indigenous identities, and the role this collective has played over the past 26 years – through their collaborative works across fashion, performance, music, and film – in giving voice and visibility to Māori and Pacific peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand," curated by Nina Tonga.
[11][12] This exhibition toured to the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmiki between Sat 23 Feb 2019 — Sun 14 Jul 2019[13] and provoked the following thought in an essay on the Auckland University digital platform Perspective in response to the question: In what ways does the Pacific Sisters’ ‘fashion activism’ challenge pre-existing ideas of identity and gender?
:[14] "The Pacific Sisters’ “fashion activism” embraces hybridity to challenge the ways in which pākehā hegemony has determined their identity, by creating new dress forms and rituals that reflect urban diasporic reality, and reinforcing agency over their own gender representation."