The Magdalena Aotearoa Trust was established in 1997 by Sally
Rodwell and Madeline McNamara. In 1994, they took their show
Crow Station to the Magdalena Festival in Cardiff, Wales;
their experience of this festival and the dynamic, multicultural
structure of the Magdalena Project
inspired them to expand the network into Aotearoa and the South
Pacific.
The aims of the Magdalena
Aotearoa Trust are:
- to encourage and promote the work of women in the performing
arts;
- to create the artistic, training and economic structures to
enable women in theatre and related art forms to practise their
craft;
- to encourage innovative individual and collaborative projects
in the performing arts;
- to encourage the use of, respect for and knowledge of diverse
theatrical forms and performance events to express the political
and cultural realities of the many different groups of women in
Aotearoa;
- to set up a programme of workshops and performance events to
enable more women to acquire the confidence and skills to take
the initiative and create work situations for themselves;
- to establish a network
of women artists both nationally and internationally;
- to be guided by the principles
of the Treaty of Waitangi in promoting an active working partnership
between Maori and tauiwi women in all of the Trust's work (the
word "tauiwi" denotes all those, other than Maori, who have settled
in New Zealand);
- to host festivals that
promote the above aims;
- to do any other act within
Aotearoa that advances the above charitable aims.
Who we are
Trust Members
Madeline McNamara, Lisa Maula, Helen Varley Jamieson, Dale Ferris,
Jessica Sutherland and Lilicherie McGregor.
Founding Directors
Sally Rodwell and Madeline McNamara
Newsletter and web site
Helen
Varley Jamieson
Accountant
Julie Lamb and Associates
Magdalena Aotearoa Trust
PO Box 27-300
Marion Square
Wellington
New Zealand
Phone/fax: 64-4-905 4233
Email
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AGM 2005
AGM 2002
Trustees, 1999 |
