Legacy and Challenge: Celebrating 25 Years of the Magdalena Project

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Over the past 25 years, The Magdalena Project network has been responsible for hundreds of festivals, gatherings and events across the world, made possible through the fortitude of some extraordinary women artists defiantly determined to give an equality of voice to women’s performance. This celebration aims to honour these women, their theatre and their knowledge and bring them together in Cardiff — the Project’s birthplace.

Among the many acclaimed artists contributing to the programme are: Teresa Ralli and Ana Correa from the Peruvian company Yuyachkani; multi award-winning writer, director and activist Patricia Ariza and Teatro La Mascara, Colombia; actress and director Madeline McNamara from New Zealand; and Julia Varley from Denmark’s Odin Teatret.

Brigitte Cirla’s Voix Polyphonics are performing a special concert in Llandaff Cathedral; Geddy Aniksdal (Grenland Friteater, Norway) and Jolanta Krukowska of Poland’s leading company Akademia Ruchu are both designing unique celebratory events; Helen Varley Jamieson, inventor of the term ‘Cyberformance’, is running MagNet, a virtual programme space that will feature women from across the world who cannot make it to Cardiff. There will also be contributions from Welsh artists Sharon Morgan, Fern Smith and Eddie Ladd.

This special gathering gives the chance to evaluate the legacy of the Magdalena Project and to identify future challenges. It’s an opportunity to experiment and propose new strategies for thinking, making, organising and, most importantly, continuing.

The week of events features performances, work demonstrations, works-inprogress, debates, and workshops, streaming of selected events and online activities for those who cannot attend.