Magdalena Aotearoa

Founded in 1997 to encourage and promote women's ability to express their political and cultural realities through performing arts, it is a registered charitable trust.

[1] This led to Rodwell and McNamara presenting their show Crow Station at the second Magdalena Project festival in 1994 in Cardiff, Wales.

[3] In 1997, three years after attending the festival in Cardiff, Magdalena Project founder Jill Greenhalgh toured New Zealand and ran a series of workshops.

[4] The founding aims of the Magdalena Aotearoa Charitable Trust are: The Magdalena Aotearoa International Festival of Women's Performance was held 21 March – 4 April 1999 and included performances of shows, workshops, installations, street events, music and cabaret, and an exhibition of fine art.

[9] In addition there was an art exhibition in Shed 6, workshops, public lectures and street performances in the suburb of Newtown.

In Paekākāriki the festival was located at a holiday park where a marquee created a concert venue alongside artist Debra Bustin's Tent of the Universe, where daily workshops were held by Māori tutors.