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Magdalena Aotearoa
Magdalena Aotearoa is a network of women in performing arts based in New Zealand (Aotearoa in Māori). 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. Soon after its founding, Magdalena Aotearoa organised a large international festival in 1999. Other activity is to host workshops, forums and international guests throughout New Zealand. Many participants from Magdalena Aotearoa events have gone on to attend related festivals and conferences in other countries that are all part of the original Magdalena Project, based in Wales. Background Founding members Sally Rodwell and Madeline McNamara contacted the authors of ''Magdalena: International Women's Experimental Theatre,'' a book about a group of women in a creative theatre. This led to Rodwell and McNamara presenting their show ''Crow Station'' at the second Magdalena Project festival in 1994 in Cardiff, Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Magdalena Titahi Bay (cropped)
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Frank Kitts Park
Frank Kitts Park is a public park situated between Jervois Quay and the Lambton Harbour waterfront in Wellington, New Zealand. It is named after Sir Frank Kitts, New Zealand politician and mayor of Wellington. Background The park was formed in 1976 on reclaimed land and an area alongside Jervois Quay formerly used for wharf sheds, and was originally known as Marine Park. In 1978 a pedestrian bridge was built over Jervois Quay linking the park to the city. Wellington City Council renamed the park Frank Kitts Park in May 1979, in memory of Sir Frank Kitts who had died two months earlier. Kitts was mayor of Wellington from 1956 to 1974 and a member of the Harbour Board at the time of his death, and the Council wished to acknowledge his long association with the city and harbour. The park was redeveloped by Lambton Harbour Management, a Council-owned organisation charged with waterfront management and development, and reopened in 1990. Horizon Paving Company won an award for Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tii Kouka
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Josefina Baez
Josefina Báez is a Dominican actress. She is the founder and present director oAy Ombe Theatre Troupe(estd. 1986). She was born in La Romana and moved to New York when she was 12 years old. Baez is best known for her performance texts ''Dominicanish'', ''Comrade, Bliss Ain't Playing'' and Levente no. Yolayorkdominicanyork. Baez describes herself as "a performer-writer-educator-director whose work explores the present and its encounters with the past and future." Baez has been involved with multiple theatre festivals and travels globally conducting Ay Ombe workshops and theatre retreats. She often writes about her bi-lingual and bi-cultural experiences. Works Written * ''Dominicanish'' * ''Comrade, Bliss ain't playing'' and its translations to Russian (by Olga Gak), Hindi (Reema Moudgil), Swedish (Maria Roddrick), Spanish (Marcela Reales Visbal), Portuguese (Cristiane Lírica) and Italian Arisleyda Dilone. * ''Dramaturgia I & II'' * ''Como la Una/Como Uma'' (in Spanish & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violeta Luna
Violeta Luna (born February 24, 1943 in Guayaquil) is an Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...ian poet, essayist, professor and literary critic.http://www.festivaldepoesiademedellin.org/pub.php/en/Revista/ultimas_ediciones/65_66/luna.html Poetry Festival of Medellín Awards * ''Award "A los mejores cuentos", 1969.'' * ''Poetry National Award "Ismael Pérez Pazmiño", Diario El Universo, Guayaquil, 1970.'' * ''National Award "Jorge Carrera Andrade", Quito, 1994.'' Published works Poetry: * ''Poesía universitaria (Quito, 1964)'' * ''El ventanal del agua (Quito, 1965)'' * ''Y con el sol me cubro (Quito, 1967)'' * ''Posiblemente el aire (Quito, 1970)'' * ''Ayer me llamaba primavera (Quito, 1973)'' * ''La sortija de la lluvia (Guayaquil, 1975)" * ''Memorias de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Randerson
Joanna Ruth Randerson (born 1973) is a New Zealand writer, director and performer. She is the founder and artistic director of Barbarian Productions, a Wellington-based theatre production company. Biography Randerson was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1973 and moved to Wellington when she was four years old. She studied at Wellington Girls' College, and then went on to Victoria University of Wellington to major in English, theatre and film. She wrote, directed and performed in theatre productions for the Victoria University of Wellington Student Drama Club. At the same time she also wrote for and performed at BATS Theatre Wellington, and made television appearances as a stand-up comedian. After graduating, She co-founded the theatre group Trouble in 1995. In 2012 she finished her Master of Theatre Arts in directing from Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School and Victoria University of Wellington as well as participating in the Leadership New Zealand programme. Randerson was a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Sisters
Pacific Sisters is a collective of Pacific and Māori artists, performers, fashion designers, jewellers and musicians. Establishment and early years The collective was formed in 1992 by Selina Forsyth ( Samoan) Niwhai Tupaea (Ngāti Katoa) and Suzanne Tamaki ( Tūhoe, Te Arawa, Ngāti Maniapoto). The sisterhood also includes Rosanna Raymond (Samoan), Feeonaa Wall (Samoan), Ani O'Neill (Cook Islands), Lisa Reihana ( Ngā Puhi), Jaunnie Ilolahia ( Tongan) and is inclusive of Pacific Soles: Henry Taripo (Cook Islands) and Karlos Quartez (Cook Islands) and Greg Semu (Samoan). Throughout the 1990s Pacific Sisters collaborated in the production of fashion shows, art performances and musical events. Karen Stevenson, author of ''The Frangipani is Dead: Contemporary Pacific Art in New Zealand'' writes, “Challenging the established art canon, The Pacific Sisters combined costume, tradition, dance and the catwalk with the energetic rhythms of hip hop”. The Sisters created a stage for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dianna Fuemana
Dianna Fuemana (born 1973) is a New Zealand writer, director and performer. She writes for theatre and screen. Her solo play ''Mapaki'' was the first that brought a New Zealand born Niue perspective to the professional stage. In 2008 Fuemana won the Pacific Innovation and Excellence Award, at the Creative New Zealand Pasifika Arts Award. Fuemana was one of nine women writer-directors of the 2019 feature film ''Vai''. Biography Dianna Fuemana was born in New Zealand in 1973 and is one of seven children. Her mother is American Samoan and her father Togavale is Niuean. The singer Pauly Fuemana was her cousin. When she was a child she acted in church plays in her community. She went to Henderson High School in Auckland as a teenager, while she was there she attended a short course in performing arts run by Cath Cardiff and Jay Laga'aia. In 2005 she graduated with honours with a Master of Creativity and Performing Arts from Auckland University. Career In 1997 Dianna Fuemana was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella Chiweshe
Stella Chiweshe (also Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe Nekati, Mbuya Stella Chiweshe, or Stella Nekati Chiweshe; 8 July 1946 – 20 January 2023) was a Zimbabwean musician. She was known internationally for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. She was one of few female players, and learned to play from 1966 to 1969, when other women did not. Biography Chiweshe was born on 8 July 1946 in Mujumi Village in Mhondoro. She learned to play the mbira from 1966 to 1969, at a time when there were social taboos against women playing the instrument, as well as colonial British prohibitions on cultural activities. She was taught by her great-uncle, after being refused by many teachers. During this period Chiweshe also performed forbidden Shona spiritual ceremonies. During the 1970s her music supported nationalist and women's rights causes. Her career as a recording artist began in 1974 with the releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Split Britches
Split Britches is an American performance troupe, which has been producing work internationally since 1980. Academic Sue Ellen Case says "their work has defined the issues and terms of academic writing on lesbian theater, butch-femme role playing, feminist mimesis, and the spectacle of desire".Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance, edited by Sue-Ellen Case, Routledge, 1997. In New York City Split Britches have long standing relationships with La Mama Experimental Theatre Company, where they are a resident company, Wow Café, which Weaver and Shaw co-founded, and Dixon Place. Founding Split Britches was founded by Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver, and Deb Margolin in New York City in 1980. Shaw and Weaver met in Europe when Weaver was touring with Spiderwoman Theater and Shaw with Hot Peaches. The company started while Weaver and Shaw were performing in Spiderwoman Theater's performance of "An Evening of Disgusting Songs and Pukey Images”. This was the first time Spiderw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Weaver
Lois Weaver (born 1949, Roanoke, Virginia) is a Guggenheim-winning artist, activist, writer, director, and Professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London. She is currently a Wellcome Trust Fellow in Engaging Science. Her work centers on feminism, human rights and possibilities for public participation. Active for over four decades she is the founding member of significant New York theatre companies Spiderwoman (1975), Split Britches (1980) and WOW (Women's One World Cafe) (1980). Weaver came to London to take on the role of artistic director for Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company in 1992. She lives in New York and London. Early life Weaver was born in Roanoke, Virginia. As a child she began performing with the Mount Pleasant Southern Baptist Church. She graduated with degrees in theatre and education from the all women's college Radford College (later Radford University) in 1972. After graduating Weaver began involved in activism against the Vietnam War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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