by Ana Woolf
M2G yesterday and today Back then, in November 1997, I was 29, just days shy of my 30. The end of the story, or the beginning of many others, was: to return home and build "our Magdalena 2nd Generation" (M2G) with my colleague Florence Coppola and Mar del Plata Natalia Marcet. I wanted my space of expression as "new generation", I also moved the constant questions about what it meant to be a woman today in the Argentine theatrical field, do we have the same problems in the '80s? And again: what we have here in Argentina and Latin America the same problems there in Europe? This and other concerns, the need to do something for the women I knew and I knew they had difficulties in developing their art and make it become work, and also the extreme "solitude" that no group was as an artist, gave birth to M2G. With the distance, and more closely, I know it was and is also the need to follow in the footsteps of one who is my teacher and want her to feel proud of me as I am of her and her work for and with other women. Activities and organizations of workshops, lectures, meetings closed research and an international festival. Then came a moment of "suspension" where he continued working M2G (2002-2008) but in a small format, where it grew and deepened relationships and the desire to build great things turned into something concrete: to survive with our art possible through partnerships (ie two, three women) in our potential areas and spreading every time we had opportunity Magdalena principles. Two years ago, have returned to action. Thanks to Julia Varley who is always at the right time, reunion to another artist from Argentina, Gabriela Bianco (ADAS, Association Argentina Arts and Signs) who promotes the idea of \u200b\u200brestarting our meetings, to turn us Marcet Natalie and me, Laura D'Anna, Natalia Tesone. Natalia Rey, who in turn introduces us to Sandra Califano, who in turn introduced us to his sister Sabrina Califano, were also Susana Freire, Nilda Blanco and later Marcela Brito. And we were walking. And this blog was one of our more concrete possibilities of feeling that we did, we can begin to spread the network, perform a common task that could be kept constant without depending on the time of foreign economic aid, only of our willingness to continue building and the generous donation of time each of those who write and edit so generously.
had been 10 years since our inception. If I stand with one foot on both sides of the transition between a past that is present went ahead and know that these years were, for us, the onset, years of incubation of these other projects' a little bit bigger 'appear to be emerging now and this new outlet to the outside. Years of construction and consolidation of an artistic discourse, an artistic space. Years out of the country, in my case, and rethink operating principles and "non-functioning" of our first attempt at Red full of youthful enthusiasm but with little anchorage in reality: economic, fundamental problem was not in degree or anticipate or predict. Our enthusiasm led us to organize and maintain the Red
The M2G has a particular structure because we are artists who live in Argentina. Some parallel work done to solve their daily expenses. We pay a monthly fee to have "cash in petty cash and still not have "big box." We have legal status (we are on track to be ...) a non-profit NGOs have profit but we definitely could, this is our aspiration. Some of the women who were in our reset in 2008 were, others left, new ones were added and other follow us closely and cooperate when we can. The 4 women most active at this time is 4 actresses have in common a sight that I went ( Traveling ). These movements taught me that we need a "community art project that women activists of an organization (art) for this is kept alive and not be eaten and destroyed by the organizational and the tensions it generates. We have a blog that serves as on-line magazine. Out every month with articles, reports and notes on women working in the artistic and social space. We have a home outside Buenos Aires with its own activity in the city of JunÃn founded by Mario Diaz who found his own artistic independence and identity in this "thing" called M2G magdalenasjunin@live.com and independently organized meetings, and theatrical Moved and for the people of his city.
This year we have organized and three meetings in the city of Buenos Aires "modest but real and convincing," And if we know the faces "(May 2010)," And if we still know "(September). The third was in December, "And if we work together" initial step for a future national festival-international-Latin American (?) In 2011.
I'm already going 40. And moms are really MAGDAS and / or symbolic (say "aunts"). We playing hopscotch
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