Performance Memories Project
Partnership
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| Robert Brough as Jean Torqueuie in A
Village Priest, a play translated from the French by Sydney Grundy,
1894. Photo Ugo Catani. Image in the Dennis Wolanski
Library collection at the SBW Foundation. Exhibited at the Sydney
Opera House and probably copied from an original in the State
Library of NSW.. |
In 2017 the Wolanski Foundation formed a
partnership with the University of New South Wales Library, University of
New South Wales Theatre and Performance Studies, and AusStage to develop the
Performance Memories Project.
The project is inspired by the work of the
partners in developing the performing arts industry, documenting its
heritage and writing about its history. The University of New South Wales
was associated with the establishment of NIDA, Old Tote Theatre Company and
Jane Street Theatre. It played a major role in the opening of the Sydney
Opera House. UNSW staff have a proud record in performing arts scholarship,
music and theatre criticism.
The project aims to
facilitate research on the performing arts,
improve access to the Dennis Wolanski Library research files,
programs and indexes, and
support the development of AusStage.
The Dennis Wolanski collection, transferred
from the SBW Foundation in 2016, comprises an estimated 4 million pages of information
mainly about the performing arts in Australia 1789-1997 in the form of
clippings, programs, correspondence, discographies, CVs, invitations,
funeral service programs, program notes, publisher blurbs, press releases
and card indexes with 85,000 entries. The SBW Foundation retained a small
collection of archival material and photographs, including the photograph to
the left,
In 2018, the Performance Memories Project will be focussing on converting the card indexes to digital
form, creating a digital list of all research files and adding selected
unindexed programs to the digital lists as we prepare digitisation plans and
migration of data and digital objects to discovery platforms.
More information
Performance Memories Project
Dennis Wolanski Library Research Files,
Programs and Indexes
