Since the last update, Liana met with the Centre for Goldrush Collections to discuss our collection, how we can work together to manage it and complete the process of cataloguing and digitising it.

BNT volunteers also helped put together the BNT portion of the Ballarat Theatre History exhibition at BPAC, which was on as part of the Ballarat Heritage Festival. The exhibition was an opportunity to showcase some of the history information we’ve been collating so far. It had a display of the digitised film reel footage, old programs to look through. Peter Nethercote brought in a range of models of his sets over the years, which were included in the display.  Thank you to Laura Hudson, Liana Emmerson and Peter Nethercote for their work on the display, and to the BPAC volunteers who helped with assembly.

This month Liana has also scanned some private items from the collections of Marilyn Chestnut and Athalie Bazzani, which included several programs and articles we previously didn’t have. Thank you to Athalie and Marilyn for your contributions which have enabled us to document information we previously did not have for productions such as The Secretary Bird, Toad of Toad Hall, Tango and more.