June Update - BNT History Project
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.
List of digitsed items
Program | Toad of Toad Hall | from Marilyn Chestnut | Read more |
Newspaper clipping | Toad of Toad Hall | from Marilyn Chestnut | Read more |
Program | The Odd Couple | from Marilyn Chestnut | Read more |
Program | Astonish Me | from Marilyn Chestnut | Read more |
Newspaper clipping | Awards 1985 | from Marilyn Chestnut | Read more |
Program | Chase Me Comrade | from Marilyn Chestnut | Read more |
Program | Dangerous Corner | from Marilyn Chestnut | Read more |
Newspaper clipping | The Importance of Being Earnest | from Marilyn Chestnut | Read more |
2 x Newspaper clipping | Relatively Speaking | from Marilyn Chestnut | Read more |
Newspaper clipping | RSSS Competitions | from Marilyn Chestnut | |
Program | Tango | from Marilyn Chestnut | Read more |
Newspaper Clipping | RE: loss of The Little Theatre | from Marilyn Chestnut | |
2 x Newspaper Clipping | A Bird in the Hand | from Marilyn Chestnut | Read more |
Program | A Taste of Honey | from Athalie Bazzani | Read more |
Program | The Secretary Bird | from Athalie Bazzani | Read more |
2 x Script | A Taste of Honey | from Athalie Bazzani | Read more |
Script | The Secretary Bird | from Athalie Bazzani | Read more |