Search

Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items for Australian performing arts organisations, Australian artists performing overseas, professional productions performed in Australia (including those featuring overseas performers) and overseas performances of Australian plays, music, etc.

Correspondence, notes, laboratory notebooks, a notebook kept on his Australian tour in 1925, newspaper cuttings and photographs. Subjects include: scientific research in New Zealand; visits to Australia and New Zealand; Rutherford's biography; academic appointments; family news; and research and teaching.

Small business advertising, information and thankyou cards.

Collection shows Leanne Benjamin as the principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, performing in Don Quixote and with Christopher Saunders in Gloria, plus one other unidentified performance.

Michele Lee is an Asian Australian artist, of Hmong background. She writes primarily for theatre but also live art, screen and prose. For her play writing and audio writing, she has won AWGIES and Premier's Awards and been nominated for those awards too, as well as Green Room Awards. Her works have been programmed by Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre, Hothouse Theatre, Queensland Theatre, Monash University, St Martin's Youth Arts Centre, Arts House, Radio National, Next Wave Festival, Darwin Festival and You Are Here Festival. She has assessed and judged plays for major awards.

24 printed souvenir dinner menus from Len Evans Wines Pty Ltd with annotated wine tasting notes, collected between 1975 to 1983.

The material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes: Letters 1861-68 of Rev. George Vessey of Melbourne to his family referring to opening of Baptist Chapel in Collins Street, church services, the distribution of tracts, and the 1865 constitutional crisis; Diary 1869 of Leonard Vessey 1847-80 kept on voyage to Australia on the Canaan; Letters 1869-79 of Leonard Vessey to his parents describing his voyage to Australia, impressions of Sydney, Hill End and Bathurst, roads in Blue Mountains, New South Wales politics, and his work as a surveyor in Southern Tablelands and South Coast of New South Wales; Photographs of Leonard Vessey and surveyors at Hill End 1872.

The ephemera collection contains documents of everyday life generally covering publications of fewer than five pages. These may include: advertising material, area guides, booklets, brochures, samples of merchandise, postcards, posters, programs, stickers and tickets.

Information about The Salvation Army and it's programs.

Five letters to Dr. Burney, presumably Charles Burney, relating to Burney's introduction to Lord Sandwich of John Hawkesworth, and his subsequent editing of the Account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere.