Christmas plays

Date: 1950s-1986

Reference: PAColl-5492

Description: St Martins Anglican church, Mangaweka, nativity players, planned giving dinner, and the vicarage. These photographs are part of a larger collection in Manuscripts comprising the schedule for services in the Parochial District of Mangaweka (nd); `Parochial District of Mangaweka; a few highlights of its history, 1910-1953'; `Parish life', the magazine of the parochial district including jubilee issue (Aug, Sep 1960); brochure describing the parochial district (nd); `Parish news', the final issue of the `Parish news' before the close of the Mangaweka Paraochial District (1969); letter from Sue Fox, Taupo re these records; and photographs Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940 - 1969

Reference: Eph-B-MAORI-CONCERT-1940/1969

Description: Includes: 1953: University of Auckland. Department of Extension Studies. Coronation Cultural Competitions, Turangawaewae Marae Ngaruawahia. Entry form 1964: 1964 Maori Arts Festival, being a section of the Wellington Festival of Arts 1964 and conducted by the Wellington Competitions Society (Inc). Town Hall Wellington, 22 August 1964. Programme 1965: Wills National Maori Concert Party championships. Town Hall Tauranga, 5 June 1965. Programme / list of competing teams (Presumably sponsored by W D & H O Wills and with advertising inside the front page for Players cigarettes) 1968: Church College of New Zealand. Maori Culture Group (Church of Jesus Christ of latter-Day Saints). "The coming of the Maori" in song and action. 1968 New Zealand tour [9 November - 16 December 1968]. Programme Maori nativity pageant. "Te Rongopai - in the beginning was the Word". A Christmas pageant with a mass choir of 200, written and directed by Richard Campion. Wellington Town Hall, 1-3 December [1968]. Flyer only Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and programmes, sizes varying up to 350 mm. Processing information: 'Maori entertainment by Queen Victoria School for Maori Girls and St Stephen's Boys' School. Souvenir programme [with words and translations. ca 1956]': Combined in to Te Whaiti family ATL-Group-00753, October 2022. Now at Library reference MS-Papers-12777-07.

Date: 1992-1996

From: St George's Church (Seatoun, Wellington) : Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1142

Description: Includes - Sunday school groups. A ceremony on Wellington Harbour that involved throwing a wreath into the water. Children in liturical robes (servers?) with the vicar. adults and children performing a nativity plat. Adults and children in a performance involving David and Goliath. Adults and children at a parish party, June 1993. Children performing in church. People at a parish fair. Children with bags full of plastic etc at a recycling centre. Two unidentified wedding groups. People at unidentified meetings and groups. An outdoor holy communion service, August 1993. Protestors standing on the coast holding banners calling for a nuclear-free and independent Pacific, december 1992. Parish picnic. Procession along a street with men carrying a large wooden cross, Good Friday 1995. Adults and children on the banks of an unidentified river. Children and adults singing. A parish picnic, February 1996. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 2006

From: St George's Church (Seatoun, Wellington) : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1792

Description: Includes - Service that includes a model of a large bird. A Nativity pagent involving adults, Children, and Robin Mellsop, the vicar. Visit of Bishop Tom Brown on 29 April, to celebrate St George's Patronal Festival, confirm people, and join in morning tea after the service. People at the Spring flower Service on 2 September. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1950-1982

From: St George's Church (Seatoun, Wellington) : Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1141

Description: Includes - Copy of the Service of Dedication for the new St George's church building, and a view of the interior, 1957. The new parish hall. New stained glass windows patterned with flowers, 1981. Sunday school children in nativity plays, 1980 and 1981. The Ladies Guild christmas party, the George and Dragon Lunch Bar, and the Community Club christmas party, all 1981. Women's Fellowship fashion parade, 1981. Ladies Guild jumble sales, 1980 and 1981. Views of parish fairs underway, 1981. Christmas carol service 1981. Group of teenagers (Neo-Adults) 1979. Musical and dance performances by the Goode and Godlie Companye, 1982. Parish fair in vicarage grounds, 1957. Views of the church and parish hall in the early 1980s. Three loose photographs of unidentified children. Parish news sheet, 10 December 1950. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1965

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :[Original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1957 to 1968].

Reference: A-310-019

Description: Two rows of male council employees watching a can-can on the stage in front of them. Behind them, a statue of a Maori man in a cloak comments "That wasn't in the original design either" Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 1990

From: Glory Box: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12815-11

Description: Material for promoting, planning and performing Glory Box Christmas shows in 1990. Includes: - Four colour photographs of Glory Box performing in a classroom, one of them annotated "Xmas songs at Playcentre". - A red and green handmade booklet of adapted lyrics for Christmas songs such as "Good King Jim", "Away in a Range Rover", and "Oh! Come all ye Wasteful". - Several pages of handwritten planning, running notes and lyrics for the "Glory Box Get Ready For Christmas Show" at the Plaza International Hotel on 16 November 1990. - Fliers for the "Glory Box Xmas Show" on December 14 and 15 1990 at the Depot. Title taken from item. Arrangement: The material was originally housed in a manila folder labeled “Christmas Show 1990”. Quantity: 1 folder(s) Includes 4 colour photographs. Processing information: The material was removed from the original folder for conservation reasons. A photocopy of the folder annotations is with the material, the folder was not kept.

Date: ca 1960s, 1967

By: Platt, Peter (Sir), 1924-2000

Reference: PAColl-7739

Description: Photographs of two stage productions that were probably staged in Dunedin, taken by unknown photographers. One shows the cast of Rigoletto in 1967, including Sir Peter Platt; the other shows the cast and orchestra of a Christmas play (circa 1960s?). Sir Peter Platt was a professor of music at Otago University from 1957 to 1975 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) dry mounted on card. Provenance: Donated by Lady Jean Platt of Australia on 1 November 2002 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-7577 (A2002-329).

Date: 2009

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012952

Description: The cartoon shows Maori Party MP Hone Harawira reading a newspaper report about a Christmas play to which foster children in the care of CYF (Child Youth and Family) were taken in which there was sexual innuendo and swearing. In this version Harawira wonders where the f****g problem is. Refers to a storm in a teacup over the play which the children enjoyed. It refers also to Hone Harawira's email containing inflammatory language and expletives that he sent in response to a question about his unscheduled trip to Paris with his wife while on government business in Europe. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012951

Description: The cartoon shows Maori Party MP Hone Harawira reading a newspaper report about a Christmas play to which foster children in the care of CYF (Child Youth and Family) were taken in which there was sexual innuendo and swearing. In this version Harawira wonders what the f------g problem is. Refers to a storm in a teacup over the play which the children enjoyed. It refers also to Hone Harawira's email containing inflammatory language and expletives that he sent in response to a question about his unscheduled trip to Paris with his wife while on government business in Europe. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1999-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000224

Description: Photographs relating to performing arts. Includes photographs of theatrical shows, wearable art, christmas concerts, rock concerts and amateur dance and theatre. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Arts (Performing)" Quantity: 110 digital photograph(s).

Date: 21 December 1995

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988

Reference: EP-Ethnology-Polynesian-02

Description: Original Evening Post caption reads: "Playtime - Fereni Ete and the babies appearing in her play: three-month-old Enty Masun, left, plays the baby Jesus, alongside Sina Nafanua Ete, right, and Viadolorosa Tugaga. A Christmas play fusing Christianity and the Samoan culture shows the baby Jesus being born in Samoa." Photograph taken on 21 December 1995 by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney. Arrangement: Negative at EP/1995/4862-F Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler print 25.5 x 18 cm