Arts - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1980 - 1983

By: Famularo, Silvio, 1936-

Reference: Eph-D-VARIETY-Silvios

Description: Includes posters for cultural events, arts courses, entertainment, mainly in 1981: ANZArt; Australia New Zealand art encounter [Christchurch 1981?] "Big and little"; scenes by Botho Strauss. Downstage Theatre, from 19 June [1981] Two shows at Circa Theatre, created especially for 4-10 year olds: Town and Country Players in "You can't be afraid until you've been afraid"; and "How the moon began", with Felicity Day, Debbie Hager and Rose Wedde. 24 August - 4 September [1981?] The Clean E.P. "Boodle, boodle, boodle". One night only in Wellington, Terminus, 11 November [1981] Coup d'Etat. Appearing at Terminus, Thurs 28th Direct from USA: Bobby Shew, Lanny Morgan, Jeff Hamilton, Gordon Brisker, Tom Garvin, Don Rader, with All Star Big Band. Wellington, Majestic Cabaret, 20-21 May [1982?] Los Dogs, at the Royal Tiger, Fri 25th Sept; Sat 26th Sept [1981] Eight Eleven Eighty One; an exhibition of ceramics & painting. SelLing Ngan, Allan Snook, Rosemary Stokell, Brian Wong. Wellington Cultural Centre World Trade Centre, 9-20 Nov 1981. An evening with the Hot City Cats. Varsity Restaurant, this Friday 7-11 [1981-1983?] Hot City Cats. Chips, Sun 1st [1981?] Frame Ups; a exhibition of colour photographs by Mary mcPherson [and] Martin Taylor. PhotoForum Gallery, 2-20 June 1981. Joe Henderson, one of the giants of the tenor saxophone (ex Miles Davis, Chick Corea. Wellington Majestic Cabaret 26th; Auckland Gluepot Ponsonby Thursday 27th [1981] Impulse Dance Theatre. "Frames" art gallery tour. National Art Gallery, 25-26 May [1981] (Art: Darryl White; Logan Print, Gisborne) Jon McLeary. Egypt; exhibition of ink pastels. Natural Juices Cafe, Wed 8 July [1981] Mad Ranks. The Resort this weekend, 7-9 May [1982?] (2 copies) Arthur Manawatu. Paintings + linoprints. Closet Artists Gallery, 520 Queen St, 3-21 August The Mockers. New single out now, "Trendy lefties" [1981] Mockers; Protons. Wellington Teachers' College, Thurs 30 April [1981] Music at Circa; a series of Monday night concerts. Colleen Rae-Gerrard, Deborah Rawson, Anne Lanston, Michael Calvert, Wellington String Quartet, Omnibus. 21 and 28 Sept, 5 and 12 Oct [1981] Neoteric Tribesmen, playing at Studio 7 with The Innocent [and] Tin Syndrome. Fri 25th, Sat 26th [ca 1981] New Zealand architecture; a photographic survey. New Zealand Institute of Architects. Uptairs, City Art Gallery, 65 Victory Street Wellington [1981-1983] "Factual C"; a exhibition of paintings by David Ortega. City Limits Cafe, 20 Oct - 10 Nov [1981-1983] Primitive Art Group at Rawa House. Thurs 24 Sept 1981 Primitive Art Group. National Art Gallery, Sunday 2.00pm 26th Sept [1982] The Private Eyes tonight! Terminus, 21-23 April [1981] The Private Eyes. Terminus, Sept 25 + 26! Are you man enough for Jason Sad; then go all the way. As seen on TV [photo of pig. ca 1981] The Screaming Blam-matic roadshow [Screaming Meemees, Newmatics, Blam Blam Blam. 1981] From USA. Bobby Shew, Steve Erquiaga, Johnny Carson Trio, Dick Hopp Sextet, Frank Gibson jnr, Rodger Fox Big Band, Andy Brown. Jazz on Sunday. Majestic Cabaret 3 May [1981] Silvio's Xmas variety show; music, mirth, magic, melodrama, merriment, music hall, madness. Special guest artsts Frances Green, Dave Olerenshaw, Jacque Harvey. Wgtn Operatic Soc Hall, 8-14 Dec [1981] Strikemaster. Heavy rock. Apparing at Terminus, 5-6 Oct Taste of Bounty. Cricketers, from Thurs 27 Aug [1981] Taste of Bounty are now Radio-Active, appearing live in concert. Newlands Arms, Fri/Sun, 15-17 May [1981] Techtones 3 [ca 1981] University Drama Club. Tristan Tzara's "The gas heart", and Sam Shepard's "Cowboy mouth". Union Hall, 28 July - 1 August [1981] The Valentinos [ca 1981] "The wind and the rain", a comedy by Merton Hodge. Downstage Theatre from 24 July [1981] Quantity: 36 posters. Physical Description: Photolithographs and photocopies on posters, sizes varying from 100 to 600 mm. Provenance: From Silvio Famularo, Wellington, in 1983.

Date: 1980 - 1983

By: Famularo, Silvio, 1936-

Reference: Eph-B-VARIETY-Silvios

Description: Includes posters for cultural events, arts courses, entertainment: "Ain't got nothin' but the blues"; jazz concert. National Art Gallery, 18 October [1981] Ballads to Blues. Overseas artists plus top NZ acoustic performers. State Opera House, Sunday 31st May [1981] Michael Calvert, classical guitar. Music at Circa. 28 September [1981] Children's show at the Depot. "The Pongophonic tootler", by John Banas; dir. Joy Watson. 21A Courtenay Place [1983] The Clean + The Spines. Dance this Thursday 24. Tickets here for Thistle Hall Clown Workshop. Sept 19-20 [1981?] The Deirdre Tarrant Dance Theatre presents "A Christmas carol", & Donizetti dances", "Consequences. State Opera House 14-17 December [1981-1983?]. Flyer Grande Pantomima, con pupazzi e un drago, by Dario Fo, in Italian and English. Memorial Theatre, 16-18 July [1981] Jo Horrocks. Photo exhibition. PhotoForum Mini Gallery, 26 Harris St Wellington, 14-26 Sept. Media mirage; an installation of screenprinted images from the media by Stuart Page. PhotoForum Gallery, September 1-19 1981. Muchmore Associates. Snakefinger & Blast. The Snaking Finger skanks and having skonked sneaks on [Itinerary Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton, Auckland, 21-30 May 1981] Naked Spotts Dance (small sticker ca 1980-1983) "New blood". Jeremy Opie, Michael Cubey, Erik Gotlieb. PhotoForum Gallery, 10-29 August 1981 Pop Shots; NZ rock'n'roll photography. Closet Artists Gallery, 520 Queen Street Auckland, from Tues 25th August [1981] (2 copies, one with circular Moruroa protest sticker on it) Preservatives, with the Newmatics! Last Resort, Friday 24, Saturday 25 [ca 1981-1983] Primitive Art Group. Sunday afternoon, Oct 11th, National Art Gallery [1981] Siege of Parihaka, 5 November 1881 ... the deception continues. Public meeting. Wesley Church Hall, 29 October 1981 Sinfonia of Wellington in concert with Lindsay Yeo & Buzz O'Bumble. State Opera House, 7 November 1981 Wellington Arts Centre exhibits recent works by Frances Anderson, Linzie Christopherson, Linda McMahon, Miranda Witford, Brenda Wing, Nicole Louis. 23-27 November Quantity: 20 posters and flyers. Physical Description: Photolithographs and photocopies on posters, sizes varying from 100 to 330 mm. Provenance: From Silvio Famularo, Wellington, in 1983.

Date: 2001, 2002, 2004, [ca 2020]

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: Wellington Museum

Reference: EPH-A-NOVEMBER-2020/11

Description: Ephemera donated to the Library in November 2020 concerning the arts in New Zealand, mainly in the Lower North Island; undated material likely collected in 2020. Includes: Leaflet from Wellington Museum; Booklet for Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival, 19 February to 1 March 2020; Business card for Sierra Roberts, artist; Two cards for 'While the Sun Stood Still' by Darnah Chenery; Flier for Joseph Kieninger Gallery, Waitarere Beach; Catalogue for exhibition by John Walsh at Page Galleries, entitled 'Uawa Tolaga Bay', 15 October to 7 November 2020; Flier for exhibition at Mitchell Studios,Khandallah, Wellington, by Victora Saunders and Darnah Chenery, entitled 'Sentient', 21 October to 14 November 2020; Flier for exhibition at Thistle Hall, Wellington, entitled 'The Land We Love', 22 to 27 September [2020]; Card for Geraldine Burns Photography; Card for 'Festival of Posts & Garden Art', at Anam Cara Gardens, Otaki, 18 to 26 January 2020; Two fliers for Merrilyn Jaquerry, wildlife artist; Two cards for Tony Sly Pottery, Raglan; Ticket for 'The Junebug Symphony' at the International Festival of the Arts, Wellington, 9 March 2004; Programme for play 'Supernan' by Carl Nixon, performed at the Red Brick Hall, 7 to 21 April 2001 Catalogue for Embroidery Exhibition at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, 6 to 21 July 2002; Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 18 pieces of ephemera..

Date: Dec 1983, [ca Dec 1983]

By: Bleakley, Joe, active 1980-2000s

Reference: PA-Group-00830

Description: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival which was designed by Joe Bleakley and held at Oriental Bay on 17 December 1983. Chiefly colour transparencies, and a few prints and negatives. Items have been collected by Bleakley, and many taken by him. A range of photographers are represented, and are clearly identified on most slides. Sets of images are well identified by Bleakley and he has labelled sets as 'audience', 'banners' (designed by school children), 'fireworks', 'rafts', 'floats', 'gods', 'procession' (children and adults), 'spaces' (chiefly warehouse areas where art works for the festival were created), 'sound' (musicians and instruments). Individual persons in the images are not identified. Also includes a montage of b&w prints (and corresponding negatives) showing the crowd at Oriental Bay on the day of the Festival. Accompanying information - List of photographers represented, compiled by Bleakley, and a listing of the sets of slides, are in the Photographic Achive backfile under 'Bleakley'. Other - An article about the Festival is available: Simpson, Rebecca, New Zealand Listener, 'Summer spectacle' (Wellington, BCNZ, Jan 28, 1984) p 48 to 50. Arrangement: The sets of slides have been kept in the same order they were in when Bleakley donated them to the Library. Red dot numbered stickers (and white stickers) are Bleakley's original numbering. Quantity: 2197 colour original transparency/ies some in strip format. 1 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 18 b&w original photographic print(s) loosely compiled into a montage, with corresponding 3 strips of negatives comprising 16 images. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in slide and strip format, colour negatives, b&w prints, and a colour contact print Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Photographic Archive and transfers made from there. - - To Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2173: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Papers relating to the Wellington Sun Festival (1983).

Date: 29 Sep 1992

From: Women in World War II Part III

By: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009; Fowke, Susan, 1944-2017

Reference: OHInt-0072/03

Description: Doreen Blumhardt was born in Whangarei on 7 March 1914. Describes how her grandfather, father and ten of her father's siblings came to New Zealand in 1895. Talks about how her father and brothers returned to Germany to find wives. Notes that her father quickly became a New Zealand citizen. Recalls the family's dairy farm in Kamo, milking animals, contact with relatives and music and reading as activities. Recalls speaking German until she started school. Recalls an anti-German primary school teacher and the difficult time her family had during World War I. Describes having to sell the family farm in the Depression. Talks about attending Whangarei High School. Notes that the closure of teachers colleges during the Depression prevented her attending. Recalls her aunty Eleonore Blumhardt, a Christchurch botanical artist, inviting her to Christchurch. Recalls her aunt helping her through the Canterbury Society of Arts and later attending Christchurch Teachers College. Describes becoming a member of the Christian Science Church. Discusses the traumatic effects of World War II on her family. Describes the internment of her father at Pahiatua and on Somes Island. Recalls being interviewed, with her brother, by a lawyer about their German connections. Notes that her brother was transferred from his job in telecommunications and joined the Army. Describes joining the Red Cross. Discusses moving to Wellington as a teacher. Recalls Wellington German friends including Ernest Plischke and Marie Vandewart. Describes a post war visit to Germany, closeness to her German relatives and feeling of being a New Zealander. Describes becoming Head of Art at Wellington Teachers Training College and living with a group of people including Brian Brake. Recalls Pat Macaskill and Tony Vogt. Describes the growth of her interest in pottery. Comments on being single and the development of her career. Talks about developing a Wellington property, her friend Freda Anderson, being the Vice President of the Academy of Fine Arts and receiving the CBE. Comments on the need to educate people against war. Accompanying material - Doreen Blumhardt's curriculum vitae is included in the abstract Venue - Wellington : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005787-005789; OHLC-007004-007006 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1204.

Date: 10 August 1987 - 10 Aug 1987

From: National Library of New Zealand: Audio and videotapes relating to various events

By: Somerville, Ross, active 1987-2012; Petre, Robert, 1952-

Reference: OHInt-0197/02

Description: Ross Somerville and Robert Petre talk about the music services to be provided by the National Library in the new Library building. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Erin Sinclair Venue - Radio New Zealand Studios, Wellington Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 event(s). 20 Minutes Duration.

Date: 1937-2008

By: Kirkcaldie, Constance Violet Scott, 1917-2008

Reference: MS-Group-1745

Description: The collection mainly relates to Constance Kirkcaldie's involvement with the arts, in particular theatre and opera. It includes minutes, correspondence and reports of the various organisations she was involved with. Also includes papers relating to her first husband, Kenneth Scott, which contain mainly correspondence with his parents. Source of title - Transcribed by Library Quantity: 69 folder(s). 1.35 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs C McGhie, Wellington, December 2008 Transfers: Material taken into the Manuscripts Section, items transferred from there - To Photographic Archive - Folder and box of colour, black & white photographs (PA-Group-00387); photographs of Kenneth Scott - To Ephemera Collection - Box of theatre programmes - To Drawings & Prints Collection - 7 set design sketches by Raymond Boyce; 3 lithographs by John Snadden.

Date: 1982-2000

By: New Zealand Opera (Organisation)

Reference: MS-Group-1760

Description: Includes minutes, correspondence and contracts of employment for artists taking part in opera productions, applications for funding; audience surveys, production and rehearsal schedules, publicity, ticket sales, costume designs for opera productions, scrapbooks of cuttings relating to operas produced by Wellington Opera, study guides for operas and press releases Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 163 folder(s). 3 volume(s). 3 Electronic document(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here. - To Photographic Archive - 14 boxes of photograph albums (PA-Group-00418) - To Ephemera Collection - T-shirt, programmes and related ephemera.

Date: 2006

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008311

Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Tony asks Jaimee whether she wants to see the 'Young and Hungry' season, the photo exhibition at Shed 11 or Magic Flute. Each time Jaimee replies that she has done them all. Tony asks her if she is trying to raise Wellington's cultural spending average. Jaimee replies that they couldn't be beaten by Auckland, they don't even have electricity. Refers to the cultural spending per region and the electricity blackout in Auckland. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008319

Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Jaimee talking to Debbie about how with terrorism in Britain, the erosion of American civil liberties and the Israel-Hizbollah situation that their infatuation with the Wellington arts scene is a decadent disengagement with the real world. Both stare at each other for a moment and then burst out laughing. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008337

Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Fitz Bunny wearing a hard hat and carrying a pickaxe reveals that she has ruptured the gas main. Debbie confesses that she was the person who leaked Don Brash's emails to Nicky Hager. Jaimee admits that she gets all her arts news from the newspaper 'Citylife'. Tony and Debbie are together but are not telling Jaimee until one of them is dead. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).