The Annual Meeting of PAHN– The Performing Arts Heritage Network of Museums Australia 

State Library of New South Wales

Sydney

25–27 September 2013

Acknowledgments and Thanks to:

The State Library of New South Wales

The Powerhouse Museum

Sydney Theatre Company

Alexander Sussman, SLNSW

Lee Scott, Museums Australia

Associated Events:

Quay to the City

A head-on collision between history and contemporary performance created by young people in collaboration with some of Sydney’s most exciting artists. 

Wednesday 25^th September, 2013 at 7pm

Meeting Point: The Big Dig, 110 Cumberland St, The Rocks 

Discounted Tickets: $20.00 (use Promo Code: The Big Dig)

Quay to the City is presented by Australian Theatre for Young People, in partnership with Sydney Living Museums (in Susannah Place Museum), Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (using the Rocks Discovery Museum and a number of their ‘pop-up’ spaces in heritage buildings around The Rocks) and The Big Dig Archaeology Education Centre.

The Conference Dinner

The Tilbury Hotel, 12 Nicholson Street, Woolloomooloo

http://www.tilburyhotel.com.au

Thursday 26^th September, 2013 at 7pm at own cost. Set menu $55 for two courses plus sides, not including drinks. Please bring cash as no split bills allowed.

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State Library of New South Wales,  Sydney

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 Dixson Room, State Library of New South Wales
9.00 am to 9.30 am	Registration; tea and coffee [kindly provided by the SLNSW]
9:30 am to 10:30 am	Opening Ceremonies   Welcome: Erica Ryan, Chair of PAHN; Vicki McDonald, Director, Library Services, State Library of New South Wales Keynote Address: Phoenix Arising – How the Old Tote and the Sydney Theatre Company grew out of NIDA. John Clark, AM, formerly of NIDA and Old Tote Theatre Company
10.30 am to 11.00 am	Morning tea [kindly provided by the SLNSW]
11:00 am to 12:30 pm	Now presenting NIDA’s past!—Issues of access and digitisation. Julia Mant, Archivist, NIDA and Ross Bruzzese, Librarian, NIDA    The Extraordinary Shapes of Geoffrey Rush.  Margaret Marshall, Arts Centre Melbourne   Gilbert and Sullivan: an Australian collector’s journey.  Kevin Hewitt, SLNSW Volunteer and Gilbert & Sullivan Collector
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm	Lunch [kindly provided by the SLNSW]
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm	    Tour of the State Library of New South Wales including performing arts treasures
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm	Afternoon tea [kindly provided by the SLNSW]
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm	The intersection of law and society and the use of legal records for social history research. Richard Hunter, Australasian Legal Information Institute   Dainty Diva – Research into the Life and Times of Australian Soprano Dorothy Rudder. Cathy Koning

PAHN MEETING 2013 25-27 Sept

State Library of New South Wales, Sydney

Thursday, September 26, 2013 Tour day
10:00 am to 12:30 pm	Meet at Powerhouse Museum for a guided tour of “The Beatles in Australia” exhibition with Curator, Peter Cox.
12.30 pm to 2.30 pm	Lunch [self-catered] and make your own way to The Wharf
2:30 pm to 4:00 pm	Tour of the Sydney Theatre Company facilities and archives with Archivist, Judith Seeff andOral Historian, Dr. Margaret Leask, followed by afternoon tea [kindly provided by the Sydney Theatre Company]. Meet at 2.30pm in the foyer of Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay (diagonally across from The Wharf).

PAHN MEETING 2013 25-27 September

State Library of New South Wales,  Sydney

	Friday, September 27, 2013 Dixson Room, State Library of New South Wales
9:30 am to 9:45 am	Welcome: Erica Ryan, Chair of PASIG
9:45 am to 10:45 am	Listening to the Past. Oral History and the Performing Arts. Margaret Leask   Turning the Kaleidoscope: Reflections on Sydney Opera House History. Paul Bentley
10.45 am to 11.15 am	Morning tea [provided by PAHN]
11:15 am to 12:30	PAHN AGM
12:30 to 1:30 pm	Lunch [provided by PAHN]
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm	Round table discussion and afternoon tea [provided by PAHN]