Performing Arts

# 42991

WOODS, Tony; PATERSON, Rod; RYAN, Ben, et al. (eds.)

Super Eight : newsletter of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Inc. (Twenty-four individual issues, 1997-2001)

Fitzroy, Vic. : Melbourne Super 8 Film Group, September 1997 – March 2001. Twenty-four issues (itemised below); uniform format of foolscap folio, self-wrappers, [8] pp., illustrated; all issues in very good condition; from the estate of Virginia Fraser, artist, writer, editor and curator. The Melbourne Super 8 Film Group was an independent co-operative formed in …

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# 42254

FORMAN, Michael (editor)

3 Days of Peace & Music. Aquarian Exposition : Woodstock Music & Art Fair

Official programme for the first Woodstock Music & Art Fair held in Woodstock, New York in August 1969. [Philadelphia?] : Concert Hall Publications, Inc., 1969. First edition, first issue, with the ‘f’ in the word ‘of’ on the upper wrapper overlapping a flower, adjusted for greater clarity in later reprints. Quarto, colour photographic wrappers, pp …

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# 42996

[MIFF]

39th Melbourne International Film Festival, June 8-23, 1990.

Melbourne : The Melbourne Film Festival, 1990. Official programme. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers; pp. 72, illustrated in b/w; a couple of pages with highlighting, but an excellent copy with loosely inserted newspaper clipping on Kieslowski and the MIFF.

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# 42993

[BRAKHAGE, et al]

Invisible Cinema present Loud Visual Noises. The Musicians Club, 65 Wellington St, St Kilda Thursday 15th July at 7.30 pm.

[Melbourne] : Invisible Cinema, [1993]. Foolscap folio flyer, photostatted, printed on both sides; some old water staining, otherwise good condition. A combination of the perpetual calendar and the nine-digit phone number allow us to date this obscure Melbourne experimental cinema event to 1993. The flyer is more than likely a unique survivor. The screening comprised …

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# 42995

[NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA]

First Australian History and Film Conference. Canberra, 22nd to 27th November, 1981 at the National Library of Australia.

Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1981. Informational brochure. Folding sheet 220 x 360 mm (open), 220 x 90 mm (folded); with programme outline, brief synopses of proposed papers, registration details etc.; excellent condition.

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# 42756

BIG DAY OUT

Big Day Out Version .09. Program Manual

[Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 2009. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 124, illustrated, a very good copy. Event guide for the Big Day Out music festival, which was staged in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in January/February 2009. It featured Australian and international acts including Arctic Monkeys, Sneaky Sound System, Birds of Tokyo, …

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# 42757

BIG DAY OUT

Big Day Out Summer 2010 Festival Guide

[Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 2010. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 132, illustrated, a very good copy. Event guide for the Big Day Out music festival, which was staged in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in January/February 2010. It featured Australian and international acts including Powderfinger, Lily Allen, Hilltop Hoods, Kasabian, Muse, Dizzee …

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# 43024

BIONDO, Sam and PUGH, Rohan

Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The forgotten subculture Melbourne 1971 to 1979.

Melbourne : Skins ‘n’ Sharps, 2006. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 14 pp (including wrappers), b/w and colour illustrations throughout; an as new copy. Superbly illustrated catalogue produced to accompany a low-key Melbourne exhibition staged in 2006, Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The catalogue contains many original photographs, previously unpublished, documenting the unique …

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# 16383

DALTON, Edward

[OPERA] Photographic portraits of Henry Squires and Lucy Escott, Sydney, early 1860s

Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mounts), 90 x 57 mm (images), versos with imprint of Dalton’s Royal Photographic Gallery, Sydney; the albumen prints with some tiny ink spots, otherwise both cartes are in very good condition. The American opera singers Henry Squires (1825-1907) and Lucy Escott (1827-1895) arrived …

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# 42724

NORMAN, Karyl [performer and lyricist]; WEBER, Edwin J. [music]; BERRY, Hyatt (lyrics)

[SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)

New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ in full drag, pp. 6, owner’s name to upper panel, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing …

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# 42821

Various.

[FEMINISM] Lip. Issue 7. 1982/3. A feminist arts journal.

Melbourne : Women in the Visual Arts Collective, [1982]. Quarto, original wrappers (light handling marks), pp 89, b/w illustrations, a very good copy. ‘Lip is a collective of feminists who represent a wide range of political, social and cultural stances’ (p. 1) Lip was published in 8 issues from 1976 to 1984. This issue includes …

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# 42806

SOUNDWAVE

Soundwave 2015. Official program

[Perth?] : Soundwave Festival, 2015. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [64], illustrated, bottom edge unopened. Soundwave was a music festival founded by AJ Maddah which originated in Perth and toured other major Australian cities from 2007 – 2015. The 2015 edition (the final one) saw international headliners Faith No More (USA), Soundgarden (USA), Incubus (USA), Lamb …

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# 41963

GESANG VEREINS "GERMANIA" (BRISBANE)

[GERMAN COMMUNITY IN QUEENSLAND] Ball und Stiftungsfeier des Gesang Vereins Germania, in School of Arts, Brisbane, Montag, 20th September, 1875. Eintritt 7/6.

[=Ball and foundation ceremony of the “Germania” Choral Society … Admission. The Committee]. Brisbane, Qld. : Cleghorn, printer, 1875. Admission ticket, 59 x 91 mm, printed recto only on buff card; the ticket is numbered in manuscript ’38’, and beside the word Eintritt (Admission) is written the price 7/6; the ticket was initialed by the seller C.H.; verso …

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# 42319

PARAMOUNT (SYDNEY)

[CINEMA; SYDNEY] Press sheet : “The Blob”

Sydney : Paramount Film Service Pty. Ltd., [1958]. Broadsheet, 315 x 255 mm, printed on both sides, illustrated; old horizontal fold, else fine. Press sheet for the Australian release of The Blob (1958), consistently voted as one of the worst science-fiction movies ever made. It was Steve McQueen’s first major role: note he is billed here as Steven …

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# 40518

SOLOMON, Saul

Portrait of a veiled woman in velvet. Adelaide, circa 1880.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm, verso with imprint of ‘S. Solomon, School of Photography, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide’; print and mount are in superb condition. A magnificent head-and-shoulders portrait. Surely the sitter is a celebrity – possibly an actress?

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# 41386

GARNET H. CARROLL and J. C. WILLIAMSON THEATRES LTD.

The Classical Theatre of China : New Zealand. Australia. 1956.

Melbourne : Australian Pacific Agencies for The Classical Theatre of China, 1956. Large octavo (245 x 175 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled; [32] pp., b/w photographic illustrations, advertisements for Melbourne businesses; a good copy. The Classical Theatre of China’s visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1956-57 was part of a world tour by the company, …

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