[FEMINISM; MELBOURNE] They said it couldn’t happen! Concert : 8 pm Friday July 13th RMIT Storey Hall 348 Swanston St., city.

Melbourne : LaTrobe Union Activities and RMIT Union-SRC Activities, 1979. Concert programme. 210 x 170 mm, self-wrappers, [12] pp., illustrated; with loosely inserted flyers for the film screening and for the band Razzamatazz. Fine.

This landmark concert of women’s music – a joint production of LaTrobe Union Activities and RMIT Union-SRC Activities – was staged at Storey Hall, RMIT, Melbourne on Friday 13 July 1979. The principal organisers were Soosie Adshead, Dianne Dunscombe and Laurel Frank, assisted by Virginia Fraser, Jenny Mather, Margot Nash, Eve Stocker, Hellen Sky, Margaret Hender and many others. The lineup of artists included Margret Roadknight, Yvette Isaacs, Ladies Revolutionary Brass, Canary Reynolds, Natasha, Elizabeth Drake, Jan Cornall, Razzamatazz, and Jane Clifton; the concert was accompanied by a screening of a number of short films by feminist filmmakers including Margot Nash and Robin Laurie, Megan McMurchy, and Johanna Demetrakas.

Provenance: Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.