Category 1980s
1980s… Freeda Stares
In the early 1980s there was a big wave of women’s fun performance activities – some of this was initially generated by the ‘Women’s Circus’ from Melbourne. I was part of a fire-eating troupe called the ‘Flaming Feminists’, as well as a large tap-dancing group called the ‘Freeda Stares’. We performed at cabarets, benefits, festivals, […]
1980s… Pipi Storm
Pipi Storm Ltd was one of the earliest community theatre and community arts companies in NSW in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1980s I was part of the ‘Parks’ team, who developed community based projects in the greater Western Sydney region and conducted tours to isolated schools in regional and outback NSW. We […]
e.phemera…
a couple days ago, a throw-away line: ‘And is there any value in ephemeral material (such as old programmes, posters, reviews)?’ and ironcally this evening, i went to an event marking ’30 years of passionate dissent’ ‘LET THE WALLS SPEAK: POLITICAL POSTER EXHIBITION’ http://jura.org.au/node/517 the walls were full of strongly-coloured hand-screenprinted posters from the 1970s […]
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