Wick Theatre’s archive is a collection of documents but not all located in one place. There are papers in Ralph and Betty Dawes’ ownership. Ray Hopper gathered photographs and production ephemera; posters, programmes, news clippings; storing these in binders in the attic of the Community Centre’s Homestead building. Peter Joyce, in building web pages for […]
If our late President Betty Dawes hadn’t squirreled away programmes, receipts, correspondence and miscellaneous papers from the early days, the 70th exhibition would have been very tame. Betty was an enthusiastic paper gatherer from the get-go; an archivist in the making. When husband Ralph, daughter Amanda, current Wick Theatre archivist Peter Joyce and long time […]
“Fire doesn’t heed history. It doesn’t care about posterity or culture or memory. Fire consumes everything and anything, even if that thing is the last of its kind. On Sunday night, it came for the National Museum of Brazil, burning for six hours and leaving behind ashes ….” [Wired September 7 2018] The destruction of […]