Collection 5: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras records, 1978, 1983-2003

MLMSS 9332/BOXES 1-80
MLMSS 9332/BOX 81X

sub-fonds

1978-2003

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Moving Images, Photographs, Clippings, Posters

862103

12.8 metres of textual material and photographs (80 boxes and 1 outsize box)

The Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras is the world's premier gay and lesbian arts festival and includes the world famous nighttime Parade through the heart of Sydney, the harbour party which takes place right beside the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge and the enormous and spectacular Mardi Gras Party.

Reference:
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. http://www.mardigras.org.au/ (Accessed August 25, 2009)

BOXES 1-3
Electronic disks, chiefly CD-ROMs, also some ZIP files and floppy disks (1997-2002)
Box 1: Images from Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras events, including Parades, Sleaze Parties, Award nights and Frocks @ Fox fairs.
45 CDs, 4 floppy disks (3.5), 9 Zip disks, 1 Jaz disk.
Box 2: Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras guides, flyers, brochures, planners, invitations and newsletters. Includes annual report for 2000.
44 CDs, 3 floppy disks (3.5), 2 Zip disks.
Box 3: Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras advertisements, logos, posters, stationery, postcards and artwork for publications.
48 CDs, 6 floppy disks (3.5), 2 Jaz disks, 5 Zip disks.

BOX 4
2001 P.P.V.
1. 2001 webcasts
2. Broadcasts and publicity
3. Free-to-air
4. 2001 budget
5. Broadcast planning
6. Revenue reports and program sales
7. Footage sales
8. Screen rights
9. Season launch
10. Website media
11. Video contracts
12. Pay-per-view

BOX 5
Media and broadcast documents
1. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras video logs
2. Sleaze balls 1998-2000
3. Parade publicity
4. Party filming
5. Sleaze filming
6. Party video
7. Video dubs
8. Program sales, 1997-1999
9. Footage sales
10. Broadcast committee
11. Documentaries
12. Festival filming
13. Festival guide launch
14. MTV Australia, 2001
15. Parade video, 2001
16. Parade publicity, 2001
17. Parties filming, 2001
18. Festival PR/Footage requests

BOX 6
Festival proposals for 2003:
1. Client lists of actors, directors, writers etc. (including photographs)
2. Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Performing Arts assessment forms
3. Ed Gagne
4. Rory Rootenberg
5. Sacha Sacket
6. The Mullumbumby Mantras
7. Sports festival, 2003
8. Neil Goodchild - The Kingdom, the musical
9. Eddie Sarfaty, comedian
10. Rob Kelly – Nocturnal landscapes
11. Michael Neaylon – Six Pack
12. Mathew Jones (slides of artwork)
13. Monika Tichacek (slides of artwork)
14. Short and Girlie Productions – We don’t talk anymore
15. Anne Harris – Dust
16. Grae Cleugh – F***ing Games
17. Lindsay Kemp – Dreamdances
18. A.F. Lall – How to love wombats
19. Brian Lucas – Monster
20. Bohem Programme
21. Festival information (including season progress plan, budget by event, season proposal, committee members and guidelines for project proposal)

BOX 7
Festival proposals for 2001
1. Crispin Taylor – Something cloudy, something clear
2. Song Company
3. Gina Schien – Relative Comfort
4. Wendy Blacklock – Crying in public places: skin
5. Charles Rowan – Starship 205
6. Owen Campbell – Roundelay
7. Shane Warren – Race Day
8. Kris Niklison
9. Varla Jean Merman
10. David Gauci – Lives of famous men
11. Stephen Colyer – The importance of being Wilde
12. Mary Haire – Miss Rosita the spinster
13. Hobo Kings
14. Tony Valenzuela – Bad Boy
15. Matt Yee – Caberet 2001
16. John Hargeaves … a celebration – book launch
17. Topp Twins – comedy
18. Taiaroa Royal – dance
19. Tommy Loungerillo and musical ensemble
20. Proigal son, an Australian musical (includes photographs)
21. Jonathan Parsons – Strange fruit

BOX 8
Action sheets for events in 2001

BOX 9
Festival proposals and other information, 2003:
1. Stephen Jensen – It’s all about love
2. Boxing club
3. Brandenburg Orchestra
4. Velocity – under 18's party
5. Festivals Australia – application forms, information and guidelines
6. Indent – the Independent Entertainment network for young people in NSW – event application forms and partnership grant applications, 2002/2003
7. Mardi Gras Gardens - weekend of open gardens
8. David Fenton travel, 2002
9. Indigenous Dance
10. Gay Games
11. Design
12. Festival Committee general
13. Budgets information file
14. Festival letter inviting applications for programming
15.Theatre appplications (including an application for Hotbed: queer plays)
16. Visual Arts and political acts applications
17. Out Art application
18. Kidszone
19. New Mardi Gras and South Sydney Council Co-ordination Group
20. Tourism

BOX 10
Festival proposals for 2001:
1. Sexy Galaxy – Discorella
2. George Sanders and Shawn Curran – Don’t tell Mama
3. Lachlan Philpott - Cowboys & Bison
4. Jonathan Yeo – Fear of flying
5. Brenda Bergman
6. Michele Balan
7. Hillary Linstead and Associates – Words of One Syllable
8. Felix Bergsson – The perfect equal
9. Roxanne Della-Bosca – Fish
10. Judy Garland slept here and full frontal male nudity
11. Rody Vera – Ralph & Claudia
12. David Michel (director) – Handbag
13. Scott Capurro, comedy
14. Philip Ritchie – Dazie Male (includes slides of photographic and sculptural work)
15. Tiet Ho, photographer
16. David Abbott – Poz Painters, surviving, thriving and interpreting the human figure
17. Jason Moss – Silver Linings (includes slides of jewellery and catalogues)

BOX 11
Festival proposals for 2000:
1. David Maclean – comedy
2. Swell Productions – Finding the sun
3. Choon Tan – Private parts
4. Monorealities
5. Theatre Rhinoceros
6. Mary Paul and Tony Kastanos – A call to prayer
7. Jonathan Watson – Primates
8. Beth Kayes – Her
9. Ainslie Masterton - Morgan’s Boys
10. Tenebris Light – Paki Boy
11. Open Garden Scheme
12. John Paramor – Men think about women
13. Steven Brinberg – Babs
14. Karen Starch – the Vagina monologues
15. Anthony Sterling-Edgar – Mates

BOX 12
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras minutes of Board of Directors’ meetings, 1995

BOX 13
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras minutes of Board of Directors’ meetings, 1996

BOX 14
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras minutes of Board of Directors’ meetings, May-December 1998, and minutes of the Administration Committee meetings, 30 September-8 December 1998

BOX 15
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras minutes of Board of Directors’ meetings, May-December 1999

BOX 16
Events, 2000
1. Aussie Bodies Physique - York Theatre, Seymour Theatre Centre
2. Dreaming Aloud in Rented Rooms – Playworks (Women Performance Writers Network)
2. Body of Work – films exploring the sexual politics of gay eroticism. Art Gallery of New South Wales Film Study Day
3. Eat Our Words – Speak Program – Literary dinners, Paramount Restaurant, Potts Point
4. Looking Queer – Two day conference at the College of Fine Arts
5. Literary events
6. Lit, sip, suck – author event at the Civic Hotel, Sydney
7. Mayte Martin
8. Melissa Etheridge
9. Miss Galaxy
10. Life is a funny business – New Theatre
11. Achy Obejas
12. Osadia – performative hairdressing, Customs House Square
13. Dale Peck
14. Pool Party
15. Queer Bits does Mardi Gras – One Extra Dance
16. Queerdance: Gay and Lesbian Workshops, The Wharf, Walsh Bay
17. Queerscreen – Mardi Gras Film Festival

BOX 17
Events, 2000
1. Rapid Fire – Speak Program, The Globe, Newtown
2. Randall Wong in recital – The Studio, Opera House
3. Riot Act – comedy, Civic Hotel, Sydney
4. Saucy Cantina - Performance Space, Redfern
5. Spirituality and Music: a conversation
6. The Studio – Opera House
7. Team Sydney Mardi Gras Sports Festival
8. The Stars Come Out! – annual variety concert, State Theatre
9. Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sequin Music and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet celebrate composers from Debussy to Liberace, Concert Hall, Opera House
10. Talk series
11. Translucence – music by Donna McKevitt, The Studio, Opera House
12. Unbecomings – mentoring project - Performance Space and Pact Youth Theatre in collaboration with Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
13. White Baptist Abba Fan – Seymour Theatre Centre

BOX 18
Festival proposals for 2001 (includes unidentified slides of paintings)
1. Bison
4. Lois Ze’Bra
5. My Life as a Dyke – Monique Archer
2. Osadia. Includes colour photographs of Osadia creating hairdos in front of Customs House
3. Pam Ann
6. Saint-Petersburg Male Ballet
7. Savage Grace
7. That Elusive Thrill – Matthew Cecchin
9. Tommy Loungerillo Orchestra
10. Valentino – New Australian Theatre Co.
11. Visual Arts Women’s Network (VAWN) – Reproduce Me

BOX 19
Festival correspondence, entrants, equipment and publicity, 2000 (includes some parade documents for 2001)

BOX 20
Parade budget, 1999 and 2000
Events planning, 2000 (2 folders)



BOX 21
Correspondence, documentation, judges, 2000-2001
Budget, 1999-2001, parade committee, 2000-2001, and communications, 2001

BOX 22
Parade, 2001 (4 folders)
Includes list of parade entries, maps of route and end finale

BOX 23
Parade 2001: Entry applications (3 folders), supporters, production (includes schedules, equipment and vehicles), training, officials, security and special effects

BOX 24
Parade 2001: Stakeholders and authorities (2 folders), Media Pass applications (2 folders)

BOX 25
1. Gay Games, 1996-1998
2. Community groups and health issues: Western Australia AIDS Council, ATSIC, Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (includes BGF raised seating contracts, 1997-1998), Pride, Gay & Lesbian Counselling Service of NSW, Aids Council of NSW, Positive Living Centre, National Centre for Health Promotion, People Living with HIV/AIDS (NSW), National Centre in HIV Social Research (2000 Survey), Party Drug Info Guide, 2001)
3. Fair Day, 1997
4. Frocks@Fox
5. Banquet event at Grace Hotel, 2001

8. Raw Nerve, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras’ contemporary art space, 1996/1997
9. Code of Practice for dance parties
9. General correspondence, 2001
10. Pink Money Gay & Lesbian Lifestyle Expo, 1998
11. Expressions of Interest for work at the Mardi Gras, 1997-1998
12. School and student letters and requests, 1997-1998
13. Centennial Park & Moore Park Trust Management, 1997-1999

BOX 26
1. Correspondence, 1998-99
2. Extraordinary General Meeting, 1996
3. Extraordinary General Meeting, 2000
4. Concert – Celebration of the female voice, 2000
5. Employers’ Federation, 1997-1998
6. Economic Impact Study, 1998
7. Department of Fair Trading letter re incorporation of Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Association, 1998
8. Centenary of Federation Parade, 2001
9. Queer Screen, 1997-1998
10. People Living with HIV/AIDS (NSW), 1998

BOX 27
1. General correspondence, 2000 and 2001
2. Thank you letters, 2000
3. Victory Down Under - Gay Games bid, 1998 (includes floppy disk)
4. International Federation of Gay Games Conference, Seattle, 1998
5. Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Community Development Fund applications, 2001 and 2002
6. Deed of Mutual Release between Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Ltd and Mark Coggin, 2001
7. Mardi Gras Film Festival programmes, 2000 and 2001

BOX 28
Festival events, 2001:
1. Donna Abelia – The Rood Screen
2. ACON – The rise of the Rubberless Fuck
3. Peretta Anggerek
4. Australian Theatre for Young People – Marlowe Double
5. Backgammon
6. Errol Bray – Rhino
7. Poppy Ann Chaplin – Man in the Moon
8. Cleansing songs
9. CODA – Sex Menage
10. Finger in the Dyke Productions
11. Gays and Lesbians in R ‘n R
12. Government House series
13. Brooke Greene - Backgammon
14. Alessi Kettles
15. Kidzone – Le Space
16. Erica Lewis – The Permanent Wave
17. Isabell Kormos
18. Literary program
19. Kate McMullan – fading into Magenta
20. John McNeill
21. Marching Drags Kings & Queens
22. Michael Meaylon – Recovery (a monologue)
23. Naked Boys Singing
24. Pool party - Castaways
25. Rapid Fire
26. Religious roots of homophobia
27. Succulent Sunday, Maiden Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens
28. Venues
29. Centennial Park & Moore Park Trust Management, 1997-1999

BOX 29
Festival events 2001:
1. Marr
2. Man in the Moon is a Miss, New Theatre, Newtown, 2001
3. Performance Agreements, 2001
4. Pool Party, 2001
5. Queerdance, 2001
6. Queer comedy, 2001
7. Queer Screen, 2001
8. Season launch, 2001

BOX 30
Festival proposals, 2001:
1. Arthur Aviles (includes photograph)
2. Brendan Cherrie – The Perfect Day
3. Paul Halasy
4. Kings, Kinks & Queers – The Hobo Kings
5. Magdalen Hsu-Li (includes photograph)
6. Mark & Dean (includes photograph)
7. Edna Markey
8. Magi Theatre – Lysistrata
9. Metaphor
10. Mykel

BOX 31
Festival Project Proposals for 2002:
1. Emma Bathgate – Dilapidated Diva & the Tight 3 Piece Outfit
2. Ronnie Burkett
3. The Chancelettes
4. Stefana
5. Three Drags and a Piano

BOXES 32-33
Associate and international members, 2001/02


BOX 34
Festival events, 2000
1. Body art
2. Broad Meadows
3. Home Truths
4. Material Boys
5. Mobile
6. Persuasion
7. Powerless Structures
8. Queer Reflections
9. To have and to hold
10. Ken Villa – Just say when
11. Wet Dream
12. Women’s Business Concert, Green Park, Darlinghurst

BOX 35
1. Trademark applications, 2000-2001
2. New Mardi Gras constitution, 2002-2003
3. Event planning, 2002-2003

BOX 36
Various, 1999
1. Performing Arts Season, Belvoir Street Theatre, February
2. Mardi Gras diary, 29 June 1999-6 January 2000
3. Annual report
4. Festival & Parade Netcast Debrief presented to Broadcast Committee
5. Official website [print-out]
6. Media pack
7. Press releases and promotion (includes News for Members and Sydney Pink Passport)
8. Travel service launch (includes promotional slide)
9. Board members (includes photographs)
10. Research on Mardi Gras Parade by Stephen Dunne

BOX 37
Various, 2000
1. Backstage clothing
2. Media contacts
3. International media requests

4. Program and annual report
5. Sponsorship (includes Bonds, The Bookshop, DTPM, SPHC Hotel Group, Qantas)
6. Waste Boards
7. Richard Barrett
8. Debate
9. Finger in the Dyke Productions
10. Stephen House – Go by night
11. Lypsinka
12. Dannii Minogue
13. Annabel Scholes – Stars come out
14. Patrick Shand, Festival Publicist Assistant
15. Women’s business – Indigenous concert
16. Bluehouse
17. Colm Toibin
18. Ron Athey
19. Stories by Young Queer People (booklet published by Aid Action Council ACT Inc.)
20. Osadia – outrageous hairdos for volunteers

BOX 38
Publications and publicity, 2001-2002
1. Guides and promotional material, 2001 (includes Parade Entrants Guide, Mini Guide and Media Kit)
2. Event flyers, 2001 (includes Religious Roots of Homophobia, Nude Salon, Arrivals party, Object Galleries)
3. Miscellaneous publications, 2001 (includes program for Pride Festival Queensland, Company B Belvoir 2001 season, Homo issue 3)
4. Pocket Guide, Mardi Gras Film Festival program and promotional material, 2002 (includes media releases, flyers and speech delivered by David Fenton, Festival Director, Season Guide Launch)

BOX 39
1. Budget planning folder, 2000-2001
2.-3. Parade entry applications, 2001
4. Press clippings, February 2001
5.-6. Press clippings, March 2001

BOX 40
1. Annual General Meeting minutes, May 1985-August 1991

BOX 41
1. Board of Directors Meeting minutes, October 1992-July 1993
2. Board of Directors Meeting minutes, February 1994-February 1995

BOX 42
1. Board of Directors Meeting minutes, February 1995-September 1996
2. Board of Directors Meeting minutes, October 1998-May 2000

BOX 43
1. Publicity report, 1991
2. Publicity report, 1993
3. Festival and parade publicity report, 1996

BOX 44
Festival and parade publicity report, 1994 (3 volumes)

BOX 45
Festival and parade publicity report, 1995 (3 volumes)

BOX 46
Festival and parade publicity report (volumes 2-4)

BOX 47
1. Committee Meeting minutes, May 1983-May 1985
2. Committee Meeting minutes, May 1985-Sept. 1986

BOX 48
Committee Meeting minutes, Oct. 1986-Aug. 1987

BOX 49
Committee Meeting minutes, Sept. 1987-Mar. 1988

BOX 50
1. Committee Meeting minutes, Apr.-Dec. 1988
2. Committee Meeting minutes, Jan. 1989-Oct. 1990

BOX 51
1. Board of Directors Meeting minutes, Nov. 1990-Sept. 1992
2. Board of Directors Meeting minutes, Oct. 1996-Oct. 1998

BOX 52
Administration Committee Meeting minutes, Sept. 1993-Sept. 1995

BOX 53
1. Fair Day Committee Meeting minutes, Sept. 1993-Jan. 1995
2. Festival Committee Meeting minutes, Sept. 1993-Mar. 1995

BOX 54
1. Parade Committee Meeting minutes, Sept. 1993-Mar. 1995
2. Party Committee Meeting minutes, Sept. 1993-Feb. 1995

BOX 55
1. Press clippings on homosexuality, 1993-1999
2. Annual Report, 1997
3. Festival submission, 1998
4. Young Bent and Dressed, Publicity Report, Powerhouse Museum, June 1998
5. Festival Daily Diary, 1998
6. Advertising, 1998

BOX 56
Parade publicity report, 1998 (2 vols.)

BOX 57
Festival press report, 1999 (2 vols.)
Parade publicity report, 1999 (2 vols.)

BOX 58
Board of Directors’ meetings, Feb.-Oct. 1997

BOX 59
Board of Directors’ meetings, Nov. 1997-Aug. 1998

BOX 60
Board of Directors’ meetings, Jan.-Sept. 2000

BOX 61
Board of Directors’ meetings, Oct. 2000-Jan. 2001

BOX 62
Programs, event flyers and media releases, etc. Includes transparent print of 1998 Atlantis poster (Sleaze 1997), ‘20 & lit’ edited by Trish Luker, 1998, and floppy disk of Mardi Gras logos, 1998-2000

BOX 63
1. Mardi Gras flyers for 1990 and 1992
2. Miscellaneous material, 1996-2003, includes membership application forms and cards, 2002 Gay Games sponsorship kit and issues of ‘News for Members’, nos. 1, 2, 5, 6 and 8-11 (1997-2001)
3. Souvenir Program and Mardi Gras flyers and certificate of appreciation from the organising committee of the Australian Gaymes 1996
4. Parade guide and book, ‘Fruit Salad: a compote of contemporary Gay and Lesbian writing’, 1997. Includes transparent colour print for festival flyer
5. ACON Safe Packs and official Mardi Gras badges for Parade and Sleaze Ball, 1996, 1997 and 2001

BOX 64
1. Awards ceremony, 1998
2. Awards ceremony, 1999 (2 folders)
3. Festival concert, 1999 (2 folders)
4. Satellite party, 1999
5. Arrivals party, 2000

BOX 65
1. Awards ceremony, 2000 (3 folders)
2. Awards ceremony, 2001
3. Awards ceremony, 2002 (2 folders)

BOX 66
1. Parade, 2002 (2 folders)
2. Parade, 2003 (3 folders)

BOX 67
Festival proposals not included, 2002:
1. Andrea Leamon – Tranny Boy
2. Bette Bourne/Tim Fountain – Resident Alien
3. Dale Ross – Fucked if you don’t
4. John Higgins – As Bees in Honey Drown
5. Jonathan Yeo – Jesus Wept
6. Kris Niklison – Dilemma
7. M.O.D.E.R.N. Theatre Co. – Corpus Christi
8. Perry Brass – The Death of Peonies (includes photograph)
9. Pam Ann – Arm Doors and Cross Check
10. Peter Fyfe – Dingo
11. Peter Shelley – The Shadow of the Phoenix
12. Stephen Colyer – Echo Abandoned (includes 1 photograph)
13. Stephen House – Walk in Dirt
14. Supergirly
15. Left of Centre Stage – Talking Dirty
16. Whoosh Events – Me, Myself and I
17. Wayne Tunks – Go West

BOX 68
Festival music program proposals not included, 2002
1. Andrew Threlfall
2. The Carpenters Once More
3. Companie Pal Frenak – Tricks and Tracks
4. David Ganci/Matthew Carey – Schwartz and All
5. David Peatfield – The Pill
6. Festival Club
7. Jackie Gordon – Black Pearls and Strange Fruit
8. James ean Jay Byrd/ Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer – Hey, Y’ll (includes CD The Hey, Y’all soundtrack)
9. Jo Jo Smith
10. Kate Henwood – True Love
11. Melissa Langton (includes CD)
12. Sami Shalom – 50, Girls, 50 / From Drags to Bitches
13. Steven Brinberg – Simply Barbara (includes 3 photographs)
14. Toga – film
15. Trevor Ashley – Pop Princess

BOX 69
1. Complaints 1988-1993
Proposals not included in Festival:
2. 1999: John Kelly – Joni Mitchell Show Paved Paradise (includes one photograph)
3. 1999: Vanessa Wagner’s History of Dance
4. 1999: Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Robyn Archer, etc. - Showstoppers
5. 2001: Marc Wolf – Another American
6. 2001: Ed Gagne
7. 2001: Ellen de Generes
8. 2001: Eric Renshaw
9. 2001: Harvey Fierstein
10. 2001: John Kelly
11. 2001: John Turnbull – LoveBites
12. 2001: Karen Starch – As Bees in Honey Drown
13. 2001: Marching Drags
14. 2001: Porn Stars

BOX 70
New Mardi Gras Board minutes and reports, 2002 (includes constitution of New Mardi Gras Ltd. )

BOX 71
New Mardi Gras Board minutes and reports, 2003

BOX 72
Party and Sleaze Ball master plan and requirements submissions in 1996 for:
1. Centennial and Moore Park Trust
2. Fox Studios

BOX 73
1. Festival media releases, 1996.
2. Festival press clippings, 1996-1997. Includes clippings from the Australian, Daily Telegraph, Australian Financial Review, Campaign Australia, Green Left Weekly, Eastern Suburbs Messenger, Sydney Star Observer, and Capital Q Weekly.
3. Festival press clippings from the Sydney Star Observer, 1997-1998.

BOX 74
1998 Festival press clippings from mainly national, Sydney and regional New South Wales newspapers and journals. Includes clippings from: Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Star Observer, Daily Telegraph, Capital Q, Glebe and Inner Western Weekly, Illawarra Mercury, Newcastle Herald, Real Time and Campaign Australia.

BOX 75
1998 Festival press clippings
1. Press clippings from Victorian, Queensland, South Australian and Western Australian newspapers. (Includes clippings from: Melbourne Leader, Brisbane Courier Mail, Adelaide Advertiser, West Australian, Canberra Times, Tasmanian Mercury, Ballarat Courier, Gold Coast Bulletin and Launceston Examiner)
2. Press clippings from the Australian Financial Review, Australian and Sydney Morning Herald
3. Press clippings from regional New South Wales newspapers
4. Press clippings from Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph and local Sydney newspapers.
5. 1998 Festival press clippings from the Australian, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and City Weekly.
6. News for Members, Jan.-Sept. 1998, and Festival Highlights brochure, 1998 (includes 2 photographs and 3 slides)

BOX 76
1999 press clippings and media releases
1.-5. Festival press clippings from national, regional New South Wales and Sydney newspapers and journals. Includes clippings from: The Australian, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Star Observer, Capital Q Weekly, Melbourne Star Observer, Campaign, Lesbians on the Loose and Outrage.
6. Festival Media releases.
7. Official Sydney Events Guide and Sydney Morning Herald Complete Festival Guide.

BOX 77
1. Management plan, 1997 (3 folders)
2. University of Technology Sydney project report, autumn semester, 1998: Commercialisation of special events - A case study of the commercial broadcasts of the 1997 and 1997 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parades

BOX 78
2000
1. Awards night
2. Festival Club
3. Frocks at Fox
4. Outdoor concert
5. Satellite Group
6. Sydney Symphony Orchestra

7. Studio, Sydney Opera House
8. Topp Twins

BOX 79
1. An evaluation of the Mardi Gras’ economic impact, 1993
2. Final draft of economic impact study, 1998
3. Sydney 2002 Gay Games bid, 1995
4. Gay Games, chiefly 1996
5. Miscellaneous, including newspaper cuttings and brochures.

BOX 80
1. Board of Directors’ meetings and reports, Aug. 2001-July 2002 (2 folders)
2. Miscellaneous organisational information, including a report by Tress Cocks and Maddox, Lawyers on the Directors duties, information for volunteers and staff, Ticketek information on selling the Sleaze Ball and Mardi Gras Party, advice from the Employers’ Federation on terms and conditions of employment, and a newspaper article: A brief history of the Mardi Gras, 1978-1998 by Richard Cobden.
3. Staff travel, 2001 (Interpride, New Zealand, and merchandising trip, Melbourne)
4. Workshop, 1997-1998
5. Youth event, 1997

PHOTOGRAPHS
BOX 81X
1. Chalk footpath art by Kim Kofod and H. Robertson (10 coloured photographs)
2. Sleaze Party at Sydney Showground (2 coloured photographs)
3. George Hoad and other cast of ‘She’s no Angel: Mae West vaudeville’, probably 1999 (2 coloured photographs)
4. Fourth National Homosexual Conference group at fundraiser picnic in Centennial Park and Stonewall Rally in George Street, May and June 1978 (2 black & white photographs)
5. Mardi Gras Parades, includes ‘Fred Nile’ and ‘It takes Balls to be a Queen’ floats, some from 1987 (3 black & white and 3 coloured photographs)
6. Unidentified Gay and Lesbian parade, possibly Amsterdam where photographs were printed (5 black & white photographs)

VIDEO RECORDINGS
1. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, awards presentation (VT 3256)
2. Tocker and Yates Mardi Gras promotion (VT 3257)
3. Kahuna, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (VT 3258)
4. Velocity, under 18's party (VT 3259)
5. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, tape 1 (VT 3260)
6. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, season highlights (VT 3261)
7. Sleaze Ball (VT 3262)
8. Michele Balan, Goam Comedy Club, New York City (VT 3263)
9. Fear of flying, promomotion reel (VT 3264)
10. Good News Week (VT 3265)
11. Dina Martina compilation, USA (VT 3266)
12. Dina Martina live, USA (VT 3267)
13. Exposed, David Edwards (VT 3268)
14. Hobo Kings (VT 3269)
15. Paul Hallasy, Triade Cabaret, New York City (VT 3270)
16. Arthur Aviles, Typical Theatre, New York (VT 3271)
17. Three drags and a piano, promotion, 3DP Entertainment (VT 3272)
18. The Chanclettes, All about everyman, Barcelona, Spain (VT 3273)
19. The Dilapidated Diva and the Tight 3 piece outfit at The Toucan Club, Melbourne, Emma Bathgate (VT 3274)
20. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival, tape 2 (VT 3275)
21. Simply Barbara (VT 3276)
22. Mardi Gras party, celebrating 25 years (VT 3277)
23. Grant, Mardi Gras documentary, tape 1 (VT 3278)
24. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, tape 2 (VT 4672)
25. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, awards presentation (VT 4673)
26. The Dilapidated Diva and the Tight 3 piece outfit presents Djushi Cabana, Emma Bathgate (VT 4674)
27. Grant, Mardi Gras documentary, tape 2 (VT 4687)
28. Grant, Mardi Gras documentary, tape 3 (VT 4688)
29. Mark. Day Centre. Workshop, interviews (VT 4689)
30. Mark. Day Centre. Mardi Gras rehearsal, parade and post parade (VT 4690)
31. Mark. Day Centre. Mardi Gras parade and post parade (VT 4691)


POSTER
1 poster: Valentino - The Musical - 'The man who loved too much' performed at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, 3-11 November, 2000 (Located at POSTERS 2531)

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