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A Rare Flower: A Century of Cantonese Opera in Canada

subseries1979 - [1998?], predominant 1991 - 1993L

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A Rare Flower: A Century of Cantonese Opera in Canada · 1979 - [1998?], predominant 1991 - 1993

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— via UBC Museum of Anthropology Library & Archives
Creator
Elizabeth Lominska Johnson
Dates
1979 - [1998?], predominant 1991 - 1993 (indexed as 1979–1998)
Level
subseries
Extent
Includes: - 2 m of textual records - 7 video cassettes - ca. 0.83 m of photographs
Scope & content
Subseries consists of records relating to the 1993 exhibit, "A Rare Flower: A Century of Cantonese Opera in Canada." The exhibit began with an acquisition of historic Chinese Opera costumes from the Jin Wah Sin Music Society. The exhibit was first installed at MOA from May 16 to Nov. 7 1992, in Gallery 5. Elizabeth Johnson was both curator and coordinator. It was also a travelling exhibit with five other venues in Canada. It reopened in MOA in 1995, and later travelled to the McCord Museum. Aspects of the exhibit have been on display at numerous venues, including Hong Kong and Ghuangzhou in a panel exhibit. Subseries contains agendas, articles, artifact lists, books, business cards, agreements, correspondence, drawings, evaluations, exhibit labels, expenses, internal forms (exhibit proposal forms), financial records, guidelines, grant applications, memoranda, minutes of meetings, museum exhibit diagrams, permission forms, photographs, notes, plans, policies, press releases, proposals, publications (books and magazines), publicity records, receipts, reports, reproductions of newspaper ads and articles, research notes, schedules, slides, speaking notes, surveys, transcripts of research interviews, handbills, drafts, visitor surveys and videos.
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A Rare Flower: A Century of Cantonese Opera in Canada
Genre / form
Textual record; Moving images; Graphic material
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