HOW DO WE HELP PRESERVE THEATRE ARCHIVES?

Theatre Archives NZ does not collect archives itself – it has no building or staff – but it:
  • Provides a manual Caring for your Theatre Archives which is available as an ebook from Playmarket's online bookshop here
  • Encourages the deposit of ‘at risk’ archives with repositories such as the Alexander Turnbull Library, Hocken Library, and the Auckland City Library 
  • Provides professional advice about archival care to those retaining their own archives
  • Maintains a nationwide database of New Zealand collections held by theatre people, companies, venues, libraries, archives, museums and historical societies
  • Records oral histories with significant New Zealand theatre practitioners
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Nola Millar teaching a class at Massey Summer School 1956-7. Photo: Bill Sheat collection