Metro Arts records

Small items of advertising ephemera such as handbills, fliers, programs for exhibitions, theatre and events help by or in the Metro Arts space arranged by year. 

Box 23306 - 2001-2009
Box 23307 - 2010 -2020
Box 23308 - 1980-2000

Posters advertising theatre, exhibitions and other events presented by Metro Arts. A large portion of posters advertising theatre from 'The Independents' program. Each poster is approximately 59 x 42 cm. 

• Metro Cinema, 1991?
• Second national film event Imamura, no date
• Something Tender, Marcuse/Utopia, Future/Past, no date
• 'Love an information' by Caryl Churchill, 2019

-- The Independents program --

• 'Sun kisses', Daynan Brazil, 2002?
• 'Onna no honour' by Scott Bevan, 2002?
• 'Boys' night in' by Stephen Rowan, 2005
• 'Micro-trip', 2007
• 'Mud' performed and devised by Andre Cory and Dan Eady, no date
• 'True west', 2002?
• 'Gettin' there' by Robert Kronk; 'Another dead rock star' by Shaun Charles, no date
• 'Three points of contact' by Shaun Charles, 2002?
• '3 blokes and their barbies' by Daynan Brazil with Stephen Rowan and Mark Reed, 2002?
• 'Metamorphoses - selected from Tales from Ovid' by Ted Hughes, 2006
• 'Solosmart', 2002
• 'The boy and the goat' written by Dan Eady, no date
• 'Dear Charlotte' by Joy Gregory, no date
• 'Butterflies over the sea of Japan' written and directed by Adam Comper, no date
• 'Ipswich girl' by Daynan Brazil, no date
• 'Underground' directed by Jeremy Neideck, 2011

Posters advertising theatre, exhibitions and other events presented by Metro Arts. Poster largely from productions by Backbone -Youth Arts. Each poster is approximately 59 x 21 cm.

• Holidaze' by Daniel Evans, no date
• 'The Cafe' by Andrew Cory, no date
• 'I.D.' featuring Urban Ignition, Youth Dance with special guests Little Moving Poets, no date
• 'Ivy Shambitt and the Sound Machine' by Daniel Evens, no date
• 'Fragments, a season of short plays', no date (42 x 21 cm)
• [Not backbone] 'Waiting for Merlot' by the Gooney Girls, 2008
• [Not backbone] Brisbane festival, BF08

Posters advertising theatre, exhibitions and other events presented by Metro Arts. Each poster is approximately 42 x 30 cm

• Big sit' (exhibition) Guy Webster, Lawrence English, Tom Hall, 2009 (42 x 15 cm)
• 'The Box' created by MckMckeague, Young lee par, Nathan Stoveham,  2014
• 'Dust covered butterfly' by Thomas Hutchins, 2015
• 'Les Chamsons de Prevert' composer Bernard Houston, no date
• 'The lieutenant of Inishmore' by Martin McDonaugh, no date
• Metro Arts, What's On, 2015
• 'Love let me out' by Craig Hearps, no date
• 'The ugly one' by Marius von Mayenburg, no date
• 'The ghost writer' written by Ross Mueller, directed by Andrea Moor, 2008
• 'The glorious nosebleed' by Benjamin Schostakowski, 2011
• 'Splendour' by Abi Moran, 2017
• Bertolt Brecht's 'Mother Courage and her children' directed by Shaun Charles, 2010
• 'Micro-trip II', no date
• 'Post structural jam', 2009?
• 'The Eisteddfod' by Lally Katz, 2018
• 'The Apology' by Stefo Nantson, no date
• Brisbane Festival, 08. 'Under the radar', no date
• Little Vs Terrible tea party, no date
• 'Tonight' launch party, no date
• 'Trolley boys' by Alex Cullen, no date
• 'Children of the devil' by David Bell and Russell Dykstra, no date
• 'Lunch with Vincent River' by Steven Berkoff and Philip Rudley, 2010
• Mark Zian & Unique Beautiful Flowers presents 'ooh ahh, I am not a nihilist' album launch, no date
• 'Speaking in tongues' by Andery Bovell, 2011
• Metro moves: your guide to dance around Brisbane, 2009
• Metro Cinema x 2, no date
• 'The artist citizen' (exhibition), 2009
• 'Giants among us' by Thom Browning, 2009
• 'Otherwise' by Sunny Drake, 2009
• 'Loco Maricon Amor' The Danger Ensemble, The Independents, 2012
• 'Architecture is a community art' BCAC, advertisement for lectures on architecture by Robert Riddel, Alex Tzannes, Ken Woolley, undated (33 x 52 cm)

There are 3 different sizes of folders and scrapbooks for Metro Arts Cinema, Centre Cinema, BCAC and Metro arts. Some years separate books were created for visual arts and performance arts. However, due to storage considerations all clippings books have been organised by size and then chronology and as such some years are not stored in boxes together. 

Large folders:

• 23315 O/S: 1996-1998
• 23316 O/S: 1999, 2000, 2000

Medium folders:

• 23365 O/S: 1995-1996,1998-2001,2004-2005
• 23366 O/S: 2006-2010
• 23367 O/S: 2011-2012, 2015

Small folders:

• 23308: (includes BCAC) 1981-1984, 1980s, 1996, 2007-2009, 2011.

Loose newspaper clippings regarding performances, exhibitions and operations of Metro Arts.  Items include those created by Brisbane Community Arts Centre (BCAC) before they changed their name to Metro Arts.

Records pertaining to the general business of running Metro Arts. 

• Feasibility report 1998; 2002 
• Employment documentation
• Meeting minutes 1980-2009 
• Leasing information 1980-2016?
• Annual reports 1989-1994; 1996-2002; 2008-2010 
• Strategic plans 2000-2003 
• Marketing reports 1999-2000
• Mission statements 1999
• Business plans 1998; 2004-2006
• Planning retreat report 1992 
• Inspection reports 1991
• Cultural Activities reports 1981
• Policy documents 1980-1990?
• Exhibition/event reports 1980-1985
• Arts chairman reports 1980
• Miscellaneous reports 1980-1999
• Branding 2005 -?

Correspondence pertaining to the running of Metro arts.

• Correspondence - Griffith university partnership 2003-2004
• Correspondence - Playlab Press 1994-2002
• General correspondence 1975-2009

Records pertaining to the history of Metro Arts and Coronation House and records for the administration of BCAC. 

• BCAC records 1975 
• BCAC correspondence
• BCAC marketing material 
• Coronation House history
• Heritage protection application documentation for Coronation House 1980-1990 
• Coronation House, renovation plans 1976-1978 
• Metro Arts History 
• Metro Arts Cinema 1975-1987 

Financial records pertaining to the running of Metro arts as a business. 

• Budget expenditure 1980-2006 
• Grants and funding 1980- 2004
• Donations 1986; 1987; 2010 
• Receipts 1980-2008 

• Artist resumes and application for various Metro Arts programs. 
• Artists resumes 
• Metro Arts Incubator program, Biz Arts Makers 2004
• Alleyway109 applications 2010 
• Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space application for Artist in Residence 2008
• Small black box - monthly experimental music sound art performance space 2002
• Scholarships 2006-2008 

Records pertaining to the organisation and production of exhibitions held at Metro Arts including media releases, documentation of projects and partnerships, some ephemera related to the business of producing exhibitions and theatre. Records have been arranges chronologically. 

Photographic slides of art, exhibitions, events and performance.

• Unknown performances, undated;
• [Open Day '85 street festival held in Edward Street in front of Coronation House, 24 March 1985].
• Exhibitions:
• 'In the Mountain Shadow', Barbara Limb, 1989
• Karen Papacek, 1992
• Chris Ward, 1992
• 'Fuzz Factor 5', Marco Masci, Victoria Boulter, Angela Blakely, Gia Mitchell, Belinda Giggins, Feona Doherty, 1998
• Metro Arts unknown exhibition, 1998
• QUT development space exhibition, 1998
• Catherine Brown, 1998
• QUT development space, Jess Hynd, 1999
• QUT development space, Simone Hine, 1999
• David Akenson, 1999
• 'Poison', Roderick Bunter, Lyell Bary, Ben Frost, 1999
• 'If I was White', Vernon Ah Kee, 1999
• 'No Fixed Address', Leon Waud, 1999

Photographic slides of art, exhibitions, events and performance.

• QUT development space program, Krissy Collum, 2000
• QUT development space program, Ilona Glastonbury, 2000
• 'Remote Control' (exhibition is part of studio artist program), Rebecca Ross - include images of artist's studio, 1999
• Suse Wolf, 2000
• QUT development space program, Courtney Pedersen, 2000
• QUT development space program, David Akenson, 2000
• QUT development space program, Georgina Berkman, 2000
• QUT development space program, Fiona Fraser, 2000
• QUT development space program, Cameron Stelzer, 2000
• QUT development space program, Christopher Handran, 2000
• Metro Arts studio artist program, Catherine Brown, 2000
• QUT development space program, Ilona Glastonbury, 2000
• QUT development space program, Jose da Silva, 2000
• 'Land sea sky', Chris Langlois, 2001
• 'Fader', Jess Hynd, Chris Hanran, Krissy Collum, Matthew Fletcher, Chris Comer, 2001

Photographic slides of art, exhibitions, events and performance.

• 'Abstraction or thereabouts', Helen Nicholson, David Akenson, Sally Cox, 2002
• 'Mutable Spaces', Sandra Selig, Gareth Donnelly, Nick Mangan, Catherine Brown, Nadine Christensen, Damiano Bertoli, 2002
• 'Minutiae', Rachel Rolfe, 2002
• Natalya Hughes, 2002
• 'Source', Helena Wozniak, Kieren Sanderson, Ochre Lawson, 2002
• 'Presence', Elizabeth Lamont, Sandra Ross, 2002
• 'Dislocation', John Aslanidis, 2002
• 'Give and take', Christopher Handran, 2002
• Lucy Griggs, artist in residence, 2003
• 'You know what they say', Jemima Wyman, Rachael Hynes, Catherine Brown, S. Selig, 2004
• Alana Hampton, 2004
• ['Interfold', Sarah-Mace Dennis, Rebecca Voisey, Judy Anderson, Anne Smith, Kathy Mackey, 2004?]