Fonds contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide in the course of his career as a writer, including his work with arts and cultural associations such as ACTRA and the Dramatists' Co-op of Nova Scotia. Record types include scripts for stage, radio and screen; notes; correspondence; reports; meeting minutes; and photographs.
Fonds primarily consists of documentation related to publicity, personnel, equity, and the Canada Council for the Arts as well as scripts, production-based records, administrative files, correspondence, PACT files, contracts, annual meeting notes, ROADies records, financial statements and information, board meeting notes, brochures, audio tapes, photographs, and production posters.
File contains a draft of an article that Jenny Munday wrote for the Remembrance Day supplement of the Guysborough Journal. The article was published in the November 10, 2004 issue of the newspaper. The article is about veterans from Guysborough county.
File contains project grant applications and correspondence for Christopher Heide's "Poor People," which evolved into "The Promised Land," produced by Mulgrave Theatre in 1988. File also contains a tour schedule and contract between Christopher Heide and Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre.
File contains two copies of the fourth draft of "Battle Fatigue" by Jenny Munday. The draft was written in Guysborough and Montreal from August to October 1989, with re-writes in March 1990.
File contains documents related to a variety benefit performance in support of the Canso Community Survival Task Force by Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre. Jenny Munday performed a monologue about smoking. The documents include programs; a greeting card; a newspaper review; and a script for Munday's monologue.
File contains two drafts of a monologue about fish, written by Jenny Munday and performed at a benefit rally in Canso, Nova Scotia. The file also contains a photograph of Jenny Munday speaking into a microphone at the rally.
File contains one digital recording of the raw source audio used to create the episode Time Out, by the Working Theatre, which aired on September 22, 1989.
File contains one digital recording of the Rock Meets Bone episode titled "Tighten the Traces, Haul in the Reins" with Robbie O'Neill (with music by Nathan Curry), which aired on October 13, 1989. The recording is on side A.
File contains documents regarding the creation of the Rock Meets Bone episode titled "Time Out" by the Working Theatre, which aired on September 22, 1989. The episode is a play created by five participants of an adult literacy program at the Mulgrave Road Co-op in collaboration with the Guysborough County people. Participants include Hughie Ashe, Elizabeth Byard, Sue Clyke, Ernie Daniel, and Ruth Scott. Materials include an introduction script, handwritten production notes, and a booklet, press release, and information on the adult literacy program.
File contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide documenting Mulgrave Road Theatre's 1989 production of Feeling Yes, Feeling No, which was developed by Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver in the early 1980s. Records, which were removed intact from a binder, include reports, notes, scripts, exercises; rehearsal notes and stage book.
File contains an audio cassette with episode one of the radio program Rock Meets Bone hosted by Brian Guns. The episode highlights a performance of "Time Out" produced as part of the Working Theatre Project organized by Mulgrave Road Theatre. The episode aired on September 22, 1989. The recording is on side B of the audio cassette.
File includes records documenting Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre's Working Theatre Project, which used theatre structures and methodologies with an adult education approach to literacy upgrading. Records include correspondence; reports; notes; a contract with Christopher Heide; budgets; project summary; and a program for "Time Out," the play produced by program's participants.
File contains seven pages of prose as well as posters created by Working Theatre Project participants. The posters feature pictorial shields illustrating achievements, strengths and skills.
Item is a manuscript copy of The Promised Land, first produced in the spring of 1988 by the Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre, which included a three-week tour with one week at Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille as part of the From the Ground Up Theatre Festival.
File contains one digital recording of the raw source audio used to create the Rock Meets Bone episode titled "Tighten the Traces, Haul in the Reins" with Robbie O'Neill (with music by Nathan Curry), which aired on October 13, 1989.
File contains documents regarding the creation of the Rock Meets Bone episode titled "Tighten the Traces, Haul in the Reins" with Robbie O'Neill (with music by Nathan Curry), which aired on October 13, 1989. The episode follows Robbie acting as Leo Kennedy of Canso, a peddler with cerebral palsy who died in 1982. Materials include an introduction to the episode, handwritten production notes, and documents from the Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre documenting the play version of the episode.
File contains correspondence from Ed MacKenna, Ian Pygott, Emmy Alcorn and Pam Stevenson, as well as a document written by Emmy Alcorn and Pam Stevenson outlining the sequence of events as understood by them.
Collection contains "Sheep have an important place in Nova Scotia Agriculture. Leaflet No. 9" and transcripts from broadcast #20 and #21 of "The Vanishing Flock". Also included are a variety of agricultural reports.
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