File File 11 - Queensland Cultural Centre

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UQFL640-Series B-File 11

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Queensland Cultural Centre

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  • 1969-1985 (Creation)

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7 folders

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Queensland Cultural Centre - Expanded Project.
Box 5
Folder 2
Cabinet minute on the composition of a controlling authority for the Performing Arts Centre, 14 January 1975 and related material.
Folder of A4 photographs of models, buildings and artworks:
a. Aerial view of model from the river side: State Library front right, Queensland Art Gallery left centre, Queensland Museum behind. Performing Arts Centre over the road at left.
Art Gallery, completed 1982, view from the Queen Victoria Bridge.
b. Art Gallery interior views: main gallery and central entry hall.
c. Performing Arts Centre, completed 1985, view from river side.
d. Concert Hall interior, two views.
e. Central foyer with access stairs to various levels of Concert Hall and Lyric Theatre, two views.
f. Lyric theatre, interior, two views.
g. Lyric theatre, foyer with mural by Lawrence Daws.
h. Queensland Cultural Centre, commissioned artworks, sheet of four photographs.
Photographs of Members of the Cultural Centre Trust; Visit of Sir Zelman Cowen to the site of the Cultural Centre; at the Opening Night of the Concert Hall.
Cultural Centre Trust, various correspondence, annual report, article on Robin Gibson in The Bulletin.

Folder 3
Queensland Cultural Centre, brochure (1985?) and program: Official Handover of the Commissioned Art Works, 8 May 1985.
Correspondence between Roman Pavlyshyn and Kate Gould on the history of the Queensland Performing Arts complex for the publication, Power, Jan, Setting the Stage: Queensland Performing Arts Complex. The First Ten Years, ed. Sue Gough, text development and research by Kate Gould. Appendices to R. Pavlyshyn's letter include the following reports: Performing Arts Complex: Report by the Users' Committee, April 1975, and Queensland Cultural Centre: Assessment of Needs and Priorities, April 1975.

Box 10
Folder 1
Minutes of meeting to discuss Cultural Council, 1964
Queensland Cultural Centre, Brisbane: Design Report (No date – September-October 1975?). By Robin Gibson and Partners.

Folder 2
Alan Underwood, “Our Culture Complex Could Top $100 million.” The Courier-Mail, 8 October 1975.
Proposed Queensland Cultural Centre, South Brisbane: Progress Report to Sir David Muir, C.M.G., Chairman, Planning and Establishment Committee. October 1975. By Building Authority, Department of Works, Brisbane, Queensland.
Queensland Cultural Centre: Background and Current Status. Internal public service information document. Dated Feb. 1977.

Folder 3
Proposed Queensland Cultural Centre, South Brisbane: Progress Report to Sir David Muir, Chairman, Planning and Establishment Committee. February 1977. By Building Authority, Department of Works, Brisbane, Queensland.
Proposed Queensland Cultural Centre, South Brisbane: Progress Report to Sir David Muir, Chairman, Planning and Establishment Committee. August 1977. By Building Authority, Department of Works, Brisbane, Queensland.
Correspondence and various documents regarding the management structure for the Queensland Cultural Centre. 1978-1983.
Letter with appendices to Under Treasurer regarding budget planning and control of the Queensland Cultural Centre. 21 August 1978.
Director of Works, letter confirming Pavlyshyn's role as representative of the Department (the “Building Authority”) on the QCC Steering Committee.

Folder 4
Queensland Cultural Centre Trust, Annual Reports. 1981, 1982, 1986.

Folder 5
Agreement between Queensland Cultural Centre Trust and Trustees of the Queensland Art Gallery, 1982.
Department of Works, Progress Reports on Queensland Cultural Centre Nos. 38A-47, 1983-1985.
Director-General of Works, letter to Under Treasurer re. budget control. 8 March 1984
Queensland Cultural Centre Trust. Minutes of meetings of 1984-1985 and miscellaneous.
QCC. Press reports, 1981 and 1984.
Queensland Cultural Centre: A Cultural Dream Becomes Reality. Brochure (1985?)
Photographs of Proposal for Cultural Centre Model (not built)
State Library of Queensland. Various brochures.

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Copyright applies. Contact the Fryer Library.

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Box 5, Folders 2 - 3, Box 10, Folders 1 - 5

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Created, JH, 17-Dec-2020

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  • Box: UQFL640 Box 5
  • Box: UQFL640 Box 10