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  • Pacific Opera Victoria Poster Collection

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    32Works
    Description:
    Pacific Opera Victoria (POV), founded in 1979 and incorporated in 1980, has earned a reputation as one of Canada's leading opera companies, thanks to its dynamic repertoire choices, its original productions, and its commitment to creating meaningful opportunities for...
    Subject
    Local History, Performing Arts, and Arts and Culture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    posters

  • Saul Holiff Collection

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    80Works
    Description:
    This collection features materials from the archives of Saul Holiff, the Canadian manager of one of the most iconic figures in American music history: Johnny Cash. Holiff, who started out as a concert promoter in the late 1950s in London, Ontario, managed Cash from...
    Subject
    Performing Arts, Arts and Culture, and Local History
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs

  • Theatre Energy Collection

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    21Works
    Description:
    Theatre Energy, 1976-1993, was a prominent, innovative theatre collective in the West Kootenay area of British Columbia. Centred originally in the Slocan Valley, it was founded in the spring of 1976 when a small group of local actors, who had been staging amateur...
    Subject
    Arts and Culture, Performing Arts, and Interviews
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    sound recordings and oral histories (literary genre)

  • Victoria On Stage Posters

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    87Works
    Description:
    The <a href="https://vostheatre.ca/">Victoria On Stage Musical Theatre Society (VOS)</a> is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization established in 1945 with the purpose of bringing top-quality live musical theatre to Victoria, B.C. VOS has...
    Subject
    Performing Arts, Local History, and Arts and Culture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    posters

  • World of Mary's Wedding Reminiscences of World War One

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    85Works
    Description:
    In 2008, <a href="https://pacificopera.ca/">Pacific Opera Victoria</a> commissioned an opera from the play, Mary's Wedding. The play tells a story of love and remembrance set in the Prairies, the trenches of France, and the Battle of Moreuil Wood...
    Subject
    Military History, Performing Arts, Local History, and Arts and Culture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence and photographs