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Records and Archives Week 2011 Programme of Events
What’s on during Records and Archives Week?
Here are some of the events we know are happening during Records and Archives Week. If you would like your organisation or event to be included here, please email: kirsty.cox@dia.govt.nz
Auckland
Dance Aotearoa New Zealand
Archiving Dance Forum, 8 May, 2-4pm
Location: 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn
- If we don’t preserve our dance materials we will lose New Zealand dance history. This forum explores where to start with our dance collections, who we should link with plus useful information. Guest: Mary Donald, Qualified archivist and performing arts specialist.
Registration is essential. Please email auckland@danz.org.nz
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Food in the Library - CORNUCOPIA
The Fine Arts Library is featuring food and art to mark Records and Archives Week (1-7 May 2011). Cornucopia represents the top of the range in terms of book production and gives an insight into fine dining in Auckland in the late 1990s. The book is a portfolio of fourteen lithographs produced by Frans Baetens of Muka Studio in 1998. Baetens paired artists and food professionals to produce a visual feast far removed from an ordinary recipe book. The artists have interpreted their recipes with gusto with a lithograph and a text page for each dish. Denys Watkins, a senior lecturer at Elam, was paired with Richard Genn from Verandah Bar and Grill (VBG) in Parnell. Denys responded to the form of bok choy in Genn’s ‘Seared Tuna on Asian Vegetables’: “I tried to use colours that referenced the food, for example bok choy. I wanted the food to look crisp and crunchy, like the light food it reflects, so the colours are light.”[i]
Each day the display case in the library will feature a different double act. The artists all have associations with the Elam School of Fine Arts as students and staff. Denys retires this year after a long teaching career. The other five pairs are Jenny Dolezel and Kate Fay (French Cafe); Rodney Fumpston and Alistair Park (O’Connell St Bistro); John Reynolds and Julie Le Clerc (Garnet Road Foodstore); Dick Frizzell and David Griffiths (Vinnies); and Carole Shepheard and Ray McVinnie.
The Dick Frizzell rendition of ‘Crayfish ravioli with Bluff oysters and fresh Sevruga caviar’ should be considered for serving in the new waterfront cloud for an after party and John Reynolds’ rendition of the recipe for Le Clerc’s ‘Hokey Pokey Bomb’ is typographically vivid. Note that two Crunchie bars can be substituted for the hokeypokey. To make these works more accessible the Fine Arts Library will produce a stop motion animation to pique your interest. This will allow you to view the animation attached to the book’s catalogue record. For the true archival experience you can also visit the real work and wear white gloves to handle each printed sheet. Visit the Fine Arts Library and ask for Corncucopia[ii]. Jane Wild, Library Manager, NICAI & Special Collections, The University of Auckland Library
[ [i] ‘Cornucopia: a collaboration between artists and chefs’. November 1999. Cuisine: 178-179; [ii] Cornucopia. 1998 Auckland: Muka Press, Artists Book 02-5, Fine Arts Library. The University of Auckland Library.]________________________________________________________________________________________
The University of Auckland - Special Collections Library
A veritable feast
Special Collections have prepared enticing display of food related archives to mark Records and Archives Week, 1-7 May 2011. Come and consider whether you would prefer ox tongue or beef satay to be served at your next celebratory dinner. Or take a peep behind the scenes at working conditions 1957 style at the Farmers’ tearooms courtesy of the Northern Hotel, Hospital, Restaurant and Related Trades Union.
The display, which runs from 29 April on the ground floor of the General Library, 5 Alfred Street (opposite Albert Park), reveals just some of the rich array of archival material available to researchers in Special Collections.
Contact: Katherine Pawley, Special Collections, General Library, Ext 86457, Email k.pawley@auckland.ac.nz
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Birkenhead Library & Chelsea Archives
Afternoon tea with Alexa Johnston - Author of “Ladies, a plate” and “A second helping” on Sunday, 8 May 2011, 3.30pm Birkenhead Library, Nell Fisher Reserve, Birkenhead. RSVP to Birkenhead Library ph: 486 8558 or email: ania.biazik@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
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Archives New Zealand, Auckland Regional Office exhibition:
Hearty meals for the masses - the Good the Bad and Ugly - Public service catering from schoolchildren to forestry workers, from engineers to hospital patients.
This can be visited from Monday 2 May 9.30 - 5.00 at 95 Richard Pearse Drive, Mangere, and will be open until 7 June (weekdays).
On display are items from our holdings featuring menus, canteens and meals on wheels, as well as some food-related health advice. Come and see the original model (1975) for Linda Topp's Ken, the 1950's forestry workers' menu featuring mutton for breakfast, dinner and tea and other foodie delights.
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Central Districts
Hamilton City Libraries are running a display showcasing items from their archive collection based primarily on the Waikato’s dairy and meat industries.
The display is located at L3 of the Garden Place Library, Hamilton. Opening hours are: Mon-Fri 9.00-8.30pm; Sat 9.00-4.00pm; Sun 12.00-3.30pm
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Feilding & Districts Community Archive
The Feilding & Districts Community Archive hosts two displays for RAW..
- There is a glass case display showing the domestic side of food preparation including old recipe books, storage containers and adverts taken from The Feilding Star circa 1920s to 1940s.
- Also in the museum there is a display of photographs from the farming community of this area showing farm stock, freezing works, shepherds, horse drawn equipment and the recently donated cream truck that operated in this area. All aspects that are important to food production with a Feilding and Manawatu flavour.
Visit Feilding & Districts Community Archive - Coach House Museum, Bowen Street, Feilding
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Dairy Records Archive
The Dairy Records Archive in conjunction with the Massey University Archives will be putting up a photo display in the Massey Library. Further details here:
http://libraryblogs.massey.ac.nz/loud.php/recording-the-history-of-food-in-new-zea-2011
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Wellington
The ARANZ Lecture
Alphabetically speaking ....
Of Aliments, Archives and Authors
.........and records, of course
WHEN: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 5.30p.m to 7pm.
WHERE: Weltec City Campus, Church Street, Wellington.
The ARANZ Lecture 2011 is a fine food festival, a cornucopia of coffee houses, critiques and catering. And, as usual, it's free. Two leading New Zealand authors, Susette Goldsmith (Suzy's - a coffee house history, Quill, 2010) and David Burton (New Zealand Food and Cookery, Bateman, 2009), will tell the secrets of success in historical researches for their magisterial celebrations of hot beverages around Wellington and the world, and Kiwi comestibles since the year dot.
David Burton is the feared/admired restaurant critic for Wellington's Dominion Post and Cuisine magazine, an historian and writer of a number of foodie books from the Raj of India through New Zealand cheese making to colonial French cooking. But it was his massive food and cookery almanac that earned him praise for "unbelievably rigorous research".
Susette Goldsmith, Taranaki editor and writer, made treasure troves of Kiwi coffee and tea cultures after discovering Alexander Turnbull Library photo collections. Blonde Dutch immigrant, Suzy van der Kwast, founder of Wellington's iconic "Suzy's" 1960's coffee bar, was the peg on which to hang the coffee house history, a "favour for Wellingtonians", said a reviewer.
ARANZ is the Archives and Records Assn of New Zealand. The ARANZ Lecture, part of Records and Archives Week 2011, is supported by the School of Hospitality and Catering, Wellington Institute of Technology (Weltec), Petone.
The ARANZ Lecture will run at the Weltec City campus, 11 Church Street (off Boulcott Street), Wellington, on Thursday, May 5. Light refreshments from 5.30pm; ARANZ Lecture from 6.00pm.
Lecture is free. Catering koha requested. Space is limited so, to make sure of a place, please RSVP by close of business, Friday, April 29, 2011 to Anna.Henry@dia.govt.nz
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ARANZ - Sole Archivist Group
DATE: Wednesday 4 May
TIME : 12.30 pm
VENUE: Pa Maria/Emmaus Centre , 78 Hobson Street, Thorndon
TOPIC: "What does a field librarian do? Diane Woods will be talking about her work in this role at the Alexander Turnbull Library. Come and hear about some of the collections and people, conundrums and pleasures of life in the field.
As Field Librarian for the Alexander Turnbull Library, Diane assists the curators in building the archival collections of the library. She works 'in the field' with people, organisations and businesses who have papers and records that might be of long-term research interest for the collections. Diane took up this role in 2001. She joined the Turnbull Library in 1986, as a member of the reference team for the published collections. She first worked in a library during her OE in the 1970s, at the Architects' Journal in London."
BRING: Your lunch - tea and coffee will be provided - and a Gold Coin (or two) for the Room hire
N.B . This talk is the Sole Archivists contribution to Records and Archives Week (RAW) - So do come along ; Diane is a great speaker with a wealth of experience - you won't want to miss this one !
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Alexander Turnbull Library
ATL is showcasing a small selection of items from their unpublished collections that celebrate and reflect the theme of 'Food, glorious food':
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz/sets/72157626478124471/
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Canterbury
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Otago/Southland
The Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) has selected From the Hangi pit to the Weetbix kid: Recording the history of food in New Zealand as the theme for Records and Archives Week 2011 (RAW). A programme of three exhibitions and a Lunchtime Seminar series has been arranged for the month of May. [pdf of programme available here]
- Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office exhibition - Feeding A Nation: Our Provincial Pantry
Archives New Zealand in Dunedin is holding an exhibition entitled “Feeding A Nation : Our Provincial Pantry” as part of Records and Archives Week 2011. This exhibition will open on 2 May, and run until 10 June 2011, at Archives New Zealand’s Dunedin Regional Office, 556 George Street, Dunedin. Feeding A Nation: Our Provincial Pantry features an assortment of archives that illustrate the government’s involvement in food and administration in the Deep South.
The government’s role in the regulation of the food industry is demonstrated through correspondence relating to tutu poisoning in the 19th century, and documents relating to the transportation of fruit by rail, the testing of milk for radioactive material, and the debate over the presence of cats in food outlets in the 20th century.
Food in government institutions is represented by ration and requisitions books from Dunedin Hospital and Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, through to documents relating to the school milk scheme and the quality of meat in Dunedin’s 19th century gaol.
Also featured are photographs and set designs of Alison Holst’s earliest television cooking shows produced by DNTV-2 in the 1960s and 1970s, and a selection of mid-20th century food packaging kept by Department of Health officials during their inspections. Films created by the National Film Unit on a variety of culinary topics will also be shown.
For further information, please contact: Peter Miller, Dunedin Regional Archivist, Archives New Zealand, Tel: (03) 477 0404. Email: dunedin@archives.govt.nz Location: Archives New Zealand’s Dunedin Regional Office, 556 George Street, Dunedin. http://www.archives.govt.nz
- Presbyterian Church Archives exhibition - Communing through Food, Faith and Fellowship
The Presbyterian Archives Research Centre offers a series of byte-sized entrees that highlight the Church’s relationship and interaction with food. We invite you to partake in the delights of Ladies a Plate: a display of photographs and ephemera which highlight occasions when church people gather to share food. At the Archives Research Centre, Hewitson Wing, Knox College, Arden Street, Dunedin throughout the month of May. Enter the blogosphere and feast on the Food Production displays found at www.preshist.wordpress.com:
· The production of Arrowroot
· The development of Te Whaiti Maori Boys Farm
· Feast and Famine – Overseas Aid
The act of eating and sustaining our bodies cannot be separated from our spirits. As communities of faith the age old tradition of a shared meal brings us together to share our stories, celebrate our history, reflect on our faith, and build our communal outreach. For further information, please contact: Yvonne Wilkie, Director of Archives, Tel: (03) 473-0777 Email: Yvonne.wilkie@knoxcollege.ac.nz. Location: Archives Research Centre, Hewitson Wing, Knox College, Arden Street, Dunedin. http://www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz/
- ResearchwriteNZ exhibition - From the Paddock to the Plate – Archives from the family farm
ResearchWriteNZ presents images, documents, ephemera and other records describing the changing patterns of food production through four generations on one property over six decades. Exhibition is open from Monday 2 May until Friday 3 June 2011, in the Dellow Seminar Room. Hours: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm Weekdays and 10.00 am – 1.00 pm Saturdays Alternative viewing times are by appointment and special interest groups are welcome. For further in formation, please contact: Dr Jennie Coleman, Tel: (03) 470 1109 or 027 222 4214 Email: jennie@researchwrite.co.nz Location: 1st Floor, Capitol Building, 67 Princes Street, Dunedin (opposite Savoy Restaurant). http://www.researchwrite.co.nz.
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Lunchtime Seminars The Lunchtime Seminar programme will be held 12.00 noon in the Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, Dunedin Public Library, The Octagon, Dunedin.
Tuesday 10 May - Dr Jim Williams – “The well fed Māori of yesteryear”. Jim is a Senior Lecturer in Te Tumu, the School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies. Dr Williams' research interests include Ngāi Tahu history and language and resource management including mahika kai, as well as comparisons with other Indigenous peoples.
Tuesday 17 May – Dr Michael Stevens – “Muttonbirding in Southern NZ”.
An overview of the seasonal harvesting and preservation of juvenile titi (sooty shearwaters) by southern Kai Tahu from the so-called Titi Islands - several dozen islands adjacent to Rakiura/Stewart Island. This activity is commonly known as muttonbirding. The talk will be given by Dr Michael J. Stevens, an historian and a "muttonbirder".
Tuesday 24 May -Mike Lord – President of Federated Farmers Otago speaking on changes in farming and farm recordkeeping. The primary producers of food in NZ have gone from being for the most part family businesses keeping records in diaries and notebooks to large corporate operations using sophisticated electronic systems to keep track of business.
For further information regarding the talks contact Anna Blackman, ph 4798867, anna.blackman@otago.ac.nz
For further information, please contact Vivienne Cuff at Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office - vivienne.cuff@dia.govt.nz or 03 477 04 04
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National
Archives New Zealand
See their website for further details and links: http://archives.govt.nz/about/publications-media/public-records-take-stock-food-regulations
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The Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Library
The Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Library is jointly celebrating Records and Archives Week and World Information Society Day by intertwining the themes of food, history and access to information in order to highlight our unique collections. This is what we’ll be doing:
- We are putting together a “Chronicle & Crumbs” audio CD to be sent to members in May. This will contain:
- Extracts from relevant books in our talking book collection, such as ‘Colonial fare’ by Jill Brewis and ‘Self-raising Flower’ by Tui Flower.
- Interviews with staff members who are also members of the Foundation and who boarded at Homai College (the school established in Manurewa, Auckland, to provide education services to blind and partially-sighted children in New Zealand). These are mini oral histories, focusing on their memories of food.
- Narrated snippets from “The Chronicle” (the official magazine of the Foundation, 1928–1993) and other archival materials.
- Time-honoured recipes from staff. Ideally, staff will narrate these themselves.
- We are creating a fully accessible virtual display on our intranet of archival material pertinent to the theme of food. All Foundation staff will be able to access this. This will include scanned images with comprehensive text descriptions, and interesting quotes from “The Chronicle” and “Pioneering A Vision” (a history of the Foundation).
- We are organising a section on our Telephone Information Service for members to ring up and record their own memories of food during the month of May. Other members will be able to listen to these memories.
- Last but not least, we are holding a cake stall to raise money for a digital talking book player, to enable another member to access our growing digital book collection.
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ARANZ School SIG
ARANZ School Archives SIG [Special Interest Group] is hosting an online exhibition od interesting items from school archives, nationwide. For details on how to contribute, and to view the exhibition follow the link:
http://aranzschoolarchivessig.weebly.com/records--archives-week.html
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