This collection was presented to the University of Cape Town Libraries by the Cape Town City Ballet Company. It contains notations of ballets produced in Cape Town by the Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB) Ballet Company, later renamed the Cape To...
Minute-books (1841-1971); birth, circumcision and marriage registers (1820-1959); cash-books (1901-1977); correspondence (1885-1979); Rev. AP Bender's sermons eight volumes; photographs, etc.
The collection includes a number of films that were shown at the festival over the years. There are newspaper clippings with reviews of the films, information about the festival, correspondence relating to the festival, etc.
Ticket for “The Divorce” by Sholem Aleichem, 10 Apr 1917Programmes: “Cheseit un Chespreit”, S Aleichem, 6 Jul 1916, 10 Aug 1916Musical & Dramatic evening, 10 Apr 1917Programme: “God, Man and Satan”, by J Gordin. 11 Aug 1920Photograph
The collection comprises programmes of productions of the performing arts, such as ballet, opera, musicals and theatre, as well as orchestral and vocal music, mainly in Cape Town between the late 1970s and 2014.
Illustrations used in "Cape Town: the making of a city; an illustrated social history" by Nigel Worden, Elizabeth and Heyningen and Vivian Bickford-Smith (David Philip Publishers, 1998).