SIBMAS
SIBMAS Congress 2008
SIBMAS Congress 2008
On the 25th of August 2008 delegates gathered at RSAMD, Glasgow for the 27th SIBMAS congress. Over 100 attended the conference for 4 days of papers and a packed social programme including a day trip to Edinburgh. For more details download the Programme (Word Document).
SIBMAS
SIBMAS is the international association for libraries and museums of the performing arts. Every 2 years we meet for an international conference. For the full list of all our conferences since 1954 please click here .
The conference provides an opportunity for curators, archivists, librarians and others working with performing arts material to get together to exchange information about current projects and new innovations.
Capturing the Essence of Performance: The Challenge of Intangible Heritage
The SIBMAS 2008 conference programme focused on how effectively a live activity such as performance can be documented using a variety of both traditional and more innovative methods:
Highlights of the conference included:
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Britannia Panoptican Poster
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Four Keynotes:
The Britannia Panoptican Experience!
Judith Bowers with Miss Gypsy Charms and Miss Viva Misadventure from the
Academy of Burlesque and Cabaret
Portraits of Performers: Documents, Monuments or Traces?
Professor Shearer West, Director of Research, Arts and Humanities Research
Council
How did the lighting look? - interpreting the evidence Francis Reid
From Sketch To Stage: Costume Creation and Realisation Philippe Binot |
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Exhibition: The Dressing Room:
Photographs of Actors by Simon Annand ‘The Dressing Room’, winner of the 2006 Museum and Heritage award for a project on a limited budget, features black and white photographs taken over 20 years by Simon Annand. His images allow us a rare glimpse of the more private face of famous actors, photographed as they spent time in their West End dressing rooms, preparing to go on stage during ‘The Half’ - the last half-hour before the start of a play. These photos are unique in that they do not portray the actors from a glamorous point of view, but rather, highlight their dedication. |
 Simon Annand |
 Toulouse Lautrec
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FOOTLIGHTS: Capturing the Essence of Performance
Footlights which examined how artists have captured the fleeting nature of theatrical
performances over the centuries. Included were works by Toulouse Lautrec, designs for the
Russian theatre by Natalya Goncharova, and images of Berlin cabaret by Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner.
Footlights wasspecially organised to coincide with SIBMAS.
Keynote Lecture by The National Theatre of Scotland (NTS)
The National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) presented an illustrated lecture on the NTS
and its hit production the
Black Watch.
Black Watch took the 2006 Edinburgh Festival by storm, playing to sold out crowds and
garnering unanimous critical acclaim.
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- The Academy of Burlesque and Cabaret
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- Cameron Mackintosh Foundation
- Dawson Books
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Information and Libraries Scotland:
- Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) and
- Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS)
- Institut Francais d’Ecosse
- Loch Fyne Oysters
- Methuen Drama, A&C Blacks
- National Galleries of Scotland
- The National Theatre of Scotland
- Oran Mor
- Routledge: Taylor & Francis
- Samuel French
- Scottish Screen
- The Society for Theatre Research
- Theatre Information Group
- Victoria and Albert Museum
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