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Love a good backstage tour? Then you don't want to miss this season's #StratfordFestivalArchives tour, Romeo and Juliet: Then and Now. Discover how the play has been reimagined by directors and designers throughout our history. ➡️ ow.ly/48aH50QHhX0
An #ArchivesFeast for the @archivistsdotca! This Alice Through the Looking Glass (2014) feast was hand crafted at the #Stratfest by our props department 🍨 The #StratfordFestivalArchives couldn't pass on the opportunity to add this delicious looking desert to their collection.
March 3 was #WorldWildlifeDay! The swans of the #AvonRiver have long been a part of the Stratford experience. Here’s two obliging waterfowl posing for promo pic in 1954, courtesy of the #StratfordFestivalArchives 🦢 📸: Photographer unknown.
Happy Family Day from the #StratfordFestivalArchives! We hope your day is filled with fun adventures and maybe even a pillow fight 😉 📸: Members of the company in Peter Pan, 2010. Photograph by David Hou. More credits: archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/pr…
Tomorrow is #NationalPieDay 🥧 We are celebrating by highlighting one of our favourite pies from the #StratfordFestivalArchives collection! 📸: Cherry Pie created for the production of Inherit the Wind, 2001. Designed by Peter Hartwell. Built by Carolyn Horley.
Let's start the week off by taking down a trip memory lane, shall we? Follow the thread for some of our top-notch items from the #StratfordFestivalArchives collection! 🎩 👇
Here's a question the #StratfordFestivalArchives team is often asked: how does the Archives store its costumes, props and bijoux (jewelry)? 💍 Each item is given a unique identification number and stored in an archival acid-free box, as seen below 👇
Each year, Festival archivists choose one object from the #StratfordFestivalArchives collection to display on their desks. Here are their picks for 2024! What #Stratfest object would you want to display on your desk? 🤔
Hockey behind the #FestivalTheatre? Yes, please 🏒 Back in 1962, the stage door parking lot was flooded every winter to create a community ice rink. Topnotch tobogganing was to be found next door, on the slopes behind the theatre. 📸: Peter Smith. #StratfordFestivalArchives
Did you know? #Stratfest founder Tom Patterson was a sergeant in the Canadian Dental Corps, serving from 1939 to 1945. The letters he sent home while stationed overseas are held in the #StratfordFestivalArchives. These ones are from 1942. #RemembranceDay
Did you know that the #StratfordFestivalArchives has in its collection 516 binders containing newspaper clippings related to the Festival? The books date back to the beginning of the Festival in 1953! 😱
Scarecrow ✔️ Corn stocks ✔️ Sunflowers ✔️ Your #Halloween display is complete! Featuring... 🎃 Scarecrow from The Merry Wives of Wives (2019), built by Michelle Jamieson. 🌽 Stocks from Guys and Dolls (2017), built by Jennifer Macdonald. #StratfordFestivalArchives
We've hosted some great jazz concerts throughout our history. Building an exhibition around a concert program would be stellar. #StratfordFestivalArchives #AskAnArchivist
We've hosted some great jazz concerts throughout our history. Building an exhibition around a concert program would be stellar. #StratfordFestivalArchives #AskAnArchivist https://t.co/jr8oce5sgU
Finding out that some of my favourite actors and actresses were on the stage here, such as Maggie Smith and Christopher Plummer! #StratfordFestivalArchives
Finding out that some of my favourite actors and actresses were on the stage here, such as Maggie Smith and Christopher Plummer! #StratfordFestivalArchives https://t.co/Gygnh467Xe
@stratfest is there a special piece from the archives you'd love to focus a full exhibit around? #askanarchivistday #stratfordfestivalarchives
Sometimes boxes come to the #StratfordFestivalArchives with fun labels on them! This one arrived from the production department ✨ Are there any fun labels in your archival collection? 🤔 #AskAnArchivist
We have over 4000 costume pieces (not counting jewelry or accessories!) in the #StratfordFestivalArchives. Our earliest piece is from our first show, Richard III in 1953, and our latest addition is from Richard III, 2022.
We have over 4000 costume pieces (not counting jewelry or accessories!) in the #StratfordFestivalArchives. Our earliest piece is from our first show, Richard III in 1953, and our latest addition is from Richard III, 2022.
Depends what you mean by "battle-worn": these gauntlets were worn into battle by Aaron Krohn as the title character in Henry V, 2012. Do they count? Production credits ⬇️ archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/pr… #StratfordFestivalArchives
If you want uncomfortable-looking shoes, we can raise that bar: here's a pair worn by Peter Donaldson as Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel, 2002. Production credits ⬇️ archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/pr… #StratfordFestivalArchives #AskAnArchivist
