University of Victoria

Newsletters for the Friends of Bastion, 1984-1985, and a memo, 16 October 1984, which reveals the marketing and educational outreach aspects of FOB activity.

CA UVICARCH AR010-02-2.4-2.4.3
Item
1984-1985

Part of Bastion Theatre Company of B.C. fonds

Federal Job Development application, draft hol., with information sheets, early 1988, which details administration and marketing duties.

CA UVICARCH AR010-02-2.4-2.4.5
Item

Part of Bastion Theatre Company of B.C. fonds

Actor and Actress Portfolios

CA UVICARCH AR010-02-2.5
Subseries
1985-1988

Part of Bastion Theatre Company of B.C. fonds

Subseries consist primarily of 100 alphabetically arranged files containing portfolios of professional actors and actresses submitted by agents. BTC administrators maintained these files as a reference talent pool. All portfolio items have been name-tagged and stapled by BTC, and placed on their side between the alphabetical file dividers, and they appear in the Archive collection as received. They are also divided into 4 categories, each occupying one-half a lengthwise box, or 19cm. Each portfolio item consists of a promo photograph, a resume of acting credits, and some items include the agent's marketing stationery or folder.

Education records

CA UVICARCH AR010-03
Series
1965-1988

Part of Bastion Theatre Company of B.C. fonds

Series consists of materials reflective of the education and outreach activities of the Bastion Theatre Company of British Columbia, arranged into five sub-series: Theatre school, 1965-1988; Theatre-in-education, 1980-1988; Outreach, 1977-1987; Youth tours, 1974-1985; and Photographs, 1968-1987. Included in this series are materials pertaining to the operation and marketing of the Theatre School; teaching manuals and correspondence pertaining to the Craigflower Schoolhouse Project, 1986-1987; outreach program materials; and photographs of youth productions. The Youth tours sub-series contains materials generated through the Theatre's youth tour program, the largest in Canada at the time, including itineraries, correspondence, teacher kits, contracts, show programs, feedback questionnaires, and scripts.

Theatre School

CA UVICARCH AR010-03-3.1
Subseries
1965-1988

Part of Bastion Theatre Company of B.C. fonds

Subseries consists of items pertaining to the operation and marketing of BTC's Theatre School, predominately from the 1980s when the School operated 3 semesters year-round. Further information about the Theatre School during the 1960s and 1970s may be
gleaned from Administration Correspondence and pressing clippings in Marketing (4.2). Drama classes were held from September 1963, the inception of BTC as a community theatre centre based on the Manitoba Theatre Centre model. Peter Mannering continued as the key educational figure in BTC, even after it became a professional mainstage company in 1971. Items here include a student directory, brochures, registration forms, timetables and activity charts.

Directory of Bastion Theatre School Students, ca.1965