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Date: 21st April 1985
Description: The Three legends of Kra featured epic tales of Navajo Indians, Viking warriors and Japanese Samurai told through drama, visuals and music. The cast and crew consisted of 230 children from Brisba...
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Date: 27th April 1985
Description: Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, an opera in four acts, presented by Lyric Opera of Queensland (27 April - 8 May 1985).
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Date: 21st April 1985
Description: This event was part of the Australian tour of the London based Grenadier Guards. The Band led the Street Parade on QPAC's Opening Day prior to their performance in the Lyric Theatre.
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Date: 20th April 1985
Description: The Street Parade marked the start of a three week long Opening Celebrations Festival and involved the collective efforts of thousands of members of arts sport and community organisations. Led by...
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Date: 23rd April 1985
Description: The Royal Gala Concert marked the official opening of the Concert Hall attended byTheir Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Kent. The concert featured internationally renowed pianist Roger W...
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Date: 20th April 1985
Description: The Royal Festival Performance, directed by Stephen Hall, included every major choir and orchestra in Brisbane. The program featured a short film The Performing Arts in Queensland narrated by act...
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Date: 30th April 1985
Description: The Queensland Ballet's 25 Anniversary Season featured three world premiere ballets Scheherazade, Orpheus and Colourwash.
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Date: 30th April 1985
Description: Storytelling sessions for pre-school children conducted by Doug MacLeod, courtesy of State Library of Queensland, and performances by Kite Theatre (30 April to 1 May 1985).
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Date: 21st April 1985
Description: Open Day at QPAC involved people queing in Melbourne Street from early morning waiting to inspect the new QPAC buildings, and approximately 20,000 people toured QPAC in six hours.
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Date: 20th April 1985
Description: Following the Street Parade, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent stood on the Cremorne Theatre balcony for the RAAF flypast and at 2pm The Duke declared the QPAC building open, pr...
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Date: 5th September 1985
Description: This special concert featuring the Queensland Theatre Orchestra augmented to 36 players marked the Grand Finale to the Opening Celebrations of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
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Date: 20th April 1985
Description: Kids Gigs incorporated Choral Day, Pre-School Days, Art and Technology, Crystal Gutters and Danse Son et Lumiere featuring free music, theatre, dance, circus and multiarts events presented in QPA...
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Date: 5th August 1985
Description: A concert of music with nostalgic appeal for senior audiences planned by Major Colin Harper Director of the First Military District Band.
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Date: 26th April 1985
Description: Featured a dramatic musical performance about love and romance outside cultural sterotypes, performed by a cast of 30 people with disabilities.
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Date: 5th May 1985
Description: Australian rock band Eurogliders in concert.
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Date: 6th June 1985
Description: Concert featuring Scottish born folk singer-songwriter Eric Bogle known for his song 'And the Band played Walzing Matilda'.
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Date: 28th April 1985
Description: Danse Son Et Lumiere combined the Queensland Youth Orchestra with the Australian Youth Ballet to produce two performances that fused elements of dance, music and videographics.
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Date: 21st April 1985
Description: Dancing in the Street was about a group of break-dancing young people and their friendship with a pair of once famous but now forgotton older dancers.
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Date: 26th April 1985
Description: A cabaret devised and performed by young unemployed people, initiated as a result of QPAT's invitation to local youth groups. The project involved a 12 week production period that resulted in the...
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Date: 10th May 1985
Description: Featuring a program of popular bands and performers.
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Date: 5th May 1985
Description: Performances by Queensland primary and seconday school choirs and the Queensland Conservatorium Choir for three hours across QPAC foyers.
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Date: 3rd May 1985
Description: A special concert featuring choral works by Beethoven and Vaughen Williams performed by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and the Brisbane Chorale In Association With Queensland Conservatorium.
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Date: 30th April 1985
Description: Cheapside was a lively comedy thriller set in Elizabethan London, in the brothels and back streets where times are bawdy, squalid and cut-throat. In the thick of it all are the playwrights Willia...
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Date: 5th May 1985
Description: Commissioned for the Youth Festival, Boisterous Oysters was based on the Dr Seuss story Butter Battle Book and included 20 young people in the cast.
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Date: 28th April 1985
Description: Concert featuring Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra televised for broadcast in Japan by TV Asahi compared by composer Toshiro Mayuzum. The program featured contemporary works and traditional Japanese ...
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