TLA Tours at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference
You are cordially invited to attend two different TLA tours at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference.
RSVP Form: http://goo.gl/Jiyy8F
For this year’s Annual Conference in San Francisco, the Theatre Library Association will be offering two different options to TLA and ACRL Arts Section members. The tours will take place on Friday and Saturday, June 26-27, and both locations are located near the conference area. Please RSVP to indicate your interest in attending!
Information on the venues:
- Friday, June 26, 2015, 2:00-3:30 PM
Museum of Performance + Design
http://www.mpdsf.org/
The Museum manages a rare collection of 3.5M items on the history of performances in San Francisco and the Bay Area. The collection includes books, periodicals, playbills, clippings, photographs, posters, sheet music, plays and librettos, radio interviews, videotapes, musical theater recordings, the Legacy Oral History Program, the Theater Film Archive, theater design research materials, costumes and set design renderings, personal papers of performers, patrons and critics, as well as the archive of several local performing arts organizations.
- Saturday, June 27, 11:00 AM-12:00PM
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)
http://www.act-sf.org/home.html
This tour will include a visit to the front of the house and orchestra of the Geary Theater, as well as a history of the theater and the company. Performing in San Francisco since 1965, A.C.T. has a long and distinguished production history in the Bay Area. Tour participants will also be offered a discount to the company’s production of Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, playing during the ALA Conference (more information forthcoming).
Sincerely,
John Calhoun
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
johncalhoun@nypl.org
and
Diana King
UCLA Arts Library
diking@library.ucla.edu
Featured Image Courtesy of Thomas Hawk