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“The Perambulator”- APG Newsletter – January 1979

Contents:

  • “New Economic Policy for 1979” by Bill Garner
  • “Gang of Three Report” by Kerry Dwyer, Wilfred Last and Richard Murphet
  • “New Space” by Bill Garner
  • “The Pram Social Club” by Bill Garner
  • “Circus Oz at National Gallery” by Robin Laurie
  • “Films at The Pram” by Kerry Dwyer
  • “Dimboola: the film” by John Timlin
  • “100 Artists”
  • “Nightshift on the move”
  • “On not being treated like a minority” by John Romeril
  • “The Young and the Jobless” by Alison Richards
  • “Comings ….. and Goings”
  • “Radio Run Out” by Greig Pickhaver
  • “The Originators”
  • “The APG: Ten years ago”
  • APG Records
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Circus Oz at the Adelaide Festival of Arts 1978

From 14 March to 19 March, 1978 the Australian Performing Group (APG) offshoot Circus Oz gave 12 performances at Bonython Park, Adelaide, as part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts.

“Circus Oz was the amalgamation of two already well known groups—Soapbox Circus, a roadshow set up by the Australian Performing Group (APG) in 1976, and the New Ensemble Circus, a continuation of the New Circus, established in Adelaide in 1974.” – Jon Hawkes, circopedia.org

The following photographs and text are from the Circus Oz brochure which was prepared for distribution at the festival. (Advertisements have been not been copied.) (The photographer/s is/are not credited in the publication. The performers who appear in the photos are:

Sue Broadway, Tony Burkys, Tim Coldwell, Jim Conway, Mick Conway, Jack Daniels, Laurel Frank, Kelvin Gedye, Jon Hawkes, Ponch Hawkes, Robin Laurie, Ric Ludbrook, Gordon McLean, Peter Muhleisen, Michael Price, Jim Robertson, Pixi Robertson and Helen Sky.

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