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Thursday 25 October 2012

Sydney Opera House selected in international digital documentation project




Overnight it was announced that the nation's most celebrated architectural site, Sydney Opera House, will be digitally documented for future generations by a team from Scotland.
The Scottish Government today announced that Sydney Opera House has been chosen as one of 10 international sites to be digitally documented for the benefit of future generations.
The Scottish Ten project – a partnership between Scotland’s heritage agency, Historic Scotland, the Digital Design Studio at The Glasgow School of Art and not-for-profit digital heritage organisation, CyArk – will use cutting-edge 3D scanning and visualisation technology to digitally scan Sydney Opera House in 2013.
Sydney Opera House is the fourth international site to be selected for the Scottish Ten project, which will digitally record five of Scotland’s World Heritage sites and five international sites. The purpose of creating the digital models is to develop world class conservation, research, education and management systems for the sites. Sydney Opera House is the sole Australian site in the project.
Minister for the Arts, George Souris, said: “The New South Wales Government is delighted that Sydney Opera House has been selected for this innovative, international project. It recognises how highly the international community values our nation’s most celebrated architectural site.
“The world-leading expertise and technology of the Scottish Ten team will be of great benefit to Sydney Opera House in its ongoing conservation and maintenance,” he said.
“On behalf of the New South Wales Government I would like to thank the Scottish Government for selecting Sydney Opera House to be involved in this exciting project.”
Louise Herron, Sydney Opera House CEO, added: “To be the only Australian site included in the Scottish Ten project is a huge honour. Collaborating with international leaders in digital documentation will give us much needed technical and architectural insights as we plan for the future of one of the world’s greatest 20th century buildings.” 
Selected as an outstanding example of Australian built heritage, the Scottish Ten project will use digital scanning to provide unprecedented visual access to a building that cannot be seen in its entirety from the ground level.
The World Heritage Listed Sydney Opera House welcomes over 8.2 million visitors on site every year. It hosts 1,800 performances attended by 1.4 million people each year and is one of the world’s busiest performing arts and tourism destinations.

Monday 6 June 2011

Terminus by Mark O'Rowe

Monologues, 3 people and 90 minutes of pure entertainment! Sydney Theatre Company presents the Abbey Theatre / Amharclann Na Mainistreach production of Terminus by Mark O'Rowe at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House. It is here as part of a world tour.
Three people in a broken picture frame, have three stories to tell, you just know at the start that somehow they are all going to intertwine but when you hear the first monologue from each you just can't see how. How will a women who is seeking a former pupil, who is about to abort her baby connect with a women who is seeking love and a man who just wants to show the world he can sing?  Mark takes you on an incredible journey through a night of strange and fantastical occurrences; set in the streets to the skies of Dublin to the bowels of the Earth.  The monologues are written in verse with quite a few samples of alliteration which brings pace and humour to an otherwise quite macabre story. To say it is in verse it is very natural and I think it adds to the Irish lilt of the narrators. 
Terminus is a great feat of narrative writing and the three actors bring it to life - Catherine Walker, Declan Colon and Olwen Forere.  Go and see for yourself it is playing until 9 July.
Photograph: Olwen Forere by Brett Boardman

Thursday 17 June 2010

Vivid 2010

See our latest Youtube video taken at Vivid - Macquarie Visions. The commentary tells you a little of the story of the Macquarie's and their legacies.