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The Wolanski Foundation Project is a website and information service.

 

It was initiated by Phillip Wolanski and Paul Bentley to continue the work of the former Dennis Wolanski Library and Archives of the Performing Arts at the Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Opera House Trust closed the library in 1997 and dispersed its collection to other organisations throughout Australia. Dennis Wolanski, the Sydney businessman and sculptor, and his son Phillip were principal sponsors of the library. Paul Bentley managed the collection from 1973 until it closed.

The Wolanski Foundation Project aims to

  • generate ongoing value from the work of the Dennis Wolanski Library and Archives of the Performing Arts

  • address anomalies relating to the dispersal of its collections

  • highlight information in its distributed collections

  • undertake research on the Sydney Opera House and the work of libraries, archives and museums

  • assist people to find information on related topics

In 2005-2008, we provided assistance to the development of performing arts information resources in the National Institute of Dramatic Art and Seaborn Broughton Walford Foundation.

The Wolanski family provided financial support for Opera House digitisation programs in 2011 and for the restoration of the film Autopsy on a Dream, a collaboration of the Sydney Opera House and Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in 2013.

              

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