ACT Heritage Library Manuscript Collection

HMSS 0175 Alphabet Soup Women's Drama Group Records

Scope and content notes

Call Number	HMSS 0175
Collection	Alphabet Soup Women's Drama Group Records
Date Range	2001-2005
Quantity	0.09m (1 manuscript box)
Access Conditions	Available for reference
Copying Conditions	with attribution
Related Collections	HMSS 0013 Upfront Community Theatre Association Inc. Records HMSS 0115 Eulea Kiraly Theatre Production Papers

In June 2001 community theatre director Eulea Kiraly established Alphabet Soup, a drama group for women in the Allawah, Bega and Currong Flats. In 2002 visual arts, creative writing, music and dance were added to the workshop programs, culminating in a reading from a play entitled Top Girls and an associated art exhibition.

Alphabet Soup was partnered by Diabetes Australia – ACT, and the 2001-2002 project was funded by a grant from Healthpact, with the intention of improving the health and lifestyle of the people living in the Flats. The following year, the project was continued by the YWCA and DADA, coordinated by Anna Hueneke, and funded by ACT Housing’s Community Linkages Community Development Program.

The collection consists of documents relating to the grant applications and acquittal, project planning and events, publicity, and evaluation by the participants. It includes photographs and playscripts.

Box List

Box No.	Description	Quantity	Date Range
1	Project Administration - Alphabet Soup Application and acceptance papers, correspondence with Tuggeranong Arts Centre as sponsor of the program, financial records and correspondence related to acquittal of the grant Background information on community health and involvement, including Northbourne Community News numbers 2 and 3, 2000, and extract from Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts Advertising flyers Program evaluation, including formal and informal evaluations by participants	1 file	2001-2002
1	Project administration - continuation program Application for Community Linkages in ACT Housing grant	1 file	2001-2002
1	The Project Meeting notes Ladies’ lunch, 2 November 2001, photographs playscripts Top Girls playscript, correspondence, publicity, media reports, opening speech Eulea Kiraly’s story to be published in If These Walls Could Speak: Currong Apartments from Construction to Decommission, 1958-2004, with photographs selected from the Ladies’ Lunch	1 file	2002-2005

Box No.

Description

Quantity

Date Range

Project Administration - Alphabet Soup

Application and acceptance papers, correspondence with Tuggeranong Arts Centre as sponsor of the program, financial records and correspondence related to acquittal of the grant
Background information on community health and involvement, including Northbourne Community News numbers 2 and 3, 2000, and extract from Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts
Advertising flyers
Program evaluation, including formal and informal evaluations by participants

1 file

2001-2002

Project administration - continuation program

Application for Community Linkages in ACT Housing grant

1 file

2001-2002

The Project

Meeting notes
Ladies’ lunch, 2 November 2001, photographs
playscripts
Top Girls playscript, correspondence, publicity, media reports, opening speech
Eulea Kiraly’s story to be published in If These Walls Could Speak: Currong Apartments from Construction to Decommission, 1958-2004, with photographs selected from the Ladies’ Lunch

1 file

2002-2005