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Gold Coast City Arts Centre, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, 1985-1986, [album], various photographers

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Gold Coast City Arts Centre, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, 1985-1986

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various photographers

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Photographs prior to the death of Mayor Keith Hunt in 1983. Images show the meetings and concept plans of the Arts Centre. Included are: Aldermen Keith Hunt, Dennis O?Connell, John Laws and Betty Diamond. Also Town Clerk Bob Brown, Sir John Edgerton and unidentified council staff. Images also show artist Max Boyd and others looking at paintings that were to be the core of the city's art collectionAlbum includes excavation and groundworks and includes Ray Stevens, Lex Bell and Bob Brown. Building progress and in December 1986 the opening ceremony with His Excellency the Governor of Queensland Sir Walter Campbell, Lady Campbell, Peter Webber, Jim Bergin, Trevor Coomber, Betty Diamond, Chris Gibbs, Dennis Pie, Keith Thompson, Athol Paterson, Lex Bell, Lester Hughes, Hillary Bloyce, John Cooper, Kelvin Cordell, George Done, Max Boyd. Photographers include: Robert Bell and Alan LambertResidents and some members of the Gold Coast City Council first pressed for a Gold Coast Cultural Centre as far back as 1968. Subsequent councils discussed and agonised over decisions relating to the proposal for many years. In 1970 the proposal was strengthened by the decision to incorporate the cultural centre into the overall design of a Gold Coast Civic Centre (the current Gold Coast City Council Administration Centre). In 1974 the administrative building was commenced with the promise that the cultural component would be added at a later date. It would be many years before this would happen. For almost 20 years the Centre was a project plagued with controversy and politics, but after years of heated debate, the Cultural Centre finally won out and offers for tender were sent out in 1985. The Centre was built on a 20-hectare site adjoining the Council's administration offices in Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, and included a theatre, art gallery, multi-purpose hall, café and bar areas. Originally known as the Keith Hunt Community Entertainment and Arts Centre, proposed because the late Mayor Keith Hunt has been credited with marking the turning point in the campaign to build a cultural centre on the Coast. The Gold Coast Arts Centre as it is now known was officially opened in December 1986Photograph of Deputy Mayor Alderman Betty Diamond presenting the Mayor Dennis Pie with an urn donated by the Gold Coast Potters Association for display in the Community Entertainment and Arts Centre. Other concillors in the group include, from left to right, Lex Bell, Paul Gamin, Lester Hughes, Chris Gibb, Jim Bergin, Peter Webber, Athol Paterson with Keith Thompson standing at the backThe "Young Friends of the Centre" first major function tour of the Centre. Leigh Jackson showing members of the group through the Auditorium pictured with Deputy Mayor Alderman Betty DiamondPhotograph of the Arts Centre Stage set for the 2001 Urban Design Awards

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