The Story Only I Can Tell
 Event |
The Story Only I Can Tell | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venue | Baycourt Community and Arts Centre, Tauranga, New Zealand | |||||||||||||
| Umbrella Event | Tauranga Arts Festival 2017 | |||||||||||||
| First Date | 24 October 2017 | |||||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | |||||||||||||
| Status | Professional | |||||||||||||
| World Premiere | No | |||||||||||||
| Part of a Tour | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Description | William Yang was born in North Queensland, his grandparents having migrated from China in the 1880s. After completing a Bachelor of Architecture, he moved to Sydney in 1969 and worked as a freelance photographer documenting Sydney's colourful social life. His first solo exhibition, Sydneyphiles, in 1977, caused a sensation because of its frank depiction of the Sydney gay and party scene. In the 1980s, Yang began to explore his Chinese heritage, and his photographic themes expanded to include landscapes and the Chinese in Australia. As well as photography, Yang also tours performance pieces in | |||||||||||||
| Description Source | Website | |||||||||||||
| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | |||||||||||||
| Secondary Genre |
Pictorial
Storytelling |
|||||||||||||
| Subjects |
Homosexuality
Sexual Identity Sexuality |
|||||||||||||
| Organisations |
|
|||||||||||||
| Contributors |
|
|||||||||||||
| Resources | ||||||||||||||
| Works | ||||||||||||||
| Text Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||
| Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||
| Further Information | Performed in the X Space | |||||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | |||||||||||||
| Data Source |
|
|||||||||||||
| Event Identifier | 160645 | |||||||||||||
| Dataset | AusStage | |||||||||||||
Provide feedback on The Story Only I Can Tell