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Breeding delinquents: Surf City 1963-1966

Culture and customs

Lightfoot, Louise

Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales

National Trust of Australia (NSW)

Seymour, Jasmine

Watson, Leanne Mulgo

Wilkins, Erin

Wright, Rhiannon

Back cover of guide to 1978 Festival of Sydney events

Crowd watching La Traviata at the first Opera in the Park concert in the Domain 1982

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Culture and Customs

Breeding delinquents: Surf City 1963-1966

The venue Surf City in the former Kings Cross Theatre on Darlinghurst Road was accused of ‘breeding delinquents’ soon after it opened in 1963. Despite its short lifetime, the venue is crucial to the musical history of Australia. For three years it served as the spiritual home of Australian beat music, giving rise to mainstream pop stars and underground cult heroes whose influence remains today.

Culture and customs

Sydney's pre-industrial culture was comprehensive and public, and most European inhabitants were players, performers or spectators. After 1850, distinct but overlapping cultures emerged, imported and adapted from Europe and America. New forms of cultural transmission after World War I enabled the elaboration of new cultures based on ethnicity, age and gender, which have combined to produce Sydney's cultural diversity.

Lightfoot, Louise

A trained architect who became a dancer and teacher, Louise Lightfoot made major contributions to two forms of dance, classical ballet and Indian dance. She founded the First Australian Ballet, and later was an advocate, teacher and entrepreneur of Indian dance forms.

Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales

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Publicly available, online interactive map created by NSW State government department Spatial Services in 2021 using the results of the Real Secret River: Dyarubbin research project led by Professor Grace Karksens with Aunty Edna Watson, Leanne Watson and Jasmine Seymour, and supported by the State Library of NSW 2018-2019 Coral Thomas Fellowship.

Use the External Link with this record to go directly to the map at Spatial Services.

National Trust of Australia (NSW)

An independent community-based organisation that has advocated the conservation of built, cultural and natural heritage since its foundation in Sydney in 1945.

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Seymour, Jasmine

Darug woman who is a primary school teacher and the author of children's books that are based on her cultural heritage. She is a descendant of Yarramundi and Maria Lock.

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