Guest Speaker Meeting

Speaker: Dr Margaret Leask
Topic: ‘Everyone has a Good Story: From Arts Administrator to Oral Historian’
Dr Margaret Leask is an author, an oral historian and a performing arts historian.

She researches and records oral history interviews for the National Film and Sound Archive, the Sydney Theatre Company, the Sydney Opera House, the National Library, Australian Theatre for Young People and Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust.

She has also recorded interviews for the House with No Steps and the State Library of NSW. She reviews Sydney Theatre for Plays International and has researched and written entries for the Australian Dictionary of Biography and obituaries for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age.

She believes strongly in the value of oral histories and will share the method she uses and some examples of her work.