Remember our charity performance of Rapunzel from 11 February? The star of the play, Nicolette Suttor, raised more than $10,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation by shaving off her almost ankle-length hair.
We are a little late in sharing the news, but we wanted to let you know about Rapunzel’s (Nicolette’s) attendance at a very special event. To celebrate her success in raising money for blood cancer research, she was feted at an award ceremony at Government House (Sydney, 21 July).
Look at the difference in her hair now! (fantastic comparisons on the National Library’s facebook post). She is with the Governor of NSW (David Hurley AC), and her cousin Denise.
Nicolette Suttor, Governor of NSW, David Hurley AC, and Denise Thyer at Government House in Sydney.
Nicolette (Rapunzel) was one of the high-ranking fundraisers and her Greatest Shave campaign had the largest outreach (family, friends, ABC radio, Canberra Times, twitter, facebook). We mentioned some of the media coverage in a previous post. She received a special mention at the award ceremony for her achievements.
Thank you to everyone for your support of the Rapunzel play, and most importantly, raising funds for this important medical research and family support.
It’s been 3 months since our Rapunzel play, and 2 months since our very own Rapunzel, Nicolette Suttor, shaved her hair to fundraise for the Leukaemia Foundation.
We’re excited to see that Nicolette’s charity work and the Rapunzel play were featured in ALIA’s magazine, Incite (volume 36 no 5, page 34).
Teddy reading Rapunzel article
Even though he isn’t our usual animal type of mascot (a rabbit), our beary friend quite enjoyed the article. Click the image below to read the article in full.
Rapunzel in Incite
An update since the article is that Nicolette has now fundraised $9,739 to help people undergoing cancer treatment.
It’s not long till our next event, which will be a talk/workshop on taxation issues. We’ll release tickets very soon.
We are so happy for our lovely Rapunzel, Nicolette Suttor, who has raised $7,280 for the Leukaemia Foundation to help in their fight against blood cancer (total as at 13 March, but please continue to donate at bit.ly/RapunzelCBR).
Nicolette pre-shave
You might recall that Nicolette starred in our Rapunzel play last month (11 February), and exactly one month on (11 March this week), she has shaved her impressive 1.4m locks. Not only has she fundraised for the Leukaemia Foundation, but her hair will be donated to Locks of Love, to make either 3 short wigs or 1 very long one.
Sally and the National Library’s staff did a wonderful job in supporting, promoting and organising the event, including a delightful morning tea on the day. Of course our contribution was on a ceramic rabbit plate, after all bunnies are our unofficial mascots. Not sure who made the rose cupcakes, but they are beautiful!
Rose cupcake
Congratulations Nicolette, you are a beautiful, amazing, compassionate person, and we are all so proud of you.
As Ian Warden quoted Nicolette, she did it all “Because it’s worth it.”
Thank you to everyone for coming to our Rapunzel play last month – we are sorry for the radio silence, the rabbits and the Tribe have been westing (it’s a terrible bunny joke, we haven’t included it here to protect you, but if you dare, go down the rabbit-hole).
Smelling the roses
We were really delighted to organise the performance, and very grateful for our stellar cast, fabulous audience (who obviously had great taste), the support of the National Library, and to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. At the time of writing, Nicolette has raised $5216, which will make such a difference in blood cancer research.
The erudite Ian Warden discussed the play in not just one but two articles, and we also spoke with the fabulous Louise Maher on 666 and featured on the ABC news page.
ACT’s Chief Minister Rapunzel by Ian Warden
If you missed the play – we are so sorry! The actual shave is happening at the National Library, 10am tomorrow, so please go along to support Nicolette and fundraise for the Leukaemia Foundation.
Who is Prince Charming? He’s a “Canberry” man of mystery, inclined towards enclosed spaces without mountain vistas. Charming in both deed and name, he takes a relaxed approach to his reign over the town and enjoys resting and supporting small businesses. He doesn’t know Rapunzel well but is happy to assist any citizen (especially to get their royal vote!).
Charmed!
One of his shots on insta (also above) shows his advanced cape-wearing skills and brooding nature. He appreciates good music, maintaining his social media accounts and quality workmanship in royal crowns.
Corporate curtsies
Prince Charming stars in our one-off play, at 10am today.
It is by donation or you can support Nicolette via her World’s Greatest Shave fundraising website: http://bit.ly/RapunzelCBR
We are so excited about our Rapunzel play, only a few short hours away! (Wednesday at 10am – be there or be square)
Op shop!
Think you know Rapunzel? Perhaps not. This once-only, pop-up performance will provide a new insight into the life of Rapunzel and the inner political workings of her beloved hometown, “Canberry”. We can also reveal that there will be plenty of rabbits! (we’ve cleaned out most of the rabbit toys from Canberra op shops, but you’re very welcome to a toy bunny after the performance).
Nicolette – Rapunzel
Our very own Rapunzel, Nicolette Suttor, will be playing the starring role. In exactly one month from the play, she will be shaving her impressive 1.4 metre length hair to fundraise for cancer research, and to contribute her mane for wig-making.
By donation or you can support Nicolette via her World’s Greatest Shave fundraising website: http://bit.ly/RapunzelCBR
The Canberra Library Tribe presents our next upcoming event! Rapunzel, will be unleashed on the world on Wednesday 11 February, 10am in front of the National Library of Australia, near the fountain.
It’s a one-off performance to support Nicolette Suttor who, next month, will shave off her knee-length locks for the 2015 World’s Greatest Shave organised by the Leukaemia Foundation.
By donation or you can support Nicolette via her World’s Greatest Shave fundraising website: http://bit.ly/RapunzelCBR
Our group, the Canberra Library Tribe was established in 2013 as an informal friendly group for GLAMR people in Canberra and surrounds. We were inspired to start the group by ALIASydney’s enthusiastic and dynamic events. One of the strengths of our group is that we represent a broad range of information management sectors, no one sector being greater than the others. We have found that this richness strengthens our networks, our understanding of the challenges facing all parts of our profession, and has allowed students to see the range of career possibilities in GLAMR. All of the founding members of the CLT have personal affiliations with other groups within the profession, and this has allowed us to draw on networks of interested professionals. We are not competing with or associated with other professional groups, we are simply adding to the voice of the profession. Together we really are stronger.
Man two women lying on a rock – from Museum Victoria
We started with a PreConference Meetup in February 2013, for people to meet before the cluster of ALIA conferences (Information Online and NLS6). Our most successful event in linking different library, writing and museum groups was our Library Career Soiree in August 2013. We had a great variety of speakers including an indexer, heritage librarian, university library manager, criminology librarian, web archivist, ephemera manager, parliamentary library officer and data custodian. Something for everyone and exciting to hear about everyone’s experiences and divergent career paths. We had a busy 2014 with a teddy bears’ picnic, a GLAMR Gathering at one of Australia’s top bookshops, BeyondQ, and an information session on our Mmm…mentoring program. We are running the first inaugural Mmm…mentoring program from January to June this year, and we’re pleased with the success of our current mentees. Our next event is a Rapunzel play!
Anyone with an interest in the GLAMR sector can come to our events or help facilitate an interesting event. We also like to hear from people considering careers in information management, and for our low-cost events to be approachable for library students, new grads and established GLAMR friends. We think it would be fun to do things like: a craft meetup; a talk on tax for library workers; an environmental workshop making seedbombs; training sessions; personal information/archive management; playground outings; and facilitating a “market day” for local GLAMR groups. We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to assist with a particular event or about your ideas!
We are on Facebook and Twitter, we share information about our events as well as what’s happening in the Canberra GLAMR sector.
A version of this article previously appeared in ALIA’s magazine:
Canberra Library Tribe. (Nov/Dec 2014). They come from everywhere (and they love chocolate). INCITE , 35(11/12), 34. Downloadable via the following link: http://bit.ly/CLTincite
Canberra Library Tribe 