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Nominating Committee
Report

The following Board members have one or
more year to serve in their three year
erm: John Cloutier, Fay Hickey, Gillian
MeMillan (Vice Prestdent), Pat Taddy
(Treasurer).

The following Board members have owe
more yeats left co serve on their three year
term: Les Crimp. Linda Doherty
(President), Jume MacDonald (Secretary).
Deborah Tibbel, Ron Vallis, Laura van
der Linde.

Many thanks to ourgoing board member
Carol Mayer for all her previous work on
the Board, and co Laura Arpiainen, whe
recently resigned for personal reasons.
Laura's work in initiating the project fo
publish a catalogue of British Columbia
potters produced tremendous results in a
remarkably shore time,

‘There's still time to get invelved with
nominations for che board of directors.
Anvone interested should call Deborah
Tibbel ac 822 - 3440 (days) or 733 - 4349
(evenings),

Book

There are still a few spaces left in the
book, The deadline to register is when we
are full or the editor says that is ir. Don't
be left out! New updares have been sent
to those already registered. [f you need
more information call Linda at 420 - 0415.

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Ken Mayer will be doing the photography
for our boak. You can see his work in the
current Contact issue (shoes of Gillian
McMillan's work)and for an inspiring look
at his more creative side visit che Donut
House Gallery on Granville Street. The
exhibit VERS 1 - W111 runs until February

Mexican Reveries

[t's mid Decmber, and there we all are
sitting in the sunshine in the cactus
gardence at che Instituto ac San Miguel de
Allende. We are making pots.
rakuing.and building a wood-firing kiln.

We are all the lucky participants in Denys
James two week clay workshop in Mexico.
San Miguel de Allende is in the
mountains,abour three and a halt hour's
bus ride from Mexico Ciry. [t has long
held a reputation of being a music and art
centre. The cown has been declared a
national monument, and any new
buildings have to be in the old colonial
style. The Insticuto holds a large variety
of classes including clay, sculpcure,
painting, drawing, batik and Spanish.

We stayed in a delightful guest house
hosted by Rafeael de Lolita, whose main
aim seemed to be thar we should all go
back co Canada at least 10 pounds
heavier! Denys gave us demos and
encouraged us to break away from our

normal pattern of working. We did a
great group project where everyone
worked on each other's projects and the
individual pieces were assembled together.

Evenings, the whale sown seemed to
congregate round the town square, There
was always something going on from
concerts, fireworks. posadas (parindes
where che nativicy crib with Jesus and
Mary is paraded through che streets)
followed by a party, jazz and piano bars,
restaurants ind shopping. Christmas was
so low key compared with North America.
A large naniviry scene was put in the sown
square and a couple of days before
Christmas they added a cow. a couple of
sheep with cheir lambs and a goat.

On the way back most of the group
stopped over in Mexico City and spent the
day in the Museum of Anthropology,
which has one of the best collections in
the world. Ir was a brilliance crip, good
food, good company and grear fun.

Maggi Kneer

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Space is filling up rapidly for Made in Clay ‘97 to be held at Performance Works on
Granville [sland from May Ist to May 4th. We still have a few booths available. Cos fora
10° by 10" booth is $450, wich a maximum of two sharing.

Application Form
(Please return ASAP with an enclosed checque for $450)

ADDRESS:
Phone #
enclose Cheque no. for $450.
Irequire extra flyers,and extra posters.
I can volunteer for one of the following:
Ser Up _ Clean up __ Publicity Mailout
Photocopying __ Music/Videos Party __
Billetting _ Qdd Jobs Purchasers Prize & Customer Survey __

Demonstrations (please detail)

Please send a list of buyers or retail stores you want on the preview list.