B. C. GUILD OF POTTERS 315 W. Cordova St., Vancouver V6B 1E5
Newsletter, March 1974

Fellow potters - There seems to be a whole lot of things to tell you this
.Month, and on top of it all the price of paper and printing has gone up -
so this entire newsletter is going to get jammed into one great paragraph.
When you've read it once, you'd better just check thru' once more. To
begin with our next meeting will be on Thursday, March 2lst at the Maritime
Museum to begin at 8 o'clock (oh yes we will). TAM IRVING will be our guest
speaker and will talk about Crazing. Please come and bring your questions.
Next on the calendar is March 29th - it's a Friday - and should have a big
red ‘Reserved for Pottery’ note written across it. In the afternoon the
Vancouver School of Art have invited 30 of our members to be present when
Ruth Duckworth will be speaking and showing slides.(from 1 ‘til 2) If you'd
like to go, phone Frances Fraser 985 1880. She's counting noses. (or
phone me if that's a Long Distance call for you~ 224 5498). IN THE EVENING
WE are sponsoring a slide-lecture on NIGERIAN POTTERY, Design and Techniques,
Ancient and Contemporary, by Jack Leggett, an Engineer from Kent, England.
This will be at the Downtown YWCA, Coronation Room, 580 Burrard, at 8 p.m.
Admission $1.50 at the door. Come and bring a friend. The Travelling
Exhibit is to go to Abbotsford at the end of March, and Williams Lake and
Terrace would like to have it after that. We'd like to have it stop ata
few in between spots. If you're interested please write Frances Fraser,
4316 Capilano Rd., Ne Vancouver, soon. Frances has another problem ~- pots
that went out on the first Travelling Exhibit - on loan from the potters,
unnamed, and apparently unwanted. They will be at the next meeting to be
Claimed. If you can't be there and own one, please phone Frances before the
meeting. Last chance. Our thanks to Johann and Art Polberg for the
Photograph Album with pictures of us as we were in 1969, of Harry Davis doing
a teapot in 1966 and other incidental shots. See it with the Library. A
couple of Don't Forgets - your Library Books and your postal code ( a neces-
sity). If you're going to the World Crafts Council Conference in June take
note of the group air fare arranged by the C.A.B.C. ~ $210.00 return. For
details, contact Michael Clark, Thos.Cook & Son, 416 Seymour St., Van.2.
phone 684 1277. Hurry. Western Potter to be published next in April. All
letters to the Editor, Swaps, Announcements, Reports and what have you should
arrive here (as above} by April 4 Had a chat with Fred Owen about the Clay
and Fibres Seminar to be held at Douglas College May 24 to 26 (9 am to 9pm
daily). He was busy making long distance calls hither and yon (Halifax,
Regina and points south) getting Name potters "excellent local people and
people from across the country" to take part. The three sessions souhd
exciting, cover anything you want to know about pottery - raku, one-shot
firing (High fire, into the kiln damp!) funk pottery, throwing, porcelain,
handwork, dada and clay, decoration, production, marketing, hobby potters,
potters in isolation, architecture and applied arts, traditional pottery
today - complete with speakers, slides, firings and visits to studios
around the lower mainland. Hopefully we'll have some names in the April
newsletter. Fee $30.00 includes lunches and dinners. Fee or inquiries to
Admissions Office, Douglas College, PO Box 2503, New Westminster V3L 5B2.
We have some corrections, names that were ommitted, and new members for the
mailing list. Suggest you correct your list, and tack the additional names on.
Helen Harper

for the Executive

Corrections: Lynne Carmichael 263 7679

Librarian 263 7679

A.H. Koller V56 1Y¥5 Ruth Meechan 252 St.
Additions:
Rabas, Anne Phone Cariboo Potters Guild

2863 We 43rd Ave. 261 5027

Vancouver V6N 3H9

Alberni Valley Pottery Club
c/o Port Alberni Parks & Rec. Comm.
Port. Alberni, B. C.

Dosen, Steficia,
Brenton Page Rad.,
R. R. 1, Ladysmith, B. C. VOR 2E0

Pinfield, Carolyn
1313 Fulton Ave.,
West Vancouver

Alfred, Gabriele Phone
3464 W. 40th Ave. 261 4764
Vancouver

c/o 718 McDougall Ave.,
Williams Lake, B. C. V2G 1W5

White, Mrs. Wm. (Sheila) Phone
5690 Killahun Drive, 266 4623
Vancouver V6N 2E5

Vassar, Elinor
4459 W. lth Ave.,
Vancouver V6R 2Y2

Star, Nancy Phone |
2507 We 45th Ave., 263 0390
Vancouver

Morris, Grace
1312 Manson Crescent,
Prince George, B. C. V2M 4A2

P.S. If you'd like to let your name stand in the election of next'years
Executive, please feel free to contact Marjorie Johnson, Hiro

Urakami or myself.

Helen