Silent Auction and Awards Ceremony Grant Awarded
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premier fundraising event of the season, From

Oven and Kiln Silent Auction and Awards ARCH - Archive Records of
Ceremony. This year it will be held on April Ceramic History

19, at a very special location.

Join us for a memorable evening of dinner By Jinny Whitehead
followed by a silent auction of works by some
I am thrilled to announce that the

artists. An online catalogue featuring works Potters Guild of BC has been awarded a
2? Ig will be available as of April 1. The evening will grant from the British Columbia History

also include the presentation of the NWCF Digitization Program (BCHDP) offered
by the Irving K Barber Learning Centre

at UBC.

This grant makes funds available to

of British Columbia’s most celebrated ceramic

Award, the recipient artist talk, as well as the
parade and exchange of unique dessert plates
made by local potters for each guest to take

home. organizations like ours to digitize their

The proceeds of this bi-annual fundraiser historical papers and images, and then
support the NWCF Speaker Series, the upload them onto a website for all to read.
Canadian Clay Symposium, the Maureen With matching funds from the North-
Wright Scholarship Fund and the prestigious West Ceramics Foundation and_ the
annual NWCF Award for excellence in the PGBC we will have sufficient monies to

ceramics arts purchase a dedicated computer, scanner,

For more information and to purchase software and site design. And, with the

* Auction & Dinner tickets, please see the North-West Ceramics generous help of volunteers we will start

Thursday 19 April 2012 | 6:30 p.m. Foundation website at: our digitization project by uploading our

@ Royal Vancouver Yacht Club complete collection of newsletters that
date back to 1965.

By securing this funding we will be

www.nwef.ca/fundraising.html

able to preserve our historical records,

and share them with people interested

in the ceramic arts of B.C. We possess
many other papers of interest, catalogues,

Greenbarn’s Ca is images and marks that can be digitized in

the future.

YUOW available oniine. Special thanks to Debra Sloan who

conceived of the project and has been

SF working for years on preserving our

historical records. Also thanks to

hh ax effort to be move exwiconmentally Linda Lewis for her technical advice

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4 . our ceramic community and helping with
available on our website.

this project, please contact Debra Sloan at

604. 736.3039 or debraesloan@gmail.
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com.

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