EDITOR Happy New Year to everyone. 1987 will be another busy and productive year for your Guild and Gallery. Our conference "Speaking in Clay, Speaking of Clay" (April 11-12, 1987) will be the Guild's major undertaking this spring and will require many volunteers so we ask for your participation, Come and join the fun by having your name at the Guild office, News items or ads for the February newsletter should be in the Guild office no later than Sunday, February lat. Anne Fleetham JANUARY 1987 ISSN 6319 Bi2x De ee es ee ee ee Published by the Potter's guild of British Columbia, 1359 Cartwright St., Granvillé Island, Vancouver, 5.C., V6H 2R7. Editor: Anne Fleeatham Mailing: Marianne Garbsch, Savita Kshatriya Contributors: Angela Squires, Anne Tomie, Martha Melling, Jan Jorgenson. Advertising Rates: All ads must be pre-paid. Full page $45.00; half page $25.00; quarter page $15.00; $5.00 for 3 lines & 52.00 for each additional line. Cover: A selection raku pieces by Walter Dexter as displayed The Gallery of B.C. Ceramics. OPPORTUNITIES Burnaby Arts Centre: As well as offering beginning and intermediate courses in pottery the Centre has special courses, “Dinnerware” with Jane Williams and “Porcelain Jewellery" with Shelly Holmes. Fraser Valley Potters Guild, P.O. Box 852, Fort Langley, 5B.C., VOX 170 are planning to have Andrew Wong give an Anagama Kiln building workshop in the spring. If interested, contact the Guild, EXHIBITIONS ———— Cartwright Gallery, 1411 Cartwright St., Granville Is. Jan. 8th to Peb, 22nd, 1987 present "The Fertile Hand: Ceremonial Art of New Guinea" with over 100 works on display.