The Potters Guild of
B.C. NEWSLETTER

iS published ten dines 4 year as an
information link for the membership,
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be in the Guild office by the last
Friday of the month. Material may
be dated for publication,

Managing Editor; Anna Bjariason
Mailing: Gillian McMillan
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Membership in the Potters” Guild of
B.C. is $35.00 for individuals, $50
for family or stadio membership of
two to four peaple, $70.00 for
Institations and Groups and $20.00
for full-time students, January -
December including GST.

Board of Directors, 1994:

Tam Irving, President: Nathan Rafla,
Vice-President; June MacDonald,
Secretary; Anita Wong, Treasurer:
Atlarge: Linda Doherty, Kersti
Krug, Carol Mayer, Dawn
McNamara, Joe Nagel, Keith Rice-
Jones, Pal Taddy, Rom Vallis.

Staff: Anna Byarnason, Guild Office
Manager; Coralie Triance, Manager,
Lea Price, Assistant Manager ard.
Kaoru Coates: Gallery of B.C,
Ceramics

Editor’s Corner

Granville Island was a busy place last weekend, The Made In Clay sale
went well and the organizers seem to have survived, Jan Kidnie (still working
with the Guild’s best interests at heart) was here all last week working on the
bookkeeping and making sure that cach participant got paid for their pots as
soon as was humanly possible. The cheques are in the mail!! See pages 4 and
5 for pictures. This Nevwslerter is late this month as it was not possible to deal
with Made in Clay and the newsletter all in one week.

Thanks last month to Gillian McMillan, and Heather Cairns for doing the
newsletter mailing.

Contributors this month are Coralie Triance, Bob Kingsmill, Cathi
Jefferson. Thanks all.

Cold Roads and Community

Isn't it something to observe the lengths to which people go to put together a
pottery workshop?

[ was recently up in Quesnel doing a throwing workshop through the
Emily Carr Outreach program. Potters in Quesnel have a marvellous space in
the town’s new Rec. Centre.

On the Saturday night - coming from a concert featuring local talent - the
van three of us were driving in developed a flat tire. And before [ knew it I
was flat on my stomach on a blanket belonging to the family pet, looking in
vain for the rear axle, I was pretty certain the axle wasn't an extra but
couldn't find where a jack would go. The road was ice and gravel. The
chance of having one’s legs driven over by local wayward youth drinking in a
stolen Camaro seemed reasonable.

As my face rested on the frozen road and my hands groped about, I
reflected on my two “student/companions”. They had driven 75 miles from
Williams Lake for the workshop. They were with another truckload of potters.
They all got together and shared a motel room - there was between 5 and 9 of
therm in 2 large beds! This may have accounted for their general good spirits
through the day.

In the meantime three of us were freezing softer body parts...cventually,
flat tire problem solved, we got back out our lonely motel rooms.

[ had flown from Vernon to Vancouver to Quesnel. One lady had driven
in from Likely, which is just north of Horsefly, and two vehicles had come up
from Williams Lake, It was great. The Quesnel potters shared their facility
and hopefully a connection between the two towns will develop so they can do
things together in the future.

Because | was supposed to be teaching the thing | would be a totally
unreliable judge of the value of the workshop, The coming together with a
focused intent - and not letting little things like flats be anything but
adventurous - allows us all to share in the transference of ideas in a spirit of
co-operation and surely that alone makes such things worthwhile.

Bob Kingsmill

May 1994

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