OPPORTUNITIES!

CALLS FOR ENTRY

Holiday Faire ‘90, December 5-0. P.N.E.
Buildings, Vancouver, B.C., noon tef:00
pm daily. An international holiday sea-
son show, that offers crafts, seasonal
fifts and ideas, with special emphasis
on international products and foods.
$6.00 eq. ft. 10x10, traditional store-
front display included in exhibit
price.E.S.P. for more information con-
tact: Rosalie Schmidt, Holiday Falre ‘80,
Box 69020, Vancouver, B.C. VBR 4W3
(604) 253-2311.

Robeon Square Festival of Fashion,

Food, and Design. October 5-8, 1990.

A juried show and sale oelebrating the
quality of West Coast living in the 90s.
Theme villages for Wearable Art and
Craft, Crafts for the Home, The Great
Taste of BC, Fashion for the West Coast
Woman, and a Marketplace. Applica-
tlons for booth space are invited from
craftspeople. For further information and
entry form, contact Margaret Hyslop at
682-8216 (fax 684-7167) or 4201-518
Beatty Street, Vancouver, B.C, V6B2L3.

The Community Arts Council of
Vanoourer ts calling for entries in ils
Sth Annual Juried Christmas Craft
Bale, to be held at the CAC Gallery
during the flrat three weeks in Decem-
ber, 10. The jury process will take
place in Sept. and Oct., as application
forme are received. Send a SASE to
Christmas Craft Application Form, CAC,
B37 Davie St., Vancouver, ¥6zZ IB?. or
contact Michael Virnig at 683-4358.

Alberta Potters Association celebrates
lte 20th Anniversary with an exhibition
of CUPS in May 199 1—open toall alumni
and people who have worked in clay in
Alberta in the past 20 years. Contact:
Glenys Marshall-Irman. Box 2, Site 8,
RE W1, Priddis, Alberta TOL 1 WO (403)
931-3566.

Granville Island Public Market crait
adjudication will be held on Monday.
October Ist. For further information
before Sept. 24th, write or
Publlc Market Office, 1669 Johnston
SL, Vancouver (604) 666-6655,

Vancouver Craft Market af the Van-
Dusen Botanical Gardens takes place
on a regular basis. Contact Simone
Avram, 8540 Demorest Dr,, Richmond,
B.C., VFA 4M, 275-2724 for details.

Park International Markets are ac-
application for their craft mar-
kets at Whistler, Kamloops, Van Dusen
Gardens, Vaneouver, Weal Vancouver,
Coquitlam, While Rock, and Penticton,
Contact 3257 W. 36th Ave,, Vancouver,
B.C., V6N 2R6, or phone 362-2363,

Table of Honour, a competition for
eeramic and glass artiste of British Co-
lumbla to create dinnerware and gob-
lets for Government House in Victoria,
closes November 30/90. For further
details, contact Table of Honour,
Box $5004, 5351 Headland Dr., West
Vancouver VW 300. Entry forms also
available at Guild office,

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Consumer and Corporate Affairs have
contacted us with several bits of infor-
mation from the Product Safety Branch.
The first has to do with consumer com-
plaints about potential hazards of
potpourri burners, “tea candles” or *tea
lights"—molten wax from the candles
has been known Lo ignite, cracking the
potpourri burner.

Consumers are advised fo place
potpow7 burmers an a heat-resis-
tant surface, to keep an eye on them
while they are inuse and ensure that
the water in the simmering pot does
nat evaporate. To further redice the
sk, purchase candles that have fine
wicks uwith mo loose ends at the bot-
tom. When buying a potpourri bumer,
leak for a large size model with big
air heles for oeritilertior..

Secondly,

The Product Safety Branch of Can-
sumer arc Corporate Affairs Can-
ada is considering revisions to the
Howzerdotos Product (Glazed Ceramic)
Regulations. The effect of the pro
posed revisions would be to reduce
the medium allowable lewels of lend
and cacdmiton released urder spect-
fied test conditions,

For further information, combtact;

R.H. Walker

Product Safety Branch
Place du Portage, Phase |
SO Victoria Street

17th Floor

Hull, Québec

KiZ ce

(#19) 953-8085

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SUMMER TRAVELS

In July my husband and [ took a trip
dewn to the Pacific Northwest Aris and
Crafts Fatr in Bellevue, WA. This fair is
an annual event with the main part of
the fair being a Juried show held in the
parkade of Bellevue Square, the main
shopping centre in Bellevue. The fair is
sponsored by U.5. Bank: the whole town
is cordoned off, with professional signs
showing where to park,and maps show-
ing where to see the crafts of your choice.
The juried section Is large, and in the
surrounding strip malls there are many
craftspeople in beaths. We found that
the event was too large to take tn ther-
oughly in the one day we had planned to
spericd.

We spent most of our Ume looking
through the juried section, and were
very impressed with the variety and
quality of crafls shown. Most crafispeople
were from Washington and Oregon, with
a few from further afleld, We were espe-
dally impressed with work shown by
Oregon potters, some “top notch” stuff.

So, next summer, about the third week
in July, | highly recommend a trip to
Bellevue to take in thia event. | am sure
you will be as impressed as we were.

June MocDenald

RESULTS OF THE
NATIONAL BIENNIAL

OF CERAMICS

This year, 199 ceramists took pari, and
during the preliminary selection. the
members of the jury, including Sally
Michener of Vancouver and Walter Os-
trom of Nova Seotia, selected 50 works
representative of the current trends in
Canadian ceramic art.

Prix diexcellent $8,000, shared by lan
Symons. Ontario, and Bruce Taylor,
Nowa Scotia; Pierre Legault Prize, $3,500
to Cheri Sydor, British Columbia; Trois
Riviérés Prize, $3,500 to Panl Mathieu,
Québec; Bourse d'encouragement
$1,000 each to Sara Cooke, Nova Scotia
and Jean Pierre Larocque, Québec.

September, 1ae0