Lyre y eye PP ee Workrhops. etc. "HF Ff Throwing and decorating with Vincent Massey Sunday, April 21 10:30 am - 4:30 pm Cost $25 Slides and demonstration, Pol Luck Lunch -Gring samething! Lea Our haime,numper and a cheque at the West End Community Centre Office, 750 Denman St, Vancouver G42S7-6533. Raku Workshop with Geoff Searte Master potter Geoff Seare examines the art of raku in this hands-on workshop. Explore glazeing and reduction firing techniques, a5 well as appropriate clay compaséion for Rau, Satudays April 17 thru May 4 Cost: $64.20 4 sessions Shadbolt Centre far the Arts 6450 Deer Lake Ave., @umaby VoG 2J3 Phane 257 4954 2:30 - 6:10 pm Examining Earthenware Glazes with D'arcy Margesson Va are fortunate to have O'arcy Margesson back, Glaze Instructor at the Emily Carr Institute and a peter wkh over 25 years experience. This course covers 4 groupe of low fire glazes suitable for electric kins. The first day ls spert axplonng clear glazes, majolica, matie and textured glares and engcbes. Day two is spent examining and directing the fired results, with the goal of broadening and understanding the visual and technical aspects of these glares, Sunday April 28 and Sunday May 5, 10 arn 4 pm Ceet : $69.56 includes glaze materials Shacbok Centre; Mather C & 0... Call 291 6664 Handbuilding and Primitive Firing with Laura Lay Wee Laq An exploration of primitive poGery making and firing techniques. Handbuik pots are decorated with coloured sips and burnished to a sheen ‘sith a smooth stone Saturdays May 11 thru June @. 2:30 pm - 6:30 pm Cost: $58.85, & sessions ShedbOR CEG ccrrtestieerreitirersasseseases Gol 201 -GEGd. To Members of the B.C. Potters Guild: Fire Works "96: Tae advantage of those cheap flights!!! Ecrmonten's Bi-annual international Ceramics Seminar fram May 9-12, 1996, Intemational speakers lecture and demonstrate, plus gallery exhibitions and tours. Cantact Alfred Schmidl, University Extension Centra, University of Adberta, Edmonton, Alberts, TS6G 274. Call 402/452-3034 to register Banff Centre for the Arts Summer Courses Explorations in Raku with Ed Bamiling, May 25 & 26, $120 Clay, Myth & Fairy Tales with George Kokis, June 15 4 16, $140 Rockies Raku with Ed gamiling, July 12-20, $495 ———e ee start, room and board aya ‘ Contact Office of the Registrar, Banff Centre for the Arts, Box 1020 Station 28, 107 Tunnel Mountain Orive. Bantf, Aka, TOL OCO island Mountain Arts Summer Courses Handbuiiding with Denys Jarmes using an adobe kiln July 27-30, $160 Etruscan Handbuilding with Zelijko Dujundzic Aug 1-4 $160 Contact 1-900-442-2797 for application and mare ingo, of write to Island Meuntain Arts, Box 65, Wells, BC, VOK 2R0, Your Artis Your Business i May 1-5, Wells BC Hosted by the Island Mountain Arts Centre, this is cppartunity for artiats to further business skills and network. Cantact Coreathea Funk at the above address, Metchesin international Summer School for the Aris Summer workeshops and courses Reblin Hopper, Glaze and Colour July 1-12 Steven Forbes Desoule, Throwng and Raku July 1-5 Walter Gexter, Raku Auly 6-7 Noboru Kubo, Tradtonal Japanese Potlery July 6 <7 Corkact Meira Mathison, RR#1 Pearson College, Vicloria, BC VSB ST? or phone 604/301-2430 of Toll free 1-400-667-3122 Would members of the guild be interested in holding additional meetings every two months? The focus of these meetings would be of a traditional nature whereby members could get together for events such as: -demanstrations by members and non-members -slides / films of people's work or processes -forums on business practices such as wholesale, retail, consignment (not so much lectures, more of an open, casual forum) information exchange, such as glaze recipes, techniques, dialogues on clay / glaze problems, books, videos -an opportunity for members to get together to enjoy matters of common interest “coffee! tea and cookies / pastries**" If you think you might be interested in getting together an evening every couple of months, please fill out and sand in the enclosed questionnaire. These meetings would be scheduled so as not to conflict with other guild's meetings or clay related events. Yes, | am Interested in the proposed additional meetings. Name: Suggestions or feedback: Phone: Any further questions may be directed to Darrel Hancock at 588 - 2661. Please mail the questionnaire to Darrel Hancock, c/o Potters Guild of BC, 1359 Cartwright St., Vancouver, BC, VBH 3R7 ATTENTION: As you can see, | have had this notice reprinted because despite all the interest shown from people | have talked to, | have at the time of this writing only received five replies. What | need is more replies or a telephone call from interested participants, and | would like replies ASAP, Attendance at these meetings is an optional thing, sometimes you might go, sometimes not, These meetings will be fun and interesting. Gut, | need acknowledgment from the members to validate going ahead and setting it up, So if you want to get together and do clay stuff, write or call me at the listed numbers, This also applies to anyone who assumes | know their response and has not given me a formal reply.