BC - Tajimi Exhibition Change and extension of submissions. After some negotiations with the Japanese, we are able to extend the submission deadline to Mon. April 11th. Also the jurors are willing to accept other image types including photographs and digital images, as well as slides. Please send digital images to keith@wildricestudio.com. All other submissions to the Gallery of BC Ceramics. A reminder - The work must fit into a 7.5 cubic space. 50 pieces will be selected from those submitted. and makers will be expected to cover the cost of shipping ( approx. $50). The work will be exhibited alongside 50 works by Tajimi potters and be for sale. Hopefully we will not have to ship work back. In 2006 we would require replacement pieces for any work sold in Japan, to exhibit here, alongside the work to be sent here by the 50 Japanese potters. Keith Rice-Jones Ya BNWCF North-West Once again the North-West Ceramics Foundation Foundation is pleased to announce its major fund raiser “Oven and Kiln”. This year’s event will take place at the Granville Island Hotel at 6:30pm on Monday, May 16. Tickets are $55.00 each and will be for sale through the Gallery of B.C. Ceramics. For those who have never attended this event, it is a fun evening of fine dining and silent auction bidding capped with dessert on a handcrafted plate. The proceeds of this event enable the Foundation to contribute to events such as the Canadian Clay Symposium, and to bring internation- al speakers to the province to further ceramic education. Oven and Kiln Fund Raiser The Foundation is looking for plate donations for this event, as the dinner will be capped with the gift of a dessert plate served, of course, with dessert. We are asking for small plates of a diameter of roughly 8-9 inches. We would also like to invite silent auction donations for the fund raiser segment of the Oven and Kiln. This silent auction will feature the work of many of B.C.’s finest artists in many media. If you are interested in participating in this auction, contributing plates or volunteering for the event, please call Rachelle at 604.874.8518. Rachelle Chinnery BC in a Box Pottery BC in a Box will be touring across BC beginning in May. Over 130 pot- ters sent in miniature masterpieces that demonstrate the breadth of our guild. You can catch the show at one of the following locations. MAY : Blackberry Art Gallery -Port Moody Arts Centre JUNE: Fran Willis Gallery -Victoria BC JULY: Mark’s Work Wearhouse -Salt Spring Island and Archaeology Tour of SW Britain October 2005 Join archaeologist Alan McMillan and potter Gillian McMillan on a two week bus tour of potteries, galleries and archaeological sites in South-Western England and South Wales. We will start in London and wind up at ‘The Potteries’ in Stoke-on-Trent. More details and a brochure will be ready by next month. For a detailed itinerary etc. go to wwwskiesunlimited.com or call Josephine 604 461 4289 or toll free 1 888 280 6890 AUGUST: Kelowna,Rotary Centre for the Arts SEPTEMBER : SAGA Public Art Gallery -Salmon Arm OCTOBER: Station House Gallery -Williams Lake NOVEMBER: Quesnel Art Gallery This is just one of the great events celebrating 50 years of the BC Potters Guild. We would like to thank Greyhound Courier and the Orton Foundation for sponsoring travel and poster costs. Karen Opas "Elements [V: Fibre and Ceramics" The Architecture Centre Gallery The most recent in the series of Elements exhibitions at the Architectural Institute of British Columbia at The Architecture Centre Gallery. 100 - 440 Cambie Street, Tuesday, March 22 to April 22, 2005, 5:30 - 7:30 8 Potters Guild of British Columbia Newsletter April 2005