Clay Symposium: Re-inventing the Wheel March 20, 2004 Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, BC 9:30 - 5pm Registration is filling up quickly for this year’s Canadian Clay Symposium. If you haven't managed to catch the early bird sign up, there is still time to get in. This is one you wont want to miss. There are more international presenters this year than at both previous symposiums combined. We have a full roster of senior clay artists with years of expertise to share with you. Clay divas Linda Christianson, Anne Hirondelle, and Jane Hamlyn will all be presenting, together with one of the most exciting new sculptors in clay, Canadian Michael Osborne. A special guest this year, who will also be do- ing a two-day workshop on Salt Spring Island (call Beth at 250.537.2184 for details) is the Japanese modern-tra- ditionalist Ichizo Yamashita. Ichizo will be making highly decorated sculptural porcelain ware. And for those of you with an interest in cool tools, Hank Murrow will be dem- onstrating his line of throwing tools in addition to kiln building Top Hat kilns. And in keeping with our Can-Con-BC local star content each symposium, Keith Rice-Jones will be slab building sculptures, Tam Irving will be demonstrating and dis- cussing glaze materials from raw materials, and Carol Mayer will be giving two separate talks on historical ce- ramics. Last but not least, the 2003 Bronfman Award winner and Canadian maiolica superstar, Walter Ostrom will be our key note speaker and will also present on his own ceramics. In addition to each of the presenters’ dem- onstrations and slide shows there will be a panel discus- sion by ceramic educators Ostrom, Rice-Jones, Irving and Mayer on the state of ceramic education today. This year we will once again have the Ceramic Road Show and the Mug Wall. For new comers, the Road Show is an exhibition of potters’ favourite pots. You can bring any pot you want for a kind of ‘show and tell’. The pots are left on display with a brief written explanation of why it is your favourite piece. The Mug Wall is an opportunity to buy a new mug and donate to the Maureen Wright Scholarship. Participants bring mugs to donate to the wall display. The mugs are sold for $20 each with all proceeds going to the scholarship. Last symposium there February 2004 ( \ SYMPOSIUM POT LUCK Saturday March 20th, 6pm At the Shadbolt Centre Vegetarian buffet, tea, coffee, cash bar, and good company An opportunity for Symposium participants, friends and other clay enthusiasts to relax, mix and mingle Pre-purchase tickets by sending a cheque for $20 to the Potters Guild of BC \X J was a buying frenzie that resulted in $2000 for this schol- arship! And NEW THIS YEAR are T-shirts and aprons with this year’s symposium logo. To register for the symposium, call the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts at 604.291.6864. They will ask you for a bar code number, which is 46156. After Jan 30 the total price, taxes in, for this symposium is $107.00, which includes free coffee and a gourmet lunch provided by master chef John Cloutier. While Cathi is trekking in Peru, call Rachelle with any questions at 604.875.8518. ICHIZO YAMASHITA WORKSHOP March 27 & 28, 2004 Join the SALT SPRING POTTERS GUILD for a week- end of clay and inspiration on our beautiful island. ICHIZO YAMASHITA of Ishikawa, Japan will demon- strate his imaginative functional porcelain pottery using complex forms and overglaze enamels, expanding on the techniques he will show at the Canadian Clay Symposium For more workshop info phone: (250) 537 2184 or (250) 537 9722 or e mail: karenpaul@saltspring.com Fee: $70.00 CDN. Space is limited. Billets are available for the weekend. Potters Guild of British Columbia 9