TOZAN CALL FOR HELP

As you know we are in the midst of a search for a new site for
the kilns and while it is early it does appear that we will have
some suitable options. We will fire thru next year at the present
site, unless we have something firmed up and in place by sum-
mer and if we are ready for the move by then.

In the meantime we are entering our tenth year of firing the
kilns and will be having our 3rd Tozan Feast on April 7th. We
need your help in making and donating pottery place settings
for the fundraiser.

Call For Place Settings And Pottery
For The Fundraising Dinner

Every 2 years we hold a fundraising dinner where those attend-
ing pay $100.00, come and enjoy a sushi dinner and get to take
home the sushi set they choose or draw when they enter. The
next dinner is coming up in April of 2005 and we need to get
busy making the Japanese dinner place settings for the event.
Please call or e-mail Gari at whelon@telus.net (250) 753-3699
to let me know if and how many place settings you can provide.
We would like to have several sets well in advance of the dinner
so that we can display them for publicity. We will of course be
crediting the makers in this publicity. Also please note that gas
and electric fired pottery pieces are just as needed and wanted as
woodfired pieces.

As people always ask what a set includes I am providing the fol-
lowing as a starting point. Some sets have more pieces, some
have less, this is just for those who want a guideline.

A setting could include: Measurements and shapes are up to you

but the following are guidelines.

1 - (? 6x3”) Tempura plate

1 - (?. 8x6”) (approximate) sushi plate

1 - saladSunomono bowl, (?2.5x3.5 or 4”;wide).

1 - Tea Cup or Unome, about 3.5 or 4" wide by 4 to 6” high.

1 - (or more) smaller sauce or condiment bowls (? 3’wide x

1" high)

1 - small Sake cup.
Plus any additional pieces you would like to include (such as
chopstick rests or other side pieces.)

We are also looking for donations of Sake bottles with 1, 3 or 5
Sake cups. These will be sold from the bar filled with Sake as a
further fundraiser.

There will also be a silent auction and we welcome donations of
any pottery for that. Call Gari for more information on any of
this. 250 753-3699 whelon@telus.net

If you can help us sell tickets for the event, or if you would like
to buy tickets, please call me. If you live in the lower mainland,
in Victoria or up island from Nanaimo and would be willing to
gather sets from other potters in your area, please let me know
that as well.

Any and all help you can give will be appreciated.

250 753-3699 Whelon@telus.net
Gari Whelon

What's new with the website...

There's a new Calendar of Events
page on the BC Potters website.
Check it out at:

www.bcpotters.com/framecal/cal.html

It's an automated calendar that you
can enter info into. Register and
once approved, you can enter events,
workshops, shows, sales, openings,
entry deadlines, reminders, ... any-
thing pottery related that should be
put into a calendar.

It will be a great place to look for
those dates that you want to find out
about. When's the next workshop,
when's the gallery opening for the
50th celebration, the next gallery
show opening, the show & sale at the
Roundhouse, etc.

Be sure to list it properly under the
appropriate heading so that it will
show up when selected. The more
info the better so that the public and
any guild member can be sure they're
there for the big event!

Only the person entering the event
(and the admin) can delete or change
the event entered. This is for the use
of the Guild membership, so it's great
for any event you want to announce
to the public and other members.
Things should be fairly self-explana-
tory...but you can always ask me if
you have questions.

Enjoy.

Don Jung
webmaster@bcpotters.com

PAUL DAVIS

WORKSHOP
in KAMLOOPS

Feb 26 & 27, 2005

THE THOM PSON
VALLEY
POTTERS' GUILD
is hosting this workshop and
invites all potters from the
Okanagan, the Kootenays, the
Interior, and Northern B.C. to

attend.

For more info and an
applicaton form please
see our web site:

www.jetstream.net/ tvpg

Potters Guild of British Columbia Newsletter

January 2005