SEMINARS and LECTURES

International Ceramics ‘93 is presented
by Calgary's Leisure Leaming Services
and bosted by the Alberta College of Art
un May

[4th t 16th, 1993, and features the
following faculty; Leepold Foulem, John
Gill, Pierre Guy, Bill Hunt, Cindy
Kolodziejski, Ronald A. Kuchta, Eileen
Lewenstein, Janet Mansfield, Richard
Milette, Kinichi Shigeno, Jim Smith,
and Barbara Tipton, For direct inquiries,
contact Evelyn Grant in Calgary at
(403)245-4944,

Forms arc now available from the Guild
Office. Phone 685-9623,

The Canadian Society for Asian Arts
invite you to attend “Emerging Spring’’,
an evening of demonstration and lecture
on the creative use of the gleanings from
flowering shrubs and spring gardens (and
lear something about the use of ceramm
and other containers used in the process).
The evening on Ikebana, presented by
Mrs. Darnbrough, a Komon of the
Sogetsu School, will be held Thursday,
April 15th, at 7:30 pm, at the Vancouver
Museum Auditorium on Chestnut Street.
The Museum Gallery wath its exhibition of
Chinese teawares will be open prior to the
session. Admission: $4.00 Museum and
Society members; $5.00 non-members.

HINTS ETC

For any of you working on a wheel who are
prone to back strain, a possible solution has
been spotted down here on Granville
Island. Dyn Hutchinson has placed a
Shimpe wheel on a (seemingly precarious)
crate plationm, with the wheelhead at waist
level, and he and Nathan Rafla have been
happily throwing smaller forms with
considerably more ease, Larger pieces
require a steplackder! (really precaricus,
and not recommended). It's also
recommended to tind someone to help you
lift the wheel up onto the platform!

VIDEOS AVAILABLE
Signature Series (Guikl Produced);

Bruce Cochrane Demonstration and
Slide Show: Two hours im length, including
one hour of slides and one four
demonstration of basic throwing,
assembling and clay manipulation, and
discussion of glaze and finng techniques
(majolica dn terra sagillate). July 1991.
Rental: $20.00 plus return postage,

Friederike Rahn Demonstration and
Slide Show: One hour in length, from a
Guild evening May 1991. Fredi works in
earthenware for the most part, and
demonstrated the making of a hand-built
teapot. Rental: $5.00 plus return postage.

Video film footage has been taken of
workshops with Kinichi Shigeno, Jeff
Oestreich’s slide presentation, and
John Gill's workshop and slide show.
These will be available m the future,

Others:

The Tea Party; A U.S. film, 26 mins in
length. A group show of teapot sets and
theme pieces. No demo. Rental: $5.00
Plus return postage.

Yurtko Matsuda: A video produced m
japan (in Japanese) about Yuriko’s lite
there and her work. Aprox. 30 min. long.
Rental: $5.00 plus return postage.

Ronna Newenschwander’s ‘‘ Dinner
with the Devil Snake'', a 20 minute film
featurmg her sculptural work and her
husband's functional work, imoorporating
African myth and North American
contemporary life-style. Rental: $5.00 plus
fet. postage.

Harry and May Davis: Potters, The
Potter’s Alternative: Interviews and
information about the Davis’ self-
dependent approach to working with clay.
$2 mins. Rental: $5.00 plus return postage.

“Painting with Fire’, a production by
Cathenne Hahn about Cris Giuffrida’s
life and werk of firing an anagama kiln
ocar Chase, B.C. 30 mins approx. Rental:
$5.00 plus post.

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