value judgement, of some sort or another; you just can't make a
coherent judgement on a room full of pots made for "Aunt Amy".

Let's face it, if you always see pretentiously serious pots you
can't help but having “pretentiously serious people".

Thirdly is space, light, bright and theery. Well run with a few
rules but I think a well run pottery runs itself (just about any-
way) with the people revolving in it.

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SUMMER SCHOOLS AND WORKSHOPS

The Vancouver Island Summer School of the Arts
by
Doris Farmer Tonkin

It's going to be different this year. VISSTA, the Courtenay-
based Summer School of the Arts, is stream-lining its operations.
The same high grade of instruction will be offered, but the
courses will be fewer. The School will run from July 6th to 24th
under the direction of Mr. Christopher Doman.

History

The sponsoring organization, the Comox Valley Community Arts
Society, was formed some seven years ago. Its aim was to
establish a summer school of Fine Arts, and a small but dedi-
cated group of people brought this about in 1966. Under the
highly competent directorship of Mrs. Beryl Regier, seven
courses were offered: Drama, Dance, Pottery, Creative Writing,
Painting, Music and Rock Hounding.

Over the years, these basic courses have been added to and sub-
tracted from. No less than fourteen were offered in 1969, but the
consensus is that this number spread the enrolment too thin.
Hence the plans for this year's reduction.

The school has survived largely on faith, for it is not affiliated
with any other institution of learning, but has scraped by on
small grants from government agencies - the Community

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