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HAFE STYLE
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Craftsmen
recognised
world-wide
THE WORLD status
of crafts is becoming
elevated and Australian
craftsmen are being re
cognised world-wide,
the Australian president
of the World Crafts
Council, Marca
Gazzard, says.
She was in Canberra to
lead a discussion at the
Crafts Council of the ACT
on 'How effective is the
World Crafts Council and
what is it affecting? at the
Crafts Council centre in
Watson on Tuesday night.
Australian exhibitions
funded by the Crafts
Board touring throughout
the world added weight to
the image.
"We come over as pro
fessionals," Marca
Gazzard said.
She is a sculptural
ceramicist of international
standing whose principal
interest is in three
dimensional shapes that
help form a particular en
vironment.
She describes her in
volvement in the world
craft movement and the
craftsmen themselves as a
constant stimulus.
A recent tour took her to
Greece, where the World
Crafts Council assembly
will be held in about 12
months' time, to Sri
Lanka, where she found
the craft scene exciting, to
New York and to Mexico.
The policy-making world
council of which she is
president involves much of
her time and working
' without salary on a modest
budget, but she is sup
ported by the Department
of Foreign Affairs and the
Crafts Board of the Aus
tralia Council.
Crafts are becoming a
tangible part of culture
world-wide, and through
crafts under-employed
people are able to earn a
modest living, she says.
She describes her own
workasaccramicsculpwr
in her Paddington studio as
the principal thing fo; her
but in addition to duties as
president of the
Crafts Council andfindmg
it difficult to say No to
invitations to join a variety
of cultural bodies, she is
extending her teaching
program as a visiting lec
turer in ceramics at the
City Art Institute in Syd
ney to include design. _
And one of latest invita
tions is to submit designs
for a twice-lifesize bronze
sculpture for the moat sur
rounding the Victorian
National Gallery in Mel
bourne. If she is accepted
it will be one of the largest
works she has undertaken.
Picnic
THE INDIA-Australia
Association of Canberra
will meet for a picnic on
Saturday at Weston Park
(opposite the children s
train) at 12.30pm.
Braidwood
MARGARET Royds.
who has been promoting
craftspeople of the
Briadwood area since lv /»
with Easter and October
long-weekend shows, re
ports that Peter Crisp is
the main exhibitor this
year, with 17 other artists
exhibiting with him.
Names she lists include
Pip Giovanelli and his bush
furniture; Jenny Faulkiner
and her jewellery; painters
Tony Newsom and Robin
Wallace-Crabbe and pot
ters Garry and Fran Pal
acek and Jim and Jean
Tyler.
Other artists involved are
Victoria Royds, Wendy
Rose, Lyn Patterson,
Christopher Shain, Stew
art Murray, Rob Martin
and Roger McDonald.
Solvig Baas-Becking and
Judith Wright are other
well-known residents of the
Braidwood area.
Bottles
THE PUBLIC will be
able to view our Australian
heritage in a display of
antique bottles and pottery
this weekend at the
Goulburn Lilac Festival.
Canberra and District
Antique Bottle Club will
host the 10th NSW State
Show, open on Saturday
from noon to 4pm and on
Sunday from 9am to 4pm.
More than 200 entries have
been received from collec
tors in five States. Awards
will be made for displays in
specialist categories.
The show will be in the
Goulburn Showground Re
creation Hall.
Reunion
WELLINGTON Public
School ex-students and
teachers of the 1962 In
termediate Year are hold
ing a reunion on Saturday
and Sunday at the school.
Tickets for the dance on
Saturday night are being
sold and there will be a
barbecue and fun day on
The Australian president of the World Crafts Council, Marea Gazzard Help
The Australian president of the World Crafts Council, Marea Gazzard
Sunday with a social soft
ball game between ex-stu
dcnts and teachers and the
current School Certificate
class.
Anniversary
ST JOSEPH'S School,
Nimmitabel, will celebrate
its 75th anniversary this
weekend with a dance on
Saturday night and an
open-air Mass at 11am on
Sunday, followed by a
barbecue lunch.
Sturt
STURT Craft Work
shops will hold the 41st
annual craft exhibition and
weekend on Saturday
through to Sunday, Octo
ber 10.
"The craft exhibition
opens in the gallery on Sat
urday from 10am to 5pm
and the embroidery exhibi
tion opens in Sturt Cottage
at the same time. Sturt
shop is open daily from
10am to 5pm.
Sturt Weekend, October
9 and 10, will include pro
duce and garden stalls, re
freshments, lunch and a
barbecue, madrigal singers
and, of course, the beau
tiful spring gardens, at
Sturt in Mittagong.
The Flat
BACK to the Flat cele
brations will be held this
weekend, from Saturday to
Monday, at Captain's Flat.
Sunday is the main day,
say the organisers, with an
official opening and a
church service at 11am.
The day will end with a
free open-air night-time
bush dance.
Activities have been
planned to provide family
entertainment, including
woodchopping and sheep
shearing demonstrations
and stalls of all kinds.
Embassies
EIGHT Embassies and
Government House. Yar
ralumia, will be open to the
public to raise funds for
Red Cross on Sunday.
Those opening between 2
and 5pm are Government
House, the Embassies of
France, Poland, Indonesia,
the Philippines, United
States of America, the
Japanese gardens and the
High Commissions of
Papua New Guinea and
India.
Admission is 52, tickets
available at all embassies,
and one ticket admits the
bearer to all venues which
may be visited in any or
der.
No children under the
age of 12 years will be
admitted.
Mahikari
MEMBERS and any in
terested persons are re
minded that the Canberra
branch of Mahikari Aus
tralia will hold its monthly
thanksgiving ceremony on
Sunday at 3 Badham
Street, Dickson. The cere
mony will begin at
110.45am. Further details
are available by tele
phoning 478971.
Baroque
A CONCERT of early
Baroque music will be giv
en by Andrea von Ramm
and Capella Corelli at the
Canberra School of Music
on Monday.
Andrea von Ramm,
noted European vocalist,
teacher and specialist in
historical styles of vocal
performance, is making a
tour of Australia with per
formances and workshops.
A workshop on 'Style
Differentiation in Vocal
Music 1200 to 1600' will
be given at the Canberra
School of Music on Tues
day between 10am and
noon and between 2pm and
4pm. There will be a work
shop for the Canberra Re
corder and Early Music
Society at 8pm there that
day and on Wednesday a
lecture on 'The Latin Lyric
and Mystery Plays of the
Middle Ages' will be given
at 12.30pm in the Human
ities Research Centre,
ANU. Admission to all
these is free.
Bookings for the Capella
Corelli program are 56
adults, $5 Arts Council
members and Friends of
the School of Music, S4
concessions.
Hostels
THE MONARO Region
of the Youth Hostels
Association will hold its
next club night on Tuesday
in Room 2 of the Griffin
Centre, Civic, at 8pm.
The topic is 'France and
YHA'. All visitors and
members are welcome.
Functions planned include
a pancake evening and a
trip to Canberry Fair.
DARE
A DEVONSHIRE
morning tea will be held at
the Griffith home of Mrs
Lucille James to raise
money to aid DARE, an
association which provides
Disabled Adult Residen
tial Establishments.
Mrs Pauline Patterson
will talk about 'The prob
lems and delights of grow
ing African Violets'.
Acceptances at SI are
being taken by Mrs James
on 956391.
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