Bishopscourt Display

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32265, 7 April 1970, Page 2

Bishopscourt Display

The newly-formed Association of Anglican Women intends to show the public how its members use their leisure time in creative- interests. For the first time, the A.A.W. will hold a two-day arts and crafts exhibition at Bishopscourt, Park Terrace, from 10 a.m. on Thursday.

“We want to show that AA-W. members are not narrow in their views and have wide-ranging interests,” the diocesan president (Mrs P. A. Tipping) said yesterday.

“We feel that the creative use of leisure makes a whole and balanced person. This, in

turn, enhances a woman’s understanding of other people’s needs, which is one of the aims of the association.”

The organisation did not, however, wish to give the impression that arts and crafts were of primary concern in its work, she added. The aims of the A.A.W. are to unite in prayer, to participate in the “outreach” of the church, and to promote and safeguard Christian family life. The exhibition will raise funds to help women's work overseas, particularly in Melanesia, Polynesia and Korea. It will also bring together junior. Intermediate and senior sections of the AAW. Open To Public Entitled "Living Creatively,” the exhibition will be open to the public. Nearly 100 entries have been received from throughout the diocese of Christchurch for working and static displays. One woman will bring a floral carpet from Waimate. Three rooms and the hall at Bishopscourt will be cleared to stage the exhibits and demonstrations. Everything shown will be made by members individually or collectively by branches of the A.A.W.

About 3000 members and friends are expected to attend from as far afield as the West Coast, Waimate and Waikari. Working Display*

Working displays will be demonstrated daily In pottery, spinning, cane work, lacemaking, and Maori crafts. Because funds are to be used for women’s work overseas, the University International Club will give exhibitions of dancing each afternoon. There will be static displays of woodwork, carving, painting, tapestry, embroidery, china painting, herbs, dress designing, tatting, jewel-making, quilting, string work, sheepskin craft, and drama. Bonzai trees and an illuminated poem will also be on show. Branch displays will include a chapel altar prepared tor a festival, floral arrangements, floral carpets and table settings.