Crafts well attended

Press, 8 March 1978, Page 7

Crafts well attended

The crafts and pottery displays have received overwhelming support, i “Better than Australia,” ' was how the visiting executive member of the Australian chapter of the

World Crafts Council (.Mr Rowan Lewis) put it. The national crafts exhi» bition, which opened on Saturday, let in a flood of waiting patrons who bought many of the 265

items, said its organiser (.Mr Vivienne Mountfort). However, more than half the exhibits remained to be sold, she said. Mr Lewis said that even Australia was unable to turn out the crowds that

attended the crafts exhibition.' The works of the guest potter (Mrs Joan Campbell) were all bought, with i one exception, on Saturj day. Work by members of I the Canterbury Potters’ i Association are still on • display and sale at the i C.S.A. gallery. I Today a pottery school begins. It will finish on Saturday when “pupils” I fire their work in kilns i they will make themselves 1 on Friday. The school is fully booked. | A series of lectures and ' demonstrations will begin | on Tuesday next week at i a cost of $1.50 a session I at the Arts Centre. Joan ■ Campbell will show slides 1 and a film on Tuesday, | lecture on Wednesday, and 1 demonstrate on Thursday, j Each session will last at j least two hours. Players pleas 1 “Make Mine a Melo- ; drama” is the theme of j the March meeting of i Christchurch Playwrights, j to be held on March 14. Lynley Young, hostess for the evening, will take her uncompleted melodrama, and will invite the other ! members to help her complete the plot. The groups : will also seek entries for i its one-aci-plav comi petition, which will close I on April 31 and will be 1 row.