Arts, crafts display

Press, 20 February 1979, Page 7

Arts, crafts display

The Christchurch Altrusa Club will run an art and crafts display, demonstration, and sale of goods in the Arts Centre on March 11. The club is a female service club with 34 local members, drawn from executive, business, and professional occupations. The fund-raising venture, which will occur in the Great Hall of the Arts Centre, is a first for the club, and it will raise money to help in the field of adult illiteracy. This is in line with the international theme of Altrusa Clubs for 1978-79, according to the president of the local club, Miss Joan Davidson. She said that it was not yet decided to what specific use the money raised would be put, in connection with the growing problem of adult illiteracy. Her club is discussing how best to

spend the money with the national adviser on adult literacy, Ms Rosalie Summerville, who is attached to the Community College in Hawke’s Bay.

Discussions have also been held with the Christchurch W.E.A., S.P.E.L.D., and other groups in the field of adult education. Activities in the Great Hall on Sunday will begin at 11 a.m., and will continue until 5 p.m. They include Adze furniture making, fry-pan cooking and com dolly making, through herbs, Hetties rocks and italic printing, to leather and Maori carving, macrame knotting, potting, sock knitting, and a stained-glass display. Entertainment in the afternoon will include The Moving Company (from the Maggie Burke Dance Studio), classical guitar, and Scottish and Morris dancing.