Woodworking slides, college

Press, 3 September 1986, Page 18

Woodworking slides, college

Remi Couriard, a Christchurch woodworker and furniture maker, will show slides of his fivemonth "Communications Through Crafts” tour of the United States, Canada, England and France, on Sunday. The Channel Islandsborn craftsman set out to study wood crafts but the slides show other crafts also. He came to New Zealand in 1971 after training in cabinet work and joinery in England. During the last 12 years he has worked for himself and taught at Christchurch Polytechnic, Christchurch Teachers’ College and the local community centre. He undertook the five-

month tour last year, visiting a number of woodworkers in those countries. The trip and his earlier teaching prompted him to start his own college of fine woodworking techniques and design. Established in an old church hall, the school offers courses in the evenings and on Saturdays as well as block courses of a week to a month. The school will use other tutors in design and art and can accommodate eight to 10 people on each course. He has called the college “L’Etacq College." The slide show will be held in the C.S.A. Gallery at 3 p.m. and will last for 90 minutes.