Page 2A March 1986 Cassiar Courier Supplement

The Games — what are they?

The 1986 Northern Invitational Friendship Games will be held in Cassiar on March 7, 8 and 9 and after weeks of work and preparation Cassiar is ready to welcome the Games to our town!

The Friendship Games are different from most athletic contests. They are games in which northern youngsters can meet athletes from other small communities and can participate in sports which interest them — not necessarily sports in which they excel. This will enable them to learn about various sports as well as meet our neigh- bors.

Athletes from 10 to 15 years of age will choose the sports in which they wish to com- pete; then all names will go into a hat and every- body plays. There will be no “Cassiar’’ team or “CanTung” team etc. Also, there will be no awards presented to top teams or individuals. However, a momento of the Games will be presented to each athlete.

The organisers of the Games hope they will “promote various sporting activities at a recreational level, for youth in northern comm- unities.”” Nine communities are participating in the 1986 Games: Cassiar, Tungsten, N.W.T., Watson Lake, Yukon, Lower Post, B.C., Good Hope Lake. B.C., Whitehorse, Yukon, Dease

Lake, B.C., Telegraph Creek, B.C. and Iskut, B.C. Between 300 and 400 athletes are expect- ed to compete in.11 sports — volleyball, basket- ball, badminton, indoor soccer, cross country skiing, alpine skiing, gymnastics, judo, figure skating, sponge hockey and ringette.

There is also a cultural side to the Games.

Frulica, the Yugoslavian dance troupe, will be -

staging three performances at the Cassiar theatre. There will be an Arts & Crafts Exhibition, also at the theatre, with items from local as well as other northern artists. There will be Totem Pole Carving a Native Fashion Show, possibly storytelling of Native folklore as well as other exciting events.

The opening ceremony takes place Friday, March 7, at 8 p.m. The place is to be announced. There will be a family dance on Saturday night in the Cassiar Recreation Centre beginning at 8:30 p.m. The closing ceremony will be at the arena at 12 noon on Sunday.

A Games Control Center will be set up at the Town Administration Office and will be open throughout the Games weekend. Schedules of times and places for the events as well as other information on the Games will be avail- able at the Control Center.

To all our visitors: WELCOME! We look forward to a weekend of fun, sports and culture!

Culture Quest Galleries

GALLERY NO. 1 — 121 Connell Yukon Gallery Warren Cocking Stefan Dyk Jay Lee Pat Dimsdale

Thank You

We would like to thank all the residents of Cas- siar who so willingly opened up their homes to take billets during the Northern Invitational Friendship Games. A special thank you.to Cas- siar Mining Corporation for providing free bunkhouse accommodation for many billets

and chaperones.

Gail Calder & Lee Coran

Cassiar Mining orporation

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GALLERY NO. 2 — 117 Connell Northern Images Sandy Sandvik Walter Comper Alf Crossley John Murphy

GALLERY NO. 3 — Lions Den Matild Toth Various local artists

GALLERY NO. 4 — UPPER LEISURE ROOM Native Crafts

GALLERY NO. 5 — THEATRE UPSTAIRS Art Show — 2 Dimensional Art Show — 3 Dimensional Clay Steadman Larry Otto

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- Northern Invitational Friendship Games Committee Members

GAME CO-ORDINATORS Gary Periard

ARTS & CULTURE Frank Buckley

Norma Rae Denyse Tavener Walter Comper Sheilagh Best ~ Julie MacRae Keith Kroeker Claire Redmond

Sherry Sethen

Margaret Whalen BILLETING Gail Calder

Lee Coran ADVERTISING Chuck Molloy CEREMONIES Danny Andrews

David Madore GAMES OFFICIALS Merv Prier -

Pat Waldera FACILITIES David Hogg

Arena Lounge Blue Valley Fig- ure Skating Clu

Bantam Hockey

Schools Cassiar Students Council

Rec Centre Erika Creyke

Ski Hill McDame Gun Club

“The Cookery” Derek Walker John Shepherd

Bits & Pieces about local exhibitors

CLAY. STEADMAN Local Artist. Demonstration on painting plates. Show. PAT DIMSDALE Teacher at Cassiar Secondary. Show. Watercolors of flowers. Has been painting in watercolors for more than three years. Now working on wood plaques with oils and acrylics. JAY LEE Local artisan..Show. Working in gold — Jewelry. STEFAN DYK Mystery Contributor WARREN COCKING Pottery. Demonstration on throwing pots. Studied at Cap- ilano College. Instructed at the Burnaby Art Centre. Be- longs to the Burnaby Potter’s Guild. Has been working in clay for 13 years. Has been in the north for 3 years. SANDY SANDVIK

Weaving. Demonstration on spinning and weaving. Has

_been working in weaving for 6 or 7 years. Show.

WALTER COMPER

Local Artist. Show. Studied at Vancouver College, Religious Art, 1975 - 1976. Studied at University of Vic- toria, sculpture major 1976 - 1980. Art Shows at Van-- couver Garden Club, 1976; University of Victoria, Art Gallery, 1978; Cassiar Arts and Crafts Centre, 1981; Cas- siar Library, 1983; Cassiar Lions Den, 1984.

LARRY OTTO

Local Artist. Show. Watercolors.

MATILD TOTH

Local Aritist. Show. Painting, Graphics and Needlework.

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Culture Quest -What the winners will get ut-of—town exhibitors

ART INVITATIONAL

The Northern Invitational Friendship Games has, this year, added a culture side to the games.

To further this ‘Culture Quest”, and to promote the arts in the North, a Juried Art Show has been estab- lished. This Art Show is open to all children between the ages of 10 to 15 years of age of the northern commun- ities involved in the Games.

Two Dimensional Trophy

The Art Show will be judged in two categories. One will deal with all two dimensional art work, such as drawing, painting, printmaking, watercolors, etc. The other part of the Show will be sculpture and crafts. All works will be displayed in the “Culture Quest” galleries and will be judged by known Canadian artists. All works in both categories will be judged on originality, compos- ition and-craftsmanship. Trophies will be awarded to the winners and ribbons for honorable mention. Judging will be done by 2:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

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This competition is open to anyone between the ages of 10 to 15 inclusive. The winner’s name will be engraved on the major trophy and he or she will take home a smal- ler personal trophy. :

TALENT SHOW

This is open to anyone aged 10 to 15 years, inclusive. The entry can be solo or group, vocal or instrument or air band. (Air band must supply their own music on Cassette tape). The winner’s name will be engraved on the major trophy

and they will be presented with a smaller trophy to take home.

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TREELINE TRIVIA

Anyone who is familiar with the T.V. show “Reach for the Top” will understand how this Culture Quest Ac- tivity will operate. Entries will be composed of teams of 4 persons, one aged 10 or 11, one aged 12, one aged 13 and one ages 14 or 15. It will be a Round Robin Contest. Questions will consist of trivia, sports, entertainment and school knowledge. The first contestant to press his button to light up his light will have the opportunity to answer the question. If right the team will be given points, if not

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the question for points. Total points will determine the winning team.

Each member of the winning team will receive a trophy to take home and their names will be engraved on the large trophy.

SNOW SCULPTURE

In keeping with the Culture Quest’s promotion of the arts in the north. we have established the snow sculp- ture contest.

Using only snow as a modelling medium, we invite all children between the ages of 10 to 15 (of the partic- ipating communities) to work on a snow sculpture dur- ing the Games.

- All sculptures will be done by teams of no more than eight children. The snow sculpture can be on any subject and of any size but must be completed by 5:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon. At this time all sculptures will be judged. All contestants must supply all tools — shov- els, etc. All projects will be done at designated areas in town. Trophies will be presented to the winners with the judging done by local artists.

PROSE AND POETRY

This competition is open to anyone between the ages of 10 to 15 inclusive. The winner’s name will be engraved on the major trophy and he or she will take home a smal- ler personal trophy ~ There will be two age categories:— 10 - 12 years and 13 - 15 years. The Prose is to be 250 words and the Poetry has no limit. There is also two subjects:—“The North” and “The Northern Invitational Friendship Games”. The win- ners will be announced in the theatre at 12 noon on Sun- day March 9th.

NORTHERN IMAGES

Northern Images of Whitehorse is more than just an ordinary store. It’s owned and operated by the native people of the arctic. Artists from ap- proximately 40 co-operatives in the Northwest Territories contribute their work to the store.

People from the different communitites‘in the N.W.T. provide different things. There are Soap Stone carvings from Sanikiluaq on Belcher Island in Hudson Bay as well as carvings from Lake Har- bour on Baffin Island. Artists from Frobisher Bay fashion jewelry out of sterling silver. Craftsmen from Ft. Simpson make beaded slippers and Inuvik parkas are contributed from the Western Arctic. Moose hair tuftings, which is a dying art, come from Fort Providence.

Brigit Axelsen, the manager of the Northern Images store in Whitehorse will be bringing a wide

selection of Eskimo art to Cassiar for the North-

ern Invitational Friendship Games. There will be works from many Eskimo artists and in particular there will be a good selection of soap stone carv- ings from Bart Hannah of Igloolik.

Ms. Axelsen said the artists of the north join- ed together to open the Northern Images store over 20 years ago. The first store was opened in Yellowknife and served as the head office for many years. Last year the head office was moved to Winnipeg to facilitate marketing of the art. The Whitehorse store opened in 1978.

_ The Northern Images manager offers some ad- vice to potential buyers of Eskimo art. She said people should always look for the tag attached to all pieces of Eskimo art. The tag proves the work is authentic Eskimo art. It also tells where the piece came from and who made it.

YUKON GALLERY

Owners Bill and Val Braden have operated the Yukon Gallery in the Sheffield House, Whitehorse for the past nine years. The Gallery carries works of art by artists from the Yukon, N.W.T., and B.C., as well as other parts of Western Canada and Alaska. Kristin Innes-Taylor, assistant manager, says “We pride ourselves on serving the North”.

Kristin and Jean Ouderkirk, chief framer, are looking forward to visiting Cassiar on March 8 & 9 and will have with them many works of art by well-known northern artists.

ALFRED CROSSLEY

Alfred Crossley, a well-known B.C. artist, will be displaying some of his works in Cassiar, as part of the Culture Quest activities during the North-

ern Invitational Friendship Games.

Mr. Crossley, a resident of Castlegar, has en- joyed a twenty year career as an artist. He is a graduate of the Emily Carr College of Art and De- sign in Vancouver and has also studied for a year in England. He will be exhibiting works in various mediums, including batik, oil painting and draw- ing. He will also be available to any local artists who wish to have him critique their work.

Mr. Crossley will also be giving an introduct- ory workshop in drawing on Thursday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m. More information about this work- shop is available from Julie MacRae at 778-7834.

THANK YOU

@ The Cassiar Community Club would like to thank all persons involved in the 1986 Northern Invitational

é Friendship Games, without whose help the Games @ could never possibly take place. The organizational crew, behind the games has done a tremendous job, but.

> without the help of ‘participants, chaperones, officials, area co-ordinators, and especially billeters, their ‘task would have been a fruitless one.

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STEADMANS | CLOCKS and ROCKS Paintings and Clocks made from local rocks

Upstairs in the Theatre

Saturday Sat. 10 10 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Sun. 9 a.m. to noon WELCOME TO ALL PARTICIPANTS TO THE 1986 NORTHERN INVITATIONAL GAMES

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