DIRE STRAIGHTS AND COUNSELLING

I’ve been getting similar stories from many students who come to see me about the personal heavies they’re in that are getting them down. | keep hearing what

blood, sweat and tears they went through

to pick up enough nerve to come in and how good they felt afterwards.

While it’s easy for some to ask for help, for others it seems to be an admis- sion of a severe character defect. People who have had contact with psychologists, therapists; counsellors, etc., or have friends in the field and know how they work tend not to be freaked about counselling/therapy.

For those of you who do not know much about the process here’s a brief run down on what | do and don’t do.

First the don’ts. | do not do an Ann

Landers or Dear Abby number dispensing

‘pat solutions’. Neither do | attempt psycho- analysis a la Freud probing into your child- hood sexuality.

Essentially | facilitate problem-solving. | use various methods depending on the individual and the problems involved. The function of methods used is to take you through the stages of problem exploration toward deeper or more significant under- standing that may bring about the solution or a third step of considering options, solutions and then application. It’s a joint effort that is above board — I essentially share what comes to my head and to the best of my knowledge the experience is not hazardous to your health, addictive or carcinogenic.

Some of the high-powered, incredible, fantastic people | know make regular use

of therapy/counselling usually because they —

want to be more high-powered, incredible and fantastic. The focus is on the growing edge.

Eva Allan

LIST OF DIFFICULTIES

LIST OF DIFFICULT SPELLINGS

aggression occasion occasionally necessary

parochial — narrowness of mind prairie occur

occurred

possessed

ambiguity —

THE PITT REVIEW

HELEN PITT

Found and Formed Objects: Heather Ross — Cloth prints, Darrel Hancock — and Bob Bush — ceramics. :

Heather Ross is working with forms and textures found in nature, in this case mostly wood and bark. She gathers materials, sometimes arranging them and at other times using them as found, inks them and then rolls cloth over them. The results are prints containing a delightful ambiguity and surprise, asin cloth print | (Which | call ‘On the Tundra’, she has not named them) which at times is two battered

‘trees on a prairie and them becomes one

person motioning to another human figure,

and maybe even to the viewer, to continue

their trudge onward to explore the land over the horizon. See what you make of cloth print G, with those so solidly delicate feathers.

Bob Bush is currently concerned with the technique and craftmanship of function- al pottery. His subtle use of decoration allows the element of form and texture to come through without distraction.

Darrel Hancock is also dealing with a similar concern, but where Bush’s forms are

_external and rounded, Hancock’s are turned

to the internal, and more vertical form. His later pieces, more concerned with sculptural form, stem from his desire to break away from the traditional organic

concern of ceramics and investigate a_

more visually plastic (slick) method of working with the materials. The effectiveness of this is evident when compared with the other works in this show. Both Hancock’s and Bush’s ceramics are comfortable to see and to touch, but are surprisingly light. At the Helen Pitt until December 6th.

ALL SPELLED

THESE ARE ON

Presentation House - CANADANCE — performance No. 3 — Winnipeg’s ‘Con- temporary Dancers’ will stage a special matinee performance of Snow Goose at 8:30 pm. Saturday December 8 at North Vancouver’s Centennial Theatre. Evening performances on December 7 and 8 at 8:30 pm.

Actors’ Workshop, 280 E. Cordova St. is having a Flea Market — Sunday, Dec. 9, from 10:00 am. — 5:00 pm. Children’s films hourly from 12:00 - 5:00 — admission $.25. Meet the ‘Christmas Clown’ — Items for sale include plants, home baking, books, records, shoes, kitchen ware, crafts and ‘collectables’. To donate goods, or to arrange for vendors space, please call Trudi at 681-0241 or 980-5283.

HELEN PITT — Found and Formed Objects — Heather Rosse — Bob Bush — Darrel Hancock till December 6.. The E.C.C.A. CERAMIC SALE. “The cheapest and the best”, December 7 to 10, 12:00 pm. to 5 pm. Opening December 11, E.C.C.A. Senior Ceramic Students, 8:00 pm. EVERY- ONE INVITED.

And for all you big spenders out there, there will be an evening of Spanish Christ-

mas Music performed by the TOWNE

WAYTES. This renaissance music group is playing one evening only, Tuesday, Dec. 11, at the El Parodor restaurant on Fourth Ave. Tickets $60.00 per couple; $30.00 per single. Price includes dinner.