Join us for a Raku Dinner/Holiday Celebration,

Friday December 3, 2010 from 5:30 - 8:00,

in Art Room 107. Come early, stay late.
Menu items include:
• Sweet & Sour Pork over White Rice.
• Fresh Spring Vegetable Rolls.
• Stir Fried Vegetables.
• Salads & Desserts plus Beverage.
• Continuous Entertainment.

A donation of $13.00 per person, $25.00 per couple, and/or $5.00 for students, includesdinner and a raw raku
vessel, which you can decorate anytime between noon and 6:30pm on the day of the dinner. Assistance, and
decorating materials, will be available, with the raku vessels to decorate, in Art Room 120. Your work (fired
during the dinner), will be available at the end of the evening. Pre-decorated vessels will also be available. Art
items will be available for a SILENT AUCTION with bidding on site. Hand blown glass ornaments will also be
available for purchase. Parking is free..

❒ Yes, I will attend the SBVC Friends/Art Department Raku Dinner Party, Friday, December 3, 2010.
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❒ Number of guests __________

❒ I’m enclosing $ ______________ @ $13.00 per person, $25.00 per couple and/or $5.00 per student.

❒ As a “Friend” I/we will bring a commerically prepared dessert* serving at least six.

* Regulations do not permit “home made/potluck” foods.

❒ Sorry, I cannot attend. Please accept my donation of $ ________________.

Please make your checks payable to: SBVC Friends of the Gallery. RSVP by Wednesday, November 29, 2010.
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Raku Pottery was developed in Japan over 400 years

ago as the Ceremonial Tea Ware of the Zen Buddhist
Masters. It was preferred by the Masters because of
its humility, its tasteful unpretentiousness, its simple
naturalness, and its deliberate avoidance of luxury
. . . all intrinsic to the Zen philosophy. According to
the Zen Masters, its elusive, subtle, yet vigorous beauty
is Raku’s only worth. It’s valued because it’s believed that the Spirit of the Maker
is embodied in the form, and revealed at the foot, which is traditionally left naked
(unglazed). It’s believed that if we are alert to ourselves, in contemplating the
Raku form, we will recognize in it our own spirit and meaning.