Briefs continued from page 3 @- No tape, please A reminder not to glue or tape notices to any of the windows in the building. A film has been applied to all glass surfaces, in- side and outside, and notices posted on the glass damage the film when removed. The film was applied to strengthen the glass so it will not fall in the event of a seismic dis- turbance. 2® Search for outstanding achievers The Association of Canadian Community Colleges is accepting nominations for the National Awards Program honouring teach- ing and program excellence, leadership, and student leadership. Anyone who would like to make a nomination should send a note to the appropriate Dean. ?® Open House The Human Resources and College Devel- opment Division invites all College personnel to an open house on September 17 from 3pm to 4:30pm in Room 2300. @:.:: mingle, see the Division’s new digs nd have a bite to eat. 2® New hours for student finance The Student Finance and Placement Office has adjusted its hours effective from August 30 to October 1. The office will be open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10:30am to 3:30pm, Wednesday from 10:30am to 6pm. @® Escape to Denman Island Ocean-front cottage for rent. 2 bedrooms, all facilities, bicycles. Sept. - Apr. $300/week, $60/night. Call Jean Cockburn at 925-1549. 2@ ... orto Sechelt Inlet 3 - bedroom cabin near a sandy beach, includes use of a canoe. $250/week, $50/day. Call Jean Hammer at 939-5777 or local 5180. @® Campus Guides available A new pamphlet is available to help you find your way around the New Westmin- ster Campus. Campus Guides include maps of all levels of the College and are available at the Public Information Office. Call 527-5324 or drop by room 4700 to pick up your copy. & College art show not just another roadside attraction B.C. artist Steve Mennie has created an attraction for all the senses using road signs and video as media for his message, which he describes as an "exploration of authority and control." Mennie has a show called Following Directions which opens at the Amelia Douglas Gallery on September 15 and runs to October 16. It features large canvases painted with the bright yellow diamond and black silhouettes, a videotaped road trip and an audio track of assorted sounds including music and the human voice. The road signs are iconography of control. The sign says stop, we do. It says yield, we do, says turn, we do, Mennie says. "The show is a multi-disciplinary meditation on the extent to which our experience and per- ceptions are shaped by our cultural-technological environment. By manipulating a familiar and authoritative symbol system we can explore our dependency on these images and experi- ence discontinuity and disruption; a different point of view." Known more for his work as a realist painter and printmaker, this latest show is a twist on reality. A native of Revelstoke, Mennie trained at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. He’s been showing his work since 1978 and Following Directions appeared last year at the Kamloops Art Gallery as well as at the Smash Gallery in Vancouver. People go through their lives looking at the world through a windshield; a limited frame, Mennie says. He hopes his work will expand that existing frame and force people to put things into another perspective. Mennie’s show gives his audiences a distinctly different point of view. His works have titles like "Ways of Being"; "Freewill"; "Imagination, the Symbolic, the Real" and "Illusory Space, Dead End." His representations of road signs are humorous and mocking. The painting titled "Prelude to Redemption" illustrates a ‘caution: rock falling sign’, but the pieces of falling rock are actually the silhouettes of people and things from other road signs: legs, arms, a deer head and crosswalk children. Everyone is invited to an opening reception with the artist at the Gallery (4th floor by the Performing Arts Theatre) on September 16 at 12 noon, to be followed by a informal lecture. Call 527-5528 for more information. A College hosts ECE art show The Douglas College Arts Advisory Committee and the Early Childhood Education pro- gram are sponsoring the tour of an Italian art show called Reggio Emilia: The Hundred Languages of Children. Reggio Emilia is a town in northern Italy which is acknowledged world-wide as having the best curriculum for preschool children. The exhibit will be on campus April and May of 1994. There is a preview and introduction to the show for all college employees on Tuesday, Sep- tember 14 from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm in Room 1606. There will be a display of photos, a slide show and a short video called To Make a Portrait of a Lion. An on-going display of the exhibit will be located in the Early Childhood Education lab, Room 2806, and will include video, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and writing. A