Art and Craft

The O.U. International Club are prepared to sponsor a display of overseas Art and Craft. Elam school at A.U. has agreed to organise, in conjunction with Canterbury Art School, an exhibition of art and handicraft.

Literary competition winners and runners-up front the universities as well as representatives of the different literary societies will be invited to contribute poems and short stories which will be read and discussed at an informal meeting and the best entries will be published.

The investigating committee has outlined these items, as the main part of the O.U. Festival. Other activities, such as plays by the Classics Department, chess and a music item by the O.U. Music Union. The final function, which is likely to be the most popular, is the Festival Dinner, which will replace the usual Dramatic Societies' Tournament Dinner.

O.U.'s plans for an Arts Festival was presented to N.Z. U.S.A., where the result was a noncommital motion approving the Arts Festival in principle. Not that it made any difference whether N.Z.U.S.A. approved or not because O.U. Executive have approved the scheme and have agreed to support financially all Arts Festival activities which take place in Dunedin.