The faces of India stare out of
Photographs: haunting, gentle,
naked, challenging the viewer to
look again, see lives full of beau
ty and meaning. It would have
been so easy for photographer,
Brian Harris to focus on poverty
or famine, but he wanted more

For Harris, photographing the
people of India was a spiritual
quest, one that gifted him with a
greater understanding of

of himself and the cre-

Harris's work, which is on dis.
play at the National Exhibition
Centre, is entitled, “/ndia. Eye to
Eye". Last Friday, Harris putona
slide show of 50 photographs
that were full sof the color,
Pageantry and ritual of India.

Indian life is full of ritual,
even work is a ritual bringing
with it honor and a sense of
working with the creative princi
ples of the univérse:'an at one
ness. The statue maker, the Mani
stone maker, and the humble rag
man ‘all go about their work with
the peacefulness of a monk. Ritu-

ator. al is constant, a place to start
from, a place to return to, It is
this Constant, perpetual flow that
keeps people centered and
whole

The dictionary explains
mythology as stories handed
down describing the beliefs of a
people in which are embodied
origins, deities, heroes and other
concepts.

They teach you, according to
the Mythologist, Joseph Camp
bell, how to be in touch with the
experience of being alive. It
speaks of life on a high spiritual
level. Bill Moyer, a television
journalist, Says that ritual has lost
its force in our society

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“once conveyed an inner reality
which is now merely form. The
martiage Ceremony in India lasts
three days. The couple is glued
Marriage is not just a social
arrangement, it's a spiritual ¢xer
cise.”

In Tibet, many of the tradi
tional artworks were destroyed
by the Chinese military during
the revolution in 1959 and 1960,
but many of the old frescoes are
being repainted, if not for cul
ture's sake, then, sadly, for
tourist dollars. And, yes, there
are moments when we are
reminded of this century when a
monk wears eye glasses and
another one pours sacred tea
from an aluminum tea pot
instead of the wonderful ritual
vessels that were taken as spoils
of war.

But still, Harris’ pictures take
us back to a world that does not
change much, where washer men
wash saris and lay them to dry in
the noonday sun and the world is
a riot of color that makes North
Americans, like us, appear drab
and lifeless by comparison.

His photos take us to the
banks of. Ganges, a holy place
where people go to die and are

cremated. The river is narrow
be é

rough the eyes of Brian Harris

of the deceased to crossover to
the other side.

When a loved one dies, their
families burn precious sub-
stances such as food, incense,
flowers and mogey which is
believed to send tHe qualities of
Precious substances to the
deceased to ease their way on the
journey.

But there is street theatre in
India, too, which is evidence in
the picture of an actor dressed as
half-man and half-woman.

In Tibet, deities are painted on
walls and a wonderful temple of
1,000 columns stands out against
the sky. A Tibetan monk makes a
cake consisting of a square with
a pyramid on top of it. Again, it
has meaning, the square symbol-
izes this world and upward to the
next spiritual realm.

Also featured is a small dis-
play of the crafts of India, which
was gleaned from our local Indo-
Canadian community. There are
exquisite brocades and ceremoni-
al brass objects among the items
to be seen. According to curator,
Maggie Tchir, the “transforma-
tion of the common object
becoming the cherished,” brings
inspiration and aesthetic value to
mundane objects. (Life as art.)

we were served tasty treats of
Indian Chi tea, samosas and
deep-fried spiced noodles which
were made by one of the ladies
of the community. (I would
mention her name, but, unfortu-
nately, I’m unable to get that
information before this goes to
press.)

According to Mr. Cattopad-
hyay of the All Handicrafts
Board of India, traditional crafts
mean more than manual dexteri-
ty in manipulating tools; it
means “a totat process involv-
ing the emotions, mind, body
and the vibrant rhythm that such
a coordination generates,

It generates imagination
Moreover, the vitality of a tradi-
tion persists only so long as it is
fed by the intensity of this
imagination.” It is “mankind's
endeavor to bring elegance and
grace into an otherwise harsh
human existence. It is man’s
elevation from the gross animal
existence.”

Even more important than
the color, pageantry and aes-
thetic value and sensitivity of
Harris’ photography, is the
sense of peacefulness and joy,
people smiling, nuns laughing

in child-like, unabashed-delight

I asked Brian Harris what we,
as a Civilization, have. lost by
eschewing so much of oup past,
to which he replied, “Every-
thing,”

We are becoming, it seems, a
nation of lost people, of dis
placed people without any
sense of who we are and who
we will become. Ritual trans-
forms consciousness. Through
the symbols and acts one pene-
trates the meaning, not just of
one’s existence, but also the
degree to which One is able to
understand and live it in a spiri-
tual sense.

What we have lost is the wis
dom and contentment of our
forefathers. It doesn't matter if
those traditions are Indian, abo-
riginal, Greek or Irish, they fill
our lives with beauty and color,
and make life more of what it is
meant to be: a celebration.

From now until May 16, it is
the last chance to see this unique
body of work, then it goes into
storage. Harris will soon be off to
new places such as Iran, Turkey
and Yeman. His next quest is to

, bring back images from Islam. He

will continue to bring NorthAmer
icans his unique vision of the
world, and for Brian Harris. a con.

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WEDNESDAY, April 14, 1993

3B

Glance

On the move

Tri City Sash and Door has
moved down 6th street to the
old Bartle & Gibson Building
(beside Kootenay Computers).
Phone and fax remains the
same.

Real Estate trivia

Mt. Serftine] Real Estate is the
only Castlegar real estate
agency affiliated with the
Kootenay Real Estate Board
and offering KREB MLS list-
ings.

New hours

Taylor's Place Restdurant on
Columbia Ave. in Castlegar
has new summer hours — 6:30
am to 10 pm Monday to Sun-
day:

Sorry to see you go
Interior Vacuum Centre is
moving from Castlegar to Nel-
son at the end of April.

New faces
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that 14 new business licenses

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Graduation to

Sara Zacharias the same evening

The week of April 13 (Tuesday) will be the start of
Selkirk College's Music Program's annual graduation
recitals. These events are part of the diploma require-
ments of the program's graduating Performance
Majors. Each recital showcases the individual per-
former's expertise in their own style as well as on
their instrument and, as any work of art, each is a
totally unique performance not to be missed.

On Tuesday, April 13, saxophonist, Theresa Atkin-
son will be the first in the week of performances
beginning at 7 p.m.. She will be followed by vocalist

On Wednesday, April 14, at 7 p.m., guitarist,

Dean will be ilh

recital

Showcase students

Brian Miller will be presenting his repertoire
On Thursday, April 15, multi-keyboardist, John

tarist, Josh Powell will be presenting the second
recital of the evening.

On Friday, April 16, guitarist, Kevin Philip will be
leading the night’s events with his performance at 7
P.m. and will be followed by vocalist, Eva Blum’s

Saturday, April 17, marks the end of this year's pre-
Sentations with the evening of two recitals. The first
will feature keyboardist Julie Matthews at 7 p-m., and
will be followed by guitarist, Nelson Hartman.

All events will be held in the chapel on the CIC
campus. For more information, call 354-3257 from 9-
2 p.m., Monday through Thursday.

ing his skills at 7 p.m., while gui-

Kootenay Lake

Results

Monday
April 19

Upstairs,
RotacCrest Hall
312 N.19th Ave
Creston and
District
Community
Complex

CRESTON

Crawford Bay
Community Hall
Wadads Rd. Off
Hwy. 3A, adjacent
to Crawford Bay
School

BCav Environment

Invitation to an Open HOuse

Fertilization First Year

The Fisheries Program

invites the public to a

series Of open houses where

the results of Year One of a

five year experimental fertilization
program on the North Arm of Kootenay Lake
Will be presented and discussed.
Each open house is scheduled for 7:00 to 9:00 p.m

Two 20 minute presentations to ex
first year of fertilization begin at 7:15 p.m

A question-and-answer period and Opportunities for informal discussions
with Fisheries staff will follow

Tuesday Wednesda
April 20

April 21
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516 C Ave

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Patterson
to exhibit
paintings

Submitted

An exhibition of watercolours
and other works by Jim Patter-
son opens at the Nelson Muse-
um on April 13 and will
continue until May 8. The exhi-
bition will include watercolour
paintings of Kootenay land-
scapes and other recent works in
a more “imaginary style”

Patterson has been living and
Painting in the Kootenay area
since 1964 in New Denver, Val-
lican, and during the past two
years in Nelson. Patterson was
born at Middleton, Nova Scotia
in 1934. He was educated in
Nova Scotia and studied Fine
Arts at Mount Allison School of
Fine Arts in Sackville, New
Brunswick and later at the Van
couver School of Art where he
graduated ion 1960. He also
studied under Professor
Burkhart in a German state art
school near Frankfurt

He has painted in a number
of style and mediums. While in
New Denver he did imaginary
Viet Nam scenes, as well as
other oil and acrylic landscapes.

A reception to meet the artist
will be held on Friday, April 16,
from 6.30 p.m.-9.30 p.m.. The
public is invited. Exhibition
hours are from Monday to Satur
day from 1-4 p.m. until May 8

Exhibitions at the Nelson
Museum are assisted financially
by the Government of British
Columbia, through the Ministry
of Tourism and Ministry
Responsible for Culture, and by
the City of Nelson

y Thursday
April 22

Welcome
New Canadians
Swearing
in Ceremony
April 21, 1993
Woodland Park School
Castlegar

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Edmonton; Wally’s Custom
Built Trailers; Dell’s Roofing
Co. Ltd.; William White Con-
tracting of Winlaw; 24 Hour
Video; Michael Green Food
Services; Mincor*®nterprises
& Consulting Ltd. a manufac-
turer's representative; Angel
Photographic of Brantford;
Gable Construction Ltd. of
Kamloops, Tri-Tech Marketing
Ltd. of Vancouver (vacuum
sales); Geddes Construction
Ltd.; and Birchwater Plumbing
& Heating.

New name

Congratulations to Georgina &
Roy Percival on the purchase
of Karnie’s L ddies Wear in
downtown Castlegar. The
Store is re-named Georgie's
and the new phone number is
365-0954.

Sorry to see you go
Tru Value Hardware in down-
town Castlegar is closing its
doors at the end of April

New faces, new places

Lino Grifone will be open-
ing High Mountain
Archery in downtown
Castlegar this week. They
are in the building former-
ly occupied by Cravings.

Painted windows

Lynn Barker is freehand paint-
ing summer scenes on the win-
dows of Pete’s TV in
downtown Castlegar. Part of
this is promoting the exotic,
Japanese 1.C.E. fish

The Nerv

Six local musicians, who make
up the band, The Nery, will be
appearing at the Dam Inn in
South Slocan April 17, the
Lions Head in Robson April
22, the Flying Steamshovel in
Rossland, April 24 and the
Sub Pub in Nelson April 30.
The Nerv will sing their ownn
music and music written by
other Canadian artists.

Ten year Eclipse

lipse, a ten-year-old Koote-
nay band has been consistent
in being one of the top groups
around. Their music includes a
mix of fifties, sixties, and con-
temporary rock and roll, and
country rock. They will be
appearing at the West Koote-
nay Trade Fair Beer Garden
April 23 and April 24.

Phone 365-5579
with your
business brief

Commonly asked tax questions answered

What are the most commonly
asked questions Revenue Canada
Taxation is dealing with these
days? And, more important,
what are the answers?

Public affairs officer Karen
Kerr talked to the people man
ning the public inquiry lines and
came up with the following:

“T haven't received my T4 slip
yet. What should I do so 1 can
file my tax return?”

First, contact your émiployer
Then, if it appears you won't be
getting a slip by April 30, use
your pay stubs to calculate your
income and the amounts deduct
ed like CPP, UI, tax and union
dues.

Attach a note to your return
explaining the problem and the
amounts you have calculated. If
possible, send a photocopy of
your pay stubs. Also include
your employer's name and
address.

“Where do I report the amount
in Box 40, ‘Other Taxable
Allowances and Benefits,’ on my
T4 slip?”

That amount has already been
included in Box 14, which you
report on line 101 of the return.
. Ox
amount on your retum. To find
out what allowances and benefits
you are being taxed on, check
with your employer.

“Where do I claim the GST
credit? There used to be an
application form. And how much
ts the credit?”

You no longer have to use
form TIGSTC, which has been
discontinued. Simply complete
Step 2 near the start of the tax
returm, filling in one, two or three
of the blanks. Revenue Canada
will then calculate the credit for
you.

(The basic credit is $199, plus
another $199 for a married or
common-law spouse, plus anoth
er $199 for a child 18 or under
for whom you claim the equiva
lent to married amount, and/or
another $105 for each child 18 or
under whom you aren't claiming
the equivalent to married amount

A single person with net

income of more than .$6,456 gets
an additional credit up to $105

(If your family net income is
more than $25,921, reduce your
total credit by five per cent of the
excess.)

“If the student can't use the
tuition fee and education
amounts, who can claim them?
And how do you transfer the
amounts?

The amounts may be trans

Mike
Grenby

Syndicated
Columnist

ferred to—and the corresponding
credit claimed by a spouse, par-
ent or grandparent (including ‘an
in-law). However, if somebody
is claiming the student as a
dependent, then only that person
may claim the transferred
amount

The student must complete
form T2202, part four, or the
back of T2202A, copy three, to

from form T5007 on a T1-Short
or T165-Plus return?

These non-taxable amounts
(social assistance benefits,
provincial supplements, Work
ers’ Compensation Benefits) go
on line 23 on the T1-Short or on
line 21 on the T165-Plus iven
though these: amounts ‘aren't tax
able, Revenue Canada still uses
them to calculate various tax
credits.

“When I get to the end of the
tax return and have a negative
amount to go on line 484
(refund) or 485 (balance ow ing).
where does this amount go? Or
dol enter zero, which is what
you usually do on the rest of the
return when there's a negative
amount?

In this case, when you do that
final calculation and end up with
a negative amount, it means you
get a refund. So enter the
amount on line 484.

“What do I do with form
T5008, Statement of Securities
Transactions?

Use the information on this
form to help you complete
Schedule 3, to calculate your
capital gains and losses from
your various securities transac
tions during. the year. While
you don't have to include this
form with your return, if you
do then the data centre can

refer to it if any questions arise
about your Schedule 3 figures
Mike Grenby is a Vancouver
based columnist and indepen
dent financial adviser who
works with individtials; he will
questions as
write to him clo

answer your
space allows

The Castlegar Sun

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calculate the transfer amount and
designate the person receiving the
transfer.

“How do I do the calculation
of the capital gain on Schedule 3
when I sold investment property
after February 29, 1992?”

Take (a) the number of months
you owned the property up to and
including February, 1992. Then
divide this figure by (b) the total
number of months you owned the
property. (In both cases, don't
include the months before Jan-
uary, 1972, when capital gains
weren't taxable.)

Muliiply your answer by the
capital gain to find out (c) how
much is eligible for the exemp-
tion

Using the above formula, take
(a) 73 months and divide by (b)
&3 months. So 73/83 of the
$50,000 profit - (c) $43,975.90
is eligible for the capital gains
exemption

Where do I put the amounts

Imagine fund...not a dream for KSA

Submitted

The Kootenay School of the
Afts was the delighted recipient
last week of a cheque for $2500
from the Royal Bank's Imagine
Fund, to be used for the pur-
chase of needed equipment for
the KSA studio at 908 Front
Street

Imagine, a national program
to encourage Canadians to
become more involved in their
communities by donating to a
worthy cause, has the Royal
Bank as its local sponsor. The
Royal Bank is one of a number
of Canadian companies that take
part

The donations will go toward
their goal to raise $8,500 in local
funds, to match an earlier grant
from the Vancouver Foundation:
Equipment needed includes a
compressor, power tools, and
specialized hand tools for sculp-
ture, as well as a clay mixer and
gas kiln for the clay studio

Donations so far total over

$6,000. Among the many local
donors have been the Royal
Bank, the 1.0.D.E., the Regional
District of Central Kootenay, the
David Thompson Student Soci-
ety, the Salmo Arts Council and
a number of generous individu-
als and members of the business
community

The KSA office is located on
the third floor of Nelson City
Hall. Donations for the equip
ment fund may be mailed to Box
352, Nelson, BC VIL 5R2, or
phone 352-8258 for more infor-
mation

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registration is preferred. Call 365-2794 Jim
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