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HUM LIVE JAZZ the joint is jumping again! film and jazz scries every luesday evening. $5. Discover the Fantasy T h e Seymour Art Gallery's popular annual discovery show features a selection of 41 artists' work using the fantasy theme Included in the exhibition are paintings ami sculpturesrepresentingboth tlx- rosy and darker sides of fantasy. Featured on the right is a piece from the show The man who swallowed a dragon by David MacLean of North Vancouver. The piece is an acrylic and collage on canvas and is part of a mask series he has done. In his artist's statement. David writes "I sometimes look at the world and I'm overwhelmed. Why on earth am I painting and drawing when this marvelous movie is happening right here, right now? It is preposterous to try and improve on it. I can only suppose that somewhere we are born with an impulse to act as the eyes, not of the world, but of the psyche. The artist spends his or her life trying to do what most children do quite naturally. To ignore the wonder is a form of suicide."^ D i s c o v e r y '95 -- Fantasy Theme will be Street STUDIO RENTAL for painters, dancers, photographers... studio spacein a heritage building. 18ft. ceilings, telephone & voice mail, kitchen use. as little as $50-S150/mo. showing ot the Seymour Art Gallery April 5 curator of the Contemporary Art Gallery. Keith Wallace, will give a talk at the gallery on April II at 7:30 p.m. -- May 7. jury member and Studio ACTOR TRAINING the "breck academy" otters an outstanding training opportunity for actors every Wednesday and thursday INQUIRIES: 984.ARTS 2 Self-Pubüsh or Perish by Belly Vogel w ,, Pith diminishing publishing opportunities, many authors are now publishing their own works. Following this trend, in late middleage I founded a small literary press -- Blue Flower Press--exclusively for the publication of my own work. I did this primarily as a monument to my own ego, for, although I have been writing since I was twenty-five, I have yet to convince a publisher to print my fiction! This publishing venture was a last desperate attempt to communicate my ideas, and I do not feel the least bit guilty about it. My first book, A Librarian is to Read, a book of public library humour published in 1988, didn't do too badly. Although most people have never heard of it, I have sold several hundred copies to the captive librarian audience. (That it has a chapter, "Sex in the library" doesn't hurt!I Last December, however, I published my first novel. Pilgrimage, based on my experiences as an exchange student at a German univer- sity in the early 50's. As it was a "coming of age" novel with a very neurotic heroine, 1 thought it might create some interest. Unfortunately, although I sent out 30 review copies, it received no reviews. 1 have sold only seven copies. Since the Blue Flower Press has been listed in the Yellow Pages, however. I have had a flurry of activity. Calls, however, are from people desperate for a job! I had no idea the job market was so bad. Daily I receive a call from some desperate author, illustrator, desk-top publisher or aspiring receptionist. Some even ask for the 'Personnel Department". Yet, I do not give up, but continue to plug my wares in obscurity. Why? From my experience of working in public libraries,which attract the most fascinating aggregation of humanity in existence. I know it is only those people with a magnificent obsession who are truly happy. This obsession may be totally unrelated to reality, but it is so all consuming it transcends all disappointment and failure... Whether my little press is merely an absorbing hobby or a significant endeavour is quite irrelevant. The main thing is that such an all consuming passion gives meaning to my life. Betty Voge), in addibon to being se/f-pubfched, hos a B.A. and M.A. from the University Columbia a Master of British in literature and | of Library (Berkeley). This article first appeared of (pandora's Voo^ "In "Treble Again" Join this innovative, all-female vocal ensemble at their s p r i n g concert. This unique ensemble never fails to delight audiences with its eclectic repertoire o f jazz, folk and popular hits. May 5 & 6 at 8:00 pm Mt. Seymour United Church 1200 Parkgate Avenue North Vancouver Tickets $13/$ 10 Tickets a n d Information 925-9262 or 922-2147 in WORDWORKS a quarterly Columbia the Federation which is of British publication Writers. Science from the Umversit) of California