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NOTE TO EDITORS/EDUCATION&CULTURE--BIRTHDAY PARTY ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design is throwing a birthday party at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 10, at its location on 1683 Barrington Street, Halifax. The celebration, complete with cake, light refreshments, and a fiddler, will be hosted by Education and Culture Minister John MacEachern, and all teachers, exhibitors, planners, technicians, and supporters from the general public, are invited to attend. The centre, open since March 1991, helps the craft and design sector strengthen its place in the local economy. In 1995 96, the centre had over 25,000 visitors, and offered approximately 100 different classes and workshops. Some of the achievements of the centre are: it conducted the first course for independent gallery curators in Nova Scotia; it is the regular home for the Nova Scotia Architects Association's Lieutenant-Governor's Awards for Architecture annual exhibition; it was instrumental in bringing together the design sector to form the organization Design in Business Nova Scotia, that links professionals as various as fashion; graphic, interior, architectural, industrial, engineering, and handcraft design. -30- Contact: Donna MacDonald 902-424-2615 trp Apr. 09, 1996 - 2:33 p.m.