In 1996-7 I was involved in the Greek/Canadian Intercultural Symposium in which ten Canadian ceramists and ten Greek ceramists participated in an exchange. The Greeks came to the ceramics studios of The Banff Centre in the summer of 1996, where they worked with the Canadians to prepare a group exhibition in the Banff Art Gallery in Calgary.

The next year, in August 1997, we Canadians travelled to Greece, where we spent a week touring museums and ancient cultural sites on the mainland, then we sailed to Crete, where we worked with the Greeks in the Community Centre of Margaritas, a small village whose main enterprise is ceramics. We created work inspired by the Minoan Civilization, which thrived on Crete from 2600 to 1100 BC, for exhibit in the Cretan city of Rethimnon and then at The Vorres Museum of Contemporary Greek Art in Athens.