PERFORMANCE: The Bridgepoint Ensemble ‘Out of the Woods’
Messums WiltshireThe programme brings together some of the finest classical musicians in the country for a celebration of the return of the performing arts.
The programme brings together some of the finest classical musicians in the country for a celebration of the return of the performing arts.
Throwing Days – introduction and improve sessions
Dates: 18 and 19 September – £120 each day
Time: 10.00 – 17.00
Tutor: Polly Cazalet
This course led by one of our expert pottery tutors is an ideal opportunity to spend the day getting familiar with throwing on the potter’s wheel or improve your existing skills. If you book both days you can throw your pots on Saturday and come to turn and attach handles the following day.
Join us in the barn gallery for a day of talks on the nature of materials within contemporary architectural practice.
We will be joined by some of the leading minds and innovators within architecture as they discuss how we can better use resources and learn from our natural environment to find solutions to some of the problems affecting building, design and the environment.
Throwing Days – introduction and improve sessions
Dates: 18 and 19 September – £120 each day
Tutor: Polly Cazalet
This course led by one of our expert pottery tutors is an ideal opportunity to spend the day getting familiar with throwing on the potter’s wheel or improve your existing skills. If you book both days you can throw your pots on Saturday and come to turn and attach handles the following day.
Join us for a talk with award-winning British Egyptian documentary photographer Laura El-Tantawy interviewed by Dr Julie Bonzon.
A selection of works from El-Tantawy’s acclaimed series 'In the Shadow of the Pyramids' will be exhibited in our London gallery in September
Thursday afternoon adult pottery class
Dates: 23 September – 2 December (Half term: 28 October)
Times: 1pm- 4pm
Tutor: Andy Glass
Description:
These regular sessions are the ideal opportunity for ceramics and pottery beginners and intermediate students wanting to become familiar with or improve their clay making skills. We believe that the relaxed, friendly, and peaceful atmosphere is an ideal environment for creative learning. This weekly class led by an experienced ceramics practitioner is designed to nurture everyone’s individual creativity and further each person’s skills at their own pace. You will be able to cover hand building techniques such as pinch-pot making, coiling, slab building as well as work on the potters wheel.
Ten week Thursday afternoon adult pottery class
Dates: 23 September – 2 December (Half term: 28 October)
Times: 1pm- 4pm
Tutor: Andy Glass
These regular sessions are the ideal opportunity for ceramics and pottery beginners and intermediate students wanting to become familiar with or improve their clay making skills. We believe that the relaxed, friendly, and peaceful atmosphere is an ideal environment for creative learning. This weekly class led by an experienced ceramics practitioner is designed to nurture everyone’s individual creativity and further each person’s skills at their own pace. You will be able to cover hand building techniques such as pinch-pot making, coiling, slab building as well as work on the potters wheel.
Pottery with Glaze Focus
Friday daytime adult class with a focus on understanding glazes.
Dates: 24 September – 3 December (Half term: 29 October)
Times: 10.30am – 1.30pm
Tutor: Mirka Golden-Hann
This is an ideal class for those ceramics and pottery students, beginners and more advanced who, whilst engaging in clay making, also wish to gain a deeper understanding of how ceramic glazes work. As well as covering many hand-building methods and throwing on the potters wheel, this course will include an element of glaze experimentation and development.
MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Pots with Interesting Legs
Date: Saturday 25 September
Times: 10.00 – 12.30
Tutor: Finn Bush
Hand build bowls and vessels which literally walk from your hands. Using clays wonderful responsive sculptural qualities create interestingly footed and imaginatively stilted, plinthed and balanced hand built sculpture objects. Expect to make abstract or figurative bases commingling with containers.
Our Saturday sessions are designed for children to come together with their grownups to create together and to learn new skills. In these fun and creativity packed sessions a number of different tutors will bring an array of approaches to clay work and ceramics.
MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Pots with Interesting Legs
Date: Saturday 25 September
Times: Book either a morning or afternoon session
10.00 – 12.30 or
13.30 – 16.00
Tutor: Finn Bush
Hand build bowls and vessels which literally walk from your hands. Using clays wonderful responsive sculptural qualities create interestingly footed and imaginatively stilted, plinthed and balanced hand built sculpture objects. Expect to make abstract or figurative bases commingling with containers.
Our Saturday sessions are designed for children to come together with their grownups to create together and to learn new skills. In these fun and creativity packed sessions a number of different tutors will bring an array of approaches to clay work and ceramics.
Join Caryn Mandabach (producer of PEAKY BLINDERS) and Alan Yentob in a conversation celebrating the power of storytelling at Messums Wiltshire, in aid of the KHULA Education.
This year KHULA Education, supported by the David Rattray Foundation, are launching a new programme in KwaZulu-Natal which will encourage the older school children to tell their own stories orally. It will be a way for them to improve their confidence, their presentation skills and hopefully, over time, be a way to bring in revenue to the community through tourism.