CLAY COURSE: Houses, Trees & their People (family)

Messums Creative

In this pottery class for families with children you will be invited to create, model and build clay sculptures which will tell magical stories.
The tutor Lynne Heaton is an art therapist, teacher and artist with years of experience in running clay workshops for adults and children. Her own work holds and explores the elements earth, air, water, and fire and she believes that through the creative process of clay making, these elements combine to produce the fifth element, spirit.

£5 – £25

CLAY COURSE: Houses, Trees & their People (family)

Messums Creative

In this pottery class for families with children you will be invited to create, model and build clay sculptures which will tell magical stories.
The tutor Lynne Heaton is an art therapist, teacher and artist with years of experience in running clay workshops for adults and children. Her own work holds and explores the elements earth, air, water, and fire and she believes that through the creative process of clay making, these elements combine to produce the fifth element, spirit.

£5 – £25

CLAY COURSE: Throwing and Turning (adults and age 14+)

Messums Creative

Aimed at serious beginners and keen improvers

28 and 29 August (two days)
Lunch included

Tutor: Emily Myers

Emily Myers is an established Studio Potter, Fellow of The Craft Potters Association and Crafts Council selected maker. She works in porcelain and red stoneware clay. Emily’s pieces are often carved and fired with beautiful glazes and can be seen in numerous venues and galleries nation wide.

£240.00

CHARITY TALK & SUPPER: ‘The Art of the Possible’ with Professor Laurent Servais

Messums Wiltshire

A talk by Professor Laurent Servais researching Spinal Muscular Atrophy, with the event profits going to the charity ACE SMA.
Laurent Servais is Professor of Paediatric Neuromuscular Disease at the University of Oxford. He has been instrumental in the design or the conduct of the different studies that have led to the validation of innovative treatments in Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

£10 – £50

CLAY COURSE: Throwing and Turning (adults and age 14+)

Messums Creative

Aimed at serious beginners and keen improvers

28 and 29 August (two day course)
Lunch included

Tutor: Emily Myers

Emily Myers is an established Studio Potter, Fellow of The Craft Potters Association and Crafts Council selected maker. She works in porcelain and red stoneware clay. Emily’s pieces are often carved and fired with beautiful glazes and can be seen in numerous venues and galleries nation wide.

£240.00

ONLINE TALK: Ice Rivers by Jemma Wadham

Online

Leading glaciologist Professor Jemma Wadham reflects upon a quarter century of adventures and discoveries across the globe.

Professor Jemma Wadham has devoted her career to the glaciers that cover one-tenth of the Earth’s land surface. Today, however, these ‘ice rivers’ are in peril. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating; in Antarctica, meanwhile, thinning ice sheets are releasing meltwater to sensitive marine foodwebs, and may be unlocking vast quantities of methane stored deep beneath them. The potential consequences for humanity are almost unfathomable.

Free

CLAY COURSE: Make Christmas Tree Decorations (family)

Messums Creative

MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together

Make Christmas Tree Decorations

Date: Saturday 6 November

Tutor: Bridget Timoney

Decorative traditions from around the world collide with brightly coloured and infinitely patterned shapes. A wide range of different decorative methods for you to choose from to create clay christmas decorations, light enough to hang from a branch and beautiful enough to charm the eye. Use scaffiito, imprint, miniature sculpture, cutters and collage resist methods to add beauty to clay base shapes.

£10 – £25

CLAY COURSE: Sculpture: Cats in Clay (adults)

Messums Creative

Whole day sculpture course – Cats in clay

Tutor: Finn Bush

Sculpt felines of the mind, from the wild to the noble. Sculpting freely and gaining inspiration from the many wonderful sculpted cats from history explore the world of this agile mysterious creature. Dog lovers also welcome.

£120.00

PERFORMANCE: Greater than Lion

Messums Wiltshire

World premiere of the contemporary dance performance 'Greater than Lion' choreographed by Kennedy Muntanga.
The contemporary dance performance Greater than Lion choreographed by Kennedy Junior Muntanga premieres at Messums Wiltshire in September.

£45

PERFORMANCE: Greater than Lion

Messums Wiltshire

World premiere of the contemporary dance performance ‘Greater than Lion’ choreographed by Kennedy Muntanga.
The contemporary dance performance Greater than Lion choreographed by Kennedy Junior Muntanga premieres at Messums Wiltshire in September.

£45

DANCE WORKSHOPS: with Kennedy Muntanga Dance Theatre

Messums Wiltshire

Two-hour workshops throughout the day. Aimed at 7 years to adults of any experience.
Following their weekend performances at Messums Wiltshire, the Kennedy Muntanga Dance Theatre team will host three dance workshops.

Free

CLAY DAY: Glaze and Practice Sessions

Messums Creative

12 September

Day £120, half day £65

Glaze your work from previous courses and use the workshop time for an opportunity to practice your wheel skills.

A technician or tutor will be available for help and advice.

£65 – £120

ONLINE TALK: with Photography Collector & Author David Kogan

Online

Join us for a talk with David Kogan OBE interviewed by our director of photography Dr Julie Bonzon. In this conversation, David Kogan will take us through his journey as a collector, his interest in significant events of modern history and his incredible collection of conflict photography which includes vintage prints by the renowned war photographer Robert Capa.

Free