CLAY COURSE: Thursday Afternoon Pottery Class (adults)

Messums Creative

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.

£220.00

CLAY COURSE: Thursday Evening Potter Class (adults)

Messums Creative

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.

£220.00

CLAY COURSE: Pottery with Glaze Focus (adults)

Messums Creative

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.

£220.00

CLAY COURSE: Pots with Interesting Legs (Children)

Messums Creative

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.

£10 – £25

CLAY COURSE: Pots with Interesting Legs (Children)

Messums Creative

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.

£10 – £25

CHARITY EVENT: An Audience with Alan Yentob and Caryn Mandabach (Peaky Blinders)

Messums Wiltshire

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.

£50.00

PREVIEW: Elisabeth Frink ‘Man is an Animal’

Messums Wiltshire

Preview of the Elisabeth Frink exhibition 'Man is an Animal' in the barn gallery at Messums Wiltshire on Sunday 26 September.
Man is an Animal is the most extensive collection of large-scale sculptures by Dame Elisabeth Frink to be shown in this country.

Free

CLAY COURSE: Make a Halloween Pumpkin (family)

Messums Creative

MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Make a Halloween Pumpkin

Date: Saturday 2 October
Times: Book either a morning or afternoon session
10.00 – 12.30 or
13.30 – 16.00

Tutor: Finn Bush

Hand form the bold shapes of pumpkins in clay, then incise, cut and engrave the truly creative faces, words, spirits and sprites of Halloween. Back lit with a candle, this is a chance to revel in the riotous creativity of festival time.

£10 – £25

CLAY COURSE: Make a Halloween Pumpkin (family)

Messums Creative

MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Make a Halloween Pumpkin

Date: Saturday 2 October
Times: Book either a morning or afternoon session
10.00 – 12.30 or
13.30 – 16.00

Tutor: Finn Bush

Hand form the bold shapes of pumpkins in clay, then incise, cut and engrave the truly creative faces, words, spirits and sprites of Halloween. Back lit with a candle, this is a chance to revel in the riotous creativity of festival time.

£10 – £25