Tickets
Free with museum entrance £0 | Museum Entry - TR26 and TR27 postcodes £0 | Museum Entry - Locals Pass (Cornwall) £5 | Museum Entry - Standard Adult £8 | Museum Entry - Under 18s £0
Dates
Friday 1 November: 10.30am-12.30pm & 1.30pm-3.30pm
About this event
Explore the Leach Pottery through a series of activities and workshops across the old studios. Prepare your clay from scratch, direct the potters on the kick wheels as they throw pots, create your own hand-built pots and design and sketch a new collection of standard ware to display in the museum.
Participants of all ages are welcome to take part. All participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
An overview of activities…
Wedging
Learn the technique of wedging and weighing clay in the room historically used by potters to prepare clay ahead of throwing on a wheel.
Making
Take inspiration from the pots made at the Leach pottery and hand build your own to display in the museum.
See a Potter at Work
See a potter throwing pots on a kick wheel. See how many pots the studio needs to make each day and tick it off the production chart.
Design your collection
Gather your ideas from the exhibition and sketch your own standard ware collection.
Will my pots be fired?
The Young Potter’s Take Over focuses on the process of making and the forms used by potters. The activities are exploratory and playful and therefore outcomes won’t be fired but placed on display in the museum.
No booking is required. Last admission to the Young Potter’s Take Over is 30mins before the session closure, 12.30pm & 3.30pm. The Young Potter’s Take Over is engaged with at the participant’s pace and can be covered in 30mins or more.
Polite Notice: No booking is required for the Young Potter’s Take Over but at busy times we will introduce a system of staggered entrance every 15 minutes to participants. Often, in an effort to avoid queues, participants arrive at the start of the event which ironically creates a busy spell first thing. With participants arriving at intervals across the day, waits are less likely and avoidable.
Other information:
We welcome little potters.
Accessibility
Details
Access Information All public areas are accessible to wheel chairs and pushchairs and people with limited mobility. There are ramps for entrance into the shop. Wheelchair –friendly toilets are situated in the museum entrance space with baby change facilities. We are a dog friendly museum. We have no disabled parking on site due to work being carried out. However, we have a drop-off point outside the Pottery Shop and free parking at St John’s in the Field church, a four-minute walk from the pottery ((Sat Nav-TR26 2FB).
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