Monthly Archives: August 2020

Help Wanted!

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Help Wanted!

As our membership expands, so too does the workload. When you filled in your subscription renewal form, you will have noticed we asked you how you are able to help us. We hope you will consider giving something of your time, knowledge and skills. As a voluntary organisation, we depend on the good will of our membership to keep things running. If you didn’t return the form, please email it to us, or just email the club to let us know how you can help. 

Newsletter Editor – Someone to organise, edit and lay out our quarterly newsletter. 

Grants Applications – We’re also looking for someone with experience or interest in grant applications to support the purchasing of new equipment and resources for the club. 

If you’re interested or know someone who is, please get in touch by emailing canterburypotters@gmmail.com with ‘Help Wanted’ in the subject header.

Xmas Pottery Market

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Xmas Pottery Market

Relatively new to our December calendar, this has become a successful event to promote the club and the craft in Christchurch.  For a modest fee, potters can set up a stall under the trees in our lovely reserve, to sell their work.

Buy local and handmade this Christmas from established and emerging Canterbury potters under the trees at the Avice Hill Reserve.  Practical, arty, unique, decorative and different. Whether you are looking for that perfect mug or soup bowl, a little something for the teacher, a dramatic statement piece for indoors or out, an interesting piece to fill that difficult spot, or anything in between, you can come and buy it here, direct from the artist who created it.

Raku Firing Group

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Upcoming Firing with the CPA Raku Group

The raku process creates dramatic decorative items. The exposed unglazed area will ‘blacken’
in the firing process and the contrast between the blackened surface and glazed areas is the
key to a successful design. We will have white crackle glazes and copper lustre glazes, and you
can incorporate colour using underglazes.

When: Sunday 16 August 10 am.

Where: CPA Club rooms, 395 Memorial Ave, Christchurch.

What you need: $10.00 per person, bisque pieces and your lunch.

“Pushing the Boundaries” with Darryl Frost

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“Pushing the Boundaries” with Darryl Frost

This workshop will operate as two separate days. Come to either one or both. Details, costs and what you will need to bring will follow soon…

Places will be limited. For booking enquiries please email canterburypotters@gmail.com and use ‘Pushing the Boundaries’ in the subject header.

When: Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th October 9.30 am – 3.30 pm.

Where: CPA club rooms, 395 Memorial Ave, Christchurch.