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Learn the skills of Silversmithing and make your own silver jewellery with tutor Diane Lyness. Under her guidance, you will learn a variety of jewellery techniques including soldering, piercing, shaping, texturing metal and polishing. During the term, participants will work through the design and creation of a piece or pieces of jewellery. If you have … Continue reading Silversmithing techniques

Spend a day with Sabine from Breaghmore Baskets and learn the skills needed to create 2 beautiful decorations for your garden using willow and traditional skills. Please note this class will be held outdoors so dress appropriately.  

Join ceramicists Rebecca Killen and Laureanne Kootstra for a masterclass exploring the creative process of slip casting. During this workshop you will have the opportunity to work with porcelain casting slip, a selection of plaster moulds and coloured porcelain. You will also learn about refining your cast pieces and how to apply surface decoration. Each … Continue reading Clay Project Slip Casting

Halloween is coming - why not give the potter’s wheel a whirl and learn how to throw killer shapes, and combine hand building techniques to model one-off creations with tutor Andrea McCullough Alderdice? Decorate your work with designs of your choice, perhaps go for kooky cats or spooky bats? Suitable for children ages 6-11.

Join tutor Julie McCreery  for a one-day taster workshop in Patchwork and create a coaster placemat for your mug. Whether you have experience of using a sewing machine or not, this workshop will teach you the basics of patchwork and you will come away with a practical, fabric mug coaster, using a technique called '4 Patch'. … Continue reading Patchwork Coaster Workshop

A very unique workshop coming up just in time for the spooky season: Heather Mcdermott Willow Craft is hosting a Besom Broom workshop: participants will make their very own Besom Broom using all natural materials gathered sustainably and locally. The brooms can be used for clearing leaves and cobwebs and also symbolises cleansing and purification rituals. … Continue reading Besom Broom Workshop

The Great Pottery Throwdown finalist, Anna McGurn, will guide you in the creation of sculptural figures, essentially taking a lump of clay and turning it into something with character and personality. Anna’s figures seem to take on their own temperament, she can show individuality in a stance; superiority in a look; charm in a smile, … Continue reading Ceramic Figurative Sculpture

In this one-session workshop with cearmicist Fiona Shannon, children will design and make creepy creative and innovative clay lanterns just in time for Halloween. Designed for beginners and improvers this class will be a fun creative environment to get crafty using a range of clay techniques. In this workshop we will be using air dry clay … Continue reading Halloween Clay Lanterns

The 'Make your own jam jar diorama' workshop is one of the supporting events for the 'Paper Magic' exhibition, currently on at Craft NI Gallery until October 29th. Come along to this convivial workshop with Sue Cathcart and learn how to make a jam jar diorama! Sue will bring along her humorous Mr Papers character … Continue reading ‘Make your own jam jar diorama’ workshop with Sue Cathcart

In this one-session workshop with cearmicist Fiona Shannon, children will design and make creepy creative and innovative clay lanterns just in time for Halloween. Designed for beginners and improvers this class will be a fun creative environment to get crafty using a range of clay techniques. In this workshop we will be using air dry clay … Continue reading Halloween Clay Lanterns