Events

Due to high demand a further date has been added - on Sunday 22nd June

New event to put into your diary... Euan Craig is coming from Japan to build his kiln at ICF and will give a NWP/SWP workshop on Saturday June 21 2025

N. W. Potters AGM Saturday March 8th 2025

10.30am - 4.00pm, at the Ruthin Craft Centre

N. W. Potters AGM Saturday March 8th 2025

10.30am - 4.00pm, at the Ruthin Craft Centre

North Wales Potters Christmas Market  29/30 November 2024

Venue: St. Johns Church, Rose Hill St, Conwy LL32 8LD

Potters are invited to apply for a table the cost being £20 per day paid to NWP in advance.

Email stevetootell@gmail.com to reserve.

9-5pm sales start at 10:00

Everyone who comes to the event should offer a pot to the ICF 25 fund raising sales table .

Friday night potters social from 5:00-7:00

Osni Branco Clay -Metal Fusion

A 2 Day Workshop

September 14th and 15th 2024

Celebrating 55 years as an internationally acclaimed sculptor and foundry owner in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Osni Branco will join us in North Wales to give participants the skills and confidence to create and cast metal additions onto ceramics in their own studio settings using your existing tools and equipment

Day 1 - September 14th

At the Ruthin Craft Centre education room. Lôn Parcwr, Ruthin, LL15 1BB

10:00am registration 

10:30 Start

Welcome

video introduction footage from the foundry in Brazil

Examples/techniques demonstration

working on creating the combustible ceramic additions and possibly metal side lugs

12:30 Finish

Lunch - Bring your own or eat in the café

1:15pm Restart 

Continue with their constru

Day 2 - September 15th

At Apple Tree Studios Bryn Clwyd, Brookhouse Road, Denbigh

10:00-10:30am Start

Review of the pouring process

complete any touch up glazing

pouring on the pewter into the hot investment molds prepared the day before 

they will be hot from my kiln.

Cooling in tin cans then revealing and cleaning the metal additions 

12.30 Finish

Lunch

1:15pm Restart

After lunch firing the raku glazed b

The workshop is now full but we are making a reserve list:

Please email: stevetootell@gmail.com for further details

Since it began in 1987, the three-day festival has grown to become the UK’s leading ceramics event. The organisers are Wales’s two potters groups, North Wales Potters and South Wales Potters together with Aberystwyth University. 

WEEKEND TICKETS
North Wales Potters £160 

SINGLE DAY TICKETS
Saturday
North Wales Potters £110 

Sunday 

North Wales Potters £95

BOX OFFICE tel: 01970 623 232 

 Events provide an opportunity for meeting like-minded souls with an addiction to clay which can lead to valuable collaborations or at least some insight into your affliction.  Events are held at venues throughout North and Mid Wales to allow access by as many members as possible.

For the past few years we have held a Raku Event, typically in late August. These have proved to be hugely popular and at last year’s event we had to run three kilns flat-out to cope with demand. These events are highly dependent on the good will of a dedicated band who advise on glazing, try to prevent serious accidents and create an atmosphere of fun.

With the support of the Arts Council of Wales (Craft Board); North Wales Potters, together with South Wales Potters and Aberystwyth Arts Centre, organise and host the spectacular International Ceramics Festival every two years. This popular event, the biggest in Europe, invites internationally respected guest demonstrators and attracts participants from all over the world