Leith Community Pottery

CONTACT DETAILS

Leith Business Centre, 4a Marine Esplanade, Leith, EDINBURGH, EH6 7LU
07505 113 836
potterofleith@yahoo.com
LOCALITY
North East

information DESCRIPTION

Our aims are to:

1. Offer expert tuition in pottery techniques by Andy Lang (BA) and, on occasion, guest specialists.

Several places in classes and workshops will be offered free of charge or for voluntary donation to those living with mental health conditions, the marginalised, the isolated, those living with dementia, those with any physical health conditions likely to benefit from the gentle exercise involved in clay-work and other disenfranchised groups.

Referrals will be taken from NHS professionals and 3rd sector organisations, with whom I have strong links.
We are unable to accept self-referrals.

We will build links with community councils, local community groups, schools and other social enterprises and plan to offer work experience to young people.

All profits will go back into the business in order to allow us to offer free and subsidised access to our activities and services to those living with poor mental health, dementia, social isolation and exclusion.
Whatever you spend will therefore contribute towards the cost of participation for those less able to afford or access our creative activities.

2. Offer work space to developing and emerging practitioners at affordable rates.

3. Allow me to produce and develop my own work, and my teaching skills.

4. Be home to a propane-fired reduction kiln, a highly specialised form of firing which has largely disappeared in our cities, there being only one other in Edinburgh, to my knowledge. Reduction allows the development of colours and finishes largely impossible in the much more common electric kilns generally in use. It is an ancient and fast-disappearing technique.

5. We also house a gallery space and will potentially offer affordable exhibition space rental, free of commission.

ORGANISATION ACTIVITIES

Arts and Culture Community Facilities Education/Learning/Training Health Sport/Leisure/Recreation

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