Arts and Crafts Adults Group Bookings - corporate or private

Be creative with your Christmas party!

Come to Kinsale Pottery for a 3-hour potery class. Sculpt, try your hand at the wheel and create a unique ceramic Christmas gift, followed by dinner at one of these excellent venues:

the 4 star Clarion Hotel Cork, all for €69 per person

the 4 star Blue Haven Hotel, Kinsale for €50 per person

the 4 star Trident Hotel, Kinsale

a choice of Oz Haven, The Vintage, Crackpots or Max's Wine Bar Kinsale, all for €50 per person

(groups of up to 50 catered for). Special offer available from Nov 1 - Dec 17 - early booking essential.

Teambuilding workshops

Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre caters for corporate groups of between 4 and 50 people for sessions lasting anything from two hours upwards. We offer a range of workshop options, and we can provide catering facilities and a reception space if you would like to stay for lunch or an after-class party. Alternatively, if you want to eat in Kinsale, there are several local restaurants which can cater for up to about 50 people in one sitting - ask for details.

You might choose to have all your staff in one class together, or for larger groups of 20 plus, to split into two or three groups, rotating through different classes over a day. Team Building workshops involve games, team art projects and full tuition, and typically last 3 hours. Prices per class depend on numbers, starting at €50 per person for a three-hour class, to include materials, firings (for pottery) and delivery to one location in Ireland (international couriers are charged at cost).

Pottery

For a group of between 4 and 20 people in one class, we offer team-building through pottery. This includes the chance for each participant to throw on the wheel, hand-build and paint sculptures and participate in team projects. Each person makes three or four pieces which are then dried, fired and glazed after the class, and all the work is then ready about 2 weeks later.

Splash Attack

Paint your own canvas in acrylics - working from still life, produce your own painting, which can be as representational as yuo like or as abstract/surreal as you dare. You'll be given a 30 minute demonstration instructing you on basic colour theory, composition and use of materials, and you'll then have two and a half hours to produce your own painting. Groups can work on larger pieces composed of each individual's 'square'. You might want to focus on a particular theme for the paintings.

Jewellery-making workshop

Suitable for smaller groups of up to 12 people, this workshop allows you to make your own brooches, corsages, earings and necklaces, using a range of skills covered in the session - design, threading, knotting, fitting crimps, finishing.

Mosaic-making

Also suitable for smaller groups, you can create mosaic panels, wall mirror surrounds and covered wooden boxes, using broken ceramic tile, glass beads and found objects such as shells. Working on a single large mosaic panel will allow your group to plan and design as a team, and will result in your finished piece being ready to display in the office!

Drama

Suitable for groups of up to 12 people. Improv and Theatre Games are used as teambuilding tools by companies all over the world. Improvisation can only occur if people work together. That is the key of the work. Elements such as Group Mind, Trust, Intuition and Status are the focus of this workshop, and we will explore them through lots of exercises and games.

Course Times

Corporate groups can be booked in on weekdays or weekend days, with a week or two's notice. If you would like buffet catering or reception facilities, quotes to suit your purse can be provided. A meeting room is also available if you have business to do while you're here. When you book, a deposit will be taken (by cheque or credit card) and final numbers for the workshop will be fixed about 7 days before the session, on which the final fixed price will be calculated. Invoices can be provided in advance of the workshop, but full payment will be due at the time of the workshop, and not in arrears.

Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre provides arts and crafts courses for adults and children, specialising in pottery, art, drawing and painting, film animation, glass fusing and stained glass, jewellery-making, mixed media, book binding, and mosaic-making. We run weekly morning and evening classes, weekend breaks, summer schools and tailor-made workshops for corporate groups and private parties.

We can accommodate up to 30 people in one class and up to 50 in a group, or as few as two or three at a time. All our courses suit beginners, enthusiasts and professionals, using a wide range of facilities and techniques. The pottery includes electric and raku kilns, stoneware and earthenware clays, and we teach throwing, hand-building and all varieties of glazing.

Kinsale Pottery is situated just 20 minutes from Cork Airport, close to the centre of the beautiful historic harbour of Kinsale, famed for its restaurants and shops. The pottery is in the converted stables of the home farm for Ballinacurra House, and the gallery is in the eaves of its coach house, which dates back to 1795.

Since 2001, we have provided classes and courses to suit all levels of skill and experience ranging from the complete beginner through to exhibitor standard and the school has become the largest and most established centre of its kind in Ireland. We stock a wide selection of clays and glazes, our pottery courses cover the full range of ceramics and sculpting techniques.

Kinsale is internationally renowned for its cuisine, its cosmopolitan style and the beauty of its harbour. There are many excellent pubs and restaurants in the town, as well as a wide range of art and craft shops. What better place to learn a craft, or take a break.

Adrian Wistreich, Ceramic Artist.

After more than 20 years of corporate life in London, working as a publisher and research consultant, I left the rat-race to pursue my ambition of becoming an artist and teacher. I completed a diploma in Ceramics and Design at Hackney College of Art, London, moved to Kinsale with my family and set-up the Kinsale Pottery and Art School.

My desire to teach comes from my experience as a communicator, I have learned to find and stimulate the artist in us all, regardless of our experience of art.

I tend to be sculptural in my own work drawing on a love of form and texture through smoke-fired abstract ceramic pieces and studies of people. I have increasingly brought colour to my work developing my own stoneware glazes, which are available for students to try out. I want to break down the barriers between traditional craft skills and the apparent inaccessibility of fine art