Join Sappho Events for a relaxing pottery workshop led by artist Megan Elliott, focusing on traditional hand-building techniques using minimal tools.

Date: Tuesday 8 February, 6:30-8:30pm

Location: The Commons, Glass House, London (118 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 6DG). The nearest station is Shoreditch High Street Overground

Price: £30 (you will take home 1-2 new clay creations!)

Covid Safety: Please present a negative lateral flow test taken in the past 24 hours to enter. We are doing this to protect each other as best we can!

Participants will learn how to make a pinch pot and a coil pot out of air-drying clay and will be guided through how to personalise their new creations.

At the end of the class, participants should have two small finished pots to take away with them and tips on how to decorate these at home when dry. These pots are perfect as little storage vessels or ornaments and can also be used for succulents/small plants.

No experience necessary - suitable for all levels!

Your clay will still be delicate upon completion, so please bring a little box or container to carry your creations home. A cardboard box (approximately 15cm x 15cm is ideal), but we will also have newspaper to wrap them in if needed.

About Megan:

Megan (she/her) is a queer artist and writer based in London. She has a First Class degree in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School where she specialised in sculpture and mixed-media. Now, she primarily works with clay to make sculptures and pots using hand-built techniques. She teaches pottery for events and within the community, such as in care homes. She believes passionately in the therapeutic nature of the arts. As a writer, she’s published poems and short stories in both online and print publications including BRICKS Magazine, Thought Catalog, Tickle.Life, Brenda Magazine, House of Revolution, Backlash Press and New River Press. She’s a current recipient of the London Writers Awards 2021 and is working on her first novel.

Sappho Events creates social events for LGBTQIA+ women, trans and non-binary people in the UK.