Forgotten Arts Workshops

Pottery Workshop

Venue: Sliabh Beagh

Community Resource Center,

Roslea, Co. Fermanagh

It's a hand building workshop with a specific project designed to utilize all basic techniques to produce a fine, functional piece. All we will be exploring how to use the infamous potter wheel
as a preparation for the next series of pottery workshops The hand building project is called the face jug which is based on the Appalachian Mountain face jugs of yesteryear.

Wear old clothes, bring your questions and ideas. Tell us what brought you to pottery.


Soap Making


Venue: (to be announced in County Fermanagh)

If you love herbs, you'll love soap making. If you love creating and concocting in you own kitchen, you will love soap making. A few simple ingredients and you have you own fresh fragrant batch of soap.

The craft requires a few tools which you need to bring or the materials cost will soar, but most kitchen loving individuals will have these few things on hand

Materials




Butchery and Chatcuterie Course "Pig in a Day"

Venue: (To be announced in County Fermanagh)

This delightful course delivered by Ted Berner of Wildside Catering (www.wildsidecatering.ie)
and Phillip Dennhard covers rearing your own free range pig to curing and sausage making. Crazy fun and loads of food. Lunch is of course included. Check out Wildside's website, blog (www.wildsidecatering.ie/?cat=1) or the article written by Marie-Claire Digby of the Irish Times (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/0328/1224243271952.html) for more information on the "Pig in a Day" workshop.