Your own private Clay Date with refreshments!

Having a girls' night or a lads' night out with a difference? Perhaps you want to celebrate a birthday, retirement, hens' night, or graduation? Request a date for your own private Clay Date (most evenings available unless already scheduled for another event), and choose from one of the options below for your special event for up to 6 guests.

For bookings made three weeks or more in advance:

• Dirty Date Night (tumbler) - 2.5 hour event with approx 1hr of playful wheel-throwing, a break for light refreshments, and one hour of decorating and glazing a tumbler for each guest.
• Dirty Date Night (bowls) - 2.5 hour event with approx 1hr of playful wheel-throwing, a break for light refreshments, and one hour of decorating and glazing a gelato bowl for each guest.
• Clay Date (two tumblers) - 2.5 hour event (includes a short refreshment break) to apply decorative techniques and glazes to two tumblers for each guest - no wheel throwing.

For bookings made 10 days or more in advance:

• Dirty Date Night (sgraffito tumblers) - 2.5 hour event with approx 1hr of playful wheel-throwing, a break for light refreshments, and one hour of using sgraffito technique to decorate a leatherhard tumbler for each guest. Tumblers will be fired and glazed in a clear gloss glaze for collection approximately 4 weeks after the event.
• Clay Date (Textured vase) - 2.5 hour event (includes a short break for light refreshments), each guest will carve a textured design onto a leatherhard vase. These will be bisqued, glazed in your choice of four options shared on the night, and fired again for collection approximately 4 weeks after the event.
• Clay Date (shellac resist platter) - 2.5 hour event (includes a short break for light refreshments), each guest will be provided with a leatherhard platter to create an embossed design primarily using shellac resist. The platters will be bisqued, glazed in your choice of four options shared on the night, and fired again for collection approximately 4 weeks after the event.

Engage in some good clean fun, and get a bit dirty along the way. You'll get creative with clay and/or glazes in the studio, and enjoy a break in the evening to indulge in some piping hot pizza straight from our pizza oven on the deck. BYO 'Happy Juice' or water bottle.

Unless your date is already confirmed with us, please add your preferred date and two alternative dates in the comments section of checkout. Once booked, you will be contacted by the studio to nominate your Clay Date activity. Please ensure your email and phone number are included in your details when booking. You will receive an email with information on what to wear, what to bring, and important information for health and safety approximately one week prior to the workshop date.

Clay Dates run from 6:30pm - 9:00pm, and are suitable for guests over 16 yrs of age. If you would like to arrange a clay date during a different time or for a younger age group please send an email to Alison at alison.skate.pots@iinet.net.au .

Accessibility:

The studio is accessible via a steep driveway. Please advise if assistance is required to navigate steep slopes. The bathroom is accessible via stairs only.

Refunds and cancellations:

• More than four weeks before the workshop - 100% refund minus non-refundable fees charged by payment platforms (approx 3%).
• 8 to 28 days before the workshop - 50%
• 0-7 days before the first class - no refund issued, however workshop can be transferred by the original purchaser to another person one time.

*COVID Interruptions:

• In the case that the QLD Government declares a lockdown or any restrictions that prevent the workshop from going ahead as scheduled, a full refund of the workshop fee will be issued within 7 working days via the method used for payment.
• If the workshop runs as scheduled, refunds are not able to be provided to any guest who fails to attend due to illness, or any other reason related to COVID-19, except as outlined in the Refunds and Cancellations paragraphs above.