Upcoming Events
WPA runs a number of events each year. All events, including social and club activities, are listed on this page and link through to your HelloClub account.
Our workshops are open to Life, Associate, and Full members. If places remain available closer to the start date, we may then make the workshops available to members of the public, and this will be noted in the descriptions below. As we price classes only to cover tutor compensation and materials, once you have signed up no refunds will be given unless we are able to replace your spot in the class.
Workshops that don't have enough attendees will be cancelled a minimum of 5 days in advance. In this case, ticket prices will be refunded and credited to your HelloClub account to can be used for other workshops, rentals, or membership subscriptions. If you want the fee refunded to your account (less the original Stripe transaction fee), please contact our Treasurer to arrange this. Note that refunds will take 5-10 days to appear in your account.
Clay Club - JANUARY
Join the Clay Club!
Join the Clay Club to learn about the recycling process for clay, the significance of using grog, types of clay and their purposes, appropriate firing temperatures, and how to effectively utilize a pug mill for creating recycled clay (which is available for purchase by members). No previous experience is necessary.
Glazing Basics with Coral Dolan | December Session – FULL
The perfect 1-night course for new club members who aren't yet confident with glazing.
Join Coral Dolan for one evening to learn the basics of glazing at WPA.
WPA subsidizes this course to ensure new members have a good grounding in glaze basics. It helps you to avoid making glaze mistakes that could ruin your pieces and/or cost you in damage to kiln or kiln shelves.
Slap, Paddle, and Roll | 1-Day Workshop
Join tutor Hedy Ankers as she discusses how to make a slab-built vessels!
In this workshop students will learn to make slabs without slab or wooden rollers, or measurers, and about their handling, using heat guns, joining, adding appendages, trimming and clay use-by life, and pitfalls with this method.
Kurinuki Basics | 1-Day Workshop – FULL
Fancy some meditative carving to create beautiful kurinuki objects?
Kurinuki is a Japanese term referring to the handbuilding technique of starting with a solid block of clay and hollowing it out to create an interior. This one-day workshop provides students with the basics of the technique to create an open teabowl and a lidded vessel.
Friends and Family Friday | October Session
Join us for our popular Friends and Family evening.
This is your chance to bring along ONE friend or family member to see what ceramics and pottery is all about. You are welcome to bring snacks and a drink to enjoy, too. Open any time between 5pm and 9pm.
Refining the Basics on the Wheel | 4-Part Course (October)
FOUR-PART COURSE | 22 & 29 OCT, 5 & 12 NOV | 6 - 8PM DAILY
Finished your beginners’ class and joined WPA but you’re still struggling with some of the basics? This class could help!
Over four sessions, beginners will be reminded of the basics but also be exposed to alternative ways of centring, pulling walls, and trimming vessels.
Club Working Bee
Help maintain the club!
Every 4-months (or so) we take a day to perform necessary maintenance in the club to make way for our active work and time spent there.
Bring Your Child - October Session
Bring your kid(s) to play with clay!
The club rooms will be open for 2.5 hours in the school holidays for you to bring your child/ren along to play with clay. No tutors are provided by WPA though so you are to be responsible for your child's behaviour and safety while in the rooms.