Emerald Community House is offering fired arts courses in Term 3 including pottery, enamelling, jewellery making and glass fusion.
These courses are the perfect antidote to escape the trials and tribulations of what has become our new normal life.
Emerald Community House can connect with our inner creative and put the world aside.
Working with clay, enamel and metal is a creative tactile tonic after the upheaval of the last two years. Working with your hands is good for your mind.
The new Fired Arts Centre will carry on this tradition where students can explore the ancient materials of clay, metal and glass with their hands and conjure up contemporary objet d’art. There are a range of classes and the skills can be further developed at home with minimal equipment.
Enamelling is a perennially popular art form where metal is prepared for enamelling and then, using a kiln, enamels are applied to achieve different colours and effects.
Glass fusion is a process of joining and melting glass and covers a range of different glass forms from making small fully fused glass pieces suitable for jewellery to coasters and bowls. This fun and immensely rewarding class will teach you how to cut glass, how to shape it, fire it and form it.
Our pottery studio will specialise in constructive clay sculpture, mugs and tableware, jugs and tiles. Students will learn about different construction and hand building techniques. After the initial learning process, they will move on to sculpture and building forms on an armature.
Of course, children love working with clay too and they also get a chance to use the new studio by holding their birthday parties in the fire arts workshop in our hall. Kids’ fire arts birthday parties are suitable for up to 14 children.
ECH is also running a course in sustainable energy to fill in the gaps of this fast moving technology and where we should apply it. The Course will run in Term 3 and is currently being updated with the latest information. Find out what is best for your home sustainability, where the jobs might be and costs savings to be had.
Emerald Community House’s perennial favourite courses in permaculture and improving your writing skills are on again in Term 3. The children’s hobby garden is opening up to volunteers post-covid regulations and there is a greenhouse to erect for seedling and plant propagation. The Dig In Community Grocery charges along with healthy choices, seasonal produce, local suppliers and some free food as well.
It’s time to invest in your own wellbeing and rediscover Emerald Community House’s healthy programs and activities.
Check out Emerald Messenger for the complete Term 3 program and details. https://www.echvic.org.au/emerald-messenger. For more information call 5968 3881 on Monday, Wed and Friday 10-3, or email emhouse@iinet.net.au.
