Lochgilphead Celtic and Pictish Festival
The Education Team are delighted to return to this year’s Celtic and Pictish Festival. This year the Festival opens on Friday evening with a band and continues over the weekend with performances, battle re-enactments, demonstrations, workshops, and local crafts. The festival boosts the local economy and helps fund community projects.
Kilmartin Museum Pottery Workshop & Stand
Our stand will offer opportunities to learn about prehistory with hands on replica handling and demonstrations of ancient crafts. New for this year, we are running pottery workshops on the Sunday. Booking for this is essential as spaces are limited.
‘Pots & Place: Exploring the link between prehistoric ceramics, the natural world, community identity and ancient ritual’
Will Attard, our new Team Lead at Kilmartin Museum, will be running sessions at 10am, 12 noon & 2pm on Sunday 3rd August in our marquee on Lochgilphead Front Green.
To make a pot you need more than just clay, and in this workshop we will explore the importance of the natural world to ancient pot-makers.
It is clear that some ancient vessels were imbued with or came to be imbued with great significance, often coming to rest as carefully placed leavings in graves, cairns or tombs. We will also learn about the way pottery may have been an expression of identity, a symbol of interconnectedness and more.
From temper materials, firewood and tools for decoration to a careful control of fire, the making of a prehistoric pot required a sophisticated understanding of natural resource and crafting process.
Over the course of a 1.5hr workshop, we will produce replica prehistoric pottery inspired by the prehistoric peoples of mid-Argyll, and using techniques from the Neolithic and Bronze Age to create ceramic vessels.
At the end of the session you will take away your replica pottery and some instructions on how to pit-fire it to create earthenware ceramic.
Age 16+ - £20.00 per person (plus booking fee) - 5 spaces per session
Workshop bookings can be made from the festival website. A percentage of the cost goes towards supporting the festival.
Click on the link below and select TICKETS. Scroll down to find ‘Kilmartin Museum Pottery’ and select a session.
For further information contact: education@kilmartin.org
