Join à la Carte Kitchen Inc. at the Gardiner Bistro for lunch from Sunday to Friday in the third-floor Terrace Room with stunning views overlooking the city.
Join us for a full summer of free community arts programming in our Exhibition Hall and on the plaza, featuring work by emerging artists, curators, and architects inspired by the theme "Art is Change".
Kids can get their hands dirty in one of our popular week-long summer clay camps where they'll learn hand building, wheel throwing, glazing, and more. There are still a few spots left. Register now!
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This combination class will use stoneware clay, a high-fired, non-porous clay durable for all kinds of uses, to create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces.
This combination class will use stoneware clay, a high-fired, non-porous clay durable for all kinds of uses, to create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces....
Instructor: Lynn Fisher
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This course is an introduction to various clay hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Students will also explore slip casting, press molding using existing moulds, and new glazing techniques using earthenware clay.
This course is an introduction to various clay hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Students will also explore slip casting, press molding using existing moulds, and new glazing techniques using earthenware clay....
Instructor: Audrey Mah
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques.
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. ...
Learn the art of the potter’s wheel. Create functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes.
Learn the art of the potter’s wheel. Create functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes....
Instructor: Marc Egan
Instructor: Michelle Mendlowitz
Using mainly hand-building techniques, but also some wheel-throwing, this course will focus on creating unique tableware.
Using mainly hand-building techniques, but also some wheel-throwing, this course will focus on creating unique tableware....
Instructor: Karin Pavey
In this two-hour workshop, we will explore clay as a medium for deepening our experience of the present moment. The emphasis will be on the process of working with clay while not being attached the product we create.
In this two-hour workshop, we will explore clay as a medium for deepening our experience of the present moment. The emphasis will be on the process of working with clay while not being attached the product we create....
Instructor: Suzanne Thomson
Learn the art of the potter’s whee in this semi-private class. Create functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes.
Learn the art of the potter’s whee in this semi-private class. Create functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes....
Instructor: Annika Hoefs
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques in this four-week class.
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques in this four-week class. ...
Instructor: Ian Symons
This workshop is suitable for students being introduced to mindfulness for the first time as well as for those students with previous mindfulness experience. In this 6-week workshop, we will explore through the use of clay the four foundations of mindfulness: body, feelings, mind, and the nature of our experience.
This workshop is suitable for students being introduced to mindfulness for the first time as well as for those students with previous mindfulness experience. In this 6-week workshop, we will explore through the use of clay the four foundations of...
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques in this semi-private class.
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques in this semi-private class....
Instructor: Thomas Suh
In this four session workshop, students will create two- and three-dimensional objects through hand building and wheel throwing.
In this four session workshop, students will create two- and three-dimensional objects through hand building and wheel throwing. ...
Join us for this two-day workshop and make and decorate a colourful skull out of clay in time for the Day of the Dead.
Join us for this two-day workshop and make and decorate a colourful skull out of clay in time for the Day of the Dead....
Using mainly hand-building techniques as well as some wheel throwing, this course will focus on creating unique tableware.
Using mainly hand-building techniques as well as some wheel throwing, this course will focus on creating unique tableware....
This combination class will use stoneware clay, a high-fired, non-porous clay durable for all kinds of uses, to create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces. ...
Instructor: Danica Drago
This combination class will use stoneware clay, a high-fired non-porous clay durable for all kinds of uses, to create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces.
This combination class will use stoneware clay, a high-fired non-porous clay durable for all kinds of uses, to create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces....
This course is an introduction to various clay hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Students will also explore slip casting, press molding, and new glazing techniques using earthenware clay.
This course is an introduction to various clay hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Students will also explore slip casting, press molding, and new glazing techniques using earthenware clay....
Learn a variety of surface techniques with a new demonstration each week.
Learn a variety of surface techniques with a new demonstration each week....
Get creative this holiday season by hand-building a gift for a loved one out of clay.
Get creative this holiday season by hand-building a gift for a loved one out of clay....