The Mighty Waikato Pottery Throwdown
An annual fun event for WSP members of all ages and abilities.

There'll be prizes and olumpic medals to be won. Here's some of the events that will be happening on the day. Please head over to the ticket page and tick the challenges you're most interested in. And if you're bursting with the best idea ever flick us an email.

• Tallest structure – an individual hand-building challenge, build the tallest piece you can in 10 minutes with your allocated piece of clay.

• Blindfolded Hand building – no limits, other than you can’t see what you’re doing. You have 10 minutes to build anything you’d like.

• Tiniest teapot – how small can you make a teapot? Can you make it functional? Can you win a prize for your tiny, functional teapot?

• The Two Person Throw – two people, using one hand each, making a pot together. Will it end in triumph or trantrum?

• The Blindfolded Throw – you get to use all your hands, but you can’t see what they’re doing. Have a go at throwing a pot to the same size and shape as the demo piece.

• The Transformation Challenge – take a pre-thrown bowl and go at it, get as creative as you please and transform it into your own masterpiece.

• The Clay Bouquet – make a pottery posy, pretty as a picture.

• The two person handle pull – how many potters does it take to pull a handle? In this instance, two!

• The Throwing and Hand Building Mash-up – Hand builders grab your wheel thrower, wheel-throwers grab your hand builder. One of you will throw a pot, the other will alter and decorate it.

• The Scariest Thing – get wild, get dark and give the judge nightmares.

• The Tag Team Bonkers Build – it’s all hands on the clay for the team collab challenge. Choose your starting team member, then pass the build onto the next person in the team to add their creative flair. The catch is you only get 2 minutes each.

• Decorate a Tile – what will you do with a circle or sqare? Minimalist or maximalist it's your time to shine. 

And it wouldn't be WSP if we didn't share a kai at lunchtime.
Please bring something to share if you are able.

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