Potter · Course
Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre
Two days in a Kinsale studio learning coiling, slab building, throwing on the wheel and glazing, with your pots fired and ready to collect a fortnight later.
Cork, Ireland
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12 real places across 12 crafts. Classes, workshops and people worth meeting.
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Stained-Glass Artist · Workshop
Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre
Beginners design and build their own leaded panel with tutor Joy McAllen, learning templates, glass cutting, leading and soldering, materials included.
Cork, Ireland
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Line Cook · Class
Cookery Cottage
A short evening class five minutes from Cork city centre where you cook Mexican, Italian, curry or Japanese dishes yourself and then sit down and eat them.
Cork, Ireland
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Every place in Cork
Potter
Human AuthorshipA wheel, some mud, a teacher's hands over yours. Two hours where your phone doesn't matter.
Stained-Glass Artist
Human AuthorshipCut glass and lead and light, joined by hand into a window that paints the floor in color.
Line Cook
Human AuthorshipA hot kitchen, twelve tickets, a plate that tastes like a place.
Distiller
Human AuthorshipA still, a clear run of spirit, and a maker who decides by nose and taste exactly where the good part begins and ends.
Brewer
Human AuthorshipGrain, water, hops and yeast, tended by someone who knows when to trust the tank and when to taste.
Surfer
Body & PresenceA surfer reads the whole living ocean with nothing but a body, a board, and the nerve to paddle out.
Printmaker
Human AuthorshipInk, a screen, a steady pull, and one image becomes a hundred, each pressed by hand.
Bookbinder
Human AuthorshipThread, glue, and patience enough to make a book last a hundred years.
Basket Maker
Human AuthorshipReeds soaked soft, a pattern held in memory, and hands that weave an empty space strong enough to carry a harvest.
Barista
Body & PresenceYour name, your usual, and ninety seconds of care poured slowly.
Tour Guide
Among HumansA city has a thousand doors. They know which ones open.
Chocolatier
Human AuthorshipBitter bean, human patience, and a shine you only get if a person got the temperature exactly right.
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