General Public Ticket $25 | Members $20 | Bookings Essential
Tiny Clay Time Capsules invites participants to explore contemporary craft through playful, reflective and deeply personal engagement with clay.
What you will be doing | In this 90-minute workshop, participants will create small hollo clay vessels designed to hold secret messages that may be wishes, confessions or intentions, transforming a simple craft into a tangible, meaningful object that captures personal expression in miniature form. Participants will be guided step-by-step in shaping and hollowing their clay pieces, learning techniques for forming, smoothing and sealing vessels.
Who No prior clay experience is required, making the workshop accessible to beginners while still offering opportunities for experimentation for more experienced makers. Once formed, participants will write their messages on small scrolls and nest them inside their clay vessels, sealing them as "time capsules for the soul". Participants can choose to keep their piece, gift it or exchange it with others, creatin a playful and participatory level of connection.
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Manuela is a Columbian-Canadian artist, sculptor and facilitator who leads playful workshops encouraging participants to slow down, observe, and connect in new ways with their surroundings and themselves. Having lived around a decade respectively in Colombia, Canada and Australia, each place opened her eyes to new cultures, histories and ways of life. Art became her way of exploring identity and heritage, a way of belonging wherever she was. Working primarily with clay, Manuela creates bold, otherworldly pieces that feel alive, looking back at you. Insinuating that nature, and the objects we surrounds ourselves with, have an energy and consciousness beyond us. Each piece is an attempt to frame elusive moments and embodying her own approach to life; playful, curious, every aware and evolving.
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El is an anti disciplinary artist who creates their world so it is filled with connection, authenticity and spontaneity. They refuse to pick a niche; being a facilitator, performer, visual artist, co-founder, writer, community worker, strategist and event organiser. in everything they do they love to immerse the people around them into the experience whether that be through interactive art, collaboration or shared exploration. El wants us to be engaged and confronted, finding that creative success suits in places where shame is shed, joy is spread and reflection comes alive. They love to write, dance and play to express themselves and escape to the bush to decompress. They co-founded Kaleidoscope Collective to make space for gender queer creative expression and are always looking for new ways to be immersed in a world that we create together.
Image Credits: Lynn Peterson | Radical Joy and Dissent 2025 | Photo courtesy of artist