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Kintsugi

Event: Kintsugi Date: 15th August 2026 Time: 12-4pm Duration: 4 hours Price: £45 Venue location: Calm Villagr, 4 Thingwall Rd, Irby, Wirral CH61 3AU Ideal Age: 18+ What’s Included: All materials, including a piece of Japanese inspired pottery, tuition Summary: We need to become more aligned with the concept that something being “broken” does not mean that it is useless. Nor do we have to see the concept of actually restoring something as making it ‘as new’. Kintsugi teaches us that in life we can turn adversity into something that is beautiful and resilient and shows us that in time, we can heal from our wounds, embrace our imperfections, and become stronger. Kintsugi known as the golden repair translates as ‘kin’ meaning gold and ‘tsugi’ meaning ‘join’. Workshop/Skills Learned We will break out bowl with intention, re-piece it back together, sand the joins and clean. A demo on how to use the two part premium non toxic epoxy glue will be given and how to use gravity to work with each pair. We will then clean and finessse before finally gilding using a specific gilding paint before a final clean and finish.