The Poly
24 Church St, Falmouth : 01326 319461
The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
What's On Calendar
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Workshops // Coming up
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Drop-In Sessions
A relaxed, untaught session for throwers and handbuilders to experiment and create.
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Sword Fighting Workshop Ages 5-7
Sword Fighting workshop for young Knights, Warriors and Pirates!
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FX: Creative Fantasy Makeup for Teens
Workshop for teens 12-16yrs with FX makeup artist Jo Stambridge. Develop FX skills creating and applying makeup & prosthetics for fantasy/horror.
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Childrens Pottery: Wild Animals
Within this workshop you will explore the wonderous world of wild animals. Exploring form, colour, and textures, you’ll make your own wild animals in air-dry clay.
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Sword Fighting Workshop Ages 8-12
Sword Fighting workshop for young Knights, Warriors and Pirates!
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Beginners Handbuilding: 4 Week Course
For the perfect introduction to ceramics, join in our four-week beginner’s course.
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Throwing: 4 Week Course
This course is open to all abilities, whether you're a novice or an experienced potter looking to expand your skills on the wheel.
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Sword Fighting Workshop Ages 5-7
Sword Fighting workshop for young Knights, Warriors and Pirates!
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Sword Fighting Workshop Ages 8-12
Sword Fighting workshop for young Knights, Warriors and Pirates!
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Intermediate Pottery: 4 Week Course
For people with more experience who would like to develop their existing skills and start to gain knowledge in a broader range of building, firing and glazing techniques.
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Advanced Pottery: 4 Week Course
This is a practical course for those who have an extensive knowledge of working with clay who are looking expand existing skills.
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Advanced Throwing Techniques (6 Week)
Looking to develop your throwing skills on the potters wheel? Join our 6- Week course and expand your practise.
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6-Week Glaze Technology
Join our specialised 6-week glaze technology course, gain a basic understanding of what materials make glazes and experiment.
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Wonderful Watercolour
You will be able to build on core techniques and fundamental principles in this watercolour workshop, which, is suitable for all levels. Following Cathy’s step by step demo with supplied materials, your painting skills will grow
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Costumed Life Drawing: Musketeers
Costumed Life Drawing is back! Models are still being confirmed but as always it will be a good one!
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Life Drawing at The Poly
The course is part instructed by a local artist with guided exercises and opportunities to draw freely. Experienced artists, improvers and beginners welcome with extra support available from the tutor if required.
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Slow Stitch Circle
Join our monthly Slow Stitch Workshop to learn new hand-stitching skills like kantha, embroidery, and applique. Enjoy step-by-step demos, creative time, and friendly chats in a relaxed, welcoming space. Suitable for all levels—bring your sewing kit and fabric scraps!
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Slow Stitch Circle
Join our monthly Slow Stitch Workshop to learn new hand-stitching skills like kantha, embroidery, and applique. Enjoy step-by-step demos, creative time, and friendly chats in a relaxed, welcoming space. Suitable for all levels—bring your sewing kit and fabric scraps!
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Sew Spring Gifts
Sew in an expressive and creative way to make small textile items that can be given as gifts. Participants will sew on (supplied) washaway and bonded cotton cloth with embroidery and construction techniques to craft personal, unique textile pieces that will be a joy to gift to anyone.
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Life Drawing at The Poly
The course is part instructed by a local artist with guided exercises and opportunities to draw freely. Experienced artists, improvers and beginners welcome with extra support available from the tutor if required.
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Costumed Life Drawing: Knights
Knights return to the costumed life drawing stage! Step back into a time of armour and swords!
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Beginners Handbuilding: 4 Week Course
For the perfect introduction to ceramics, join in our four-week beginner’s course.
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Throwing: 4 Week Course
This course is open to all abilities, whether you're a novice or an experienced potter looking to expand your skills on the wheel.
More information Check times : Book
Intermediate Pottery: 4 Week Course
For people with more experience who would like to develop their existing skills and start to gain knowledge in a broader range of building, firing and glazing techniques.
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Advanced Pottery: 4 Week Course
This is a practical course for those who have an extensive knowledge of working with clay who are looking expand existing skills.
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Slow Stitch Circle
Join our monthly Slow Stitch Workshop to learn new hand-stitching skills like kantha, embroidery, and applique. Enjoy step-by-step demos, creative time, and friendly chats in a relaxed, welcoming space. Suitable for all levels—bring your sewing kit and fabric scraps!
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Introduction to Woodcut Printmaking
Come and have a “first go” at woodcut printmaking. For absolute beginners, we will learn techniques to use Japanese wood cutting tools on birch ply to create a simple relief block from which to print by hand (using oil-based inks).
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Slow Stitch Circle
Join our monthly Slow Stitch Workshop to learn new hand-stitching skills like kantha, embroidery, and applique. Enjoy step-by-step demos, creative time, and friendly chats in a relaxed, welcoming space. Suitable for all levels—bring your sewing kit and fabric scraps!
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Sip & Paint Henry Scott Tuke’s ‘Our Jack’
Create your own Henry Scott Tuke ‘Our Jack’ masterpiece to take home. A fun evening painting, sipping, fun, laughter. Full guidance provided: templates, a grid or sketches to paint in or freestyle. Acrylic paints, brushes, paper and all other materials provided.
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Cloth and Clothes
Join us for a monthly two-hour session on Thursday mornings at The Poly and enjoy learning about sewing techniques used in clothes making. Each class will concentrate on a different aspect of garment construction with a focus on crafting the expert finish seen in clothes of quality.
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Introduction to Painting with Oil & Coldwax
A fun and experimental 1-day workshop for those who would like to learn more about painting with oil and cold wax (Coldwax is a wonderful medium that adds body, transparency and depth to oil paint and speeds up its drying time).
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3-Day Intensive Throwing Course
With expert guidance from our head potter Karl Owen, you'll learn all the fundamental techniques, starting with centring, creating cylinders, and then progressing on to more complex forms.
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Slow Stitch Circle
Join our monthly Slow Stitch Workshop to learn new hand-stitching skills like kantha, embroidery, and applique. Enjoy step-by-step demos, creative time, and friendly chats in a relaxed, welcoming space. Suitable for all levels—bring your sewing kit and fabric scraps!
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3-Day Intensive Throwing Course
With expert guidance from our head potter Karl Owen, you'll learn all the fundamental techniques, starting with centring, creating cylinders, and then progressing on to more complex forms.
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Introduction to Cornish Inks
Meet the founders, hear the story of Cornish Inks and see their products in action during the talk & demo. Attend the workshop to learn about their latest ink collection, created using natural materials foraged from nearby Swanpool and Maenporth.
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3-Day Intensive Raku Course
Returning for summer 2026, dive into the mesmerising world of Raku over three immersive days at Poly Pottery.
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Introduction to Painting with Oil & Coldwax
A fun and experimental 1-day workshop for those who would like to learn more about painting with oil and cold wax.
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Painting Aspects of Falmouth
Painting aspects of Falmouth. Work with Falmouth artist Victoria Gillow to capture Falmouth, its industrial harbour, views to Roseland and flushing. Guided tuition in drawing and painting in Acrylic- from sketchbook work, on site, and back in the poly studio space into larger paintings.
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Abstract Landscapes with Oil & Coldwax
A fun and experimental 4-day workshop that focuses on painting abstractly with oil and cold wax (Coldwax is a wonderful medium that adds body, transparency and depth to oil paint and speeds up its drying time).
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Intermediate Pottery: 4 Week Course
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