The Poly
24 Church St, Falmouth : 01326 319461
The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
What's On Calendar
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Drop-In Sessions
A relaxed, untaught session for throwers and handbuilders to experiment and create.
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Beginners Handbuilding: Raku
Ever wanted to dip your toes into the world of raku? Join our one off 4-week beginner’s handbuilding course and explore a mesmerising ancient firing method.
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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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Exploring Colour
A vibrant and creative workshop for anyone who would like to learn more about the art of mixing colour and how it can be used to add depth and interest to your art.
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Novel Writing 6 Week Course
A supportive 6-week course that helps aspiring writers turn ideas into structured, meaningful stories through clear guidance, creative exercises, and group accountability, leaving you confident, motivated, and ready to continue your novel journey.
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Expressive Acrylic & Ink
A fun 1-day workshop where you will explore the playful processes of painting with inks and acrylics.
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Intermediate Pottery: Raku (4 Week)
Join our specialised 4-week Intermediate raku course, expand on your skills and delve into a mesmerising ancient firing method with beautiful results.
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Advanced Pottery: Raku (4 Week)
Join our specialised 4-week Advanced raku course, deep dive into making and explore the stunning results of this ancient Japanese firing method.
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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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Discover Mixed Media
During this playful and experimental workshop, you will explore a range of water-based materials including; acrylic, ink, collage, pastels and charcoal and learn how to layer these up to create mixed media artworks full of texture and depth.
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4-Week Glaze Technology Course
Learn glaze materials, mix recipes from scratch, test and analyse results, and build confident glaze knowledge, suitable for all levels
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Clone Your Clothes: Pattern Cutting Workshop
Bring your favourite dress or top and learn to clone it! In this workshop, you’ll create a complete sewing pattern (no unpicking needed) so you can recreate your garment in different fabrics or colours at home.
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Buddhism Evolves
An Introduction to Secular Buddhism and Behavioural Science. This workshop includes guided meditations and discussions on compassion, sentience, gratitude, climate, karma and more.
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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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An Introduction to Collage with Emily Luke
Evening Collage workshop! - In this session illustrator, Emily Luke, will teach you all you need to know about collage and mixed media art. By the end you will have a finished artwork to take home and new skills to apply to your next artwork
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Coast: A Two-Colour Linocut Workshop
In this five hour workshop, you will learn traditional relief-printmaking skills, to make two small linocut/rubber stamps, which overlay to create a two-colour coast themed miniprint.
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Painting Spring Flowers in Oils (3 Day Workshop)
Join artist and experienced tutor Lisa Waldron on this relaxing and informative course for Spring. Lisa will guide you through the stages of underpainting, colour mixing and adding the finishing touches to your own finished oil painting.
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Wonders of the Ocean: A Beginner’s Watercolour Workshop
Dive into watercolour with Janavi, where you’ll learn essential techniques, build confidence, and paint beautiful sea creatures inspired by our local marine wildlife.
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Costumed Life Drawing: Ancient Greek
Step back in time with us to Ancient Greece for our March Costumed Life Drawing!
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Buddhism Evolves
An Introduction to Secular Buddhism and Behavioural Science. This workshop includes guided meditations and discussions on compassion, sentience, gratitude, climate, karma and more.
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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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Childrens Pottery: Mythical Creatures
Within this workshop you will explore the wonderous world of mythical creatures. Exploring form, colour, and textures, you’ll make your own mythical creatures in air-dry clay.
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Childrens Pottery: Sea Creatures
Within this workshop you will explore the wonderous world of sea creatures. Exploring form, colour, and textures, you’ll make your own sea creatures in air-dry clay.
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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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Ancient Greek Drink & Draw
Ancient Greek Costumed Life Drawing…. with wine!
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Sword Fighting Workshop Ages 5-7
Sword Fighting workshop for young Knights, Warriors and Pirates!
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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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Intermediate Pottery: Raku (6 Week)
Join our specialised 6-week Intermediate raku course, expand on your skills and delve into a mesmerising ancient firing method with beautiful results.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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