5-Week Potter's Wheel Class for Beginners(Töpferscheibe-Workshop für Anfänger, am Abend)

Workshop Overview

(Der Workshop wird auf Deutsch unterrichtet und auf Wunsch auch auf Englisch.)

Over the five sessions in five weeks, you will learn the essential techniques and concepts needed to craft your own ceramic works on the potter's wheel.

By the end of the course, you’ll take home your own stoneware ceramic pieces — hand-thrown, glazed, and painted by you!

Our passion is to provide a fully satisfying ceramic experience through high-quality instruction and a warm, inspiring studio atmosphere.

Why 5 Sessions?

Our wheel-throwing course is thoughtfully structured over **5 sessions** to give beginners enough time to build confidence and truly enjoy the process.

Instead of jumping to trimming too early, we include a **third full wheel session** before that step — because often, it's after the second session that the real sense of the wheel starts to click.

This extra practice makes a big difference: you grow, you improve, and your results get better.

**More time on the wheel = more growth and joy.**

It’s a structure built for real learning and creative satisfaction.

The Workshop

• 3 sessions: Learning pottery wheel techniques
• 1 session: Learning trimming techniques
• 1 session: Learning glazing and painting
• Each session lasts 2 hours
• Would you like to practice what you learned last week?
  You’re welcome to come one hour early before the workshop to practice.
  

Ready for Pickup

• Your final pieces will be fired as food-safe stoneware ceramics and ready for pickup.
• You will receive an email notification to arrange a pickup appointment.

Time

• Wheel Sessions: 4 sessions over 4 weeks, starting at 6:30 PM
• Glazing Session: Approximately three weeks after the wheel sessions, we will announce suggested glazing session dates via email. You can choose any of these dates to learn glazing.

Location

• Studio Somi, Dunckerstrasse 78, 10437 Berlin

Workshop Fee

€325 
Includes:

• 5 sessions (10 hours + up to 2,5 hours of individual practice time)
• All materials (clay and glazes)
• Stoneware Ceramic(food-safe)-Firings for your final works

Classes are taught in both English and German.

Important Information

• Please wear comfortable clothing that you don’t mind getting dirty with clay and dust.
• We recommend keeping your fingernails short to better feel and work with the clay.
• By booking this class, you confirm that you have private liability insurance (in Germany: Privathaftpflichtversicherung).