Summary

In an old farmhouse in the south of Sweden, in beautiful natural surroundings, we will spend a week learning how to turn on the potter's wheel together in a group of four to six people. The course is suitable for e.g. hen parties, as a vacation with friends, for a girlfriends week or for a family. For children I offer pottery on the wheel from the age of 12. Younger children can model freely and shape the clay.

We make pottery on modern electric potter's wheels. The course lasts one week and runs from Saturday to Saturday. You will learn how to work with different types of clay and porcelain.

In the afternoons there is time for activities such as boating, swimming, cycling, hiking, saunas, reading, lazing around, cooking and baking together, talking and playing. The course takes place in the land of glassblowers in southern Sweden. If you are interested, a one-day glassblowing course can be organized as an option. A trip to an elk park about 30 km away is also possible. Or we can drive together to Astrid Lindgren's Värld in Vimmerby.

The accommodation in the house is rather basic. There are two double rooms, a bunk under the sloping roof and a double bed under the gable. The hostess takes care of your physical well-being and ensures a comfortable stay.

The retreat at a glance

The most important facts in a nutshell:

Categories: Pottery, Work Life Balance, Wellness, Creative Retreats, Detox Retreats
Date: May
Language(s): German
Level: Advanced, Beginner
Place: Vetlanda, Sweden
Accommodation: Overnight stay included
Catering: Full board
Services: Instructions for the pottery course. The course fees include all costs for clay, glazes, use of the wheel and kiln.

Accommodation in a double room that you share with another participant. Please note that the accommodation in the house is rather basic. There is a double room in the main house, a double room in a small guest house in the garden, a single bunk under the sloping roof and for sporty people* a double bed under the gable. (Note* chicken ladder, no standing height, more like a tent)

Full board: breakfast, lunch, coffee and cake, dinner

Use of the house's leisure facilities such as sauna, rowing boat for the nearby lake, bicycles, garden, etc. All at your own risk.

Accommodation

The vacation home, built in 1896, stands on a 2,800 square meter meadow property that extends into the adjacent forest. In addition to the main house, there is a large pottery workshop and an old barn with a wood store, wood workshop and conservatory. There is a sauna and a wood-heated hot tub for the evenings, and the beautiful terrace can be used at the end of the day.

The house is furnished with beautiful old Swedish furniture and modern technology. In the kitchen you can cook on an old wooden stove or on a modern ceramic hob. There is sleeping accommodation for four guests, as well as Internet/WLAN.

Catering

Wholesome breakfast
Simple lunch
Coffee and homemade cake in the afternoon
Dinner: cooking together, barbecue in the garden when the weather is nice

Vegetarian meals are available on request. I can, of course, cater for special preferences or requests if communicated in good time.

sequence

Saturday: Arrival from 16:00, no later than 20:00 desired, getting to know each other, dinner
Sunday: Introduction to pottery on an electric wheel, first attempts with your own workpieces
Monday: turning and handling, turning further workpieces, possibility for experiments in body ceramics
Tuesday: drying overnight, firing the workpieces, day at leisure (lake, glassblowing course,...)
Wednesday: learning to glaze and paint on prefabricated workpieces already fired by the course instructor
Thursday: Glazing and painting your own workpieces
Friday: Second firing, possibly further painting of own workpieces
Saturday: Completion and departure by midday
Note: if workpieces are not completely fired and cooled by the time of departure, these workpieces will be sent well packaged by post.

Arrival

The course takes place near the small town of Vetlanda, on a farm in the village of Stenberga.

There are different ways to get there:
- with your own car
- by flight to Gothenburg, a pick-up can be organized for an extra charge
- by train via Copenhagen to Nässjö, a pick-up can be organized for an extra charge

Stenbergavägen 1, 57497 Vetlanda, , Sweden

Cancellation policy

If you cancel up to 31 days before arrival, you will receive a 50% refund of the booking price.
After this, the booking is non-refundable.

The above price is per person with full board if booked individually.

If booked by at least four adults (friends), the price is reduced to 750 euros per person on a full-board basis.

If booked by a family, the price for adults is 750 euros per person, for children under 16 years 500 euros, for children under 8 years 200 euros with full board.

Self-catering is also possible on request, i.e. shopping and cooking in my small kitchen. The course then only includes instruction in pottery, all materials, firing etc. and accommodation. The price is then reduced to 600 euros per person for adults with a minimum of four people. Family with children on request.

If canceled up to one month before arrival, 50% of the course fee will be charged as a cancellation fee.
If canceled up to three months before arrival, 10% of the course fee will be retained as a cancellation fee.

I grant a 10% discount for bookings made by a group. For a fixed group there are also other dates available on request.