Workshop using Kintsugi concepts

An invitation to let go, to slow down, to behold, to imagine, to mend, to value …

Kintsugi - Beauty in the broken - is the Japanese art that repairs broken pottery with gold, rendering a new piece that is more exquisite than it was before the break. 

This workshop invites you to go slow. While we work physically, to restore the broken pottery, we also pay attention to parts of ourselves that may be fragile or "broken". We will resist our tendency to rush to “fix” the world in the industrial sense.  

Kintsugi = Kin means “gold,” and Tsugi means “mend”.  Tsugi also means and “to link the generations together.” or “to pass onto the next generation.”  A bowl mended with gold was more valuable.  

Yobitsugi is to “call into” (Yobi) “mending” (Tsugi) - Yobitsugi brings together two or more fragments of broken ceramics originating from different cultures.    This is an extension of wabi sabi (seeing beauty in imperfection / what is flawed) Instead, in Kintsugi we can “mend to make new”.               

Please bring

one or two pottery containers that you are willing to break and then mend; and

a journal or notebook and a sense of curiosity and adventure.

Facilitator: Kathy Cave 

Places are limited so please register soon. If we do not have a minimum registered by 23 January, the workshop will not go ahead.