They're for sale, of course, but if you have a little time -- as little as an hour in fact -- she'll teach you the secrets of her pottery and ceramics and you can make a piece of your own to take home. Vacation length courses range from intensive introductions covering all aspects of pottery and ceramics making, to short sessions in decorating or using a potters' wheel. Most courses can be taken by children up to 12-years-old -- something to think about if you are traveling with grandchildren or in a family group.
Mme. Rebord's pottery and ceramics courses can be booked through the Beaucaire Office of Tourism , Tel: 011 33 4 66 59 26 57 which can also provide English-language information and can make suggestions and reservations for hotel or bed and breakfast accommodation.
Pottery and Ceramics Classes in Provence
- Intensive Introduction to Pottery and Ceramics five half-day classes, taken over three or five days for one or two people including children, offered year round.
- Price 330 Euros per person
- What's included Instruction and materials. Class covers all aspects of making, decorating and firing pottery and an initiation into the use of the potters' wheel.
- Making a Piece of Pottery Two hours for adults, one hour for children.
- Price 40Euros for adults, 15 Euros for children, minimum two people. Offered during spring vacation and June through August.
- What's included Instruction, preparation and materials. Participants make a pottery vessel or a piece of sculpture and decorate it.
- Making a Pot and The Potters' Wheel two, 2.5 hour sessions, adults only, offered during spring vacation and June through August for a minimum of two people.
- Price 100 Euros per person
- What's included Instruction and materials. A brief presentation on the characteristics of pottery and ceramics and the various methods of making it, followed by initiating into the use of the potters wheel. Participants throw pottery on the wheel and decorate it.
- Decorating Pottery and Ceramics One hour, year round, for adults and children.
- Price 15 Euros per decorated object.
- What's included This one is really playtime. You decorate pottery and ceramics from a selection already made in Mme. Rebord's studio.
And Remember That Movie?
If you'd just like to learn the romantic skill of throwing a pot on the potters' wheel, Mme. Rebord can teach you (and your honey?) for 20 Euros per hour per person. Just think Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost.Remember to leave time to collect your pieces, which are fired later.Ferne Arfin is London-based, American travel writer and About.com's guide to United Kingdom for Visitors. She writes for the Sunday Telegraph and other national papers about France and the USA, and is the author of Adventure Guide to Provence and the Cote d'Azur.
