Clay & Rituals
DATES: 14/11/2026
TIME: 13H30-16H30
PRICE: €75; €25 for Stadspas holders
LANGUAGE: EN
Looking for some time where your phone is away and your hands remember making something meaningful?
Clay & Rituals is a three-hour clay handbuilding workshop in Amsterdam.
We begin with a question: what moment in your day do you want to make more intentional? Through guided reflection, you'll map your own rituals. The small daily acts that mark time and say, this moment is chosen. Then you'll design and build a clay object for that moment, with your hands, at your own pace.
No experience needed. No perfect result expected. There is tea and coffee, there is quiet, and creativity.
Your piece will be fired and ready to take home within a few weeks. It will sit somewhere you see it every day: a cup, a bowl, an incense holder, a small vessel. Not just an object, but a reminder of that afternoon and what it felt like to slow down enough to make something real.
Clay has been part of human ritual for 10,000 years. This workshop is a small continuation of that.
Workshop will be held in English.
For details and booking, please check: https://www.ravaceramics.com/
HOSTED BY
RAVA, a word from Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home, means communication beyond words. Studio RAVA, founded by Damla Aygun, is a design and creativity practice working across ceramic art, sculpture, design thinking, and creative entrepreneurship. Damla’s work begins with clay: a material for touch, memory, and communication beyond words.
Raised in a family of makers, she learned early that emotion can live in craft, in woven fabric, carved surfaces, and objects made by hand. Her work is informed by feminist histories of making, looking to the marks and knowledge women have carried through art, craft, domestic spaces, and everyday objects. Her ceramics and sculptures continue that quiet language, giving form to stories that are felt rather than spoken.
Alongside her artistic practice, Damla works as a strategy, creativity, and innovation consultant. She is interested in how people think, create, and make decisions, and in helping them discover their own creative strength.
Through workshops on clay, design, and creative practice, she creates calm, curious spaces to explore, reflect, and make.
