Euro Clay Carnival 2012 in english

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To make this event unforgettable, to avoid forgetting anything, to reduce the costs…

You will find on this page all information that we thought would be useful. If still your question is not answered here, you can send it to us using the contact form.

Location of the event

• Base de Loisirs Val de Seine in Verneuil sur Seine France

Schedule

• Welcome : Oct. 31st,  2012 from 6:00pm
• Supper at 7:30 / 8:00pm
• Beginning of the workshops on Nov. 1st, 2012 at 8:30 am
• End of the workshops on Nov. 4th, 2012 around 1:00 pm, lunch is included. Those that would like to may stay until about 5:30 pm.

Material needed:

Basic equipment

• pasta machine (please no motors)
• work surface
• rigid blade
• acrylic roller
• ruler
• baby wipes
• small tile (10cm x 10)
• a scalpel or craft knife

Material for each teacher

For Donna Kato’s class

• Medium ball stylus
• 1 – 1/12″ long pin back
• CA glue
• Dental tool with spoon back or other smoothing tool
• 10″ heavy gauge wire ( 16 – 18 gauge is fine)
• texture sponge or heavy gauge sandpaper (50 grit)
• rubber gloves and oil paint in white or parchment

   

For Bettina Welker’s class

• Latex gloves
• a ball stylus
• a thin needle
• tweezers or a hooked dental tool
• a hand drill with a 0,8 mm drill bit
• round nose pliers
• side wire cutting plier
• Jewelry wire (Tigertail)
• 18 to 20 gauge (0,8-1 mm) sterling or silver plated wire
• 2 head pins
• 1 pair of earwires
• some 2 mm beads
• small bowl for water

For Natalia Garcia de Leaniz’s class

• Round cutters: one approx. 15 mms diameter  and one 30 mm.
• 1 round nose pliers
• 1 wire cutters
• If you want, you can bring more in different shapes and sizes.

Natalia will provide each student with a pair of earrings hooks and some thin wire, you may want to bring more of these  just in case you want to make more pairs.

For Stéphanie Kilgast’s class

• a sheet of sanding paper
• a long blade
• a rasor blade
• a bamboo skewer or knitting needle to mix solid and liquid clay together
• small plastic boxes like for sauces at the chineese restaurant
• a thin needle
• tooth picks
• a paintbrush
• dry pastels in ocre, brick and dark brown
• clay extruder with 1 round hole disc about 2,5mm
• star cutter and round cutter bigger than the star one
• round cutters of different sizes / straws / tubes
• silicone molding paste (white and blue)

For Sophie Dumoulin’s class

• the amount of one small pack of “scrap” clay
• metal powders type “pearl-ex”
• alcohol inks of different colors type “pinata inks”
• 90° alcohol in a small spray bottle
• different textures or stamps with deep imprint
• 2 coffee and 2 large metal spoons(allowing to be baked in the oven)
• 1 flamme light bulb
• CA glue like SUPER GLUE
• sanding papers 600 and 800 and if possible micro mesh 600 + 800 + 1200
• absorbing paper or paper tissues
• plasterer’s grid

For Isabelle Chatelain’s class:

• small round kemper cutters
• black colorbox chalk ink
• black alcool ink (like adirondack)
• a lightbulb
• a small piece of lace
• 15 cm of buna cord in 2mm diameter
• 2 magic beads in diam 6 et 8mm, a small metal bead
• CA glue
• a pin
• a heat gun
• a pair of scissors
• sanding papers or micromesh kit

For Sylvie Peraud’s class :

• a needle tool
• sanding material (micro mesh kit or sanding paper and a small box or basin for water sanding)
• earring findings

List of the attendees :

This list enables you to see if you can plan on travelling with other attendees, and find roommates. We will have 23 rooms of 4 with collective toilet blocks, 16 rooms of two with private bathroom, 1 room of three with private bathroom; and 2 rooms of 2 with  collective toilet blocks. If for health reasons only you need a single room, please let us know, we will try to satisfy your demand as there are only two single rooms (this will lead to a supplementary cost).

Caution, towels, gloves and soap are not provided, do not forget your toilet set !  For those of you that will be in rooms of  4 with collective toilet blocks, plan on having a pair of flip flops for the showers.