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The Kiln Room is an independent pottery studio and cafe at 12 Gillygate, in the centre of York. It is one room, doing two things at once: wheels and workbenches at one end, a small cafe with homemade cakes at the other, and usually a fair amount of clay on the floor in between.<\/p>\n

What happens here<\/h2>\n

We run wheel-throwing classes for people who have never touched clay, open studio sessions for people who already know their way around a wheel, and workshops for kids on Saturdays. Everything is fired here in the studio.<\/p>\n

The cafe is open to everyone. You do not have to book a class, own an apron, or have any interest in pottery whatsoever to come in, sit down and have a slice of cake.<\/p>\n

Who runs it<\/h2>\n

[Who set up The Kiln Room, when, and what they made before this \u2014 tell us and we will write this section properly.]<\/p>\n

Beginners, honestly<\/h2>\n

Most people who walk through the door have never used a wheel. That is the normal case here, not the exception, and nothing about the way we run a class assumes otherwise. Nobody’s first pot is any good \u2014 that is the entire point of making a second one.<\/p>\n

When we are open<\/h2>\n