NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (June 23, 2015) –The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grant Programme, in collaboration with the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) and the Newcastle Pottery Co-operative Society Ltd. are hosting a six-week pottery-making workshop, at the Newcastle Pottery under the theme “Improving Pottery Making in the 21st Century”. The workshop began June18, 2015.
Supervisor in the Department of Co-operatives Joalyn Myers-O’garro at an opening ceremony prior to the workshop, said although pottery still has a vibrant market with tourist and local hotels, the art form was fading out on the island.
“With the advent of technology came the gas and electric stove, plastic flower pots, cheap factory made ornaments and inexpensive aluminium pots, as a result the pottery making art is dying,” she said.
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