

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: THE GIFT OF UKU / CLAY 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 11:00 pm – Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 02:30 am
- **Event Description**: THIS IS A hands-on workshop where adults, involved in early years education, can slow down, get involved in creative PROCESSES, and reconnect with UKU ( CLAY) a magical material that comes straight from Papatūānuku. 

Through working with UKU, you’ll experience its calming, creative benefits while discovering how powerful it can be for the young children's LEARNING. 

IN THIS WORKSHOP you’ll CREATE your own UKU KĀKANO / LARGE DECORATIVE CLAY BEADS, AND SMALL FIGURINES, which will be fired and returned to you and your Centre as a beautiful keepsake of the experience.

MANY Centres, schools and homes THAT PROVIDE CLAY REGULARLY all vouch for clay as being the most popular art material. FOR EXAMPLE, at Villa Sophia, it is the thing most asked for from 2 to 10-year-olds!

Come explore, create, and learn how clay can support wellbeing, how it is an important alternative language for expression AND VEHICLE FOR LEARNING, but most of all, SEE HOW IT CAN BRING JOY  in the early years.

REGISTER HERE AND FIND OUT ALL THE DETAILS
✋?https://forms.gle/FskjcvqcSnFF5M9t7

CONTACT: Please get in touch with any questions at 0275270601 or sophiapreschool@xtra.co.nz
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-plymouth/the-gift-of-uku-clay/200029523538813
- **Event Categories**: workshops, art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 37

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029523538813?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=new+plymouth-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: New Plymouth
- **state**: TK
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: 1160 South Road, Oakura, New Zealand 4314
- **lat**: -39.11719
- **long**: 173.95612
- **full address**: 1160 South Road, Oakura, New Zealand 4314, 1160 South Rd, Oakura 4314, New Zealand, New Plymouth

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Villa Sophia (https://allevents.in/org/villa-sophia/21252219)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 11:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1160 South Road, Oakura, New Zealand 4314, 1160 South Rd, Oakura 4314, New Zealand, New Plymouth
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Villa Sophia
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about THE GIFT OF UKU / CLAY  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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