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Australian ceramic artist hosting wood-fired oven workshop in Creston

There is an opportunity to learn how to build your own wood fired oven at a Creston workshop on Oct. 13 and 14...
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Andrea Revoy at a wood-fired oven.

Have you ever dreamed of having you own wood-fired oven for pizzas, breads, roasts or even smoked foods but found the readymade ones or do-it-yourself kits fearfully expensive?

Now there is an opportunity to learn how to build your own wood fired oven at a fraction of the cost of a bought one and you can build the oven to suit your own particular needs, site and esthetic sensibilities.

Alan Watt, from Australia, has run hundreds of similar workshops throughout his own country and is now on his third trip to North America to do the same here.

As a practicing ceramic artist and kiln builder and former head of the ceramics department of the Australian National University, he has a thorough knowledge of kiln and oven building and the process of “firing” them.

Participants will be engaged in a hands-on process of building a brick oven and, surprisingly, cooking breads and pizzas in it on Sunday. The oven to be built will cost only a few hundred dollars to build but be equivalent to one bought off the shelf for a few thousand.

The weekend workshop will be held in Creston on Oct. 13 and 14 and is $200 per person, with a 15 per cent discount for couples or families. More details can be found at www.woodfiredovenworkshops.com or by emailing woodfiredovenworkshops@bigpond.com.

A $50 deposit is required to confirm a booking, so contact Andrea at 250-402-3795 or email her at relaxin9@telus.net to secure a place. Only a few places are still available.

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