Sat, May 03
|Bowen Park Auditorium
2025 Great Nanaimo Pottery Throwdown
Join us for a fun, fast-paced pottery showdown inspired by The Great Canadian Pottery Throwdown, featuring hilarious challenges and local potters competing for prizes, all while raising funds for Nanaimo Food Share. Watch or compete – it's a clay-filled afternoon of laughs and community spirit!
Time & Location
May 03, 2025, 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Bowen Park Auditorium, Bowen Park Complex, 500 Bowen Rd, Nanaimo, BC V9R 1Z7, Canada
About the Event
Get Ready for a Claytastic Afternoon!
In honour of the hit CBC TV show The Great Canadian Pottery Throwdown, we’re bringing the clay-throwing fun to Nanaimo with a local twist – and it's all for a great cause! Join us for an afternoon of hilarious, fast-paced pottery challenges, all while raising funds for Nanaimo Food Share’s food sustainability programs.
Expect nothing less than clay-flying chaos as professional potters face off in five wild, timed challenges:
Blindfolded Cup Challenge
Longest Handle Challenge
Hand-Built Replica
Five-Minute Teapot
Widest Bowl
Plus! Student Potters Blindfold Cup (enter your name to participate)
There will be laughs, triumphs, mishaps, and lots of mess – it’s all part of the fun! Each round’s winner will score a prize donated generously by our community businesses.
Thirsty Cup Fundraiser: Mugs, handmade and donated by local potters, will be on display and for sale. Your $30 minimum donation includes beverages and snacks, so you can sip, munch, and cheer on the action with your new artisan mug!
Whether you're a pottery pro or just here for the fun, everyone is welcome! And don’t worry, we’ll kick things off with a professional demonstration of each skill.
Learn More about your contestants.
Victor Duffhues from JoVic Pottery
Meet your hosts, Bronwyn Arundel and Danica Ceramica
💥 All proceeds go directly to Nanaimo Foodshare.
Sponsored by Plainsman Clay Ltd.
Note: Participants must be comfortable with being photographed and recorded for social media.
Don’t miss out – it will be a clay-filled, fun-packed afternoon for all!