by Suzanne Regterschot | Oct 19, 2020 | Pottery School
Last week, Yasmin Metz-Johnson, founder of Yasmin Tells, visited the Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre in Waterloo, where she led a workshop on how to market the pottery products! With the festive season (and its Christmas markets around Freetown) coming up in a few weeks,...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Jul 22, 2020 | Pottery School
Aurora is proud to announce that we recently signed a contract with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Iceland about co-financing further support of the Lettie Stuart Pottery (LSP) in Sierra Leone. The project is called: Guidance, the first steps in the sustainable...
by Suzanne Regterschot | Jul 1, 2020 | Pottery School
Some people might know that Aurora’s office has been equipped with a large solar grid from Easy Solar, but did you know that we also work with Easy Solar to power the Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre in Waterloo? Due to the fact that Waterloo is not part of the national...
by Suzanne Regterschot | Jan 20, 2020 | Other Courses and Trainings, Pottery School
We are only two weeks into the new year, but what a way to start the new year! For the past two weeks, Eva María Árnadóttir and Tinna Gunnarsdóttir visited us from Iceland and have been teaching short courses in Sierra Leone. While Eva was teaching a fashion course in...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Aug 22, 2019 | Pottery School, Sweet Salone
Great crowd filled the room listening to tale about Aurora´s projects in the creative industry in Sierra Leone. Aurora wants to thank Guðbjörg Káradóttir for her great presentation and the Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied art for hosting us. Products produced...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | May 20, 2019 | Pottery School
For the past few weeks, the Pottery Center has been even more busy than usual. A solar panel system has been set up in the Center, giving a long waited electricity for the running of some essential equipment, providing lighting during cloudy days and very importantly...