This is the Potter's Cast, a podcast home for potters everywhere. It's a community of

potters dedicated to grow their business. We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm your

host, Paul Blaze. Welcome to episode number 1024 of The Potter's Cast. So excited to be with you today. We are starting a new series today,

which is all going to be centered around and Sika 2024. So there's going to be the next

couple of weeks where we're going to be focusing on that. And don't forget, I mentioned this in a previous episode that today is the deadline,

if you're listening to this on May 2nd, the day that this gets released.

Today is the deadline if you would like to participate in Enceica 2025,

which is going to be in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Enceca 2025 is going to be called

formation.

Anyhow, there's going to be opportunities to be able to participate in there as more than just

goers, but as people who actually do something there, and you can get your proposals in for either a

lecture or a co-l lecture. You can do a proposal for panels, a panel discussion, or short-form

proposals. There are also some clay conversation proposals. There's a project space that you can be able to present a

proposal for. There's the podcast proposals. And then there's also a maker space demonstration

proposal. So all of these things that you can make, you can present to NSEC as

something you say, hey, I would like to do this. Those are all due today by 1159 Eastern Standard

Times. So that is really important. So you got to, you got to get those things going if you want

to be participating next year.

Now, having said that, like I said, all of the episodes that are going to be coming up in the next couple weeks are all going to be circling around Enceca 2024.

And I was a part of a panel discussion called Clay Doctors.

And that Clay Doctors one had a group of panel board experts that were amazing people that that just totally understand ceramics at a very high level.

So I was there to moderate, but that didn't really, I didn't have a lot to offer in terms of like expertise. I was more there just to be able to say, and you talk, and you talk, and you talk, hey, you got a question, go ahead, ask the question. That's what I did. It was that type of thing. Not really all that critical, but what they had to say, absolutely amazing. I was so honored to be a part of this panel. So that's what I'm a

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