Saturday, October 17, 2026, 2:00 AM - 5:00 AM · Clay Cafe, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
Clay Cafe hosts a Halloween-themed Plant Bingo combining pottery painting with bingo for plant and pottery prizes, plus a costume contest. BYOB, 21+, $10 seat fee plus the cost of pottery.
Part art studio, part wholesome chaos, this Main Street pottery spot is where first dates, birthday parties, and hyper-focused solo painters all sit elbow-to-elbow with a glaze brush in hand. You pick your ceramic weapon (mug, plate, vaguely ambitious teapot) then spend two deeply meditative hours debating shades of blue while pretending you’re not wildly competitive about it. It smells faintly like paint and espresso, and by the end you’re emotionally attached to a lopsided bowl you’ll insist is “rustic.”