Featured Courses | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 53
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Let Silk Bowls Exist
Listed on June 13, 2013 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesTime for you to explore old and new techniques, broaden your experience, develop new ideas and have time to play! You will manipulate fabrics, threads and beads to produce contemporary lace fabrics. These will be embedded in silk fibres, stitched and moulded to create sumptuous vessels.Read more ... -
Towards abstraction – painting still-lifes
Listed on June 12, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesMany artists reach a stage in their development when mere representation is not sufficient for personal expression. Learn to respond directly to the subject of still-life using mixed media to explore line, form, colour and texture. Read more ... -
Text and image – the art of letterpress printing
Listed on June 12, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesLearn the basics of letterpress printing using techniques that date back hundreds of years. Printing text from metal type and images using the simple relief process, you explore the possibilities for combining the two and learn how to set metal type, mix ink and print with a press.Read more ... -
Polymer clay jewellery extrusions galore
Listed on June 12, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesLearn exciting ways of making polymer clay jewellery using the extruder tool. Explore the many design possibilities and ways of loading the extruder as you expand your personal repertoire of shapes and colours as you cut, twist, stack, wrap and slice.Read more ... -
Fantastical painting – creating imagined worlds
Listed on June 12, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesExplore your imagined worlds, create painted realities, and work with themes dealing with fantastical narratives, surrealist dreams and the dynamics of the imagination in a playful and practical manner.Read more ... -
Furniture making skills – for beginners
Listed on June 12, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesLearn hand skills which are sustainable in a home workshop, as you work through each stage in the construction of a specially designed side table. You are shown the principles behind sharpening and maintaining tools (using your own or the College’s). Read more ... -
Rosa’s Spanish Cuisine
Listed on June 11, 2013 by Alston Hall in Featured CoursesWhether you are looking to perfect your paella or how to cook a delicious plate of stuffed piquillo peppers, this course with Rosa Garcia Marin at Alston Hall will help you indulge your passion for Spanish foodRead more ... -
Squashed! Getting creative with pumpkins and squashes
Listed on June 11, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesPumpkin fanatic Rosemary Moon will transform your expectations of one of winter’s most useful ingredients. Packed full of flavour pumpkins are one of winter’s most versatile foods. Lots of cooking demos, practical group work, eating and growing tips.Read more ... -
Androula’s kitchen: a meze of Cypriot food and craft
Listed on June 11, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesSonia cooks her favourite family dishes from a cuisine still rooted in Mediterranean seasonal food traditions. A greedy artist in search of the crafts and food of her homeland, she also gives an illustrated talk about the traditional and emerging crafts of the sun-drenched home of her ancestors.Read more ... -
History Writing
Listed on June 9, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesWe believe that true narratives can be as gripping, as literary and as appealing to the general reader as imagined stories, and we have evolved writing techniques to reflect those standards. Explaining our methods, we will help participants enhance their own capabilities in non-fiction and provide a practical toolkit for realising them.Read more ... -
Crime Fiction
Listed on June 9, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesThis week we invite would-be, or already published, crime novelists to experiment with new ideas. The aim of the five days is to show that there is no set format for the crime genre, except a dedication to good storytelling. Read more ... -
Writing for Puppetry
Listed on June 9, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesA week of provocation to develop fearless writing and encourage experimentation. Includes practical workshops by Mervyn Millar to demystify puppetry and explore the relationship between design, dialogue and staging, and workshops by Nell Leyshon that focus on finding secure dramatic structures to keep your wild visions in healthy shape.Read more ... -
Starting to Write Poetry
Listed on June 8, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesCome to Lumb Bank, the former house of Ted Hughes and now an Arvon writing house, for a week all about writing poetry. A perfect week if you are new to poetry and looking to gain the confidence to keep writing. Read more ... -
Fiction
Listed on June 8, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesA course to help you in your search for the best narrative voice for this particular story, and guide you on that steep uphill journey from rough idea and draft to arriving at your destination.Read more ... -
Writing for Games
Listed on June 8, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesGames writing demands the scene-setting skills of a playwright, the characterisation of a novelist, the attention to nuance of a poet, and the flexibility to allow your audience into your work. Read more ... -
Carmen Cloth Doll
Listed on June 7, 2013 by Alston Hall in Featured CoursesCreate the feel of the Carnival with Carmen, a colourful, fun cloth doll. Learn contemporary cloth doll making techniques to create this bright, bold, fun character and add frills and fruit to complete this exuberant character doll.Read more ... -
A nice change from being young
Listed on June 7, 2013 by Alston Hall in Featured CoursesLast year's hit film 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' has put a fun spotlight on growing old gracefully. Come and enjoy the novel on which it was based, Deborah Moggach's 'These Foolish Things' Read more ... -
The Changing Faces of China
Listed on June 7, 2013 by Alston Hall in Featured CoursesJoin Malcolm Tranter and friends exploring the 'tourist trail' to see Shanghai, cruise the Yangtze River via the controversial Three Gorges Dam, and visit the Terrecotta Army, the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and much more.Read more ... -
Italian Language Weekend
Listed on June 7, 2013 by Alston Hall in Featured CoursesThe course is for those who want to be able to converse with greater ease. You will be guided step by step towards achieving confidence in conversation. Read more ... -
Clarinet Weekend
Listed on June 7, 2013 by Alston Hall in Featured CoursesThis new course will enable clarinettists to explore a variety of repertoire through ensemble playing. Groups will vary in size from trios through to full choir. Groups will be altered each session so that participants may experience a variety of styles of playing. There will be opportunity to try instruments including the tiny Eb and contra clarinets. A diverse library will be available throughout the course. Read more ... -
Who Was Jane Austen?
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesNo other novelist in late 18th and early 19th Century England wrote with Jane Austen’s clarity or acuity. While the down-to-earth Georgians appreciated her pithy, realistic portraits of gentry life, the straitlaced Victorians discovered a moral weightiness in her writing and cast a veneer of respectability over the novelist’s life and character. Two hundred years...
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Deserted Villages in the Cotswolds
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesBy the 13th Century, the Cotswold landscape was dotted with a network of villages. However, with the Black Death of 1348/9, many communities were weakened and communities were broken up. We will examine the causes of desertion and the character of the deserted Cotswold village. Read more ... -
Art Quilts again – Impressionism
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesFerret will show you how to prepare a pattern from your own photographs, but you will be supplied a pattern to get you started right away. You will learn how a computer programme can help you produce a pattern, and how stitching holds your pieces together, quilts your quilt and adds detail all at the same timeRead more ... -
Go Gospel Weekend
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesBlow away the blues with a weekend of uplifting gospel singing. Experienced gospel choir director Jo Sercombe will take you through a variety of gospel repertoire, from early spirituals to contemporary American gospel; helping you to free your voice and create that special gospel vocal sound. Read more ... -
Painting Studio Weekend
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesThis is an opportunity for painters of all abilities to be guided through their own project by a highly experienced artist and tutor. The weekend offers a supportive and stimulating environment where you can learn new techniques, experiment with style and share ideas. Read more ... -
Get to Grips with Adobe Photoshop Elements
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesAfter a photo-shoot around the grounds of Farncombe Estate, the course will continue with a structured programme that will show the benefits of two important features of the Adobe software – Organiser and Edit.Read more ... -
Fusion
Listed on June 5, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesFusion – a weekend of creativity for everyone, (22 & 23 June) will bring the best of what happens at West Dean in its vibrant art and crafts College out into the open for you to enjoy. Read more ... -
Traditional Wooden Boat Building
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesGet insight into and practical experience of the construction and repair of traditional clinker and carvel craft. Learn tool sharpening, scarfing, fitting planks, riveting and steaming.Read more ... -
Basic Woodworking 2
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesLearn basic routing, wood bending and mitring by making a curved, dovetailed hardwood box. You should be practically minded with a little woodwork experience. Read more ... -
Rope Work
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesSpend two days learning rope and wire work and wire splicing techniques. If your boat needs spliced rope or wire rigging our Instructor will show you how to make what's needed.Read more ...
