Residential and day courses for non-professional musicians - whether your taste is for Classical, jazz, popular, world or gospel, Benslow Music has a music course to suit you. Read more ...
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Featured Courses | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 55
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Embercombe in Featured CoursesNuts, berries and seeds are abundant this time of year, as well as good supplies of greens and roots. Come and see what's available this year to forage and cook up at Embercombe.Read more ...
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Embercombe in Featured CoursesCome and stay at Embercombe in Devon for an inspiring weekend learning about 'natural beekeeping' in top-bar hivesRead more ...
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Embercombe in Featured CoursesExploring values and vision for a truly sustainable world - an experience to guide you towards a life that contributes to creating the world of your longing and also a life of fulfilment and happiness.Read more ...
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Embercombe in Featured CoursesThe Descent is a plunge into the mysterious wild. Leaving the nurturing safety of Embercombe we journey into the dream-world and walk ancient paths that reach inwards and outwards.Read more ...
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Embercombe in Featured CoursesDo you want to...push your boundaries? shape the future? get more out of life than a job? Catalyst is a leading-edge 5-day residential course for young adults aged 18 - 25.Read more ...
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Embercombe in Featured CoursesA 5 day residential programme to undertake a voyage of personal exploration and step towards your true authentic self and towards the worldRead more ...
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Durhamhill in Featured CoursesA three day residential photographic course, located in the beautiful countryside of south west Scotland.Read more ...
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Durhamhill in Featured CoursesThis two day course will be an introduction to working with willow. Students will learn all the basic techniques required to make a traditional basket.Read more ...
Listed on May 25, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesA weekend residential course in the heart of the East Anglian countryside.Read more ...
Listed on May 25, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesGain a feel for the whole subject of garden design on this one day course, just in time for spring and summer. Read more ...
Listed on May 25, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesOver this weekend you will explore the journey from mark making and printing through creating a design for a stitched panel in relief to dimensional stitching. Read more ...
Listed on May 25, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesHave great fun constructing small freeform textured crochet patches and individual elements - these can then be sewn to a base fabric to start making your own unique wall hanging, or use them to decorate a small bag.Read more ...
Listed on May 24, 2013 by Dillington in Featured CoursesThis course provides a wonderful opportunity to maintain or improve your knowledge of Spanish in the tranquil surroundings of Dillington with the support of a knowledgeable and enthusiastic tutor. Read more ...
Listed on May 24, 2013 by Dillington in Featured CoursesThis course is set out for the learner to produce a true representation of a wildlife subject from reference provided or from your own pictures using the medium of Gouache, an opaque watercolour that is ideal and more suited for this course over watercolour.Read more ...
Listed on May 24, 2013 by Dillington in A new website, Featured CoursesDillington, with the gardens looking their best, and the long summer evenings provide a perfect setting for an entirely new idea – our very own summer music festival. Put together by pianist Ashley Wass, he will be joined by the Solstice String Quartet, Mathew Trusler (violin), Mei Yi Foo (piano) and others. Read more ...
Listed on May 24, 2013 by Dillington in A new website, Featured CoursesWith reference to such works of art and others like the Bayeux Tapestry and the illuminated manuscripts, we will highlight the major staging posts on a cultural journey through medieval England.Read more ...
Listed on May 22, 2013 by Benslow in A new website, Featured CoursesAs well as looking at great works by composers such as Handel, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, and Wagner and examining that delicate relationship between words and music, we’ll take works by lesser known composers and talk about opera’s changing position within societies past and present.Read more ...
Listed on May 22, 2013 by Benslow in A new website, Featured CoursesFrom Elgar to MacMillan and beyond the last century has seen an explosion of British creative talent. One composer of special significance to this explosion was Benjamin Britten, who was born one hundred years ago.Read more ...
Listed on May 22, 2013 by Benslow in A new website, Featured CoursesThis course is ideal for those who have perhaps enjoyed listening to Classic fM or watching the Last Night of the Proms and would like to know more about classical music but don’t know where to begin.Read more ...
Listed on May 22, 2013 by Benslow in A new website, Featured CoursesThis new International Summer School for cellists is led by William Bruce, recitalist, concerto soloist and long-serving member of the orchestra of English National Opera.Read more ...
Listed on May 10, 2013 by Benslow in A new website, Featured CoursesA new special music weekend in Hitchin where groups large or small or individuals and couples who want a short break with the possibility - but not the obligation - of taking advantage of some of our musical facilities are able to come to Benslow Music for a favourable rate.Read more ...
