Archive of (1) January – March | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations
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Blues to Jazz
Listed on January 19, 2017 by Guitar Weekends in Featured CoursesIntonation and action set-up. Acoustic or electric. For details and Course Overviews please contact Ronnie on info@guitarweekends.co.uk or have a chat on 0844 272 4433 There is an Early Bird Offer on until midnight of the 6th ofJanuary on all residential courses of £25 discount. Vouchers are available for anyone who wants to come on a course...
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Beginners
Listed on January 19, 2017 by Guitar Weekends in Featured CoursesRaw to relative beginners. Exactly what you'd expect! For details and Course Overviews please contact Ronnie on info@guitarweekends.co.uk or have a chat on 0844 272 4433There is an Early Bird Offer on until midnight of the 6th ofJanuary on all residential courses of £25 discount. Vouchers are available for anyone who wants to come on a...
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Improvers
Listed on January 19, 2017 by Guitar Weekends in Featured CoursesFocus on note quality and practice. Builds on Strugglers. For details and Course Overviews please contact Ronnie on info@guitarweekends.co.uk or have a chat on 0844 272 4433There is an Early Bird Offer on until midnight of the 6th ofJanuary on all residential courses of £25 discount. Vouchers are available for anyone who wants to come on...
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Strugglers
Listed on January 19, 2017 by Guitar Weekends in Featured CoursesGet out of the rut! All the basics covered. For details and Course Overviews please contact Ronnie on info@guitarweekends.co.uk or have a chat on 0844 272 4433There is an Early Bird Offer on until midnight of the 6th ofJanuary on all residential courses of £25 discount. Vouchers are available for anyone who wants to come on...
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Intro to Blues
Listed on January 19, 2017 by Guitar Weekends in Featured Courses12 bar, shuffle, intros, soloing, unusual chords. For details and Course Overviews please contact Ronnie on info@guitarweekends.co.uk or have a chat on 0844 272 4433There is an Early Bird Offer on until midnight of the 6th ofJanuary on all residential courses of £25 discount. Vouchers are available for anyone who wants to come on a course...
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Maintenance
Listed on January 19, 2017 by Guitar Weekends in Featured CoursesIntonation and action set-up. Acoustic or electric. For details and Course Overviews please contact Ronnie on info@guitarweekends.co.uk or have a chat on 0844 272 4433There is an Early Bird Offer on until midnight of the 6th ofJanuary on all residential courses of £25 discount. Vouchers are available for anyone who wants to come on a course...
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Build a Boat – Initial Set-up
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesSet up building frames and construct the backbone for modern and traditional wooden boats. Produce the stem, keel, hog and transom for a small dinghy and fit the components together to form the backbone. Also covers the theory of setting up for cold moulded, strip planked and carvel builds and includes a workshop tour of...
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GRP Repairs
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesStart with the basics of working safely with polyester based glass reinforced plastic (aka GRP) and understand the functions of components (e.g. resin, catalyst, pigments) before moving on to practical hands-on activities from gel coat repairs and colour matching to larger hull repairs requiring temporary moulds and formers. Six students maximum.
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Sail Making
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesDesign, cut shapes, machine/hand sew and maintain traditional sails for anything from a small dinghy to a round-the-world yacht. Learn modern sail making techniques using a Sailrite sewing machine and hand stitching for emergency repairs and final finishing. It may be possible to make sails for yourself, contact us for details.
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Rope Work
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesLearn rope work techniques using three strand, double and single braids. Learn whipping and make grommets, back, eye and other useful splices.
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Renovation and Finishing
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesInstructed by Colin Henwood, of Henwood and Dean, master the techniques for producing a high grade paint or varnish finish; removing old coatings, preparing surfaces and applying the new finish.
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Wooden Boat Restoration
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesA five day melting pot of traditional and more modern techniques. Practical activities include tool sharpening, timber preparation, scarfing, gluing, removal and re-fitting of planks, riveting and steam bending. Time permitting you will refit internal components (e.g. thwarts, risers and knees). If you would like to bring your own boat for the group to work...
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Modern Wooden Boat Building
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesShape and fit glued clinker and cold moulded planks, practice methods of strip planking and stitch and tape boat building. Learn the basics of scarfing (lengthening planking timbers) and lamination of timber components. Understand the theory of modern methods for setting up building moulds, backbone arrangements and lining-off planks.
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Traditional Wooden Boat Building
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesGet insight into and practical experience of the construction of traditional clinker and carvel craft. Learn and practise tool sharpening, scarfing, fitting, planks, riveting and steaming. Set-up theory and lining-off planks is also covered.
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Traditional Wooden Boat Building
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesGet insight into and practical experience of the construction of traditional clinker and carvel craft. Learn and practise tool sharpening, scarfing, fitting, planks, riveting and steaming. Set-up theory and lining-off planks is also covered.
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GRP Repairs
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesStart with the basics of working safely with polyester based glass reinforced plastic (aka GRP) and understand the functions of components (e.g. resin, catalyst, pigments) before moving on to practical hands-on activities from gel coat repairs and colour matching to larger hull repairs requiring temporary moulds and formers. Six students maximum.
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Introduction to Boat Building
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesEver wondered what thwarts or cold moulding are? This ‘boat building beginners’ course looks at how different boats are shaped and why, terminology, construction methods, materials, propulsion, sails and rigs and rigging. Unusually for the Academy this is a classroom based course, but workshop walkabouts and strolls to the harbour and Cornish Pilot Gig shed...
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Bookbinding – Half-leather
Listed on December 12, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesThis course will cover the skills required to bind a hardback book with three-quarter leather binding. Some binding skills required.
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Your Money or your Life
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesExplore how unconscious assumptions about money may be stopping you from moving into the fullest expression of what you are here to do.
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How to Change the World
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesThis immersive weekend will help to identify ways to overcome the obstacles that might hold you back.
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Future Sense
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesHow can humanity evolve, and learn to work together? This weekend of collaborative enquiry will reveal ways to grow our “Whole Intelligence”
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Guitar Masterclass with Craig Ogden
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesA masterclass opportunity to study with one of the best classical guitarists of our generation.
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Aurora Wind Ensemble
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesFor the eighteenth successive year, the Aurora Ensemble returns to Hawkwood to run their popular Wind Chamber Music Course.
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Stoneware Pottery
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesExplore the nature of different clays and other materials, practising hand-building methods to create a selection of functional items or sculptural forms.
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Create a Mosaic
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesCreate your own mosaic panel working from a selection of glass, ceramic and china pieces.
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Zentangle: Meditative Drawing
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesZentangle is a meditative drawing method that allows people to slow down, relax and develop their creativity.
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How to Change the World Public Talk
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesPublic Talk with John-Paul Flintoff in conjunction with his weekend course
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Pillars of Strength
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesIn each of the salon series of four three virtues will be explored. This one begins with Devotion, Balance and Perserverance
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The Sacred Clown
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesStillness, meditation, movement, mime and improvisation in this creative introduction to The Sacred Clown
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Selfish!
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesExploring self care as an act of generosity, this is a fun-filled day, guaranteed to inspire and energise you!
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