Archive of 2016 | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 26
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Mountmellick – an Irish ‘White of White’ embroidery technique
Listed on January 7, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesA two-day residential course to develop your hand-stitchery skills in a quality hotel at Bristol. Your course starts with Friday dinner at 7 pm and runs through to Sunday afternoon tea, but you can check in from 3 pm and take advantage of the hotel’s facilities before you meet your fellow students. Fees include...
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Drawing with the sewing machine needle
Listed on January 7, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesA two-day residential course to develop your hand-stitchery skills in a quality hotel at Bristol. Your course starts with Friday dinner at 7 pm and runs through to Sunday afternoon tea, but you can check in from 3 pm and take advantage of the hotel’s facilities before you meet your fellow students. Fees include...
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Bead Needle Weaving
Listed on January 7, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesSet in 55 rolling acres of countryside, Theobalds Park is just a few minutes from the M25 and 20 minutes by fast train from London Liverpool Street. Course fees single occupancy en suite bedroom with TV, free wifi and tea/coffee making facilities. Your course starts with supper on Friday evening and a brief...
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Traditional Wooden Boat Building
Listed on October 28, 2015 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. The theory of set-up and lining-off planks is also covered. If time permits, you will fit rubbing strips and knees.Read more ... -
Introduction to Boat Building
Listed on October 28, 2015 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesEver wondered what thwarts or cold moulding are? This ‘boat 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 short strolls to the harbour and Cornish Pilot Gig shed to look at boats mean legs will be stretched regularly.Read more ... -
Modern Wooden Boat Building
Listed on October 28, 2015 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesShape and fit glued clinker and cold moulded planks, practice 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.Read more ... -
Wooden Boat Restoration
Listed on October 28, 2015 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 clinker planking, riveting and steam bending. Time permitting you will also refit internal components such as thwarts, risers and knees. Courses are suitable for complete beginners as well as experienced boat builders wishing to add or hone a particular skill. Well behaved dogs are welcome too. For more information please contact us. We are always happy to discuss which course is right for you. Please contact Janine Cashin on 01297 445545 or email office@boatbuildingacademy.com. Read more ... -
GRP Repairs
Listed on October 26, 2015 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesThis four day course starts with basic information about working safely with polyester based glass reinforced plastic (aka GRP) and understanding the functions of components (e.g. resin, catalyst and pigments) Read more ... -
Basic Woodworking 1
Listed on October 26, 2015 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesAn intensive woodworking course suitable for confident beginners as well as those with a little (perhaps school day) experience.Read more ... -
Bobbin Lace Making
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesAlison Winn’s bobbin lace making courses are ideal whether you are a beginner or experienced lace maker.Read more ... -
Jacobean Tree of Life – Crewel Work Embroidery
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesA weekend residential course on 8 – 10 April 2016 on traditional embroidery in the heart of the Midlands.Read more ... -
Calligraphy with Gaynor Goffe
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesA two-day calligraphy course in a quality hotel in Bristol 20-22 May 2016.Read more ... -
Bobbin Lace Making
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesA two-day course making beautiful lace in a quality hotel in the Midlands on 8 – 10 April 2016.Read more ... -
Impressionist Collage and Stitch Textile course
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesA weekend residential course on machine and hand embroidery in a three star hotel in Hertfordshire. Set in 55 rolling acres of countryside, Theobalds Park is just a few minutes from the M25 and 20 minutes by fast train from London Liverpool Street. Course fees single occupancy en suite bedroom with TV, free wifi...
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Discover the Joys of Playing the Ukulele
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesWhether you are a beginner or an improver on the ukulele, this workshop weekend is for you.Read more ... -
Bead Needle Weaving
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesWhether new to beading or more experienced, you will quickly be able to complete a first piece of jewellery before moving on to something more complex.Read more ... -
Operas in Dresden
Listed on October 15, 2015 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesArts in Residence in Dresden 30th April – 4th May 2016 Hindemith: Mathis der Maler Puccini: Tosca Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro The trip includes: • Return flights from Heathrow and airport transfers in Germany • centrally located hotel • 4 Star **** Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe on B&B basis • Guided city tour • Gala group dinner on the first evening • Top category...
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TCHAIKOVSKY’S LAST YEARS
Listed on October 15, 2015 by Arts in Residence in Featured Courses Tchaikovsky was at the height of his powers, aged just fifty-three, when he died in the autumn of 1893. His Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique', which he described as 'the best thing I have ever done', had been triumphantly received just a few days before his death, in what can only be described as 'suspicious circumstances'.Read more ... -
SHOSTAKOVICH: a composer for our times
Listed on October 15, 2015 by Arts in Residence in Featured Courseswith Terry Barfoot, and a concert by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra We will explore the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, featuring some of his best loved works while exploring some less famous but equally rewarding compositions. Read more ... -
Prokofiev and the Ballet
Listed on October 15, 2015 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesSergei Prokofiev composed the music for nine ballets, across a period of nearly forty years. Our weekend will explore his remarkable career and his various collaborations with choreographers and designers.Read more ... -
JANÁČEK
Listed on October 15, 2015 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesJanáček is one of the great composers of the 20th century, but he was already aged 46 when that century began. The most distinctively Czech of the Czech nationalist composers, he owes less than Smetana and Dvořák to Western European models, and was a provincial musician for most of his life.Read more ... -
Haydn and the Classical Symphony
Listed on October 15, 2015 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesHaydn is the composer who more than any other epitomises the aims and achievements of the Classical era. We will explore the range and nature of his compositions by reference to a number of symphonies from across the whole span of his career.Read more ... -
Beethoven and the Archduke Rudolph
Listed on October 15, 2015 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesBeethoven’s wide-ranging list of compositions offers endless opportunities for discovery. Our weekend will feature a variety of music written for or dedicated to his favourite patron, the Archduke Rudolph, including concertos, chamber music, piano sonatas and the great Missa Solemnis.Read more ... -
Furniture Making
Listed on June 11, 2014 by Boat Building Academy in Featured Coursesmake one of three pieces (chair, side table or wine table). You should be practically minded with some woodworking experience in order to join this course. Fee includes materials. Read more ... -
Basic Woodworking 1
Listed on June 11, 2014 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesProduce basic joints including dovetails and framing joints, lengthening and widening joints. An intensive course suitable for beginners as well as those with a little (perhaps school day) experience.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 ... -
Wooden Boat Restoration
Listed on June 5, 2013 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 clinker planking, riveting and steam bending.Read more ... -
Basic Woodworking 1
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesProduce basic joints including dovetails and framing joints, lengthening and widening joints. An intensive course suitable for confident beginners as well as those with a little (perhaps school day) experience. Read more ...
