Archive of (4) October - December | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 3
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Bread Making
Listed on July 6, 2013 by Monkton Wyld Court in Featured CoursesMonkton Wyld Court's Victorian gothic setting and outdoor wood fired clay oven provide an inspiring background for learning traditional bread-making and baking skills. Suitable for BeginnersRead more ... -
Leather Belt Making using traditional tools and techniques
Listed on July 6, 2013 by Monkton Wyld Court in Featured CoursesYou will cover a selection of basic leather working skills using traditional tools as well as working with Oak Bark tanned Bridle Butt hides from the tannery in Colyton. You will hand cut the straps for your belt, edge, bevel, dye and burnish it. As well as riveting, skiving and fitting. Read more ... -
Northern College Study Breaks: Pastel Techiques
Listed on July 5, 2013 by Northern College in UncategorisedAn opportunity to learn and practice how to paint a landscape using the versatile medium of pastel . We will be looking at a range of techniques and applying them to enhance picture development. Will appeal to all levels of expertise.Read more ... -
Brahms through the Looking Glass – with Julian Williamson
Listed on July 5, 2013 by Northern College in UncategorisedA look at the many aspects of Brahms’s life and music as seen and heard by the many interesting people with whom he came into contact - his life and music through the eyes and ears of his contemporaries.Read more ... -
Making Music Together – An Improvisation Weekend
Listed on July 5, 2013 by Alston Hall in Featured CoursesAn excellent course for those who wish to develop their skills as a performer, ensemble player, composer or workshop leader… or those who simply wish to enjoy making music in the company of like minded people! Read more ... -
Real Lancashire Cookery for Real Lancashire Day!
Listed on July 5, 2013 by Alston Hall in A new website, Featured CoursesWhy not spend Real Lancashire day at Alston Hall as Bill prepares and demonstrates a range of Lancashire recipes using locally sourced ingredients. Please note this session includes coffee and afternoon tea only as you will taste Bill’s food throughout the day. Read more ... -
Painting Holiday at Hope Cove
Listed on July 4, 2013 by Penny Wilton in Featured CoursesStaying at The Cottage Hotel, painting tuition £30 per day. Come for a day or the whole course. You can bring your own materials or they can be supplied. You can also have a go at mosaics with another tutor who is joining me teaching for this course. Read more ... -
Life-Coaching Retreat with Ali Soleil
Listed on July 1, 2013 by Chateau Life Courses in Featured CoursesWhen was the last time you gave yourself permission to have some time out? Time away from the demands of everyday life and give yourself some to time to focus on ‘you’?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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Creative Writing Course
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Durhamhill in Featured Courses Whether you need help to get started, or to edit and develop your work, or simply to get new ideas and inspiration, this could be the course for youRead more ... -
The Czech Tradition: Symphony and Symphonic Poem
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesThe Czech tradition is one of the most significant in the whole of Western music. The national style which developed during the 19th century and continued during the 20th has contributed much fine music by many composers, and remains central to the repertoire of musicians the world over.Read more ... -
The Music of Haydn (with the Brodowski String Quartet)
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesHaydn is the composer who more than any other epitomizes the aims and achievements of the Classical era. Our weekend will conclude with a performance of Haydn’s final string quartet by one of Britain’s leading ensembles, the Brodowski String Quartet.Read more ... -
Wagner: Lohengrin
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesOur conference will consider the development of Wagner’s career and in particular his opera Lohengrin. We will discuss the relationship between music, characterisation and drama, with illustrations on excellent hi-fi equipment including DVD with large screen.Read more ... -
Bliss & Walton: Two Masters of English Music (with Andrew Burn)
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesOur weekend will explore the lives and music of two of the greatest among English composers, Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) and Sir William Walton (1902-1983). Read more ... -
Creative Retreat
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Chateau Life Courses in Featured CoursesDesign your own creative escape and stay anything from 3 days to 2 weeks. Read more ... -
Learn to play Jazz Guitar
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Guitar Weekends in Featured CoursesThis course is an introduction to playing jazz guitar for those who either want to just get started in jazz guitar, and don't know how, or have already tried but have become frustrated in making headway. Read more ... -
Blues I
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Guitar Weekends in Featured CoursesA great holiday break where you will join other like-minded players for an excellent social and informative weekend.Read more ... -
Acornucopia – all about acorns
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Embercombe in Featured CoursesOn this day we’ll explore a few techniques for gathering, processing and cooking whilst also deepening our relationship with the extraordinary, ordinary Oak.Read more ... -
Wild fermentation – sourdough baking and vegetable preservation
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Embercombe in Featured CoursesAn experiential workshop focussing on the skills needed to do-it-yourself, including explanation and discussion of the nutritional benefits of the fermentation process.Read more ... -
Eat the hedgerow – Autumn sessions
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 ... -
Photography
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 ... -
Willow Weaving
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 ... -
From Print to Stitch
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 ... -
A Crash Course in Opera
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 ...
