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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Listed on June 18, 2013 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesFelt is the first fabric produced by humans and dates back to at least 700 BC. During this complete introduction to hand made felt we will explore both wet and dry techniques to produce flat felt, felt purses and scarves and 3D figures and embellishments using colourful Merino woolRead more ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesHands-on courses for professionals, amateurs or purely for pleasure... Design, cut shapes, machine/hand sew and maintain traditional sails for anything from a small dinghy to a round-the-world yacht. Read more ...
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Dillington in A new website, Featured CoursesShakespeare’s comedies are conventionally thought of as being romances – which they are – but they were also meant to amuse his audiences. Sometimes he did this by inserting a comic scene. Read more ...
Listed on May 30, 2013 by Northern College in UncategorisedThemes span distinct locations across three continents and we will look at how social mores and patterns of behaviour influence the way each novel is structured. 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 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 ...
