Archive of Weekend Course | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 16
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Cambridge wives: influential women in Victorian Cambridge
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesCambridge society changed dramatically after 1882 when College Fellows were allowed to be married. The group of wives formed a new society and became pioneers in their own right in education, mental health care and the suffrage movement. Their achievements show how the Victorian idea of a wife as an 'angel in the house' was...
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Reading Classical Greek: Intermediate
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis weekend course is part of a series designed for those who want to learn Classical Greek. Over a series of weekends, Beginner students are introduced to the basic elements of grammar through reading passages adapted from ancient Greek authors. At Intermediate level, students move onto collections of passages selected from major Greek writers, and...
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Reading Classical Greek: Continuing Beginners (Students who began in September 2014 – Group D)
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis weekend course is part of a series designed for those who want to learn Classical Greek. Over a series of weekends, Beginner students are introduced to the basic elements of grammar through reading passages adapted from ancient Greek authors. At Intermediate level, students move onto collections of passages selected from major Greek writers, and...
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Reading Classical Greek: Continuing Beginners (Students who began in September 2015 – Group E)
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis weekend course is part of a series designed for those who want to learn Classical Greek. Over a series of weekends, Beginner students are introduced to the basic elements of grammar through reading passages adapted from ancient Greek authors. At Intermediate level, students move onto collections of passages selected from major Greek writers, and...
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Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesSocrates, Plato and Aristotle are the greatest of ancient Greek philosophers. This series of seminars is an introduction to some of the key elements in their thought.
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Virginia Woolf: Jacob’s Room and The Waves
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesJacob's Room was the novel in which Woolf began to find her distinctive voice; The Waves is arguably her finest achievement. We shall examine both novels, setting them in context. This course will be of particular interest to those who attended our 2013 course on Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, or to anyone with...
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Reading Classical Greek: Advanced
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis weekend course is part of a series designed for those who want to learn Classical Greek. Over a series of weekends, Beginner students are introduced to the basic elements of grammar through reading passages adapted from ancient Greek authors. At Intermediate level, students move onto collections of passages selected from major Greek writers, and...
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The Renaissance portrait, 1450-1600
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesDuring the Renaissance society became more self-imaging, resulting in the establishment of the various formats and iconography associated with portraiture even today. We will examine how status, individuality and perception of self are portrayed through the work of both Italian and Northern artists including Leonardo, Titian, Raphael, Dürer and Holbein.
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Early Christian Rome: art and history
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis course will trace the development of Christian Rome as a major artistic and religious centre from Constantine (AD 306-337) to the time of Pope Gregory the Great (590-604), looking at the material evidence of churches, sculptures and mosaics, but also at the surviving historical evidence.
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Churches and chapels of Cambridge
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesCambridge is rich in church and chapel architecture and this course is ideal for anyone who is interested in exploring churches, or who wishes to know more about the history and evolution of Cambridge through a detailed study of its churches. We will explore college chapels and town churches as we investigate their history and...
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Justice and international development
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesAccounts of exploitation, abuses of human rights and freedoms as well as unnecessary deprivation reach the media with increasing frequency. This course will consider the efforts of international development organisations and the effectiveness of international legal agreements in giving the world's most deprived a change to challenge injustices.
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Paper Marbling
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesAn introduction to paper marbling.
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Linocut Printmaking
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesImprovers' linocut printmaking.
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Exploring the Second Half of Life Through Mindfulness
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured Courses, Fitness & Wellbeing, Health & Beauty, Lifelong learningA 3-day retreat for women to embrace the potential of the second half of life, teaching mindfulness and meditation techniques.
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Bookbinding
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesSimple quarter leather bookbinding.
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Letterpress Printing
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesAn introduction to letterpress printing.
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Paper Marbling
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesAn introduction to paper marbling.
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Mindfulness & Meditation
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesAn introduction to mindfulness & meditation.
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Painting Plein Air
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesLearn to paint outside with an easel
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Flower Painting
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesA beginner’s course for painting flowers in watercolour.
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Bookbinding
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesCased bookbinding – Improvers.
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Letterpress Printing
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesAn introduction to letterpress printing.
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Bookbinding
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesAn introduction to cased bookbinding.
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Letterpress Printing
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesAn introduction to letterpress printing.
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Bookbinding
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesGerman fine paper bookbinding.
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Letterpress Printing
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesAn introduction to letterpress printing.
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The Four Seasons in Music and Painting
Listed on January 14, 2016 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesOur weekend will explore the inspiration painters and composers have drawn from the seasons of the year. The featured artists will include Botticelli, Breughel the Elder, Monet, Turner and Friedrich, while there will be music by Vivaldi, Haydn, Delius, Tchaikovsky and others. Abingworth Hall occupies a country estate that dates back some...
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Composers in Exile
Listed on January 14, 2016 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesThe weekend will explore a wide variety of music, all of it written by composers who for various reasons were living far from their homelands. Among the composers to be featured are Handel, Stravinsky, Korngold, Rachmaninov, Chopin and Bartók. Sheafhayne Manor is a Grade II listed Elizabethan manor house, commanding wonderful views across the East Devon...
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Othello & Otello
Listed on January 14, 2016 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesAn opportunity to explore in detail Othello (Otello), one of the most famous of all dramas. We will discuss both Shakespeare’s play and Verdi’s opera, with illustrations on DVD with large screen. Bartley Lodge is a splendid Grade II listed country house hotel set in the heart of the New Forest, in eight acres of grounds. The facilities are...
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Design and Make Amigurumi – Crochet Toys
Listed on January 11, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesIf you have ever wondered what amigurumi are all about, join us to explore the different shapes and techniques to design and make your very own bundle of cuteness! You will only need to know how to make a chain, double crochet and slip stitch.
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