Archive of Weekend Course | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 19
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An Introduction to Stained Glass
Listed on January 8, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesThis is a practical course suitable for beginners and those who wish to improve their skills. Learn to make a stained glass panel using traditional tools and materials. Students work on their own project with individual guidance from the tutor. Prepared designs are available from the tutor or bring your own.
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Eastern Influences
Listed on January 8, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesDesign and make a small project such as a wall hanging, cushion or bag, taking inspiration from Japan or Japanese textiles. A variety of machine and hand stitched techniques will be demonstrated and discussed for you to choose from to begin work on your chosen project.
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Honiton Lace
Listed on January 8, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesThis course covers basic techniques for lacemakers who are new to this classic English lace. For experienced Honiton lace makers it is an opportunity to expand skills and understanding of this lace and gain inspiration and guidance on interpretation and design development. Whatever your level, enjoy the magic of lace making!
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Wild Seas – Crashing Waves in Watercolour
Listed on January 8, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesWhat can be more emotive than wild seas crashing onto rough, rugged rocks! Really let your colours flow on this exciting weekend of watercolour wonderment. Let your senses run riot and try out some different techniques with this stimulating subject.
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Japanese Sumi-e – Traditional art form of Japanese ink painting
Listed on January 8, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesAn introduction to Sumi-e, the ancient art of creating Japanese ink pictures or Japanese brush painting. Traditionally, these paintings feature subjects from the natural world such as flowers and birds. The Japanese experience painting as a form of meditation that brings peace and harmony to the artist and the finished pieces are intended to inspire...
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Make an Occasion Hat for a Summer Event
Listed on January 8, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesThis course will help you complete your outfit for your special event: Ascot, weddings, the Derby etc! These require Occasion Hats - so find your outfit and come along to create your exclusive accessory, from start to finish. You will receive styling guidance on what suits you, along with help to complete your design. Only...
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Woodcarving
Listed on January 8, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesThese courses take learners from complete beginners to the very advanced through a carefully planned series of projects covering traditional and modern carving styles such as foliage ornament and frame or architectural mouldings, figure and animal carving in the round, lettercutting and abstract sculpture. Design skills are also included. Learners can enrol on single courses...
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Chinese Brush Painting – Mist and Waterfalls
Listed on January 8, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesThrough tutor demonstrations and one-to-one guidance, beginners will learn the basic skills of landscape painting in free hand style, painting trees, rocks, mountains and waterfalls and mist. More experienced artists will develop and expand skills in all aspects of landscape painting. You will also learn how to mount a picture in the traditional Chinese way.
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Woodcarving
Listed on January 8, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesThese courses take learners from complete beginners to the very advanced through a carefully planned series of projects covering traditional and modern carving styles such as foliage ornament and frame or architectural mouldings, figure and animal carving in the round, lettercutting and abstract sculpture. Design skills are also included. Learners can enrol on single courses...
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Making Stringed Musical Instruments
Listed on January 8, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesA workshop offering the opportunity to construct a stringed musical instrument of your choice with advice and guidance from the tutor. Projects may include guitars, lutes, mandolines, dulcimers and ukuleles. The choice of materials and construction methods will be discussed and advice will be given to complete any unfinished instruments. Please note that costs may...
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Developing New Ideas from Old Textiles
Listed on January 7, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesThe Hilton Bristol is by the junction of the M4 and M5 and close to Bristol Parkway Station. Discover how to take raw materials and textiles, and by applying a range of experimental techniques, explore the qualities and characters of fabric and paper to express your individual designs. Here is a truly unconventional...
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Bobbin Lace Making
Listed on January 7, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesA weekend residential course making beautiful lace in the heart of the Midlands. Course feels include accommodation, teak and coffee making facilities, flat screen TV, all meals and refreshments, tuition, use of workroom and on-site facilities such as free wife. Hillscourt is close to the M5 and M42 motoways and near to Longbridge train...
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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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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 ... -
Bead Needle Weaving
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesSpend a relaxing weekend making beautiful beaded jewellery with just beads and thread. Your tutor, Olive, has an ever growing selection of easy to follow patterns for you to use, with explanation diagrams as well as words.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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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 ... -
Christmas Creations Patchwork and Quilting
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesLearn new techniques as you stitch Gail’s gorgeous designs: there will be lots of projects to choose from, to suit all tastes, including three sumptuous kings, spectacular Rose Window wall quilts, doves, a poinsettia, a folded patchwork star, Bethlehem rooftops at night, and an exotic Indian embroidered bird rope.Read more ... -
Silken Soutache Braid
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesDiscover the sewn craft of Soutache Braid on a weekend residential course in 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 an en...
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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 ... -
Making Art Cloth – Textile Workshop
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesOn this experimental textile weekend you will be able to try out a range of different techniques as you design your own art cloth ready for you to make it into quilts, clothes, bags etc.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 ...
