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Pattern Ref Book
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesHere is a weekend for anyone with a love of pattern and who enjoys creating their own using a range of pens, pencils and crayons, paper and paste to embellish basic shapes and to inspire stitch. During this course you will use a variety of coloured papers, to cut and tear simple shapes with added stitch...
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Soutache
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Pastels all levels
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesIf you have always wanted to draw and paint, but are not sure where to begin, or if you have started with pastels and want to go further, this is the course for you. * Apply the purity of pastels to your drawing * Explore their richness and freshness * Discover the best colour blending techniques * Ideal for...
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Enamelling on Silver Clay
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesSilver clay is magical stuff. It is a mixture of tiny particles of pure silver mixed with a binder. * work with silver clay and enamel * create your own original jewellery * embellish your work to make it unique to you * ideal day course for all, whatever your skill level The clay binder enables you to mould the...
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Batik
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesOn this relaxing one day course, you will discover how to design and create a beautiful hard-backed book with your own piece of batik on the cover. * create a unique piece of batik * learn formal book binding * use your batik as a cover for your book * suitable for beginners and more experienced crafters You will begin...
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Batik into Book-making
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesOn this relaxing one day course, you will discover how to design and create a beautiful hard-backed book with your own piece of batik on the cover. YRead more ... -
The Magic of Silk Painting
Listed on October 16, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesOn this one day course you will have an opportunity to explore key techniques associated with Silk Painting - watercolour effects, salt patterning and gutta resist designs. Read more ... -
James VI and I with Dr David Smith
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Medieval Latin III with Dr Debby Banham
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Medicine and miracles in the Roman Empire with Dr Justin Meggitt
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John Stuart Mill and liberty with Dr Peter Holmes
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Ritual and religion in Iron Age Britain with Dr Gillian Carr
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Reading Classical Greek with Dr Janet Watson
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Music and medicine in the 19th century
Listed on February 13, 2015 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis course explores the physicality and psychology of musical depictions of sickness, health, doctors and medicine on the operatic stage. It examines notions of the body – in particular, those associated with 'female' illness, including consumption, hysteria and madness – and of the virtuoso musician as superhuman, hypnotist, or magician. Read more ... -
Writing nature: poetry in stone and bark
Listed on December 19, 2014 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesJoin us to study 20th and 21st century poetry that emerges from a philosophy of deep engagement with place, landscape and nature. The course coincides with a major exhibition of the work of poet and artist Ian Hamilton-Finlay at Cambridge gallery Kettle's Yard, and will also consider the work of Richard Long and land artists Andy Goldsworthy and David Nash.Read more ... -
Myths and rituals in religion
Listed on December 19, 2014 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesMyths and rituals create, sustain and disrupt religious and cultural systems. This course examines how religious myths and rituals evolve and affect religious and secular life. Looking at different approaches we will consider a variety of myths and rituals from different religions and cultures, including pilgrimage, food, texts and rites of passage.Read more ... -
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: re-reading a classic at 150
Listed on December 18, 2014 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesAlice's Adventures in Wonderland celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2015. Carroll's text famously ushers in a 'golden age' of children's literature, in which fantasy and imagination begin to receive as much attention as pedagogy in books for children. This course will explore the origins, development and transformation of the text across the last 150 years, and consider why Wonderland still matters as much in 2015 as it did in 1865.Read more ... -
Introduction to evolutionary psychology
Listed on December 15, 2014 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis course provides an introduction to the application of evolutionary theory to psychology. You will learn how this approach has been used to understand topics such as social behaviour, mate choice, family dynamics, language, culture and mental health.Read more ... -
Making Money from Magazine Journalism
Listed on September 6, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesThis weekend is for anyone who would like to see their name in print and earn some money at the same time. Maureen Moody’s practical workshop, covering non-fiction writing, is an inspirational introduction to magazine journalism for adults of all ages and backgrounds.Read more ... -
Making Christmas Lace
Listed on April 21, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesWhether you are a beginner wishing to unearth the joys of lace making, or you are experienced in this traditional craft, here is the course for youRead more ... -
Colour Coral Reef – creative embroidery and beadwork
Listed on April 21, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesThis weekend course takes the skills of both embroidery and beadwork and combines them to achieve a unique piece of creative textile art. Read more ... -
A Patchwork Trip around the World
Listed on April 21, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesThe decorative motifs of different countries have inspired stitchers through the ages, and this course builds on that international inspiration. Read more ... -
Encaustic Art
Listed on April 21, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesIn this one day workshop, we will look at producing vivid abstracts, fantasy pictures and landscapes. Read more ... -
Pencil Art
Listed on April 21, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesPencils are probably the most common implements used for making marks on paper, and one with which we come to grips before we have learned to write intelligibly. Read more ... -
Bobbin Lace Making
Listed on April 21, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesWhether you are a beginner wishing to unearth the joys of lace making, or you are experienced in this traditional craft, here is the course for you.Read more ... -
Textiles into Bookmaking
Listed on April 21, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesOn this relaxing one day course, you will discover how to design and create a beautiful hard-backed book with your own piece of batik on the cover.Read more ...
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