Archive of East | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 2

  • Ukulele for Beginners

    Listed on April 21, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    Can’t read music? Never played before? Failed with other instruments? If you answer ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this course is aimed at you, because it makes the ukulele easily accessible to complete beginners who need a quick fix to get going without a long hard slog to success.

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  • Russian Revolutions: the History from Tsars to Communism

    Listed on April 21, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    Over this weekend you will explore how and why the Russia of 1855 transformed from a monarchical autocracy with hereditary autocratic tsars, to the communist superpower of post the Second World War.

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  • Bead Needle Weaving

    Listed on April 20, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    Spend 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.

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  • Bead Needle Weaving

    Listed on April 14, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    Spend 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.

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  • Unravelling the Irish ‘Troubles’

    Listed on December 10, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    This weekend history course unearths just what a muddle various politicians and religious leaders have created in their wish to reconcile the diverse views, often held passionately, as to whether Ulster should remain within the United Kingdom or be unified with the south

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  • Make an Embroidered Panel or Art Quilt (weekend residential course)

    Listed on December 7, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    Discover how to create a work of art in a weekend in the heart of the Suffolk countryside - a course tutored by Annette Morgan organised by Anglia Leisure Learning.

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  • Pastels and charcoal for absolute beginners

    Listed on December 3, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    If you have always wanted to draw and paint, but are not sure where to begin, this is the course for you. Discover the charm and freshness of pastels, their purity of colour and their immediate response when applied to paper.

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  • Ukulele for Beginners with Zachary Taylor

    Listed on December 1, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    Can’t read music? Never played before? Failed with other instruments? If you answer ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this course is aimed at you, because it makes the ukulele easily accessible to complete beginners who need a quick fix to get going without a long hard slog to success.

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  • Getting to grips with Patchwork

    Getting to grips with Patchwork

    Listed on September 12, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    A weekend residential course on a wide range of patchwork techniques - with Liza Jones at Belstead Brook Hotel, Ipswich

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  • Drawing with the sewing machine needle

    Drawing with the sewing machine needle

    Listed on May 25, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    A weekend residential course in the heart of the East Anglian countryside.

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  • An Introduction to Garden Design

    Listed on May 25, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    Gain a feel for the whole subject of garden design on this one day course, just in time for spring and summer.

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  • From Print to Stitch

    From Print to Stitch

    Listed on May 25, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    Over 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.

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  • Hooked on Crochet

    Hooked on Crochet

    Listed on May 25, 2013 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses

    Have great fun constructing small freeform textured crochet patches and individual elements - these can then be sewn to a base fabric to start making your own unique wall hanging, or use them to decorate a small bag.

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