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  1. Calligraphy: decorated letterforms
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sharon Shaw
    Gilded initials make perfect gifts for family and friends. You’ll learn painting techniques and how to apply a PVA mordant and use real leaf. You will be provided with a number of decorative alphabet templates and then taken step-by-step through the stages of drawing, painting and applying real gold to create your own illuminated decorated letterform.
    Full fee £359.00 Senior fee £287.00 Concession £233.00
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  2. Develop your jewellery design and making intensive
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Elizabeth Bone
    Fancy honing your jewellery making skills in a professional workshop with an expert tutor? If you're an intermediate to advanced jewellery maker and would like to improve your designs and push your technical skills to a higher standard, this hands on, expert led course is for you. Perfect your skills, try different techniques and discover new design approaches.
    Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £303.00 Concession £246.00
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  3. Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00
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  4. Music theory: grade 7
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Simon Rigby
    Learn more complex elements of music: figured bass, melodic and harmonic decoration, writing for instrument or voice with given accompaniment, and score analysis of harmonic and phrase structure, style, performance and directions. Break week: 26 Oct, Dec 01 until return on Jan 12.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £369.00 Concession £258.00
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  5. Lipreading and managing hearing loss: long term learners advanced
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Anita Thornton
    Are you an experienced lipreader, confident in your theory, but wishing to keep up your skills with continued practice? Suitable if you have been coming to lipreading classes for a while and want to continue to be stretched.







    This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
    Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £292.00 Concession £225.00
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  6. Full fee £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £253.00
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  7. Piano: repertoire workshop
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 17 Sep 2025 (and 8 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Shelagh Sutherland
    If you have a minimum playing standard of grade 8, come and explore the wealth of piano repertoire, concentrating on style and period. Broaden your interpretive skills and gain experience in performance practice. Break week 29th October 2025.
    Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £379.00 Concession £265.00
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  8. Piano: intermediate repertoire workshop
    Course start date:  Fri 19 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gary Preston
    If you play piano at around grade 5-6 standard, join one of these workshops to develop your playing by studying a wide range of piano repertoire, with focus on technique, textural awareness, practice and performance skills.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £258.00
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  9. Full fee £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £253.00
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  10. Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00
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  11. Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00
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  12. Experimental filmmaking: stage 2
    Course start date:  Wed 21 Jan 2026 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Monika Kita
    This practical course is designed for those who have some previous experience in film in a fine art context or for those who have attended an experimental filmmaking course before.
    During the course, you will push the boundaries of mainstream cinema and experiment with various techniques to express your artistic vision.
    Full fee £359.00 Senior fee £287.00 Concession £233.00
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  13. Music theory: grade 8
    Course start date:  Mon 23 Feb 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Simon Rigby
    Learn more complex elements of music such as writing two-part counterpoint above a given harmony, writing for



    keyboard in historical styles, writing melodies for instrument, and analysing a score (ornaments, harmonic structure,



    phrase structure, style, performance directions, use of voices and instruments). Break weeks: 30 March until return on 20 April, also bank holiday mondays 4 and 25 May 2026.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £369.00 Concession £258.00
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  14. Bookbinding: gold tooling on paper
    Course start date:  Sat 11 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Tracey Rowledge
    Learn how to develop a language with gold tooling on paper using hand finishing tools, BS Glaire and loose gold leaf. For all levels, from beginners to those with experience in gold tooling using hand finishing tools and gold leaf.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00
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  15. Jewellery: develop a collection
    Course start date:  Mon 27 Jul 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Elizabeth Bone
    Want to add another level to your jewellery making? Are you up for the challenge of creating a collection? From idea to product, discover the techniques and strategies to create 20 pieces in just 5 days on this exciting fast-paced course.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00
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