- Affinity photo: professional image editing
Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ed Gregory, Michael HardingLearn about the potential and possibilities available to you when using Affinity Photo and develop practical skill and knowledge.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Friday lates: The East India Company and the passion for chintz Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anita ChowdryExplore the story of how Indian painted and printed cottons became an important trade commodity for the Western domestic market, and the far-reaching impact of their design and manufacture.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Makers behind the lens: 1920-2020Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chantal CondronExplore the work of six influential female and non-binary photographers across a century of practice from 1920. Featuring Claude Cahun, Lee Miller, Dora Maar, Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, and Zanele Muholi, this course examines how each artist challenged convention, documented social realities, redefined the creative act of photography and the experience of being behind the lens.
Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Design your own garden Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alison WorsterExplore the exciting opportunities and challenges involved in designing your own garden. Develop your creative skills and learn to maximise the potential of your space through practical workshops, using planning and layout design techniques.
Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Jewellery making: all levels Course start date: Sat 10 Jan 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sally LeesEver wanted to turn your hand to making your own jewellery? Or done it before and would like to hone your skills with a professional tutor? From beginners to experienced jewellers, come and practise making metal jewellery to your own designs, whether you are picking up the basics of cutting, forming and texturing, or taking your designs to the next level with complex approaches such as chain-making.Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00 - Introduction to string quartets Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pauline GreeneString quartets developed new musical forms and ensured success for many composers, whilst allowing an intimate conversation with their audiences. We trace the quartets of the masters from Haydn and Mozart to Shostakovich and beyond.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00 - Collage and mixed media: experimental approaches Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ruth FranklinCollage is an exciting, accessible and creative medium. Experiment with a rich variety of materials and found images to make vibrant work experimenting with surface, form, colour and pattern, inspired by artists who make effective use of this way of working.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Textiles for beginners short course Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Renata MinoldoGet started with the basics of textiles by painting, printing and stitching fabric. Combine simple practical techniques with design work in colour, texture, pattern and composition.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Introduction to casting and mould making Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Valerie MerloBreak the mould - try your hand at the techniques of mould making and casting as practised by sculptors, prop makers and designers. Under the guidance of highly experienced industry professionals in our fully equipped sculpture studio, explore making plaster and rubber moulds. Then learn how to cast from them in plaster of Paris and cement.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00 - Screen printing studio projects Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Adam HogarthDevelop your screen-printing in this weekly taught workshop where you will be shown new techniques, from using halftones and photo processes, layering colour, stenciling and experimental techniques to printing on textiles and professional practice.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00 - Oil painting: focus on light and shade Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lindsay PickettThis oil painting course takes inspiration from the moody and luminous imagery of classic Film Noir such as ‘The Third Man’. Explore composition, tonal contrast and light transitions, using a range of different oil techniques to create visually dramatic paintings.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Business administration with digital skills: how to be organised, efficient and customer-focused using Outlook and OneNote (intermediate)Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Does the amount of data coming into your inbox and folders threaten to overwhelm you? Do you need to develop a system for managing information, tasks and meetings? MS Outlook and OneNote can be part of this system but for many people they feel part of the problem rather than the solution. This course will enable them to work for you not the other way round. You will focus on how to think about problems, solve them and what you are trying to achieve. You will work on developing an email routine that allows you to concentrate on tasks at hand and not be distracted by incoming messages. You will focus on how to create a folder system on Outlook and process using quick steps, rules, categories and colour-coding so you can keep a trace of emails, tasks and appointments. You will learn simple and efficient ways to schedule your work and use notes and task and the flagging system to keep track of your priorities. In addition you will focus on how you can integrate OneNote and Outlook to save you time.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £80.00 - Mrs. Dalloway’s Party Course start date: Sat 8 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Linda Grant2025 is the centenary of the first publication of Virgina Woolf's Mrs Dalloway - to celebrate that innovative and well-loved novel, this one-day course will look at the short stories that Woolf wrote which take place at and around Clarissa Dalloway's party, opening up a deeper way of understanding the material and psychic contours of Mrs Dalloway's world.
Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Pilates Chill Out and Relaxation Afternoon Course start date: Sat 8 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cathy NorrisTake time out to relax and de-stress by spending an afternoon performing gentle Pilates movements and learning relaxation techniques. This is taught at a gentle and enjoyable pace and is suitable for all, including complete beginners.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Spanish 2/3 Grammar through art - ¿Ser o estar? Course start date: Sat 8 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anna Riera Mora¿Ser o estar? ¿Cual es la diferencia? Come and practice the different uses of the verbs Ser and Estar through the exploration of major Spanish artwork.
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Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £32.00
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