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  1. Learn model animation
    Course start date:  Tue 30 May 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Stephanie Griffiths
    Traditional model animation is more popular than ever. On this short practical course you will learn how to create and animate engaging and effective puppets and create an exciting short animated sequence for your showreel.
    Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00
  2. Ways into abstract painting
    Ways into abstract painting
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 30 May 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rebecca Allen
    Encounter different approaches to making abstract paintings while developing your skills in using a variety of painting materials. With reference to the work of abstract artists explore the visual language common to both representation and abstraction, eg. colour, composition, tone and paint application.
    Full fee £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £207.00
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  3. Explore your creativity
    Explore your creativity
    Course start date:  Tue 30 May 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ro Sylvester
    Tap into your artistic talents through a series of fun practical exercises that will help you start drawing, painting, looking at art, responding to the world around you and working with your imagination and ideas.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  4. Textiles: screen printing and surface effects
    Course start date:  Tue 30 May 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rosie James
    Explore silkscreen printing on fabric using paper stencils. Develop tactile printed, coloured overlays through using opaque and transparent colour and surface finishes such as foiling, flocking and relief effects specially for textiles.
    Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00
  5. Printmaking workshop: focus on colour
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 30 May 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Kath Castillo
    A course for intermediate and experienced printmakers wanting to build on previous experience and experiment with process to consolidate and hone technical skills. The focus is on colour application, advanced intaglio processes, realising personal projects and the production of high quality prints.
    Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00
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  6. Introduction to BSL
    Introduction to BSL
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 16 May 2023 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Pat Parke
    Interested in learning British Sign Language? Learn some basic vocabulary and grammar, and decide if you want to progress to the level 1 qualification.
    Full fee £219.00
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  7. German beginners: module 1
    Course start date:  Tue 25 Apr 2023 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Barbara Pöllet
    The course aims to enable students to begin to communicate with some fluency in a range of everyday situations. The emphasis is on the practical use of German and the development of your speaking and listening skills. Based on chapters 1-4 of Willkommen (Hodder Arnold).
    Full fee £199.00
  8. Directing theatre: improvers
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 6 Jun 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Simon Bowen
    Broaden your skills and explore your director's voice in greater depth. Work on various modern and classical pieces, and select your own material.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00
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  9. Drawing and painting from the imagination
    VH340
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Tue 6 Jun 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Clare Barton-Harvey
    Explore the role of the imagination in painting and drawing. Develop a toolkit of methods for stimulating, sustaining and enriching your imaginative engagement through a series of guided practical painting and drawing exercises.



    The aim of the course is to investigate the role of the imagination in drawing and painting and to explore new ways of seeing and experiencing the world around us.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
  10. Painting 2
    VM519
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 4 May 2023 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Tony Hull
    Covers themes similar to those in 'Painting course 1', but in more depth and with a stronger emphasis on experimentation. Suitable if you already have some experience in painting. Basic materials included.
    Full fee £389.00
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  11. French beginners: module 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 27 Apr 2023 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Learn French on this lively interactive course for beginners. The course will be taught in French, with an emphasis on developing your speaking and listening skills.
    Full fee £189.00
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  12. Italian beginners: module 1
    Italian beginners: module 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 27 Apr 2023 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Learn to speak Italian on this communicative course for beginners, with the emphasis on the practical use of Italian and the development of your speaking and listening skills. Based on Nuovo Espresso 1 (Alma Edizioni, Italian version). Once you've completed this course you can continue with 'Italian beginners: module 2.'.
    Full fee £199.00
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  13. Modern France: from de Gaulle and the Resistance to Macron
    Course start date:  Tue 20 Jun 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sebastien Ardouin
    (Re)discover France's complex politics during the Fourth and Fifth Republics, and the social challenges and tensions the country faced both at times of growth and modernisation and of crisis and doubts.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £70.00
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  14. Yoga: intermediate
    Course start date:  Fri 21 Apr 2023 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Bram Williams
    Would you like to build on and extend your existing yoga practice? Work in depth on more challenging postures, and increase your stamina, flexibility, and concentration. Suitable for those with some experience of yoga.
    Full fee £189.00
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  15. Symbols and stories: saints in art
    A partially nude man tied to a column, his body shot with arrows
    Course start date:  Tue 20 Jun 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Elizabeth Eyres
    Saints are represented in masterpieces of Christian art from 1200 to the present – learn how to recognise them, decode their meanings and iconography and enhance your understanding of this aspect of art history. This course includes a gallery visit.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00
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