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  1. Explore: Gel plate printing
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 23 Nov 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    This one-day course is an introduction to Gel Plate Printing and will explore various techniques to mark-making and image creation. You will learn how this print technique can be used within your own Illustration and Graphic Design projects.

    Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00
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  2. Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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  3. Friday lates: Cook must fall! Portraits of Captain James Cook, new and old
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 28 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Ben Pollitt
    Explore the portrayal of Captain James Cook from c. 1770 to the present day. Understand images of Cook provide us with a fascinating platform to think about the complicated relationships that have emerged out of British Empire and what used to be thought of as its imperial possessions.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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  4. Japanese through Origami
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 29 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rie Tsuruta-Barratt
    Come and learn origami, the Japanese art of folding paper into a sculpture without using glue or scissors.



    Origami allows you to create your own piece of art anytime, anywhere even in a busy schedule. Ideal if you want to create personalised cards for Christmas.



    This is a relaxing Saturday morning course, so time to be hands on! The instructions will be given in Japanese and English.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £19.00
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  5. Study day: Rothko, Pollock and Abstract Expressionism
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 29 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rachel Sanders
    Explore the Abstract Expressionist movement, focusing on Pollock and Rothko as its key examples, considering



    issues such as the movement’s social and political context, artistic influences, and stylistic progress.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  6. Masters of cinema: Wes Anderson
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 29 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Graham Rinaldi
    “I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach but in fact, this is what I like to do. It’s sort of like my handwriting as a movie director.” Explore the signature style and adventurous cinema of Wes Anderson from coming of age films through stop motion animation to comedy dramas.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  7. Non-elite women in Ancient Egypt
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 29 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rosalind Janssen
    Famed Victorian novelist and travel writer, skilled artist, intrepid and renowned Egyptologist. No wonder that London born Amelia Blanford Edwards (1831-1892) was dubbed the ‘Queen of Egyptology’ by her American fans. Our concentration is on her legacy to London, and we end our day by visiting one of her enduring foundations in the capital: UCL’s Petrie Museum.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  8. Borderlines of Madness in 20th century Fiction
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 29 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sarah Wise
    We will explore various themes related to ‘insanity’ and altered states of consciousness by examining a number of 19th-century works of fiction. Novelists and poets often had the greatest insights into the workings of the mind, and many Victorian psychiatrists cited works of fiction in their case studies. Among the authors we will cover are Charlotte Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Gogol, Herman Melville and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  9. Welsh pronunciation workshop
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 29 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Jack Pulman-Slater
    Understand how to produce the sounds of Welsh with increased accuracy, confidence and intelligibility on this practical and popular online course.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
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  10. The music of Brazil: from samba through bossa nova
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 29 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Claudia Cerbino
    Discover the rich cultural and geographical diversity which have influenced Brazilian popular music and learn about the wide variety of Brazil's musical styles both past and present.In English with some Portuguese.
    Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00
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  11. Introduction to diamonds
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 29 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Judith Crowe, Derek Jhinnoo

    Gypsy setting, often called flush setting is a technique to set a small round and brilliant cut faceted stone on a metal surface. On this course you will be introduced to the principles and applications of this versatile technique, including making your own bespoke setting tools.

    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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