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- Mixed media and digital printmaking
Course start date: Sat 11 Oct 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje BlokThis course introduces you to new ways of combining printmaking with creative thinking by using multiple printmaking techniques and processes, layering them to produce compositions that can be made into artworks to take away with you.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Handmade printmaking weekend Course start date: Sat 11 Jul 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rosey PrinceLearn some exciting, low tech printmaking techniques to equip you with skills so you can easily make prints at home without the use of specialist equipment.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - German beginners: an introduction Course start date: Sat 1 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Heiner SchenkeThe course aims to enable students to begin to communicate with some fluency in a range of everyday situations. This is the first part of the German beginners: module 1 course to allow you to join any beginners: module 1 courses straight afterwards ( for a discounted fee). The emphasis is on the practical use of German and the development of your speaking and listening skills.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Screen acting: intensiveCourse start date: Sat 22 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gary GrantThis is a practical and intensive weekend course. Working in a friendly and supportive atmosphere, you'll explore and develop the key skills required for working on camera.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £153.00 - Spanish festive holiday kitCourse start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Adriana Itriago GavidiaMake the most of your holidays in a Spanish speaking country with this short, intensive course. This Holiday Kit will provide you with all the language you need to communicate in the most common holiday situations & have a friendly chat with the locals! This course is ideal for complete beginners.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00
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