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Art Practical: Landscape Painting for Beginners and Improvers
This course will focus on working from the landscape to make original works of art. It will explore creative approaches and different ways of working to create paintings and develop your skills in landscape painting.
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Dates:Wed 25/09/2024 -
Wed 02/07/2025Times:2:30pm - 4:30pmDuration:34 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Frank FerrieCourse code:Q00009798How you'll learn:OnlineStatus:Waiting listFee rangeFree to £251.60
Textiles and Fashion: Introduction to Machine Sewing
An introduction to machine sewing for beginners. Learn how to use a sewing machine for a variety of projects. Understand sewing vocabulary, basic sewing techniques, types of stitches. Understand the function of bobbin in machine sewing for even smooth stitching. Troubleshoot problems as they occur.
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Dates:Wed 25/09/2024 -
Wed 04/12/2024Times:10:30am - 12:30pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Kauser NabeelCourse code:Q00010814How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £74.00
Creative Writing: Writing Inspired By Memory
The purpose of this course is to aid you in finding the confidence and inspiration to apply genuine method in gathering memories into writing, using a fun, friendly and structured approach.
Over the duration of the course, we will discuss life experiences and use different methods of writing to get them down on paper. Writing can be therapeutic and many find it useful when dealing with feelings of stress or unease.
Located in a relaxed and friendly environment, this course is a great excuse to get out of the house and socialise with others.
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Dates:Thu 26/09/2024 -
Thu 24/10/2024Location:Stephen Joseph Theatre (Scarborough)
Westborough
Scarborough
YO11 1JWCourse code:Q00010285How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £42.00
Art Practical: Express Yourself with Creative Art
Join us to unleash your creativity and develop your skills in mediums of your choice to respond to the projects. This course will give you the opportunity to explore a range of themes and ideas which will inspire creative responses using a range of mediums to suit subject and preference. Join us to be inspired & creative. Learners will develop and share ideas within the sessions. Whatever your creative direction this course is designed to inspire and guide you to develop your creative confidence. Discover how the enjoyment of creative art can be creatively enjoyable and beneficial for well-being.
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Dates:Thu 26/09/2024 -
Thu 05/12/2024Times:1:30pm - 3:30pmDuration:11 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Rachel Holland-HargreavesCourse code:Q00009776How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £74.00
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Duration:12 monthsFee:£15
Creative Writing: Creating and Developing Characters
Practice techniques for creating short stories, true or untrue. We'll apply the principles of short fiction to our writing, with the focus this term on creating and developing character. There will be writing exercises, discussions, an optional weekly homework task and feedback. Guidance on feedback techniques will be provided. The course content has flexibility, and will be adapted to suit the needs of the group. Suitable for improvers.
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Dates:Thu 26/09/2024 -
Thu 05/12/2024Times:7:00pm - 9:00pmDuration:11 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Catherine HumphrisCourse code:Q00009200How you'll learn:OnlineStatus:Waiting listFee rangeFree to £74.00
History: Discovering Victorian Nottingham
During Victorian times Nottingham was transformed from an elegant market town into a major industrial City. Industries like hosiery and Lace needed grand warehouses and offices, streets filled up the central parishes and countless houses soon spread beyond the traditional town boundary. This course will explore this evolution from town to City, discover why and how the urban landscape began to change, consider contrasting communities, including Narrow Marsh and the Park Estate and will pause to highlight characters like the ‘firebrand orator’ Feargus O’Connor who could be assured to rouse the crowds over justice and the right to vote.
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Dates:Thu 26/09/2024 -
Thu 17/10/2024Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:4 sessionsLocation:Nottingham Mechanics (Nottingham)
3 North Sherwood Street
Nottingham
NG1 4EZTutor:Christopher WeirCourse code:Q00016177How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £33.60
History: History: Russia from Stalin to the Collapse of the Soviet Union
It is sometimes said that Lenin drove the Russian
revolution into a cul-de-sac and Stalin then accelerated
into the wall at the far end.
The course will examine the economic, political and
social changes undertaken by Stalin and enforced by the
Great Terror.
We will then consider how far this modernisation of the
economy enabled the USSR to withstand the Nazi
onslaught from 1941 and why the Soviet Union seemed
unreformable under Stalin’s successors.
We will conclude by looking at Gorbachev’s almost total
failure to achieve the objectives he identified and why,
despite that, he was one of the most laudable leaders of
a troubled century in European affairs
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Dates:Thu 26/09/2024 -
Thu 14/11/2024Times:10:30am - 12:30pmDuration:7 sessionsLocation:Caterham Baptist Church (Caterham)
4 Beechwood Road
Caterham
CR3 6NATutor:Julian RobertsCourse code:Q00018091How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £58.80
Creative Writing for Beginners
Welcome to the Beginners Creative Writing Course! This course is designed for absolute beginners with no prior writing experience. Start with the very basics of creative writing, including understanding different genres, brainstorming ideas, and writing simple sentences. Participate in fun, guided exercises to ignite your creativity and build your writing confidence. Learn how to express your thoughts clearly and creatively. By the end of the course, you'll have written your first short piece and gained the foundational skills to continue exploring creative writing. Join us and discover the joy of writing!
This course is running on a Thursday 10am until 11:30am.
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Dates:Thu 26/09/2024 -
Thu 31/10/2024Location:OnlineCourse code:Q00015904How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £33.30
Pre-Entry ESOL: ESOL, Maths & English: Beginners
This beginners ESOL course will help you to develop basic speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in English.
Develop your language skills to enable you to recognise simple words, prepare to write, ask everyday questions and answer them using correct grammatical structures.
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Dates:Thu 26/09/2024 -
Thu 15/05/2025Times:9:00am - 11:30amDuration:32 sessionsLocation:Rowland Hill Children's Centre (London)
315 White Hart Lane
Tottenham
London
N17 7LTTutor:Yusra SharifCourse code:Q00011290How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £210.00
Art Practical: Landscape painting
This course gives students - from beginners to improvers - the opportunity to explore different landscape painting approaches and techniques in a relaxed and supportive environment. It explores a range of styles, from the conventional and representational to more experimental and avant-garde approaches. Our highly experienced tutor, who is a practicing artist, provides practical and supportive advice on colour mixing, tonal variation, acrylic techniques, mark-making and composition, encouraging students to explore their own personal enthusiasms to make individual and original paintings. Source photographs will be provided online but students may use their own photos and other sources.
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Dates:Thu 26/09/2024 -
Thu 05/12/2024Times:2:30pm - 4:30pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Frank FerrieCourse code:Q00017771How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:5 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £84.00