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Art Practical: Introduction to Abstract Art
Learning about Abstract Art is fascinating and rewarding. This course covers its evolution from 19th-century pioneers like JMW Turner to movements such as Impressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Modernism, and up to the 21st century. It also highlights lesser-known female artists who have been overlooked by the art world. Each lesson starts with an interactive visual presentation featuring these examples. You’ll learn and practice using various drawing and painting materials, including inks, chalk, oil pastels, watercolour, acrylic, collage, and mixed media. This course is suitable for complete beginners and those wanting to improve their skills and develop their own style.
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Dates:Wed 15/01/2025 -
Wed 19/02/2025Times:11:00am - 12:30pmDuration:6 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Abi KremerCourse code:Q00013199How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:3 places remainingStatus:In progressFee rangeFree to £33.30
Pre-Entry Digital Skills: Intermediate Part 1
Use Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Word to create letters, posters, and tables. Learn to use Outlook to email files as attachments and Canvas to upload your work. By the end, you'll be prepared for further online learning and gain skills that enhance your employability. Designed to equip you with practical digital skills, making you more efficient and proficient in using essential office software. Provides valuable tools for success in the digital age for personal development or career advancement.
This course is funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority.
Participants must live in Coventry Area Postcodes CV1 to CV6 inclusive.
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Dates:Wed 15/01/2025 -
Wed 12/02/2025Times:10:00am - 12:30pmDuration:5 sessionsLocation:Watch Charity Ltd (Coventry)
10-12 Victoria Street
Coventry
CV1 5LZTutor:Shirley BateCourse code:Q00015616How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:6 places remainingStatus:In progressFee rangeFree to £52.50
Textiles and Fashion: Machine Sewing For Improvers with Style
Many of us live in style. This course is specially designed for them. On this course you will not only learn to construct interesting projects but use them practically. While creating these lovely projects you can meet like-minded people in the group. This course will help you to concentrate and enjoy the moment while creating projects that are useful, creative and sustainable.
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Dates:Wed 15/01/2025 -
Wed 12/03/2025Times:10:30am - 12:30pmDuration:7 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Kauser NabeelCourse code:Q00012300How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:2 places remainingStatus:In progressFee rangeFree to £51.80
Fitness and Exercise: Yoga for Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a health condition that weakens the bones making them fragile and more likely to break. The origin of the word is from the Greek language to mean 'porous bones'. Bones naturally have some empty space in them to allow them to bend and flex. Those with low bone density or osteoporosis have larger spaces and less bone mass - predisposing them to fractures and other bone injuries, especially in the hip, spinal vertebrae and some peripheral joints such as the wrists. Each week there is a simple, step by step guided practice to build bone strength, building and extending upon the previous week where we work on a variety of postures which are modified and adapted. These practices and techniques include slow, gentle, straightforward movements; breathing and relaxation techniques.
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Dates:Thu 16/01/2025 -
Thu 27/03/2025Times:9:15am - 10:00amDuration:10 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Caroline ArthurCourse code:Q00012605How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £30.52
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Duration:12 monthsFee:£15
Textiles and Fashion: Sewing Essentials Projects for Spring
This course follows on from the basic sewing essential class ran over the Autumn
we welcome new students as well as returning students as there is all way new skills, sewing tips and techniques to learn.
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Dates:Thu 16/01/2025 -
Thu 03/04/2025Times:9:30am - 12:00pmDuration:11 sessionsLocation:Robert Stewart Memorial URC Church (Newc
89 Wingrove Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 9BUTutor:Elaine SwanCourse code:Q00020099How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £115.50
Art Appreciation: Early Quattrocento Italian Art
This course will investigate the emergence of a ‘Renaissance’ style (or styles) of Italian art over the period 1400-1450, considering a range of centres of artistic production, but with a particular emphasis on Florence. We will look in detail at a series of major works of painting and sculpture, in order to track how a new, self-consciously ‘modern’ style of art paradoxically came into being through artists re-inventing versions of an ‘antique’ classicism.
We will focus on a wide range of artists, but especially the contributions of Donatello, Ghiberti, and Masaccio in Florence, and figures such as Sassetta, Pisanello, Uccello, and Jacopo Bellini from other centres in the Italian peninsula.
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Dates:Thu 16/01/2025 -
Thu 27/03/2025Times:2:00pm - 4:15pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Guppy's Enterprise Club (York)
17 Nunnery Lane
York
YO23 1ABTutor:Peter FinchCourse code:Q00020957How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:4 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £84.00
Pre-Entry ESOL: English for work
This course is suitable with learners who wish to improve their English to get ready to apply for a job, who are unemployed and looking for work and who also have English as a second language. Learners with English as a second language, who are looking for work and receiving benefits and aged 19 plus are eligible. If you are in receipt of work-related benefits. This course will help you to learn basic English to help you to work towards getting the job that you want. You will learn basic English that you can use to apply for jobs and prepare for interviews.
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Dates:Thu 16/01/2025 -
Thu 13/02/2025Times:9:30am - 12:30pmDuration:5 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Samantha SinghCourse code:Q00016692How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:3 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £55.50
Craft: Creativity for Well-Being
This course will explore painting colourful snow scenes using colour theory. You will follow this with master copies of the artist Berthe Morisot or female artist of your choice. Following this you will take what you have learned and incorporate it into a personal project of your choosing. This course will allow for you to incorporate previous knowledge and explore the aspects of it that speak to you. Learning is through tutor demonstration, painting and feedback from the tutor during sessions.
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Dates:Fri 17/01/2025 -
Fri 28/03/2025Times:10:30am - 12:30pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Columbia Community Association (Washingt
Eden Villas
Columbia
Washington
NE38 7ENTutor:Guest SpeakerCourse code:Q00020184How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:0 places remainingStatus:Waiting list
Art Practical: Art and Craft
This course is for students to improve confidence in their ability to develop artistic skills and creativity.
Learning the skills of a variety of crafts to make unique dimensional projects, using a variety of resources including recycling when possible.
You will learn using a range of different teaching and learning activities to include watching and following step by step demonstrations, with one to one help and guidance.
You will learn in a safe welcoming and supportive environment, working together with fellow students and the tutor.
The course is suitable for a complete beginner in crafts.
No prior knowledge is needed, just a desire to learn and develop your skills and creativity.
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Dates:Fri 17/01/2025 -
Fri 28/03/2025Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Hull Scrapstore (Hull)
Dairycoates Avenue
Hull
HU3 5DBTutor:Julie SmithCourse code:Q00017864How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £84.00
History: Silence in Court: four famous trials from British history
Every famous trial is a snapshot of history in the making. We see the cast of characters strutting on the stage that is the court room, acting out their roles against the backdrop of forces that are often beyond their control - the letter of the law, the power of the state, the force of prejudice, the facts of the case. Their focus is the outcome of 'their' trial, but ours is more than that; why is this trial famous, how did it change things, what lessons does it teach us?
Join Peter Blood to study the people, issues and outcomes in four famous trials from British history, with a view to understanding their political, social and legal significance.
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Dates:Fri 17/01/2025 -
Fri 07/02/2025Times:10:30am - 12:30pmDuration:4 sessionsLocation:Caterham United Reformed Church (Caterha
Harestone Hill
Caterham
CR3 6SXTutor:Peter BloodCourse code:Q00017735How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £33.60