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3D Tunnel Book & Collage
Discover the joy of creating 3D tunnel books combining collage and simple bookbinding. nnYou'll learn how to build a layered tunnel book by designing and assembling a series of individual panels before completing it with a handmade cover. Using collage and a variety of materials, you'll create foregrounds, middle grounds and backgrounds that bring your book to life in three dimensions. Experiment with found images, textures and personal materials as you explore the expressive possibilities of collage in three dimensions. Suitable for complete beginners as well as those with some creative experience who would like to play, experiment and develop their artistic skills while creating a unique handmade artist's book.
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Japanese Sashiko Embroidery
This course introduces you to the beautiful art of Sashiko, a traditional Japanese embroidery technique created in 17th century Japan. nnBorn out of necessity, Sashiko has become a popular fashion trend in recent years and can be found in clothing and home decor. This ancient Japanese craft is easy to learn and uses only one type of stitch that can be easily mastered. What makes Sashiko special are the patterns that can be used and even combined. They feature repeating geometric shapes inspired by nature such as waves, mountains, bamboo, arrow or feathers. Made up of straight, curved and zigzag lines, the technique gives quick results and makes stunning textile pieces. Practicing Sashiko will connect you to a long history of craftsmanship, recycling, sustainability and heritage. Whether you're a complete beginner or already have some basic skills, you will learn to stitch beautiful patterns that you will have the opportunity to choose, mix and match. nnThe 8 weeks Sashiko course will foster your creativity, help promoting relaxation, mindfulness, and emotional wellbeing. This course is beginner friendly, open to everyone and inclusive of all materials
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Minding: A Meditation Journey
Minding is an award-winning 8-week meditation course designed to help you build a lasting mindfulness practice and find greater calm, clarity, and connection in daily life. Do you feel stressed or want to find calm in lifeu2019s chaos? Minding is an award-winning 8-week meditation course designed to help you build a lasting mindfulness practice and find greater calm, clarity, and connection in daily life. Each week we cover a different theme - from cultivating calm and building the meditation habit, to soothing stress and anxiety, softening the inner critic, building resilience and the vivid awareness practice. One of the hardest parts of meditation is making it a habit. This process is designed to help you bring mindfulness into your life u2014 in a way that will make it stick when the course is over.
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Watercolour Techniques, through the lens of artists
Immerse yourself in a world of vibrant colour and creative expression. This course explores techniques from traditional to contemporary watercolour artists, helping you develop new painting skills and confidence. Through hands-on exercises, youu2019ll learn how to plan ideas, find inspiration, and bring a painting to completion. Along the way, youu2019ll study diverse approaches from a range of artists, gaining the tools to continue developing your own independent practice. Enjoy a supportive, creative environment where you can share ideas, receive feedback, and connect with fellow painters. Perfect for beginners and anyone eager to deepen their understanding of watercolour and discover fresh inspiration.
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Watercolour Techniques, through the lens of artists
Immerse yourself in a world of vibrant colour and creative expression. This course explores techniques from traditional to contemporary watercolour artists, helping you develop new painting skills and confidence. Through hands-on exercises, youu2019ll learn how to plan ideas, find inspiration, and bring a painting to completion. Along the way, youu2019ll study diverse approaches from a range of artists, gaining the tools to continue developing your own independent practice. Enjoy a supportive, creative environment where you can share ideas, receive feedback, and connect with fellow painters. Perfect for beginners and anyone eager to deepen their understanding of watercolour and discover fresh inspiration.
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Therapeutic Art Making
Therapeutic Art Making offers a welcoming space to explore creativity, process and play. Each session begins with a guided exploration of a particular approach - painting, working with pastels, shaping clay, or creating collages. nnWe pay attention to how the body is involved in making, and how movement and awareness influence the creative process. The sessions foster a relaxed atmosphere of experimentation alongside one another. You can be inspired by the creativity of others, exchange ideas and interests, and offer or receive gentle feedback if you wish
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Therapeutic Art Making
Therapeutic Art Making offers a welcoming space to explore creativity, process and play. Each session begins with a guided exploration of a particular approach - painting, working with pastels, shaping clay, or creating collages. nnWe pay attention to how the body is involved in making, and how movement and awareness influence the creative process. The sessions foster a relaxed atmosphere of experimentation alongside one another. You can be inspired by the creativity of others, exchange ideas and interests, and offer or receive gentle feedback if you wish
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F2F UMA
Understanding and Managing Anxiety is a 6 sessions group. Will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.
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F2F UMA
Understanding and Managing Anxiety is a 6 sessions group. Will explore anxiety, helping us to understand it and better manage it. The sessions will cover what anxiety is and how our body, thoughts and behaviours can be affected by it. We will explore different tools and techniques to learn how to manage stress symptoms and lower down anxiety levels, to make the experience of anxiety more tolerable and functional. We will integrate tools and techniques coming from CBT, Compassion-focused therapy and Mindfulness.
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Ceramics: Buddy Vase
Over 6 weeks weu2019ll be creating small bud vases, these can take various shapes and include any number of designs. You'll be supplied with templates, but also encouraged to create your own original designs. Youu2019ll be using various hand-building techniques such as slab rolling, coiling and pinching, as well as how to use moulds to create forms. Weu2019ll be decorating with materials, carving & stamps to create pattern, followed by underglaze and glaze methods to decorate and disrupt.
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Bereavement Support Group
Losing a loved one or someone we cared about, can be a most profound and painful experience. Grief can feel overwhelming, isolating, and at times confusing. This group is for anyone who has lost someone significant in their life, be it partners, parents, children, friends or pets, and is struggling to navigate the experience of bereavement, whether the loss is recent or from some time ago. You are warmly invited to join a supportive group where you can share, listen, reflect, or simply sit alongside others who understand something of what it means to grieve. There is no expectation to explain or justify your feelings, but if being in a gentle, compassionate space to explore your loss feels right for you at this time, that is reason enough to come. Over the weeks, we will thoughtfully explore the stages of grief described by Elisabeth Ku00fcbler-Ross u2014 denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. We'll focus on each stage, and will invite you to use a piece of reflective writing or short poem as a starting point. There will be space to consider how these themes resonate with your own experience, recognising that grief is deeply personal and does not follow a fixed path.
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Ceramics: Pattern & Print
A ceramics Hand-building course where you'll be encouraged to explore various techniques of transferring pattern to clay. Youu2019ll be using texture rollers, templates, slip transfer, painting, scraffito and slip trailing to achieve the patterns, and learn various hand-building techniques such as slab rolling, coiling and pinching. The work will be fired, then glazed by you in the last session.
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Ceramics: Candle Holders & Christmas Decorations
Light up your autumn and winter by making candle holders and in the later sessions, ceramic Christmas decorations! This eight-week course is suitable for beginners. It is an opportunity to learn ceramics in a relaxed, supportive and friendly environment, no experience needed. You will learn how to hand build candle holders in a variety of shapes for tall candles and tealights, and make some Xmas decorations. You will explore various decorative techniques and the use of coloured slips, underglazes and glazes
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Ceramics: Open Ceramics
An opportunity to develop your practice in Hand Built ceramics. You'll be free to slab roll, coil and pinch. The art room also has various moulds and items that can be used to support your creations and weu2019ll be decorating with patterned materials and using stamps and cutters, followed by underglaze and glaze methods to decorate before a final firing.
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F2F MADE
Managing Anger and Difficult Emotions is a 2 session group. Directed for people who are actively struggling with anger and intense emotions, and who are not yet in a place where they can commit to a more structured 8-week mental health course. Helps people to understand the neuroscience of anger/intense emotions and to reduce emotional suffering by learning and practicing techniques such as Emotional Balance, Creating Space and True Strengthu2019. Research into components of MADE has shown improved emotional regulation, reduced self-harm and crisis episodes.
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Move to Thrive: Release Stress & Cultivate Joy
Move to Thrive offers gentle, intuitive movement, not fitness or choreography, but a supportive space to reconnect with your body, release stress, and feel more like yourself again. A space to shift from overthinking into sensing, and from tension into ease. Sessions begin with grounding and breath, flow into free-form movement for emotional release, and close with a joyful, Indian-inspired community dance. Move at your own pace, whether soft, playful, expressive, or still. All bodies and abilities welcome. Wear comfortable clothes and bring water. This course is for women, those who identify as women, and gender diverse individuals. Leave feeling calmer, more grounded, and connected to your body and sense of joy.
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Concertina Books & Collage
Discover the joy of creative bookmaking in this hands-on course combining collage and simple bookbinding. We begin with a simple concertina book, learning the basics of folding and creating a handmade cover. Over the five weeks, you'll gradually build on these skills, exploring more advanced concertina structures, creative collage and a few simple printing techniques. By the end of the course, you'll have created two unique concertina books. Experiment with found images, textures and personal materials while developing your own ideas in a relaxed and supportive environment. Suitable for complete beginners as well as those with some creative experience.
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Ceramics: Light Fest
Over 6 weeks weu2019ll be creating various ceramics for illumination, candle holders and wall sconces. Light could also be a theme for designs in your pieces. Youu2019ll be using various hand-building techniques such as slab rolling, coiling and pinching, as well as how to use moulds to create forms. Weu2019ll be decorating with materials, carving & stamps to create pattern, followed by underglaze and glaze methods to decorate.
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Ceramics: Celebrations
A ceramics Hand-building course will be to make ceramics for celebrating the season. These could be Christmas themed, but also any type of celebration. nnYouu2019ll be using various hand-building techniques such as slab rolling, coiling and pinching, as well as how to use moulds to create forms. Weu2019ll be decorating with materials, carving & stamps to create pattern, followed by underglaze and glaze methods to decorate
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