Children and Young People (5 - 18yrs)
Wonderful Window Boxes (Art, 8-14 yrs)
Monday 3rd April, 9.30 - 15.30 (£58)
Come and celebrate our city in Spring, in this Wonderful Window Boxes workshop! You will spend the day creating your very own ornately decorated cardboard window box, to fill with an explosion of uniquely hand-made brightly coloured paper and tissue spring flowers. Tulips, daisies and fantasy blooms will all burst with colour to welcome in the Spring. Using sustainable and recycled materials, and a range of construction, pattern cutting and origami techniques you will bring to life your individual flowering mini garden design. Finishing off with ribbon work and decorative collage you will be able to take your unique celebratory Spring mini garden home to display on your window ledge. We hope you will join us to celebrate our City in Spring!
Tutor: Dot Young
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Fantastic Flutes and How to Play Them (Music, 6 - 9 yrs)
Monday 3rd April, 14.30 - 16.30 (£22)
In this flute course, you will learn all about the instrument, meeting different flutes from around the world and even get to try out your very own flute skills! Our experienced tutor will guide you through aspects of rhythm and musicality through a variety of games, using the flute head joint to ground you in the basics of the instrument. Within the class you will learn a variety of sounds, three different notes, and write our own short piece of music. This class gives you the opportunity to try out the flute to see if you would like to take your learning with the instrument further and offers a basis from which you would be able to progress to our term time Play! Flute programme. If you have your own instrument, feel free to bring it along but, if not, you can use one of ours for the class.
Tutor: Victoria Heath
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1 Day Guitar Workshop (Music, 6 - 10 yrs)
Tuesday 4th April, 9.30 - 15.30 (£58)
Come and join us for a one-day course where you will learn all about the guitar while learning and playing some songs. Explore the instrument and express yourself under the guidance of our enthusiastic tutors. We welcome young guitarists of all levels, including complete beginners. Guitars can be hired for the session free of charge.
Tutor: Marek Tymkow & Dimitrios Ntontis
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Build Your Own Birdfeeder (Art, 5 - 11 yrs)
Tuesday 4th April, 9.30 - 15.30 (£58)
Come to the Conservatoire and create your own handmade bird feeder using natural materials! Learn how to look after our little winged friends and help them to survive in spring time when their babies are being born and are very hungry. We will create a 3D model bird feeder using cardboard and explore lots of other interesting materials to decorate it; we could use sticks, ribbon, leaves, colour paper, paint, string or wool... anything you like! Then you can take it home, hang it in your garden or in the park and watch the birds visiting all throughout the Spring.
Tutor: Lilly Walker
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Podcasting: City Stories (Drama, 8-14 yrs)
Thursday 13th April, 9.30 - 15.30 (£58)
Ever wondered how your favourite podcast is recorded or wanted to create a podcast yourself? Come along and learn all about this new and popular art form and create your very own podcast! Bring your best stories and jokes to entertain our listeners when they check out the finished podcast on Soundcloud, YouTube & Instagram.
Tutor: Annalise Morley & Joseph Thomas
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By the River... Mudlarking & Picasso (Art, 5 - 12 yrs)
Thursday 13th April, 9.30 - 15.30 (£58)
Design your own Thames riverscape using collage, watercolours, mixed media, and cardboard trays. Become a mudlarker and create a Thameside beach using recycled and found items. Make original Picasso inspired city themed collaged artworks made entirely from magazines, newspapers and recycled materials. Add natural and spring themed elements to green the city… Produce watercolour illustrations and drawings inspired by your multimedia river, beach and city artworks and create T- shirts based on your illustrations and designs.
Tutor: Nicola Corrigan
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Friday 14th April, 9.30 - 15.30 (£58)
Ever wondered how your favourite songs are written and produced in the studio? Together we will create a beat from scratch, experimenting with different instruments, iconic song samples and sounds from one computer and a midi keyboard. We will create our own rap/song lyrics as a team and even record your vocals together in our pop up music studio! Watch your idea grow into a finished song. Bring any instruments you play, and we may incorporate them. Our goal is to complete one finished track and upload it to YouTube, SoundCloud & Instagram to amaze your friends and family. No prior musical knowledge needed, just come and find out how creative you can be!
Tutor: Annalise Morely & Joseph Thomas
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Friday 14th April, 9.30 - 15.30 (£58)
Explore the awe-inspiring art of Fabergé in this day long course. We will briefly look at the history of these jewelled masterpieces before designing and creating two of our own eggs using polystyrene, glass pins, sequins, ceramics and metallic paints. This course will combine elements of design, sculpture, painting and craft resulting in treasures that you will want to keep forever!
Tutor: Clare Balint
Find out morePlaster Primroses & Tiled Tunips (Art, 5 - 11 yrs)
Friday 14th April 9.30 - 15.30 (£58)
Spring has sprung! Come along to the Conservatoire and make a beautiful, unique, handmade botanical plaster tile, using fresh wild spring flowers. Compose and arrange them in any way you’d like and save their beauty forever in the style of your tile. Decorate your room or your garden or give your plaster creation as a present to someone special.
Tutor: Lilly Walker
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