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 crEativE coursEs

Think creatively
Allow those creative juices to flow, whether you're drawn to
musical theatre, global cuisine, drawing or even lampworking.
What's lampworking? Read on...

Get stitching with the

adult Learning service
cooK sHarP
For Worrall-Thompson
wannabes
l Cook Sharp is a series of three-hour
courses run by City of Bristol College
designed to enhance the cookery skills
of beginner and expert alike. You will be
using the finest ingredients in a friendly
and professional environment and can
take home the dishes you produce. Cook
Sharp will enable you to enjoy cooking
and instil confidence and ability so you
can create your own dishes for dinner
parties, friends or family. Courses include
knife skills (in Oct) and preparing for
Christmas (in Nov), as well as healthy
eating, Thai cookery and Italian cookery
come the new year.

FFI: CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE, ASHLEY

DOWN CENTRE, ASHLEY DOWN RD, BRISTOL,
BS7 9BU, TEL: 0117 312 5000, EMAIL:
ENQUIRIES@CITYOFBRISTOL.AC.UK, WEB:
ENQUIRIES@CITYOFBRISTOL.AC.UK

arts aND craFts

Unleash the inner creative
l The Adult Learning Service offers a wealth of choice when it comes to art, crafts, cookery,
gardening and more, all of which are on offer at its Stoke Lodge and Southmead centres. For
budding artists alone, students can choose from landscape or life drawing, portrait drawing and
painting, as well as drawing from observation. The options get even wider when it comes to painting!
Whether you’re after using watercolours or acrylics, prefer spontaneity or experimentation, are a
beginner or an improver, they’ll match what you’re after with what they’re offering. Crafty types
get similarly impressive choices, with cake-decorating classes based on Christmas and non-
Christmas themes, as well as three embroidery classes, felt-making, flowers for weddings and special
occasions, along with floristry fun. Jewellery-making gives you the chance to make something to
wear, patchwork and quilting gives you the chance to make something to sleep under, while clay
sculpture from life will have you creating an eye-catching talking point for your home. Stained glass
and upholstery classes keep the domestic beautification coming while Saturday workshops cover
everything from the slightly twee – tea and egg cosies made from felt – to lace-trimmed cami-slips
and soft bustiers made during lingerie lessons. The musically inclined can pick up the recorder or let
loose their inner voice via singing lessons that take in swing, pop, gospel and African styles.

FFI: ADULT LEARNING SERVICE, TEL: 0117 903 8844, WEB: WWW.BRISTOL.GOV.UK/ADULTLEARNING

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 Life drawing: the best

LAMPWORKING way to hone you skills

A new flame?
l Since November last year, Georgina which can incorporate a very diverse
Black, owner of Fire Works range of colours and decoration
Gallery & Studio has offered techniques. “We start with rods
engrossing classes in the of effetre glass and, as the
creative field rarely seen in beads are made from scratch,
the Bristol and Bath area. it’s a relaxing, meditative
“I do a type of glasswork medium in which to work.
called lampworking,” said People love it! The beads can
Georgina. “It’s the same then be made into jewellery.
type of work done by many Tuition can be one-on-one
of the makers on Venice’s or can be taken in groups of up
Murano Island. We even use some to six. It’s ideal for adults’ birthday
of the same type of glass. Put simply, we use parties and I have had groups drinking
propane- and oxygen-fuelled torches to turn tea and ‘mocktails’ as though going out
a glass rod into a malleable molten ball that for dinner – very civilised!” Once you have
is then wrapped around a steel rod which is grasped the basics, you can return to use DRAWING AND
the base for the bead. More colours can be the studio’s torch hire service, hiring studio
added, and the glass worked into all sorts of time by the hour and, if you get very skilful, BEYOND…
shapes.” You don’t have to be an expert to Georgina can even arrange guest instructors Put pencil to paper
enjoy Georgina’s tuition. “We offer courses to take you further.
focused on people with no experience. The l Art is a subject most of us enjoy from
best way to start is our three-hour taster or FFI: FIRE WORKS GALLERY & STUDIO, 22 UPPER an early age – you only have to look at the
one of our beginners’ courses.” The taster MAUDLIN ST, BRISTOL, BS2 8DJ, TEL: 07783 face of a child drawing a sun to appreciate
course usually sees students make 12 beads 879435, WEB: WWW.FIREWORKSJEWELLERY.COM the innate joy it brings. The good news
is the fun doesn’t have to stop when you
leave school! Bristol Drawing School
provides a dedicated space where young
MUSICAL THEATRE and old, beginners and experienced
Take it to the next stage can fully enjoy putting pencil to paper.
Courses in areas such as drawing, life
l As Vincent Damon Furnier and Richard Starkey have proven, a change of name is often part and drawing, life drawing with movement
parcel of showbiz. Just ask Alice Cooper and Ringo Starr who despatched with these birth names in and the newly arrived landscape drawing
the pursuit of stardom. The Musical Theatre School at the Academy Theatre in Shepton Mallet has with printing have a free structure and
itself taken a new moniker – it was formerly known as BAPA – and this is where you can take your are not certificated, ensuring artists are
own first steps towards a star-studded career. Its 38-hour-a-week intensive courses are taught by free to learn techniques rather than worry
top-ranked professionals and are uniquely designed by educators with many years’ experience to about their end grade. All this said, there’s
impart the skills necessary to becoming a successful performer. Over 90% of the school’s graduates plenty more here beyond drawing. An
start a professional career within months – often before they even finish training. Situated in expanding workshop programme runs
the beautiful Somerset countryside, the school’s fees are the lowest in the country for intensive, most weekends and offers up fascinating
professional, musical theatre training and it also boasts low-priced accommodation within its learning in areas like sculpture,
theatre building. They’ll provide the training to set you on the road to stardom. All you have to do is bookbinding and wire modelling. One
come up with your own jazzy stage name. date for your diary is November 13, when
Allan McGowan returns from Edinburgh
FFI: THE MUSICAL THEATRE SCHOOL, THE ACADEMY THEATRE, SHEPTON MALLET, SOMERSET, TEL: 01749 to give another in-depth anatomy lecture.
347984, EMAIL: LUCY@BAPA.CO.UK, WEB: WWW.BAPA.CO.UK Easter’s visit proved a hit so demand is
sure to be high. There’s creativity in the
Sing for your supper in Shepton air here, with exhibitions adding to the
inspiration. What’s more, drawings make
perfect presents! Imagine capturing a
landscape or a family pet or, if you’re
very good, a drawing of a loved one - it
might just become one of their most
cherished possessions. In an age of
mass-production, your output on paper
will make a big impact. Whether seeking
development, mentoring or simply a
quiet space in which to draw for a few
hours weekly, get in touch.

FFI: BRISTOL DRAWING SCHOOL, UNIT 5.3,

PAINTWORKS, BATH RD, BS4 3EH, TEL: 0845
680 1409, WEBSITE: WWW.DRAWINGSCHOOL.
ORG.UK

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