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For beginners and improvers, this is a course explores a range of arts materials and techniques to give people confidence and skills to create their own unique art. The emphasis will be on experimentation, enjoying the process, and trying a range of materials to find out what works best for each student’s style and interest. Materials we will use will include watercolour, inktense, acrylic, brusho, soft pastels, oil pastels, graphite, charcoal, water-soluble pencils and sticks, and foamboard printing. We will also explore different surfaces and papers.

This course will present an overview of painting and drawing in connection with inspiring examples in art history. It will help you learn classical techniques, and contemporary artists (such as David Hockney, Gerhard Richter or Anselm Kiefer). If you would like to have a fresh view of painting and drawing and learn how to achieve expressivity by carefully combining techniques, this course will offer you an overview and will inspire personal artworks of great subtlety and sensitivity. A variety of media will be explored, from acrylics to watercolour or pastels and more. You will need to bring your own art materials.

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.

This drama course is designed for adult learners with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities (LLDD). Utilizing the Bradford Anti-Poverty Strategy, the course encourages participants to explore their personal and community histories through maps and geographical locations. Learners will use these maps as a basis for creating characters and stories, drawing inspiration from both personal experiences and historical events. The course aims to foster creativity, build confidence, and develop storytelling skills in an inclusive and safe environment. Guided by an experienced tutor, participants will gain a deeper understanding of their own identities and the places that shape their lives.

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.

This course will show initial practical skills and methods used in Drawing and Painting. Taking a calm and relaxed approach to exploring ways of seeing and expressing with a range of materials. It explores colour theory in Art and exploration of painting techniques to develop your observational skill levels. Simple exercises are followed to make connections between mark making and painting from observation. Reflective practice is encouraged to document and develop your ideas tracked through sketchbook notes. Development of these skills will enable your confidence to produce imaginative and creative work.

This practical and engaging art course gives you the opportunity to explore different painting approaches, techniques and subjects, and begin to find your own style. Learn in a supportive environment where you can learn at your own pace, with an experience tutor who is ready to inspire you and help you reach your potential.

This ten-week course will present and explore classical mythology and other traditions of myth by exploring their magical, more transformative aspects. Over the course of these sessions we will consider how the subject matter, style and context of texts and writers from a range of diverse backgrounds contain and harness these ideas in ways that continue to powerfully impact on us in the modern world. We will examine the historical and literary specifics of each text and writer individually and as part of a collective tradition, along with reference to quality critical resources on the role, meaning and purpose of myth more widely. The sessions will combine close reading and audio-visual materials with lively, inclusive and hopefully invigorating discussion. Whether you are just coming into the world of classical and other mythologies or have been interested in these worlds for some time you will be welcome along to these sessions.

In five short weeks we will look at and talk about the outpouring of talent which happened over a few years, one talent encouraging another. Venice was the most powerful city state in Italy. It was the richest city and the premier port because its position dictated its links to the vast trading wealth of the East. The power this wealth gave them and their privileged access to trade goods also led to an extremely stable political system which lasted for 1,000 years and it was known as “La Serenissima”.

The history of Paris in the 19th century beginning with some of Napoleon’s innovations, through the Restoration period following Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo, the various rebellions and revolutions that happened during this period, the dictatorship of Napoleon III and the disastrous war with Prussia that brought his rule to an end, the Commune which brought bloody civil war to the streets of the city, and the eventual stability of the Third Republic. We’ll also look at the arts in this period, Haussmann’s redesign of the city and how the bourgeoisie benefited from this, the Courtesans, and the Cancan.