This is a beginner/refresher workshop on tapestry weaving techniques. Get an understanding of the structure and construction of a woven tapestry. Learn to put a warp on the loom and prepare it for weaving. Learn basic weave structures, how to blend colours on the bobbin and in the weave; how to create diagonals, curves, hatching, various joining techniques, finishing techniques.
Booking Deadline: Tuesday 1 Oct @ 5pm
Tutor: Patricia Armour
Come make old-time music with your feet! Flat-footing (American clogging) is a solo freestyle form of American dance originating in the Appalachian mountains with connections to Western European, Native American and West African dance. Using the toes, heels and ball of the foot to strike and slide across the floor, flat-footing is a percussive dance style that articulates the rhythms of mountain fiddle and banjo music.
Booking Deadline: Tuesday 1 Oct @ 5pm
Tutor: Nic Gareiss
Join Niko Thomsen in a brief introduction into Schiller’s life and work on the background of the French Revolution and the “Age of Enlightenment”.
Friedrich Schiller’s Letters of the Aesthetic Education of Men (1794-95) can be seen as a pivotal work of this time. Schiller’s aesthetic letters are not an art theory in the usual sense. They are his quixotic enquiry into what is true beauty, and what is art, incorporating the whole human mind and different societies we live in. Schiller understands art not as an elite luxury. He describes true beauty as the matchless manifestation of human dignity.
Booking Deadline: Tuesday 1 Oct @ 5pm - Free Workshop
Many of the plants growing wild around you conceal secret colours that you can use as dyes for wool, silk, angora, and other animal fibres. Some plants produce soft shades while others yield striking and vivid hues that surprise and impress.
Discover which plants to forage for and how; then learn safe techniques for working with them. Have fun and experiment.
Booking Deadline: Tuesday 1 Oct @ 5pm
Tutor: Johanna Knox
All around grow useful, edible, medicinal, and fragrant wild plants – waiting for you to harvest and use them. In this workshop you’ll learn to safely identify and gather several abundant species. You’ll discover their unique nutritional, aromatic, and health-giving properties, and their many practical uses.
Booking Deadline: Tuesday 1 Oct @ 5pm
Tutor: Johanna Knox
Take a journey to your happy place via collage; a wonderful, relaxing way of expressing yourself, and creating beautiful art and gifts. All you need are some everyday materials and a willingness to 'play'. We will look at some work by international collage artists, then start experimenting ourselves. Plus tips on composition etc. to really make your creations 'sing'.
Tutor: Anne Taylor
I, George Nēpia celebrates the life of an East Coast boy who rose from humble beginnings and became one of world rugby’s first superstars. A husband, a father, a farmer, a singer, a rebel, an invincible. This eloquent work is a chance for rugby enthusiasts and rivals alike to get an insight into the heart, and mind of a legend.
Written by award– winning playwright Hone Kouka and performed by award–winning actor Jarod Rawiri, you’ll kick yourself if you miss this.
Rawiri will bring tears to your eyes and joy to your heart as he slips so seamlessly from Nepia as a young man, to Nepia as an old man, to the American rugby coach who knew nothing about rugby, to the Welshman detailing his side's thrashing to the All Blacks.
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