Year 10 pupils at Exeter School took part in an improvisation workshop delivered by professional actress and Webber Douglas graduate, Lucy Curtin, last week.
The workshop proved an ideal preparation for a day of workshops organised by the Northcott theatre taking place on Friday 24 June.
Head of Drama Jamie Brough said the pupils have looked at elements of 'clowning' as well as improvisation games and techniques this term.
"All of this work has not only helped them prepare for an exciting collaborative project with the Northcott theatre, ISCA and Dawlish schools at...
As part of our schedule of special summer classes, we're offering a lovely session of knotty bracelet making! Perfect for gifting as friendship bracelets or keeping all to yourself.
We’ll be teaching one of our favourite designs, a bracelet made from knotting and beads and a button clasp. There will also be the chance to learn how to make an ever useful sliding knot fastening, as seen on our knotty bracelet kits. The great thing about this workshop is that knotting is one of the trickiest things to learn without having somebody show you, so a couple of hours spent being taught it...
As part of our schedule of special summer workshops, we're excited to host a beginner's session in patchwork! Paper piecing is a traditional patchwork technique that's all about hand sewing, precision and enjoying the process. We aim to take the fear out of the craft and give you the confidence to get started.
This is the kind of skill that can bring you hours and hours of sewing happiness. We’ll go through everything you need to know, from cutting out your shapes to hand sewing to how to piece them together, through to ideas of what to make with your piece once you’re finished...
As part of our special schedule of summer classes, we're excited to host a session of purse sewing! In this workshop we’ll be making a mini purse, covering all sorts of basic sewing techniques that will get you on your feet with crafting.
You’ll be able to choose from a beautiful selection of fabrics, and enjoy learning a project that’ll make a perfect gift for birthday’s & Christmas and all in between. This class will as always, be entirely suitable for sewing beginners, but will also provide enjoyment to those more experienced crafters with the urge to learn a new project!...
As part of our special schedule of summer workshops, we're offering a class all about earrings! Earring making is one of the most gratifying types of jewellery making – there’s huge variety in what you can make with just a few beads and the basic skill set.
Although this class will cover everything you know to make all sorts of earring designs, we’re really excited to show you how to make dangly chain & star charm earrings with one of our favourite new metal charms. We’ll cover all sorts of techniques, and get you used to working with all 3 types of jewellery plier. This...
Join us at our Master Veg class to get to grips with the green stuff and find out about life with a veg box.
This is a two hour hands-on cooking course, followed by a meal where you'll will enjoy the food you have chopped and prepared. The vegetables cooked during the course of the class will be a selection of the best of the seasonal produce grown on Riverford’s organic farms. Spaces cost £25 per person.
What we'll be cooking (subject to seasonal availability):
Exeter Community Centre on St David’s Hill is proud to announce the launch of an exciting community project called Sense of Space, to create a new sensory garden at the centre and to bring its Pottery back into use.
A grant from The People’s Health Trust has enabled the project to go ahead.
The project will create opportunities for local people to meet and learn new skills together, at FREE workshops running from January 2016.
The workshops will focus on garden design and planting, and on designing and making pottery tiles that will be used to decorate the new...
FabLab Devon, in association with FabLab Plymouth at Plymouth College of Art, is offering a range of free FabLab digital fabrication laboratory workshops to members of the public, in FabLab Devon, which is based at Exeter Library, beginning on Monday 30 November.
The workshops will offer an introduction to FabLab processes through the use of cutting-edge technology such as 3D printing, 3D scanning, laser cutting and 3D design.
This is an excellent opportunity to find out first-hand about the potential offered by 3D printing and FabLab technology. All materials and expert...
Exe-Arts, the community arts initiative set up by Superact's Patsy Lang, has reached the halfway milestone after a busy two months of fun creative workshops for all ages in art forms ranging from environmental sculpture and photography to graffiti art and experimental drawing.
As a culmination of the project, many of the pieces will be exhibited at the community festival on 12th December, which will also include a lantern parade and live performances. There are pictures and reflections of the sessions so far on the Exe-Arts facebook page. The Exe-Arts initiative also includes some...
In conjunction with the start of Rugby World Cup 2015 and to celebrate Exeter’s host city status, work has started on themed creative activity across Exeter.
The month Includes workshops in schools, the creation of a Street Band, a Creative Hub at Emmanuel Hall and a spectacular parade through Exeter City Centre to the Northernhay Gardens FanZone.
The Exeter Rugby Five Nations Parade is a spectacular parade project involving more than 200 children and young people from Exeter and led by Manchester based Walk the Plank, internationally renowned outdoor arts experts who will...
