KIDSART! April '12 - Get 'eggstremely' creative. Fun workshops for making cool stuff
Come and join us at the Kidsart! workshops in the Round Tower during the Easter school holidays for some 'eggstremely' creative fun!

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KIDSART! March '12 - Fun workshops for making cool stuff
March is here and Spring is definitely on the way - the days are getting sunnier and longer, and we'd love to see you at the Kidsart! workshops at the Round Tower for some Springtime creativity. Get creating, crafting, re-cycling, making and designing!
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KIDSART! Make it a Fun February, with workshops for making cool stuff.
Fun art workshops for school age children at the Black Swan. Get creating, crafting, re-cycling, making and designing.
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KIDSART! January '12 - Fun workshops for making cool stuff
Brighten up January with fun art workshops for school age children at the Black Swan.Get creating, crafting, re-cycling, making and designing.
Limited places, so lots of individual attention, guidance and fun!
Make your new year creative!
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Workshop Series - How to Talk So Kids Will Listen
Sunshine Learning presents: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen
As a parent, have you ever muttered to yourself: "There has to be a better way"?
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen (by award-winning authors Faber & Mazlish) is a series of 6 workshops for parents. The goal of the workshops is to give parents practical effective methods of communication that will make your relationship with children of all ages less stressful & more rewarding.
Dates are: Jan 26, Feb 2, 9, 23, March 1, 8
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Felt Making Workshop - Feb '12 - An Introduction
Saturday 25th February 2012, 10am – 4.30pm
Come and learn how to transform washed and combed sheep’s fleece into beautiful, tactile, durable felt using nothing more than soap, water and friction!
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Felt Making Workshop - March '12 - Felt cosies
Saturday 24th March 2012, 10am - 4.30pm
Spring is in the air; come and felt your own Easter cosy for the breakfast table.
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Felt Making Workshops - April '12 - Nuno felt shawl
Saturday 21st April 2012, 10am – 4.30pm
Nuno felt was first developed by Australian feltmakers Polly Sterling and Sachiko Kotaka in 1994, and since then has been taken up by many other around the globe. On this workshop you will learn how to incorporate fabric and wool together to create a new constructed fabric with characteristics quite different from traditional felt.
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KIDSART! December '11 - Fun workshops for making cool stuff
Art and craft sessions for children age 5 and over, in the Round Tower.
Various dates starting from 16th November through December.
Workshops after school, at the week-end and during school holidays.
All materials and tuition provided for creating, crafting, making, designing and much more!
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Winter Willow Workshops
Willow and Hedgerow Basket Making; Saturday 26th November 10am-4pm
Willow and Hedgerow Christmas; Saturday 10th December 10am-4pm
Rebecca Board, a regular volunteer steward at Black Swan Arts will be returning this Winter to run two craft workshops. The one day sessions in November and December will focus on creating items using willow and foraged hedgerow plants. These seasonal-inspired workshops follow the success of Rebecca's previous courses and, as places are limited, advanced booking is essential.
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Needle Felting Workshop
Artist Jenny Barnett leads this workshop at the Black Swan Arts' Round Tower.
Friday 9th December 6pm – 8pm, £10. Age 15+
No previous experience is necessary to create a lovely felt Christmas robin using wool fleece and barbed needles.
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Animation Workshop, Roundtower 27th-29th July, 9.30am-1pm
With the Urban Wastelands project in the Gallery, Howard Vause the Community Media Arts Officer at Frome Community College is leading a 3 day workshop for 10 -14 years to make their Own Animated Film using Frome's urban wasteland Saxonvale as their inspiration.
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Introduction to relief printmaking - lino cuts
Start: Thursday 3rd Feb 2011, 6pm - 8pm. Then every Thursday until 10th Mar.

Hand print and the quality of a roughly-hewn image is a popular alternative to the graphics of the digital age.
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Working Towards Abstraction
Start: Tuesday 22nd Mar 2011, 6.30pm - 8.30pm. Then every Tuesday until 31st May.

Through different processes and a variety of mediums, the aim of this course is to develop an image.
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Modroc Monsters
Thursday 14th April, 10.30am - 12.30pm
Easter Holiday workshop

Design your own fabulous and just a little scary creature.
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Silver Ring Making
Friday 18th Feb, 10am - 1pm
Friday 18th Feb, 2pm - 5pm
Saturday 5th Mar, 10am - 1pm
Saturday 5th Mar, 2pm - 5pm

A fun three-hour ring making workshop run by Somerset silversmith, Julia Thompson.
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Design & Make a Silver Pendant to incorporate a stone
Saturday 19th Feb, 9.30am - 5pm
Friday 4th Mar, 9.30am - 5pm

A great full day workshop run by Somerset silversmith, Julia Thompson.
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Shadow Puppetery
Half Term Workshops 21st - 25th Feb, 2011

Children will then find out how to make and manipulate their own puppets and make a short story together on a large screen using recycled materials readily available at home.
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Portraits to Raise a Smile
Half Term Workshops 21st - 25th Feb, 2011

Using paint, print, collage and found materials, participants will produce a contemporary piece of work with a nod to tradition - your own ‘heirloom’ to hang over the mantelpiece!
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Buggie Wuggie Piano
Half Term Workshops 21st - 25th Feb, 2011

With bits and pieces of old pianos, plus all manner of other things like coloured wires, fabrics and googly eyes, you will make crazy imaginary creatures, that will become part of an old piano
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Introduction to Felt-making
Saturday 23rd April 2011, 10am - 4pm
Saturday 28th May 2011, 10am - 4pm

Felt is the earliest known form of textile fabric and dates back to Neolithic times. Come and learn how to transform washed and combed sheep’s fleece into beautiful, tactile, durable felt using nothing more than soap, water and friction!
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Rush Basketmaking
Saturday 30th April, 10am - 4pm

Rebecca Board has seventeen years experience of making baskets and grows and gathers many of her own materials, all of which are from Somerset. She is running a number of varying day-long courses on basket-making.
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The Art of Business
Friday 6th May 2011 , 10.00am - 4.30pm

What can art do for business? Traditionally, the emphasis is the other way around with artists looking to business people for support. But can the way that artists approach their work help the business community to operate more creatively, more effectively and also more ethically?
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Beadwork jewellery for beginners
Saturday 7th May, 10.30am - 4pm

This one-day taster in beadwork jewellery is for complete beginners and will cover the basics of how to create professional and beautiful beaded jewellery.
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Mosaic Workshop Weekend
Mosaic Workshop Weekend
Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th May, 10.30am - 5pm

Learn the basic direct method of making mosaics. For beginners or improvers.
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Willow basketmaking
Saturday 21st May, 10am - 4pm

Rebecca Board has seventeen years experience of making baskets and grows and gathers many of her own materials, all of which are from Somerset. She is running a number of varying day-long courses on basket-making.
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Willow Frame Baskets
Saturday 25th June, 10am - 4pm

Rebecca Board has seventeen years experience of making baskets and grows and gathers many of her own materials, all of which are from Somerset. She is running a number of varying day-long courses on basket-making.
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Silver Ring Making
Friday 19th August, 10am - 1pm & 2pm - 5pm

A fun three-hour ring making workshop run by Somerset silversmith, Julia Thompson.
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Design & Make a Silver Pendant to incorporate a stone
Saturday 20th August, 9.30am - 5pm

Learn how to design and make a pendant from 925 sterling silver, incorporating a semi-precious stone.
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Writing Workshops (daytime and evening courses)
Start: Wed 7th Sept 2011, 10am -12pm. Then every Wed until 16th Nov
Start: Thur 8th Sept, 7pm - 9pm. Then every Thur until 17th Nov

These workshops are for writers who are thinking about embarking on a longer project; it might be a collection of short stories, a novel, or a memoir.
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Felted Vessels
Saturday 10th September 2011, 10am - 4pm

Felt is the earliest known form of textile fabric and dates back to Neolithic times. Come and learn how to transform washed and combed sheep’s fleece into a sculptural and tactile vessel, using nothing more than soap, water, friction and your imagination!
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Brown Bag Lunch, John Harris
Tuesday 1st Feb 2011

Communication plays an important part in every aspect of a creative business. John Harris, Guardian journalist will be giving an informal talk.
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Pods & Seedheads, Forms Inspired By Nature
Sunday 30th Jan 2011, 10.30am - 4pm

Creating forms inspired by nature, using different wires.
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After Image - Working With Acrylics
Start: Thursday 20th Jan 2011, 2pm - 4.30pm. Then every Thursday until 17th Feb

A follow-up to the Image Wall exhibition at Black Swan Arts, working with the techniques David Chandler used to create his 100 canvases.
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Introduction to Screen Printing
A Saturday silk screen printing class for 8 to 12 year-olds.
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Discovering Glass
A course looking at the fascinating medium of glass.
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Brown Bag Lunch, Alex Webb and Helga Watkins-Baker
Tuesday 11th Jan 2011

Frome Creative Network is hosting a Brown Bag Lunch as part of a collaborative dialogue between business and the arts.
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BOOK (little to large)
A course in book-making.
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Elements of Photography 1
A course of four photography lessons, in seminar and workshop format.
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