Adult Education in the Arts - Langtree School Woodcote

Community Arts at Langtree School, Specialist Arts College
Within the Arts, we aim to:
Increase opportunity, Widen experience, Encourage participation and Stimulate enjoyment

How?

By offering a variety of high quality arts and craft-based, friendly courses and hosting these courses in specialist rooms.
By subsiding the cost of these courses via our Community Arts Grant and engaging successful practitioners to lead the courses who have the skills to encourage, support and develop ‘the artist’ within the course participants.
Do you have any suggestions for courses that could be run at Langtree?
Are you a Tutor and would you like to lead a course here?
Please contact our Community Arts Administrator by: Phone: 01491 680514 Ext: 227
Email: zwigginton@langtree.oxon.sch.uk

Daytime Courses on Offer Now

Water Colour Tue 12th Jan 2010

This workshop will be held at Langtree School 11am - 1pm. Ideas to help get your own journal or theme journal started. Perfect for the artist who says ‘I can't draw a straight line!’ as well as the experienced artist who is looking for some new techniques. Learn different ways of seeing, different ways of sketching and drawing for water colouring, water colour tricks, Fresh and quick colour techniques How to apply washes, use colour successfully to enhance your work and learn how to feel confident about your work.

Digital Photography Sat 30th Jan 2010

This workshop will be held at Langtree School 10am - 4pm. Covering digital imaging basics using cameras, the role of megapixels and explaining the Format in which pictures are saved with particular reference to JPEG. This also covers saving pictures to cd-rom, photographing people, picturing enhancement, fine tuning, light colour and saving.

Evening Courses on Offer Now

Langtree Community Choir Mon Jan 2010

We currently have places open to anyone with a passion for song. We do not ask you to audition and there is no need to be able to read music. All that we ask of members is to give one night a week for our regular workshops and rehearsals, and one night a term for a performance. There are no age restrictions and we will be singing everything from doo-wop to hip hop, folk to funk, as well as innovative vocal music by contemporary composers.
We meet on Monday evenings, 7.30-9.30pm, at Langtree School, Music Studio.

Adult Tap Classes Mon Jan 2010

Monday night classes 7.30-8.30PM
A relaxed and fun filled class for Adult beginners!
Great for co-ordination & fitness.
FREE INTRODUCTORY CLASS ON MONDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER!
Classes will run on a 10 week term at a cost of £5.00 per class (discount available when you combine Tap & Jazzercise!)

Adult Jazzercise Mon Jan 2010

Monday night classes 8.30-9.30PM
An energetic blend of Jazz dance & exercise, Tone up, work out & DANCE!
Classes will run on a 10 week term at a cost of £5.00 per class (discount available when you combine Tap & Jazzercise!) 10% discount if you combine the two classes!
Limited spaces so book now!
Call: 07870 501 831
email: enquiries@dance-connection.co.uk

Ballroom/Latin Workshop Tue Jan 2010

Tuesday night classes start from the beginning for new dancers or those who wish to go over the steps again at intermediate level. They will consist of an hour of ballroom and an hour of Latin, within the Langtree main hall.
Starting at 7.30pm these are very sociable classes, and will teach basic steps for all the dances at a pace which everyone should feel comfortable with.

Jewellery Making Workshop Tue Jan 2010

This Tuesday night class is very ‘hands-on’ and you will be making jewellery within the first hour. You will be carefully guided in the use of all tools and various related safety issues. Your tutor will set you projects that are specifically chosen to give you a good understanding of basic skills as well as finished items of silver jewellery.

Basic Computers Workshop Tue Jan 2010

Would you like to learn how to make your way around a computer? Turn it on, turn it off how about opening a program (Word)? This workshop is aimed at absolute beginners. The course includes the basics in using a home PC. We will be showing you how to use a keyboard and mouse, with a little background knowledge, we will show you parts of the computer that could make your life easier.

Life Drawing Workshop Thur Jan 2010

Explore a full range of techniques, artistic viewpoints and navigate one of life's most complicated (inhabited) landscape of nature: the human figure. Long or short poses will be interspersed with exercises specifically designed to allow you to sensitise your perceptions and assist you to express what you see, after helping you to truly see it.

Pottery/Ceramics Workshop TBA

This course seeks to help students at all levels of experience in ceramics or pottery. Learn the art of basic hand building, experimenting with various ceramic techniques including pinching, modeling, slab building and coiling. This will ensure that all the participating students will create and develop a diverse range of work, making a variety of functional and sculptural objects in clay.

All courses will be subject to a fee and more in depth details regarding the courses can be found at www.langtree.oxon.sch.uk/community/adult.html or on leaflets at Langtree School or Woodcote Library. Alternatively, call 01491 680514 ext 227 and we will send out the relevant information. All these courses will be run on a first come first serve basis and we reserve the right to cancel the course if there are insufficient numbers attending. All these activity require advance booking.

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