Sunday 8th September / 12.30pm-3pm / £38pp

Create a textured wall hanging in this beginners weaving workshop!

You will learn how to warp up a loom, create plain weave, rya knots, soumak weave, fringing, tufting, work with wool roving and attach your finished weaving onto a wooden dowel for hanging.

Choose from a wide selection of colourful wools, yarns, fibres and cords to make a fun, textured weaving.

No previous weaving experience required.

Sunday 22nd September / 12-2pm / £39pp

In this session, Heather, the owner of HALLO Ceramics, will be guiding you through how to create your very own 'Pet Bowl' starting from just a ball of clay. The workshop will start with a demonstration with detailed explanations of each step, then you will proceed to create your very own bowl! Using the specialist tools and glazes available, you will bring your bowl alive by adding extra details and using the available colours to adorn your bowl with your pets name, some patterns and shapes! Once fired and returned to you, use it for your pet's favourite treats!

No previous pottery experience is required, all of your tools and materials are provided, and Heather will be on hand throughout to assist you through your make. After the session, your pots will then be taken home and professionally fired and glazed in Heather's kiln and then returned back to you to cherish forever.

Sunday 29th September / 1pm - 3pm / £30pp

Create 2 pairs of polymer clay earrings using the slab building technique.

After the workshop your pieces will be taken away to be baked & assembled. They will then post them to you!

Saturday 12th October / 10.30am - 12.30pm / £55pp

Learn the art of cold carving and sculpting in wax to create your own lost wax cast miniature brass pumpkin.

Knead, sculpt and carve both soft and hard jewellers wax into the curvaceous and undulating forms of pumpkins. Use small files, carving tools and your fingers to mould and create your miniature pumpkin sculptures to be transformed into brass.

What's Included:
Expert tuition from Amber Cooper-Green
All necessary materials and tools to create at least one pumpkin sculpture.
Casting of your wax creation into brass
Sanding and polishing of your finished piece

Sunday 13th October / 1pm- 3pm / £10pp

Private Rites by Julia Armfield...

The bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea returns with a stunning, unsettling novel following three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.

It's been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves and the cities have retreated to higher storeys. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice.

Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.

As the sisters come together to clear the grand glass house that is the pinnacle of his legacy, they begin to sense that the magnetic influence of their father lives on through it. Soon it becomes clear that others have also taken an interest in both his estate and in them, and that perhaps their inheritance may not be theirs alone.

Ticket price includes snacks & drinks.

Saturday 9th November / 10:30 - 13:30 / £38pp plus booking fee

Spend the morning getting inky! and learn how to design, carve and print your own designs using the lino cut technique.

In this 3 hour workshop, you will learn:

How to create a design perfect for lino print
How to transfer your drawing onto lino
How to carve a lino block, and use different techniques to create interesting patterns
How to mix inks to create your own colours
How to print your designs
How to sign and edition your prints

Suitable for beginners

Price £38 (plus booking fee) - includes tea and biscuits!