The Conservatoire

Mountain Gorillas and Orangutans are endangered due to the destruction of their homes. How can we make our own mountains for them to live on? We'll use different layers to create a painting with a mountainous effect using different papers, and make our own primates to live on them.

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Join this fun class at the Conservatoire to learn how to create traditional straw dolls! These dolls are often made at this time of year to celebrate harvest festivals. We will make some paper dolls as well, and create beautiful clothes and hats for them – all of them made out of real leaves!

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Let’s make our own sustainable superheroes! Together, we’ll use all sorts of recycled materials and multi-coloured paper to make a superhero picture. Your work will jump right off the page! We’ll also make our very own superhero masks out of leaves and berries to hide our true identity… How will your superhero save the planet?

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In this introduction to brass course, we’ll meet all the different instruments in the brass family, discover their origins and how they have been used and changed over time. We’ll go from buzzing like a swarm of bees to making a royal fanfare fit for Kings and Queens! You will have the chance to play a mixture of brass instruments and see how they differ in how we play them and the sounds they make. This class offers you the chance to test out brass instruments in a friendly environment with an experienced tutor and see if you’d like to continue your musical journey on brass through the Play! programme or with individual tuition. If you have your own instrument, feel free to bring it along but, if not, you can use one of ours for the class. As full-size brass instruments can be harsh on children's lips and teeth, we will be using pTrumpets and pBuzzes, which are excellent and safe versions of the Brass family. Please ask us if you have any questions about this.

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It's Halloween, so it’s time to celebrate all of the spooky animals out there! We'll make a Halloween hanging to decorate our walls, or to put on your door for Trick-or-Treaters, and we’ll use painting, printing and threading to make some suitably creepy crawlies and creatures.

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Come along to the Conservatoire for a creative contemporary dance class for young ones! Together we’ll move our bodies and have fun – exploring ideas, improvising, improving our co-ordination and expressing ourselves through movement. Twisting and turning, young dancers will work together to perform simple sequences and develop their own creativity – we’ll use all our energy and all our ideas! Using the activities and ideas we explore during the session, participants will work towards a short piece of movement which they can share informally with each other. If you love to move and want to explore a different approach to dance, this is the perfect short session for you – all levels and abilities welcome!

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Get to Know & Love Your Sewing Machine Do you have a sewing machine that spends more time in the cupboard or in its box than it does on your sewing table? Here’s an opportunity to get to know your sewing machine and what it can do for you! Join this course to learn how to thread your machine correctly, how to sew a straight seam and a curved one, the functions of the stitches and make yourself a tote bag and a pair of pyjama trousers. Just bring yourself, your machine, a paper copy of the machine’s manual and a basic sewing kit. Participants will also need to bring 0.5 metres of cotton fabric, matching thread and 1.5 metres of cotton webbing to the first lesson to make the tote bag. This course is suitable for beginners and those that haven’t sewn in a while and would like to refresh their skills.

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We will use different methods and mediums to make a watery lake like the ones Monet painted over and over again at his gardens in Giverny. Using wax resist, paint and printing, we’ll create our very own version of his famous works. We’ll add water lilies and of course some jumping frogs… we can even make ourselves a funky fish hat!

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Did you know that the branches from the trees all around you can be used to make things? People weave all sorts of things; baskets, fences… even houses! Together in this class we will weave some beautiful art. Using a branch shaped like a divining rod (like people use to find water!) we will make a stick loom. We’ll use wool, grasses, and other natural objects to weave our art on our loom. Let's have a look at the famous hungry caterpillar- they wove their way in and out of different fruits, cherry pies and even a lollipop!

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What kind of natural landscape do you like best? Perhaps a forest, a desert, or a tropical island? We will create our very own landscape, using recycled materials to create shores, cliffs, fields and streams. We can use real twigs to make a bridge or a row of trees. We’ll paint grass, water… there might even be a volcano!

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Boat, train, plane, car or scooter - what’s your favourite form of travel? Let’s explore wheels and ways of getting around... tyre marks and tracks, footprints and all the different patterns we can make. We’ll make a collage and print our own picture of a vehicle for you to take home.

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Jean Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. Inspired by his work, we will take a line for a walk around the paper and look at the way he used primary colours alongside black to create his wibbly wobbly paintings. He also used mud! We will create a sculpture from our energetic lines to take home.

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Looking at the work of Paul Klee, specifically the beautiful painting ‘Castle and Sun’, we will explore geometric shapes and how he uses colour and shape in his work. We’ll use rollers and painting tools to make our own geometric shapes, and create our own geometric city...which shapes will you create?

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Come along to this fun and colourful class to be inspired by beautiful Ancient Egyptian wall art! We will paint ourselves in profile, just like the pharaohs. Let’s try and decipher some hieroglyphics and write our own names!

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A workshop for students that want to improve their performance skills and gain confidence. This workshop is for singer/songwriters/artists that want to try out some new material and would like professional critique in a supportive and safe environment. In Pop Performance you will explore different genres of musical performance, ranging from rock, folk, DIY punk and pop. Our expert tutor will work with you in developing your performance skills, to connect with your song and deliver a great performance that will connect with an audience. This workshop is perfect for acoustic/electric singer songwriters, those accompanied by an instrument or backing track, and producer/songwriters.

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Are you a young drummer, pianist or singer? Ever dreamt of joining a band? Now is your time to shine! Come and learn to play your favourite pop songs as part of a band this half-term. Taught by practicing musicians, you will learn how to collaborate, jam and most importantly have fun with your music! Let’s rock! Perhaps we’ll sing the blues, or have a jam to ‘Yellow Submarine’… This course is open to young pianists, singers, and drummers/percussionists. We have limited space available for each instrument, so please get in touch ASAP to secure your spot.

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Explore the sound of the flute and other instruments in this fun-filled musical adventure. What are woodwind instruments? What did they look like a long time ago? How do they sound? We will learn all this and more through musical games, storytelling and adventure. Listen and dance to music, become immersed in a musical story and find out all about the wonderful woodwind family. During the session we will get to try some woodwind instruments and even make our very own pan flute and reed to take home!

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Have you ever been in a greenhouse or conservatory and marvelled at how many different greens there are? There are light and dark greens, warm and cool green... even bright and dull greens! Let’s see how many greens we can mix up and paint together. We will also get inspired by textures on leaves and sticks and use clay to make a paperweight to take home!

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Have you ever wanted to meet a real-life dinosaur? Let’s use some clay and sticks to create our very own tiny dinosaurs to keep as pets! We'll have a look at the shapes of dinosaurs and do some rubbings and stencils. You can make your favourite dinosaur or make a new one up, adding your favourite features. Will it fly or stomp around on the ground?

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What do the aliens wear on Mars? What do the astronauts wear at NASA? Let’s make some clothes to wear in space! We’ll make an image of an explorer, and clothes to attach with magnets so you can dress them in whatever you want! We will also make some planet magnets to stick on your fridge so you can carry on exploring at home... what story will you tell?

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We are thrilled to have Barre&Baby return to the Conservatoire this summer! You are welcome to book on to one, some, or all of these sessions. Barre&Baby™ is a space for people to bring balance back into their lives using the beauty of dance and movement. From both a physical and mental point of view, dance can be strengthening and liberating. Every step of Barre&Baby has been designed to improve pregnancy and postnatal wellbeing. By involving everything from fingers to toes, we’re aiming to create space, improve circulation, strengthen the body and increase flexibility. Greater body awareness leads to better posture and alignment (crucial to avoiding aches and pains) and empowers mums to trust their body’s signals (so useful during pregnancy and birth!). By staying so close to you, your baby develops a sense of security and protection. Our soothing and relaxing music, played live, transmits positive feelings and supports your baby’s sensory development. The vestibular system (the part of the inner ear that helps coordinate movement with balance) is stimulated by your own movements as you dance, and your baby’s cardiac system grows stronger as a result of the workout. Barre&Baby can provide powerful benefits for the mind too. As you concentrate on our dance steps, you’ll find yourself entering a sort of meditation in movement, while activating the release of endorphins (the ‘feel-good’ hormones), boosting energy levels and uplifting your spirit. Finally, as the saying goes: “meeting someone while dancing means meeting them in their soul”. Many friendships are born on the dance floor, and our students tell us Barre&Baby classes are a wonderful way to make new friends. All levels are welcome, you do not have to have any dance experience to benefit from Barre&Baby. This class includes live music and will be accompanied by a musician. Please wear comfortable clothing that you can move in, dance or yoga socks or soft ballet shoes. Expectant mothers are welcome after 12 weeks of pregnancy. For postnatal mums, please make sure you have had your 6 week check before joining. Please bring a carrier/sling for the babywearing section of the session.

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Some of the greatest artists, writers and public figures, including Andy Warhol, Lewis Carroll, Walt Disney and Queen Victoria kept lifelong journals and scrapbooks. Learn to create and keep a visual journal/sketchbook of your life and ideas, especially meaningful in these times of change. Use drawing, writing, collage, painting and memorable found items. Learn sketching and illustration techniques to use in your journals, which you can create by upcycling or redesigning an old or new diary or notebook. Learn some creative writing skills to develop a memory writing journal. Create memories for the future.

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Looking at the work of Yayoi Kusama, who we usually know for her pumpkin work, we will look at the birds she has painted. We’ll look at her beautiful work on endangered falcons – we'll paint and collage our own, with lots of dots of course!

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Come along to this workshop to explore a dynamic fusion of ballet and jazz techniques and traditions, allowing dancers to explore a wide range of movement and expressions. Young dances will be able to showcase their creativity and be encouraged to explore and enjoy dance!

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So many vegetables grow underground! We will be looking at the work of Miroco Machiko, a young Japanese artist, in this fun afternoon workshop. We will use inks and watercolours to reproduce one of her works of vegetables growing beautifully underground. We will also look at Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkins, as you might be looking for a pumpkin to carve soon!

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Ever fancied learning how to use clay, or have a clay project in mind? In this half day workshop you will be free to create your own ceramic ideas under the guidance of an experienced ceramic tutor. Students will create one or two pieces that will be decorated in coloured slips. Pieces will then be glazed and fired and ready to collect after the summer holidays.

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The very first blue and white pottery was made during the early Tang dynasty in China. We will be looking at these beautiful vases, studying the Chinese designs and painting our own in blue and white. We will do some colour mixing to create some wonderful new colours to use in our painting. You can take your lovely vase home to put some spring flowers in!

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Join our special holiday edition of our popular term time Little Art-Venture Club! These classes are a great introduction to the world of art for your little one. These child-led, exploratory sessions enable you and your child to discover different materials, textures and art forms in an engaging and stimulating environment. Children acquire new skills on a week-by-week basis and gain more confidence in the vocabulary they use to describe what they see and feel. If you are already a part of the Little Art-Venture Club, then keep your artistic muscles working by joining our 4-week summer programme. If you are brand new to our Club, we’d love to welcome you too! These 4 summer sessions are a great way to try out these classes to see if they will be right for your little artist in September. Please note, these are not drop off sessions, and parents and carers stay and join in.

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What can we find underground this October? Let’s tell the story of a dinosaur fossil through our artwork! We’ll do rubbings, look at the characteristics of different dinosaurs, explore the textures of their skin and scales, and make our own dinosaur fossil out of clay and Plaster of Paris! We’ll finish off our wonderful new dinos by painting them bright and beautiful colours!

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We all know and love Eric Carle books like The Hungry Caterpillar! He has a distinctive, immediately recognisable style which brings a lot of fun to storytelling. Which book is your favourite? We'll be painting tissue papers in different colours and patterns, and use them to make our own collage animals, caterpillars or butterflies.

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Using coloured sand and other natural materials, we will create our very own globes! Using paper and biodegradable string, we will create our planet base, before deciding what should go on it. What sort of planet will you build? Perhaps it will be mainly blue, like Earth, or maybe it will be covered in green forests? Come along to see what you will create!

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Are you a young cello player? Then come along to the Conservatoire to go on a Cello Journey! We travel on an hour-long round trip, looking at pieces and composers from different countries, and exploring this beautiful instrument. This class is suitable for anyone who is approximately grade 1 to grade 4 on the cello, and it is a perfect accompaniment for someone who is having individual lessons with us, or who is learning in a group on the Play! course. We hope to see you there... bring your travelling cello (or borrow one from us) and get ready to explore!

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Inspired by the Roman exhibition at the British Museum we will use all of our creativity to make our own Roman jewellery, armour and even a shield. Maybe we’ll even have time for some sandals? And then... we’re ready to march!

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Insects are very important to the planet! We need to protect them – let’s make our own insects to add some more to the world! We will make some minibeasts using collage and painting, and create some foliage for them to hide in… which bugs will you bring to life?

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Do you love to play the piano? Then this course might be perfect for you! This 2.5 hour long workshop is a great opportunity for students to play in an informal setting and receive some feedback from our expert tutor. Perhaps you are preparing for an exam or a competition? Come along to try out your pieces on others! This course is designed for those who are at an intermediate or an advanced level on the piano, approximately grade 5 and above. Gather some feedback and increase your confidence! Participants should bring a maximum of two pieces per student. Please feel free to bring pieces that aren’t necessarily fully learnt e.g. one or two pages.

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Wow, animals can have so many different colours and textures! Some have fur, some have feathers, and some have fins. We will explore these textures together – how fluffy is a barn owl? How slippery is a seal? We’ll use rubbings and printing to discover more.

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Wow – it really is A Bug’s Life out there right now! Now that all the beautiful butterflies and brilliant bugs are back, let’s celebrate them! Together we will make a caterpillar puppet to crawl around, and, of course, a fluttery butterfly which you can fly home. Maybe our caterpillars are hungry...

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Have you ever picked up a ukulele? Come to the Conservatoire to get started on the right note! Join us on this fun-filled introduction to the instrument, perfect for young musicians who are just starting their musical journey. In this two-hour course you will learn to play your first song and have fun making music with others. Young participants will learn the basics of this beginner-friendly instrument, under the guidance of our fantastic tutors. All levels are welcome! You can bring your own instrument or borrow one of ours for the session. Come along to find out what’s in store for uke and you!

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Do you love to play the piano? Then this course might be perfect for you! This 1 hour long workshop is a great opportunity for students to play in an informal setting and receive some feedback from our expert tutor. Perhaps you are preparing for an exam or a competition, or part of our regular Music Club? Come along to try out your pieces on others! This course is designed for those at all levels on the piano. Gather some feedback and increase your confidence! Participants should bring a maximum of two pieces per student. Please feel free to bring pieces that aren’t necessarily fully learnt e.g. one or two pages.

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Are you a keen young musician who loves the guitar? Come and join us for an afternoon where you will learn all about this wonderful instrument while learning and playing some songs. Explore the instrument and express yourself under the guidance of our enthusiastic tutors. We welcome young guitarists of all levels, including complete beginners. Guitars can be borrowed for the session free of charge.

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Did you know that insects are some of the most important creatures on the planet? Even though they are so small, they keep everything ticking over! In this class we will celebrate these tiny beings who have such a big impact. We will make pictures using leaves and twigs and create images of our favourite insects. Come along to discover how to make paper create different shapes and spring into life… we will make some swingy spiders and some brilliant beetles!

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Lets make some musical instruments and take this show down to New Orleans! We'll create our own stick rattles and other exciting instruments, based on African percussion. We’ll use leaves and other natural materials to create intricate masks so that we so can join in the masked ball at Mardi Gras!

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Let’s look at the earth from outer space, like the aliens do! Taking inspiration from the work of Patrick Heron, we will be taking a line for a walk with drawing and cutting with scissors... using spray paint, stencils, and tape, we will create the spectacular shapes and colours of the universe! We will also make a UFO using paper plates, adding buttons and switches, and we’ll make an alien creature to fly it! Perhaps they will visit us?

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In this fun and relaxed Pop Choir, you will learn contemporary songs from pop, to soul, to jazz, to R’n’B. During a 2 hour lesson we will start with a vocal warm up before learning a song – and the group can help choose it! This is the perfect setting for beginner singers to develop their confidence and voice. You will improve your vocal technique and placement, blending your voice with the rest of the choir and developing your musical ear with the learning of harmonies and with an accompaniment. Joining a choir is a great way to meet other like minded singers and musicians and to discover a way of making music together. This course runs twice in this half term. You can join for the first or both sessions.

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Looking at the famous painting ‘Starry Night’ by Van Gogh, we will have a go at creating our own versions. Using drawing and painting, we'll use different shades to create the movement that we see within this stunning masterpiece. Which stars will you find in the sky?

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The rainforests are under threat, and where will the animals live? We’ll make beautiful rainforest scenes together using all kinds of art mediums, making sure that all of the different animals have somewhere glorious and green to go. Which animals will be hiding in your rainforest picture?

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Come along to the Conservatoire for a creative contemporary dance class for young ones! Together we’ll move our bodies and have fun – exploring ideas, improvising, improving our co-ordination and expressing ourselves through movement. Twisting and turning, young dancers will work together to perform simple sequences and develop their own creativity – we’ll use all our energy and all our ideas! Using the activities and ideas we explore during the session, participants will work towards a short piece of movement which they can share informally with each other. If you love to move and want to explore a different approach to dance, this is the perfect short session for you – all levels and abilities welcome!

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In this introduction to brass course, we’ll meet all the different instruments in the brass family, their origins and how they have been used and changed over time. We’ll go from buzzing like a swarm of bees to making a royal fanfare fit for Kings and Queens! You will have the chance to play a mixture of brass instruments and see how they differ in how we play them and the sounds they make. This class offers you the chance to test out brass instruments in a friendly environment with an experienced tutor and see if you’d like to continue your musical journey on brass through the Play! programme or with individual tuition. If you have your own instrument, feel free to bring it along but, if not, you can use one of ours for the class. As full-size brass instruments can be harsh on children's lips and teeth, we will be using pTrumpets and pBuzzes, which are excellent and safe versions of the Brass family. Please ask us if you have any questions about this.

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Are you a young cello player? Then come along to the Conservatoire to go on a Cello Journey! We travel on an hour-long round trip, looking at pieces and composers from different countries, and exploring this beautiful instrument. This class is suitable for anyone who is approximately grade 1 to grade 4 on the cello, and it is a perfect accompaniment for someone who is having individual lessons with us, or who is learning in a group on the Play! course. We hope to see you there... bring your travelling cello (or borrow one from us) and get ready to explore!

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Based on the work of Sophie Tauber-Arp we'll make our own puppets out of geometric shapes... they’ll even have moving parts! Our creations will look like they belong in the circus, so we'll make some bright and colourful circus pictures to go with your puppet. Maybe you could put on a show at home for the grown-ups!

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Do you know which are the primary and secondary colours? We’ll mix up lots of colours and see what we can discover! We’ll make our own bright and brilliant colour wheel, so that you can always remember which colours make other ones. We’ll have fun with coloured acetates too!

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Come along to the Conservatoire for a creative contemporary dance class for young ones! Together we’ll move our bodies and have fun – exploring ideas, improvising, improving our co-ordination and expressing ourselves through movement. Twisting and turning, young dancers will work together to perform simple sequences and develop their own creativity – we’ll use all our energy and all our ideas! Using the activities and ideas we explore during the session, participants will work towards a short piece of movement which they can share informally with each other. If you love to move and want to explore a different approach to dance, this is the perfect short session for you – all levels and abilities welcome!

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Discover the art of handmade books! Learn a little about the history, materials and craft of bookbinding while making a beautiful photo album for your holiday snaps! You'll use a variety of sewing techniques to create single and multi-section books, and explore Coptic and Japanese bookbinding.

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Inspired by Hokusai’s Wave, we will explore all of the fun basics of printing together. We'll also make a colourful crocodile with inky sponges, investigating colours and shapes. What else might be under the waves?

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Did you know that trees have as many roots underground as they have branches above ground? So many insects and animals make their homes in and around these roots, deep in the earth. Together we’ll paint our own tree, looking particularly at the twisting turning roots, and we’ll make our own imaginative underground world using tubes and boxes!

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Now that the sun is out we can go exploring again! Have you seen what the earth looks like from above? Looking at maps and at the work of Victor Pasmore, Patrick Heron and Hundertwasser we will explore shapes you can see from up in the sky, looking down on the earth. We will draw with scissors and create our maps in the manner of Matisse.

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Spring is going to pop up any time now, and we are going to make pop up flowers and buds using colourful card and paper sculpting! We could make tulips, daffodils, peonies...what flowers will you make? We will create some blossoms on the bough and paint a 3D vase to put them in so you can display your beautiful creations at home.

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Have you seen the stunning birds of the rainforest? Perhaps you have seen them on your holidays. They are so colourful that it is hard to believe they are real! We will draw, design and then make a sculpture of our very own Bird of Paradise with beautiful decorated wings. You can take your sculpture home to show all of your friends how beautiful these birds are.

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Roundabout has been running at the Conservatoire for over 30 years! Since 1992 we have been introducing children aged 5-7 to music through this exciting, informative and inclusive year-long course. Are you thinking of signing up? Perhaps you are already on the waiting list? Well then, this two-day taster is perfect for you! Join us for two mornings in half term to explore all of the many instruments that learners get to explore in their year of Roundabout; strings, flute, piano, brass, percussion and guitar. You'll get time with each instrument, and even try playing in an orchestra. Join us and join the fun!

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In this fun workshop we’ll be referencing the book 'Monkey Puzzle' by local artist and author Axel Schiffer. We will make some hanging monkeys and babies to hang from them and we'll decorate them individually. Where will you put your monkey?

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Hirameki means ‘brainwave' or 'flash of inspiration' in Japanese... and it is where doodling and imagination come together to create something amazing! We will make inky fingerprints and blots, and then create something new from our doodles. What can you see in the shapes? We’ll use pens to add features. Will yours be insects? Or planets? Or even people?

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Leopards, Sumatran Tigers, and Lynx are all endangered species of big cat. We will look at the different patterning of these big cats and how their coats help them to be camouflaged in their environment. How many patterns can you find in the spots and stripes?

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Did you know that the ocean is one of the most important parts of our planet’s ecosystem! Come along to this fun class to celebrate the ocean and all things wavy! We will use paint and rubbings to decorate paper, and then we'll learn how to manipulate it, using scissors to cut shapes to make feathers, leaves and waves… we’ll also draw patterns to make it look like the sea is waving from the page. You’ll be literally making waves!

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Have you ever seen Koi carp swimming in a pool? Aren’t they amazing! We’ll try to recreate their movement in the water while practising our brushwork, inspired by Chinese traditions and using ink in beautiful colours. We’ll look at different techniques artists use to create the effect of water, and magically bring it to life on our pages.

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Where do the whales live? Under the water! Together we will explore the big blue landscape that sea creatures live in, discovering the worlds of blue whales and porpoises. How many shades of blue can you make?

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Trains, boats, cars, bicycles, scooters, planes... it’s time for the holidays! Where are we going and how will we get there? In our art class we will explore lots of different vehicles and types of transport, using paint and collage. We'll even make our own!

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What will hatch? As spring arrives, we will imagine and discuss what creatures might emerge from different eggs. Could it be a dinosaur, a snake, a chick... or will it be a chocolate egg! Together we will explore egg rolling and decorating, as well as making a beautiful nest to keep our decorated eggs safe.

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Learn to design and produce beautiful original collage designs and original artworks. Design unique pieces using recycled materials, visual and written prompts and mood sheets. Develop your own personal style and design. Design all over and engineered placement patterns and paper patchwork designs. Look at the work of collage artists and designers. Design, remake and embellish items such as one off pieces, canvases, boxes, cards, artworks, small objects and furniture. Mix pictures and found words, paint and mixed media. Create individualised creations and develop your own personal style.

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All kinds of artists have long been fascinated by the magnificent Rhino, but the Black Rhino is now an endangered species. We will look at how artists have portrayed these enormous animals in their work, and we’ll make our own paper rhinos to take home.

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Do you ever feel like being a jungle animal? Perhaps you leap around like a monkey, or sneak about like a panther! Let’s make a sign for your bedroom door, inspired by all things jungletastic. Using sticks we'll tie our sign together to make a frame, and then we’ll make a picture or a collage on paper and string it between the sides. Voila, your very own handmade sign!

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We all love to sing along to our favourite shows... but have you ever thought of dancing along?! Now you will have a routine to burst into whenever your favourite soundtrack comes on! There is no business like show business - come prepared with lots of energy, lots of smiles and of course – jazz hands!

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Taking inspiration from the famous work of M.C. Escher, Bridget Riley and Rasheed Araeen, we will look at patterns and repetition based on water, sound and airwaves – which waves can travel through space?! We’ll explore our own patterns using paint and scraper tools, and we’ll make our own beautiful constellations too, using cardboard, elastic bands and drawing pins. Come along to make your very own Night Sky!

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Have you ever picked up a ukulele? Come to the Conservatoire to get started on the right note! Join us on this fun-filled introduction to the instrument, perfect for young musicians who are just starting their musical journey. In this two-hour course you will learn to play your first song and have fun making music with others. Young participants will learn the basics of this beginner-friendly instrument, under the guidance of our fantastic tutors. All levels are welcome! You can bring your own instrument or borrow one of ours for the session. Come along to find out what’s in store for uke and you!

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Insects are very important to the planet! We need to protect them – let’s make our own insects to add some more to the world! We will make some minibeasts using collage and painting, and create some foliage for them to hide in… which bugs will you bring to life?

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Have you visited a farm in the holidays? We’ll have a look at what animals we can find on the farm, especially sheep! We’ll use collage and paint to decorate our own farm scenes. We will be mixing lots of greens and painting in textures to resemble grass surrounding our lovely flock of sheep! What other animals can you find?

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Do you have a cat as a pet? Or have you ever seen big cats out in the wild? There are lions, tigers, panthers, jaguars... let’s explore them together! We’ll make an inky tiger or a stripy cat, using ink painting and fun printing techniques. What colours will your big cat be?

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Coral reefs are beautiful, but we need to protect them – Nemo lives there and we must make sure he has a home! Together we will make some of our own gloriously coloured coral reefs, and even make Nemo and his friends to go in it! We’ll be using clay and collage to create our scenes.

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Join our special holiday edition of our popular term time Little Art-Venture Club! These classes are a great introduction to the world of art for your little one. These child-led, exploratory sessions enable you and your child to discover different materials, textures and art forms in an engaging and stimulating environment. Children acquire new skills on a week-by-week basis and gain more confidence in the vocabulary they use to describe what they see and feel. If you are already a part of the Little Art-Venture Club, then keep your artistic muscles working by joining our 4-week summer programme. If you are brand new to our Club, we’d love to welcome you too! These 4 summer sessions are a great way to try out these classes to see if they will be right for your little artist in September. Please note, these are not drop off sessions, and parents and carers stay and join in.

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Mountain Gorillas and Orangutans are endangered due to the destruction of their homes. How can we make our own mountains for them to live on? We'll use different layers to create a painting with a mountainous effect using different papers, and make our own primates to live on them.

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Come along to the Conservatoire for a morning of dance! Together we will explore imagined forest landscapes and woodland inhabitants... all through creative dance and movement! We will have a small sharing at the end of our session for friends and family. Come and join us to find out what moves await us in the forest!

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In the springtime all of the trees come back to life after a long winter. In Elmer the Elephant’s world, the trees are fantastical, and their leaves, bark and roots are whatever you want to imagine! In this workshop we will print all the bright colours on Elmer and create a beautiful springtime forest in which he can live.

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Do you need to tackle some scales for an upcoming exam? Perhaps there are a few that you have struggled with in the past and want to revisit? Come along to our wonderful Scale Club where scales are made FUN! Together with our expert tutor Phillip you will find tips and techniques to help you play the perfect scale... no matter how many sharps and flats are thrown at you! This class is great for those aged 6–12, at any grade level (or none!).

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All sorts of shapes and sizes of vehicle are visions of the future of travel! We will design and make our own rocket, using junk modelling materials and paint, and we’ll also create our own maps of space! What will be up there? Perhaps flying saucers, rockets, and UFOs, we’ll also make a paper plate planet spiral to hang up at home!

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Summer is a time for doing everything outside, including eating our lunches and dinners! Shall we have a teddy bears’ picnic? We'll do some paper weaving inspired by the paintings of the French impressionists, and we’ll make a fabulous collage of painted food. Bring a teddy to join in!

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Do you think imaginary creatures and mythical monsters live in other worlds out there up in the night sky? Let’s try and think what they look like... you can come along and collage your own creature! We will make an alien space puppet so you can work out how they move, and we’ll each make a backdrop of space, so you can carry on telling stories at home!

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We will travel underwater with the Octonauts in search of adventure and fun! We will make our own underwater craft, and our favourite octonaut in puppets. Look at all the exotic fish and bright colours of the coral reef! We’ll use inks and bright colours to convey our watery scene.

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Let’s explore colours – the warm yellow sun of summer and the blue of the sky! Everyone loves a rainbow, can we make a rainbow snail to trail all the colours from his tail? We'll make one using paint and collage materials. What's your favourite colour? They're all here!

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Spring is on its way and the trees are getting new leaves and buds. Together we’ll use leaves to make some lovely prints, exploring patterns together. We will look at how designers use repeating patterns to create an effective design. What else can you make a pattern from?

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We are so thrilled to have a visit from the brilliant company Woolwich Dance Space – come along to explore dance and movement with expert tutor Svenja! With a holistic, creative and playful approach, participants will find fun ways to express themselves through dance.

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What is under your bed? Perhaps your old toys, then the carpet, then dust, floorboards, then pipes and wires, a tunnel, a cave, some buried treasure… what next! We’ll go on a deep-down underground journey, exploring layer by layer all the way to the magma at the centre of the earth. What layers will you create in your artwork? We’ll be using paint, ink, and other drawing materials.

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What is better after a long day out and about than a comfy place to rest! In this class we'll design our own chair and make it out of modelling materials. Will it be a deckchair, and squishy sofa or a desk chair? We'll have an inventive time making chairs out of different materials. You can take inspiration from chairs you have at home and ones you’ve seen out and about.

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What would your robot look like? Mechanical gadgets and technologies are playing a larger part in our lives! Using all the gadgets as inspiration, we’ll draw and collage robots using lots of different images. Let’s make a 3-D one, adding lots of buttons and levers! We’ll use collage, junk modelling materials and plenty of imagination.

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Have you ever wanted to throw paint around!? Well, flicking paint like Jackson Pollock is a great way to make paintings that look like space! We will make bleeding tissue planets as well as exploring other materials and techniques, such as rolling marbles in paint, and using salad spinners like Damien Hurst. We can make a mobile too, by painting polystyrene balls to make our very own planets!

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The sun is shining and picnics are here again. What do you like to eat on a picnic out in the woods? We’ll make a rug on which to sit, and some food to eat. We’ll need something to drink, and how will we get there? We’ll need to take a bike, a car, a bus or a plane. Let’s create our picnic!

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Let’s explore an ants’ eye view of the inside of a flower! Inspired by Georgia O’Keefe and her beautiful botanical paintings, we'll make a large-scale flower painting using mixed media and some paper flowers. We’ll explore using paint and collage – how big can our flowers get!? Perhaps they will spill off the page.

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Do you love to play the piano? Then this course might be perfect for you! This 1 hour long workshop is a great opportunity for students to play in an informal setting and receive some feedback from our expert tutor. Perhaps you are preparing for an exam or a competition? Come along to try out your pieces on others! This course is designed for those who are at an intermediate or an advanced level on the piano. Gather some feedback and increase your confidence! Participants should bring a maximum of two pieces per student. Please feel free to bring pieces that aren’t necessarily fully learnt e.g. one or two pages.

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The trees are exploding back into life! We will use paint, collage, and printmaking to explore sizes and shapes of trees and the animals that live in the forest... we’ll make big footprints! Do they belong to a bear? Looking at the work of Henri Rousseau, we’ll paint our own animal with spots or stripes and make a forest to hide them in.

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This is an opportunity to play your woodwind instrument in a fun and relaxed group setting. Delve into the sounds of your instrument, including different tones and extended techniques. We will be playing some well known tunes and also creating one of our own pieces during this exciting workshop. We will also incorporate games and exercises into the session to practice collaboration and group exploration. Please bring along your instrument(s) and let us know instrument and standard ahead of time. This course is open to woodwind players between grades 1 and 5.

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Jump into the story, jump into the character's shoes and look at some of your favourite stories from a different perspective! Using storytelling exercises and imaginative improvisation we will dive head first into the world of the story. Bring your imagination along, you're going to need it!

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Lets go travelling to distant shores! We could go to the beach, explore a rainforest, or up a mountain. We’ll need to make passports, a compass, a map, some binoculars - and a backpack to put it all in. What do you like to bring with you when you go on a journey? Allons-y! Vamos! Let's go!

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How does something look far away when really, it is right in front of our nose? We will learn about perspective and how artists use it when painting a landscape. We will look at the “vanishing point” – what could that be? – and we will use it in a landscape painting to give the appearance of something far away. Once you’ve learned these tricks, you can use them over and over again in your artwork!

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Clay is a wonderful natural material, which we can dig up straight from the ground. It can be used to make so many different things by adding water! It is biodegradable, which means that when you are finished with it, it can go back to the earth. Together we will get to grips with clay in this fun class… let’s make some pretty pen holders for all of our stationary, and we will use our imagination to paint them!

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“The Pale Blue Dot” is the name of a photograph of planet earth taken on Feb 14th 1990 by Voyager 1 Space probe... from 6 billion kilometres away! Wow! Look at the work of Hilma af Klimt and be inspired by her use of shapes and lines to make our own beautiful planets with chalk pastels. We will also make a woven planet using different threads of different textures and patterns. What colours will your planets be?

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Attention all pianists! Get ready to take your piano playing skills to the next level with our exciting summer program. Introducing the ultimate music creation tool – our keyboard and synth course. Come create sounds and learn your favourite song. With a wide range of high quality sound presets and customisable options, you will be learning how to create any type of music you want on keyboard – from jazz, pop, Rnb to electronic and film music. With expert instruction from an experienced teacher combined with the opportunity to collaborate with other musicians, our program is the perfect way to discover a whole new layer to playing keyboard. We will cover a wide range of topics, including keyboard sound programming, the basics of contemporary music theory and arranging as well as ensemble playing and learning songs together. Don’t miss out on the incredible opportunity to enhance your musical taste and have a blast this summer! Please note that you will need to bring your own instrument to this course.

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North winds doth blow! Perfect weather for flying a kite, especially on Blackheath! Have you ever flown a kite before? We will look at the history of kite flying around the world, and then we will make a colourful kite of our own. You can fly it all the way home! What colours will yours be?

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Do you love to dance? Then this workshop is for you! We will explore physical theatre techniques and many forms of dance to create our very own short performance, based on our theme of emerging from winter into the bright sunshine of spring. You will learn skills to help you choreograph your own brilliant dances, and you will learn techniques from around the world. We’ll even have a short sharing at the end of the day. Join us for a day of dance! Please note that this course takes place at the Quaker Meeting House in Blackheath (more details on booking).

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Come and try out the ukulele and get started on the right note! Join us on this fun-filled introduction to the instrument. Learn to play your first song and have fun making music. Participants will learn the basics, under the guidance of a professional musician. All levels are welcome; bring your own instrument or borrow one of ours.

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Have you ever travelled to Austria and seen the work of artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser? He created a unique visual language with spirals and colours, and he painted wherever he was... on whatever was there! Come along to the Conservatoire to make a flying, arty visit to Austria, and create a unique building inspired by his architecture. We’ll use colourful paper, card, string, sand; and plaster, as well as diving into extra activities to transport us across to Austria!

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Have you ever wanted to capture a summer holiday forever? Perhaps you take photographs, or you bring home souvenirs… well on this course you can preserve these special memories in plaster! Using items from your trips, textures and other designs, you will create clay tiles imprinted with memories or designs from your favourite holiday, splatter and relief sculpture. Come along to create a scene or environment which reflects your favourite holiday memory or embraces your ideas around travel, and become a craftsperson through creating your plaster tile!

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Come along to the Conservatoire to create a summer sculpture installation! Using found and recycled materials we will be sculpting a flock of birds that will descend and live in the Conservatoire's very own creative garden! Join us to test out your sculptural skills, and to create something for the community to enjoy together.

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Create your own spell book inspired by the first book in the Harry Potter series! We will explore marbling and paper aging techniques, collage and found materials to make our books look as old as Dumbledore himself. To stay inspired we’ll listen to music by John Williams from the original film.

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Come along to the Conservatoire for a day of dance! Together with our expert tutor, young dancers will explore contemporary dance and movement inspired by the elements and the world around us. You will dip your toe into Western popular styles like contemporary an jazz as well as Eastern forms of dance and movement like Butoh, Nihonbouyo, and Tai chi. If there’s time perhaps you’ll even experiment with some Latin forms too! You’ll finish the day with a short performance to show off your new moves.

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Have you ever dreamt of making a thrilling expedition to the centre of the Earth? How about creating a short film of this epic journey, featuring terrifying creatures and marvellous subterranean wonders? Now you can, with this unique filmmaking workshop that teaches you how to script, film, and edit your very own subterranean adventure! Armed with their tablets or smartphones, our young adventurers will collaboratively write scripts for their short films. They will then bring their stories to life in the studio, acting out their brave roles, capturing their performances on film, and editing their footage into a final production that they can proudly showcase at a popcorn-filled home premiere! Please note that participants must bring their own tablet or smartphone and download the free Capcut app. Let's create our unforgettable journey to the Earth's core together! Please note that it is likely that participants will capture videos and images of each other during this class. If this won’t be appropriate for your child/children please take a look at our other wonderful courses instead.

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Ever wondered how your favourite songs are written and produced in the studio? Together we will create a beat from scratch, experimenting with different instruments, iconic song samples and sounds from one computer and a midi keyboard. We will create our own rap/song lyrics as a team and even record your vocals together in our pop-up music studio! Watch your idea grow into a finished song. Bring any instruments you play, and we may incorporate them. Our goal is to complete one finished track and upload it to YouTube, SoundCloud & Instagram to amaze your friends and family. No prior musical knowledge needed, just come and find out how creative you can be!

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Visit the glittering city of Venice without having to pack a bag, remember your passport, or buy a ticket! From the comfort of our lovely art studio we will explore all of the excitement that Venice has to offer... which of the famous Italian artworks will you take inspiration from? We’ll make a Venetian masquerade mask so you can join in the festivities! Take your mask home and bring the carnival back to your friends and family!

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Are you ready to take your singing to the next level? Look no further than our exciting vocal workout summer programme! Come and learn how to improve upon your vocal technique, range and performance skills in a fun and supportive environment. Taught by an experienced vocal coach, you will learn a wide range of vocal exercises along with collaborating with other singers in order to help you develop a unique sound. This course is open to singers looking for tools and inspiration to improve their singing and vocal practice. Sign up for our vocal workout summer program today and get ready to unleash your full singing potential. This course takes place over three weeks, with one session a week (there is a break in the week of the 7 August). You can join for all three sessions or just for two.

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Playing solo is good, but playing music with other people is more fun! Join us for this ‘Welcome to the Orchestra!’ course during half term to play some music as an ensemble. During this course we will learn what an orchestra is, who is the conductor of the orchestra, how to understand the signs the conductor makes for the musicians to follow, and how to play together as an ensemble. In this course we will work as a team and we will even compose a new piece especially made by the orchestra and for the orchestra! Sharing is caring so let’s share our music skills with our fellow musicians! This course is taken by brilliant tutor Ana Perez, and is a great course to try if you are interested in her term time course 'Saturday Sinfonia'. This course needs some basic knowledge of music, and is perfect if you are preparing for Grade 1, and all the way up to Grade 3 music students.

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Join this class for the chance to make your mark on the Conservatoire with a brand new mural! We are sprucing up and re-creating our mural in the creativity garden – perhaps you have seen it before if you have been in our sandpits or waited in the garden before your class? Make a Mural happens in two sections; in the first week the group will imagine and design the mural, guided by our wonderful tutor Eileen. In the second week we will get the brushes out because it’s time to paint! You will also get to take home your own mini piece of the mural to display at home. You do not have to book on to both classes, but you are welcome to do so if you want to be a part of the full mural process. Come along to Make a Mural and your creativity will be on display at the Conservatoire for many years to come! There are two sessions of this class – you can book on to one or both of them. In the first class the group will be designing the mural and the second class will be bringing it to life!

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Come & explore the magic of the forest as we delve in to one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Transform yourself into King of the fairies, a cheeky sprite or an amateur actor blessed with a donkey's head... nothing is impossible when magic is about! Come along to this drama workshop for ages 7 – 11, based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, loosely introducing basic original text, and exploring physicality and comedy skills! You'll end the day with a short sharing to show off your new skills. No knowledge of Shakespeare is needed, and this is a perfect introduction for young actors interested in all kinds of plays. Participants are in for a real treat as they will be taught by Joanna Brown, who has just returned from English Theatre Vienna playing the Queen of the Fairies herself!

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Visit the colourful country of Morocco without having to pack a bag, remember your passport, or buy a ticket! From the comfort of our lovely art studio we will explore all of the excitement that the markets of Marrakech have to offer... from which of the beautiful Riads and Berber rugs will you take inspiration? We’ll make colourful foldable streets out of card, painting them using bright shades. Take your paper city home and bring Morocco back to your friends and family!

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Ever wanted to create a self-portrait but thought "I can't do that"? Well, we’re here to tell you yes you can, with guaranteed success! Introducing the unique method of the Flip Portrait, taught by our fantastic visiting tutor Jonathan Huxley. Jonathan is a contemporary artist and artist educator at the Royal Academy of Arts. We are delighted to have him at the Conservatoire this February! Using clever methods, he will teach you how to conjure up magical and astronomical self-portraits using acetate, photographs, Sharpies, and tissue paper... you’ll create your portraits with beautiful backgrounds of comets, planets and galaxies! Everyone will go home with a beautiful, unique finished work.

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Come along to this fun short course for teens exploring the world of fashion illustration. If you love fashion and are always drawing your next design, this course is perfect for you! We will explore a range of illustrative techniques used in fashion illustration as well as experimenting with different materials, exploring sustainability in fashion along the way. Participants will finish off the day by creating their own fashion illustration design using their favourite techniques from the session. Florence is a textile artist, trained and working at Central St Martins.

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Do you love nature? Do you love drawing and creating? Then this workshop is for you! Pupils will learn about botanical illustration, with a fun take on painting/drawing by using an abstract and surrealist approach. We’ll work from real natural objects, as well as photos, to create an inspiring gallery of prints at the end of our workshop, where the paintings might not always be what they seem! With the help of macrolenses, we’ll be getting up-close and personal with flowers, leaves, feathers, shells, and more... and you can bring your own, too! Take home a set of their beautiful pictures, prints, and bookmarks to keep or share as gifts. Please note that all students will need to have a smartphone or tablet that can take photos, and an appropriate charger, to take part in this workshop. Macro-lenses will be provided. Please wear clothes that you won't mind getting painty!

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Ever wondered how your favourite podcast is recorded or wanted to create a podcast yourself? Come along and learn all about this new and popular art form and create your very own travel podcast! Bring your best stories and jokes to entertain our listeners when they check out the finished podcast on YouTube.

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Clothes from different countries are stunning - the beautiful textiles and varied techniques. We’ll look at traditional dress from across the globe, and we'll make our own decorated Asian slippers, a textile design based on traditional motifs from Central America, and a paper piece based on woven African cloth from Ghana.

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Learn how to dye fabric using natural and synthetic dyes, creating groovy patterns and colours. First we will use different tying techniques to make a range of patterns, practicing first on scrap material, and then transferring what we’ve learnt onto t-shirts, tote bags and socks. Design your own range of tie dye summer wear that you can proudly show off to your family and friends!

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In this exciting half day course we will look at a number of different TFL posters, historical and modern. Students will design their own tube poster in their own style, creating an image for Blackheath’s own (imaginary future!) tube station. Students will learn about different art styles and be able to use a range of media to bring their own beautiful posters to life.

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Colour mixing with a difference! Have you ever seen stained glass windows? Perhaps you saw them in a church or a hall – did you see how beautiful the colour is when the light pours through this glass? In our workshop we will use coloured acetates (big sheets!) to explore pure colour and what happens when we mix colours. Together we will decorate jars with coloured tissues to make the colours we want… we’ll put a candle inside and enjoy the glow!

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Join the Orchestra this Saturday! Experience the empowering feeling of making music as a group, developing your performing and playing skills through orchestral rehearsals, performances side by side with the teachers and creative music making. If you are continuing on from this week's Summer School for Young Musicians, you will be able apply and develop all the abilities acquired during the course! Or join us for this masterclass day only, if you have some previous experience playing a musical instrument. There will be a small sharing at the end of the day. There are limited places available for some instruments. Please contact us to let us know which instrument you would like to play.

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Rhinos are some of our most majestic, yet endangered species. They’ve also been famously depicted by wonderful artists as eclectic as Durer, Dali and, most recently, Banksy, not far from here in Charlton. In this class, we will craft and decorate our own colourful clay rhino and create 3D street art with a painted plaster cast rhino emerging from their background.

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Come to the carnival! Together we will be looking at masks used in celebrations, carnival and rituals from around the world, including in Sri Lanka, Mexico, and Guinea-Bissau. We’ll design our own masks, and using recycled materials, we’ll build them together! How will you create the hair, teeth, or cheeks for your mask? Have fun with scrunching paper and detailing with colour! We can't wait to see what new face you create.

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In this exciting all-day art class we will take inspiration from the works of the abstract artist John Walker. What would happen if you lived underground? Let your imagination run wild and create your very own Underground City! What are the buildings made of, and the roads? How do people get around? Dream big and create your city how you would like it to be! We will be using acrylic paint, ink, and string, as well as some organic materials like sand, leaves, moss and clay to make our creations.

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In this flute course, you will learn all about the instrument, meeting different flutes from around the world and even get to try out your very own flute skills! Our experienced tutor will guide you through aspects of rhythm and musicality through a variety of games, using the flute head joint to ground you in the basics of the instrument. Within the class you will learn a variety of sounds, three different notes, and write our own short piece of music. This class gives you the opportunity to try out the flute to see if you would like to take your learning with the instrument further and offers a basis from which you would be able to progress to our term time Play! Flute programme. If you have your own instrument, feel free to bring it along but, if not, you can use one of ours for the class.

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Inspired by the second book in the Harry Potter series, we'll be making our own wands from found materials such as wood, glass beads, string and glue and brushing up on our potion brewing skills. Make and take home a vial of polyjuice potion or Wolfsbane tonic to keep those werewolves at bay!

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Jump into the story, jump into the character's shoes and look at some of your favourite stories from a different perspective! Using storytelling exercises and imaginative improvisation we will dive head first into the world of the story. Bring your imagination along, you're going to need it!

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