• The Kitchen Table

    Welcome to The Kitchen Table, where all good stories start, and the magic of food comes to life!
    • Mel Prince
    • Full days. Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Everyone
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  • Improvising on a Blue Ukulele

    What makes the BLUES, blue? How and what to add to your playing to give your ukulele that special ‘blues’ quality.
    • Cathy Welsford
    • Half day mornings - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Intermediate
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  • Oh Shoot! Photography with James Lander

    Want to learn how to take great photos on your phone or DSLR camera? Relaxed and fun, this course will get you hands-on with photography's technical and creative foundations to take better and more creative images.
    • James Lander
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 12 to 17
    • Beginner, Intermediate, Everyone
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  • Samba Soul

    Join Kaya Boom for an intensive week of playing and developing skills and musicianship so you can express the spirit of the drummer in you. It's time to immerse yourself in Carnival parade rhythms from Brazil.
    • Kaya Boom
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Everyone
    • Places available
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  • Kids Song Creation & Performance

    Young people will write their own songs and perform as a band, as part of an original theatre and music performance.
    • Michael Turner
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 8 to 13
    • Everyone
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  • Kids Theatre Making & Performance

    Young people will create their own theatre work as a group. They will learn how to improvise in various forms (acting, movement, clowning, song, mime, character). Working as individuals and as a group, in order to generate theatre material they feel excited and passionate about.
    • Ajita Cannings
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 8 to 13
    • Everyone
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  • Introduction to Silver Jewellery Making

    This is a creative course for beginner jewellery-makers. Learn to make sterling silver jewellery at home, with minimal equipment and set-up costs.
    • Tracy Kelly
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Beginner
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  • Get Unstuck & Write Your Story!

    Embrace this 2024 New Year opportunity to dedicate time and focus to the stories and / or the book you’ve secretly dreamed about writing!
    • Melaina Faranda
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Everyone
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  • Crafting Wet Felt Hats

    This course is designed to teach the basic art of wet felting with merino wool fibres.
    • Jo-Anne Barr
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 15 to adult
    • Beginner
    • Nearly full
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  • Direct Metal Sculpture

    Create amazing garden art from metal! Take home your very own sculpture to make your garden beautiful.
    • Colin Dray
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
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  • Upcycling Jeans & T-Shirts

    In this course we will explore the creative potential of old clothing, particularly jeans and t-shirts.
    • Cathy Stuart & Jan Williams
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 14 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
    • Places available
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  • Botanical Printing

    Learn the art of botanical printing on linen, cotton and silk.
    • Anne Foy
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Everyone
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  • Da Yan Wild Goose Qigong

    Da Yan Wild Goose Qigong is an ancient health practice, similar to Tai Chi, focusing on moving your body gently with the breath, creating relaxation, inner harmony and health.
    • Matthew Sincock
    • Half day mornings - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Everyone
    • Nearly full
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  • Urban Sketching: Bellingen's historic street facades

    Explore the cultural heritage of beautiful Bellingen through the joy of urban sketching in a relaxed, non-competitive environment. This 5 day workshop invites you to take the time to see and record through your sketches, the beautiful, historic facades of Bellingen's main street.
    • Mike Botton
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Everyone
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  • Acting for adults: Finding yourself in the scene

    This course is centred on a core part of actor training known as scene study. Scene study gives actors an opportunity to work very specifically on a small section of a play, which allows them to build greater understanding of the story, their character and what they bring to the role.
    • Amy Bradney-George and Seton Pollock
    • Half day afternoons - Monday to Friday - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Everyone
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  • Textile Art 'The Birds and the Bees'

    In this class you will create Caroline's textile art called 'The Birds and The Bees' using texture/colour patterns, cut-stitch applique, bobbin work and thread painting.
    • Caroline Sharkey
    • 2.5 days – Monday & Tuesday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm plus Wednesday 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Intermediate, Advanced
    • Nearly full
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  • Gourmet Woodworker

    So many useful kitchen tools and equipment can be made out of wood. In this course, you'll learn fundamental woodwork techniques and choose two or more kitchen projects to complete across the week.
    • Matt Taylor
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
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  • Creative Kids

    Welcome to the Creative Kids (formerly Messy Art & Creative Dance) Super Hero Program! Through process art, mindfulness, and creative movement, we'll help your children develop strong minds, strong bodies, and strong connections.
    • Caitlin Mansfield, Tara Greenaway
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 5 to 9
    • Everyone
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  • Bush Furniture

    Use native materials to make a bush chair – a piece that will be authentic, unique and hark back to the bush skills of the early colonial days.
    • Terry Wilkins
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Everyone
    • Nearly full
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  • Cartooning

    In this course we will be learning how to draw cartoons and comics. Exploring the basic techniques of drawing as shapes, forms, volume, texture, proportions and light and shade.
    • Mila Nascimentto
    • Half day afternoons - Monday to Friday - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 11 to 16
    • Everyone
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  • Woodturning for Beginners

    Ever wanted to try woodturning and didn’t know where to start? Had a go at turning and are ready to learn more? You will learn the principles of woodturning from safety to using tools and hands-on learning of the basic skills for you to confidently create small take-home pieces.
    • David Barden
    • Half day mornings - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner
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  • Bowl Turning for Beginners

    Learn how to turn a bowl, including the different techniques involved. From design to mounting a bowl blank on the lathe, from using the different tools involved to produce and refine a bowl shape to finally finishing your bowl.
    • David Barden
    • Half day afternoons - Monday to Friday - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
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  • Young Potters

    Play with clay! Explore different hand-building techniques like slab, coil and pinch pot to create super cute, quirky and functional pieces.
    • Kristy Holding
    • Half day mornings - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 11 to 17
    • Everyone
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  • Blues Harmonica - Intermediate

    Do you play blues harmonica - but think you need to know more to go to the next level in your playing? Here is your chance to sound even better - understand the hows and whys of good playing.
    • Neil Buckley
    • Half day mornings - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Intermediate
    • Places available
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  • Silk Screenprinting

    Discover the joy of designing & printing your own images! All processes of screenprinting will be covered - from getting your design 'screen ready' to printing your work onto your choice of substrate - fabric, paper or timber.
    • Potts
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
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  • The Beauty of Watercolour

    The beauty of watercolour requires an understanding of the medium's relationship with water – an element that can make it a daunting proposition. Working with internationally recognised teacher Terry Jarvis, be supported to develop the necessary foundational skills to paint beautiful watercolours.
    • Terry Jarvis
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
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  • Fibre Art Coiled Basketry

    Get hands on with an ancient craft of basketry, transformed into a modern sculptural medium.
    • Sue Connor
    • Half day mornings - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Everyone
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  • Bee the Change

    Bee amazed by exploring the world of natural beekeeping. Create bee habitats and build your own native bee and honeybee hive boxes.
    • Steven Hayes, Trudi Hayes
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
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  • Build a Canoe

    If you can tie your shoelaces (thread a plastic cable tie), ice a cake (spread some glue), and hold a cordless drill, then you can build this canoe.
    • Brian Jones, Paul Fisher
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 12+ - Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian
    • Everyone
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  • Figures & Portraits - Drawing & Painting

    From simple charcoal warm-ups to finished paintings and drawings, in this course, you'll explore a range of multi-media - watercolour, charcoal, pencil, ink and wash, and oils.
    • Pauline Adair
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
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  • Learn to Draw

    If you've always wanted to learn to draw but didn't know where to start, this is the course for you. Start out on your creative journey - learn all the basic concepts and techniques you need to know to get started. This is a beginner’s course, so let’s start at the very beginning!
    • Jackie Lee
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16+
    • Beginner
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  • Watercolour & Ink - Botanicals

    Watercolour and ink work well together. Explore their diversity and compatibility while drawing and painting leaves, flowers and still life.
    • Suzi Zglinicki
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
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  • Creative Collage

    Do you have a collection of saved and interesting paper, tear outs, bits of fabric and general stuff you have been saving, have wanted to use but never have – for years? Take a journey into self-expression through creative layering and collage.
    • Denise Vanderlugt
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Everyone
    • Nearly full
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  • Painting to Hologram

    Make your art digital - and three-dimensional - as a hologram! Work with talented street artist Kade to design and paint your own double-sided artwork - then build a smartphone display prism to animate your artwork as a hologram.
    • Kade Valja
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 12 to 17
    • Everyone
    • Nearly full
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  • DSLR Photography for Beginners

    Are you a newcomer to using a digital SLR camera - or coming back to photography after a few years? Come get a solid understanding of your camera's modes and use them to your creative advantage. Enjoy a mix of theory and practical techniques and get started on your photographic journey.
    • Paul Tidey
    • Half day mornings - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
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  • Adobe Lightroom Classic for Beginners and Beyond

    Photographers with a range of skills and experience will benefit from these five days of learning to use Lightroom Classic to catalogue and edit their RAW photographs.
    • Paul Tidey
    • Half day afternoons - Monday to Friday - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
    • Places available
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  • Basket Skills for Everyone

    Using natural fibres, this hands-on course will teach you the basic techniques used in traditional and contemporary basket making.
    • Zimmi Forest
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
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  • Silversmithing & Jewellery Design

    During this five day course you will explore bezel setting faceted stones and bangle making to create precious jewellery to take home. Through discussion, demonstration and hands-on application, Sarah will help you understand the materials, tools and methods used in traditional metalwork jewellery.
    • Sarah Whitlock
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Intermediate
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  • Hip Hop Dance Fusion

    This infectious, energetic dance course involves your whole body, opening up rhythm, swagger and self-expression.
    • Tegan Hannaford
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 10 to 14
    • Everyone
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  • Songwriting

    Budding songwriters will benefit from this exciting introduction to lyric writing and song structure. Students will learn to write their own song on their chosen instrument and have the opportunity to collaborate with others, share their songs and have them recorded.
    • Tony Rowley
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
    • Nearly full
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  • Deep Time Yoga Immersion

    Go deeper with this holistic yoga experience. You'll work with different yoga styles each day while extending your learning into areas such as mantras and sound healing, pranayama, karma yoga, and chakras to fully immerse yourself in your yoga practice.
    • Ilka Schroeder
    • Full days - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Beginner, Intermediate
    • Places available
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  • Introduction to Jazz Ukulele

    Developing skills to play jazz on your ukulele through exploring the basics while playing some great jazz standards.
    • Cathy Welsford
    • Half day afternoons - Monday to Friday - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 16 to adult
    • Intermediate
    • Places available
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  • Everyone’s a Dancer

    Don't tell me you're not a dancer - everyone is a dancer! This inclusive and creative course is a fun and physical introduction to contemporary dance, including a daily dance class followed by explorations in choreography.
    • Sarah Aiken
    • Half day mornings - Monday to Friday - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
    • Suitable for ages 18 to adult
    • Beginner, Everyone
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