SJD Adult Education Course Guide Spring 2018 4551 SJD Adult Prospectus Spring 2018 WEB FINAL | Page 8

SATURDAY COURSES
listed in date order
Glass Jewellery Making
Watercolours –
NEW
Winter Sunlight and Shadows
(A list of materials required will be
provided on enrolment)
This workshop will focus on winter sunlight
and shadow in the winter landscape. We will
look at how to capture the impression of crisp
winter sunlight and the shadows it produces.
We will also look at how to capture the
effect of frost onto trees and branches and
early morning sunlight onto frosty cobwebs,
gateways etc. The tutor will bring images to
work from.
Saturday 27/01/18 | 9.45 – 3.45pm
Cost: £39.00 (with a complimentary lunch)
Acrylic Painting Techniques
(A list of materials required will be
provided on enrolment)
You will be introduced to wonderful
possibilities of acrylics to create your own
personal masterpieces. Instruction in
techniques, colour theory and composition
will inspire beginners and more experienced
painters.
Saturday 10/02/18 | 9.45 – 3.45pm
Cost: £39.00 (with a complimentary lunch)
The Alexander Technique –
An Introduction
See entry for 27/01/18 for details
Saturday 27/01/18 | 9.45 – 3.45pm
OR Saturday 10/02/18 | 9.45 – 3.45pm
Cost: £39.00 (with a complimentary lunch)
(All materials provided including firing
the glass)
This is an introduction to making fused glass
jewellery. During the day you will learn how
to make your own unique pieces of jewellery
such as a pair of earrings, cufflinks or a
jewellery set that you can keep or give as
an individual gift. We will look at the basics
of fused glass and guide you through the
important points such as how best to cut glass
and turn fused pieces into finished jewellery.
Saturday 10/02/18 | 10.30 – 3.00pm
OR Saturday 03/03/18 | 10.30 – 3.00pm
Cost: £46.00 (with a complimentary lunch)
NEW
(A list of materials required will be
provided on enrolment)
During this course you will make a felt bag
from wool fibre. No previous experience of
felt making is required.
Saturday 10/02/18 | 9.45 – 3.45pm
Cost: £39.00 (with a complimentary lunch)
@SJDAdulted
NEW
This course is for those who want to self-
publish a novel, collection of poetry, short
stories or works of non-fiction. Using two
workshops designed to support you in the
creation of your own published work. The
format will include morning workshops on
Indie Publishing tools available covering
subjects such as formatting, covers, marketing
etc., and the afternoon will be dedicated to
work-shopping content.
Saturday 10/02/18 | 10.00 – 3.00pm
AND Saturday 17/03/18 | 10.00 – 3.00pm
Cost: £65.00 for two days
with a complimentary lunch each day
Watercolours – Water
Grow your own Vegetables
For anyone who wants to know more about
growing vegetables, herbs, salads and soft
fruit at home. You will learn to identify the
best value crops in terms of time and work
involved, look at different systems for growing
healthy produce, what to plant when, why it’s
necessary to rotate crops and how to grow
fruit and vegetables on the smallest of plots.
Saturday 10/02/18 | 9.45 – 3.45pm
Cost: £39.00 (with a complimentary lunch)
Italian Opera in a Day –
NEW
From the Beginning (Numero Uno)
(Numero Due on 03/03/18)
A great opportunity to learn and understand
the Italian language through the magical
words of operatic libretti, enjoying the
passion and power of some of the most
famous arias from operas by the greatest
composers of all time. The course offers a
comprehensive introduction to Italian Opera
and its language, presenting an overview to
the history of Opera and its protagonists.
The course is suitable for any level of Italian/
not Italian speaking students.
Saturday 10/02/18 | 10.00 – 4.00pm
Cost: £39.00 (with a complimentary lunch)
Photoshop – an Introduction
Felt Bag Making
Self-Publishing Workshop
(Part 2 on 17/03/18)
This course is for students who already
have computing skills. Photoshop is the
industry standard software for photographic
manipulation, design and graphics. The day
includes basic mastery of the array of tools,
colour manipulation and object selection, and
understanding layers.
Saturday 10/02/18 | 10.00 – 4.00pm
Cost: £39.00 (with a complimentary lunch)
SJDAdulted
www.sjd.ac.uk
NEW
(A list of materials required will
be provided on enrolment)
In this session the focus will be on water
and we will look at different aspects such
as reflections on still water, moving water
in streams and rivers and around rocks and
waterfalls. We will experiment with a number
of different painting methods to help us
create these effects. By the end of the
session you will have a sheet on experimental
techniques and a completed painting. The
tutor will bring images to work from.
Saturday 10/02/18 | 9.45 – 3.45pm
Cost: £39.00 (with a complimentary lunch)
Websites for Creative People
This one day course will get you started
on the road to creating your own website
using a site builder. The course will start by
explaining some of the basic concepts like
domains, hosts and pages and how they
work. Over the course of the day, you’ll begin
to build yourself a website using a highly
recommended site builder – which you’ll be
able to continue to develop at home after the
course. This course is suitable for beginners
who use a home computer and who have an
idea of the type of site they wish to build.
Saturday 10/02/18 | 10.00 – 4.00pm
Cost: £39.00 (with a complimentary lunch)
Crochet for Beginners
(A list of materials will be provided on
enrolment)
This day course will offer an introduction,
or refresher to those returning to crochet,
to the basic stitches of chain, double crochet,
treble crochet and slip stitch. Learners will
be introduced to the abbreviations and
terminology used in written patterns and
charts to create a phone cover and a rosette.
Saturday 03/03/18 | 9.45 – 3.45pm
Cost: £42.00 (with a complimentary lunch)
Monarch Drive, Northwich, Cheshire, CW9 8AF