Learn to perform Indian Head Massage on friends and family! On this fun, one-day workshop in Mannamead, in Plymouth, you will learn massage techniques to use on the upper back, shoulders, arms, neck and scalp, and put it all together into a 25 - 30 minute routine. Class sizes are small (from 4 to 6 people), so you will have plenty of individual attention and practice, plus the chance to follow up after the workshop if you're unsure of anything.
Indian Head Massage is a lovely skill, either as a full treatment or knowing how to use a few techniques to help ease back or neck...
Join Helen for an uplifting and fun afternoon singing her gorgeous harmony songs. Helen has been running workshops of exquisite harmony songs for community choirs, actors and amateur singers in over 20 countries as well as at the National Theatre and across the UK.
Tickets £10/£7 - £15/£10 workshop and performance deal
Related Performance: War Correspondents, Helen Chadwick Song Theatre 20:15 Saturday 6th May, The House
To celebrate the 2017 Plymouth Contemporary, we’re offering families the most fun they’ve ever had with a cardboard box! We provide all the ingredients you'll need to make an outlandish and extraordinary costume fit for a fantasy world. The only limit is your imagination.
Organised by Lets Make Art who provide high quality family events and workshops for all ages and abilities.
It can sometimes be hard to notice and appreciate the world around us, we can so often be lost in a preoccupied world; yet we can find creative ways to disrupt our distracted habits.
This workshop, led by Duncan Moss, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Plymouth University and artist Karen Howse, introduces us to ideas and practices of ‘Contemplative Seeing’ – using something as simple as a pencil or pen, or reclaiming our gadgets as cameras, we can mark and celebrate moments of real awareness of the world.
If you have a phone/camera, pen and paper please bring it along,...
Use the collage and colourful works in the Thinking Tantra exhibition as a starting point to create your own multi-coloured works of art using all sorts of materials. Led by staff from the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, there will also be objects from their collections to inspire you.
Saturday 4 February, 09:45-17:00 Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University Informal performance: 16:00, free admission
Directed by Jonathan Hurdle and Jamie Dove
César Franck: Symphony in D minor
Orchestra players are invited to play and explore this 19th-century masterpiece and the only symphony composed by César Franck. The Belgian composer, best known as an organist and teacher, created this wonderfully colourful, romantic work in 1888 and it received its premiere at the Paris Conservatoire the following year.
On Saturday 30th July campaigning organisation 38 Degrees and the charity Campaign for National Parks are celebrating our nation’s most beautiful landscapes. They're hosting free organised walks and natural art workshops at every national park in England, Scotland and Wales. We’re delighted to announce that Dartmoor National Park will be part of the celebrations!
On Saturday 30th July campaigning organisation 38 Degrees and the charity Campaign for National Parks are celebrating our nation’s most beautiful landscapes. They're hosting free organised walks and natural art workshops at every national park in England, Scotland and Wales.
80 years ago a group of people came together to launch a campaign get these magnificent places protected. These events across the country celebrate this incredible achievement, and the things that can be done when people work together. The theme for the events is 'inspired by nature', and brings...
Build a blow-up spatial structure! Tom Randall-Page will introduce you to the exciting world of inflatable spaces. Your group will design and build a large, futuristic blow-up structure - the type commonly used for festivals, camping, temporary nightclubs and moveable fun. The workshop would suit ANYONE over 14 yrs but might be of particular interest to young people and students interested in art, 3D design and architecture.
Tom has run similar workshops for the Sorrell Foundation, the Architecture Association and exhibited a 3m high inflatable space at Somerset House. He’s also...
Introduction to Stonemasonry - 2 day workshop, 7-8 May, 10am - 5pm At: Castle Drogo. £60/£50 Dartmoor Arts and Devon Guild are running a comprehensive introduction to the skills, techniques, tools and purposes of stonemasonry with 2 experienced tutors: Trevor Clarke and Ben Martin. In the inspiring setting of Castle Drogo, you will learn how to use and maintain tools, practice masonry and letter carving techniques and you can work on a project of your own: carve an inscription or a 3D piece, or both. All materials and tools are provided. The course will include a tour of Castle Drogo,...
