Sunday, July 17 – Saturday, July 23, 2016 You Can Draw Awesome Celtic Knots with Brian Dench   You already know how to draw everything you’ll need: a dot, a line, and a square. A 12-step program unlocks the key, and you produce your first knot weave in only 20 minutes! Then, tips and tricks …
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Sunday, July 17 – Saturday, July 23, 2016 Life Review: Discovering Your Own Story with Marv Westwood, Marla Buchanan, and Dianne Westwood   This workshop will offer participants an opportunity to explore the wealth of their life memories. Through a series of writing, reading, interactive, and listening experiences participants will be guided to expand and/or …
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Summer Week 1 Sunday, July 10 – Saturday, July 16, 2016 Watercolour on the Go with Karin Huehold   Join Karin in this fun-filled class and get those creative juices flowing! We will be painting indoors and outside on site (weather permitting).   You will be inspired with practical information, fun exercises and many creative …
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FRIDAY, APRIL 22 – THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2016 Quilt Week 2016 with Dianne Jansson, Kathy Kinsella, and Lynn Knox Patchwork & Quilting with an Eastern Influence with Dianne Jansson » Painting Fabric Painting Quilts: Exploring Textile Paints on Fabric with Kathy Kinsella » Scrappy Trip Around the World with Lynn Knox » Patchwork & Quilting …
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Entertaining Judgement: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination 22nd July – 24th July 2016 The lyrics of Madonna and Sean Combs; the plotlines of TV’s Lost, South Park and The Walking Dead; the implied theology in films such as The Dark Knight, Ghost, and Field of Dreams; the heavenly half-light of Thomas Kinkade’s popular paintings – …
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Victorian Bestsellers 30th August – 1st September 2016 In the late nineteenth century, the word ‘bestseller’ became particularly associated with books. This course explores a variety of popular Victorian novels, including Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat. The …
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Film and Theology 6th December – 8th December 2016 An opportunity to consider and discuss some classic and contemporary films from a theological perspective – observing their world view and the values they promote. Every film shown is award-winning and critically acclaimed. Residential prices start from £101, non-residential from £80. Discount rates for clergy and students …
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A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That 1st July – 3rd July 2016 Ever wondered about the true scope of what we do here at the Library? Join us for a compendium of typical discussion in which we cover elements from across the spectrum. Contemporary novels, the life of Florence Nightingale, the …
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Writing for Healing Workshop ID: G16W1011G Dates: October 2, 2016 – October 8, 2016 Price: $640.00 – $1,360.00 Writers often claim (and research supports) that writing can have healing properties as we seek to make sense of and give voice to experiences and events of our lives. In this workshop we will talk a bit …
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Road Stories: Driving the Story Highway Workshop ID: G16W1011E Dates: October 2, 2016 – October 8, 2016 Price: $640.00 – $1,360.00 What is it that you really want and maybe even need to write about? Are you stuck in your comfortable style or is your writing “voice” beginning to stutter or sound boring, even to …
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