Thereafter every Thursday (except 16th October) until 6th November
Watercolour For Everyone
Workshops with Moya Davern
A beginners watercolour painting course for those who wish to learn the basic techniques of using this medium. This course is over 5 afternoons and is sponsored by The School of Education and life long learning at Aberystwyth University. The sessions will cover the mixing of greens, advice on paper and materials, wet on wet and watercolour washes. You will be expected to bring along to the first class a notebook, pen, a tube of ultramarine blue, a sheet of watercolour paper and beg, steal, or borrow a brush. Advice on purchasing materials will be given at the first session. Moya Davern is a highly experienced art tutor teaching a variety of different subjects with a range of mediums. She has two gold and three silver-gilt medals from the RHS for her botanical painting.
Cost: £50 (£40 concessionary fee). For further information or to enrol, call 01970 621580 or email: learning@aber.ac.uk quoting Course Code: CF106
Venue: The Hall Barn
Saturday 4th October 10.30am to 4.30pm (Registration 10.am)
Japanese Taiko Drumming
A workshop led by James Barrow and Clare Johnson
Another chance to experience Japanese Taiko Drumming. The main activity will be drumming, but James and Clare will also use some yoga, t’ai chi and meditation practices to help enhance our experience behind the drums. James and Clare are experienced Taiko players and teachers and share a passion for Taiko drumming, not just in terms of its musicality, but also the way in which it grounds us in our bodies while simultaneously energising and enlivening us. Please wear loose comfortable clothing, and sporty or martial arts type footwear. Limited to 12 participants.
Cost: £50 (this has been increased to cover the cost of putting on the event. Concession available). Please bring a packed lunch. Soup, tea and coffee will be provided. note: Taiko Drumming requires some degree of physical fitness. If you have any kind of ongoing muscular, ligament or skeletal problems (e.g. tennis elbow, lower back pain, knee problems, etc.) this kind of activity is not to be recommended.
Venue: The Hall Barn
The Bleddfa Poetry Group
Led by Peter Conradi and Daphne Turner
English Romantic Poetry
Sunday 5th October 2.30pm to 4.30pm
(Other dates: 16th November and 7th December)
Romanticism affects the way we think and feel today, and the topic for
the three autumn Sundays is English Romantic Poetry starting with Wordsworth;
Immortality Ode, Tintern Abbey, excerpts from Prelude. Peter Conradi
is the author of Iris Murdoch: A Life and Going Buddhist. Daphne Turner
wrote the first book about Alan Bennett’s work, In A Manner of Speaking
(1994).
Cost: £5 per session
Venue: The Hall Barn
The
Bleddfa Trust gratefully acknowledges generous support from the Welsh
Academi.
Saturday 11th
October 10.30am to 4.30pm (Registration 10.am)
The Wellspring of the Creative
Impulse
A workshop with Sara Philpott
This is a practical art workshop exploring the inner starting point of
a personal visual creation and identifying the exact qualities that bring
it to fruition and seeing how your unique view can be actualised. The
workshop is limited to 8 persons. There will be time for individual instruction
and guidance and you are encouraged to bring your own work. The course
will suit persons who have worked with art before though this is not essential.
Information: call Sara directly on 01686 624864.
Cost: £30 (concession available) Please bring a packed lunch. Soup,
tea and coffee will be provided.
Venue: The Old School Room
Saturday 18th October to Saturday 15th November
Stories
An exhibition of paintings by Frans Wesselman
Some Pictures
of the opening. General opening times: Sunday 19th October, 2pm to 5pm.
Thereafter, every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2pm to 5pm until 15th
November.
‘I am fascinated by telling stories using pictures rather than words
and have spent most of my life pursuing this fascination. I work in different
disciplines, etching, painting and stained glass, each offering a different
approach to the same object. You may recognise some of the subjects in
this exhibition. Some are based on literature, some refer to things I
have seen while travelling; other images you are invited to make up your
own narrative.’ Frans Wesselman was born and studied in Holland.
His work has been exhibited widely and is a member of the Royal Society
of Painter-Printmakers, the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the
Worcestershire Guild of Designer-Craftsmen.
Venue: The Old School Room
