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Winner of the Untapped Award 2025, this dance-theatre work investigates the tools we use to predict and prophesy the future, from early meteorological devices to corporate trend forecasting and divination.

Ideal for both complete beginners or painters ready to expand their skills, this course will encourage playful experimentation and help you discover the confidence to explore your own distinctive colour palette. We will be creating studies and sketches looking at how we can start to work with our colours to produce our own expressive colourful artworks

This course is designed for artists of all levels to explore techniques for combining collage, texture and mark-making with acrylic painting. It focuses on creating layered, expressive artworks that help develop skills, confidence, and a unique artistic voice.

This 5-week course helps artists of all levels improve their hand-drawing skills working with a range of media participants will learn to observe and depict the shape, texture, light, and gesture of hands, explore their symbolism, and experiment with composition to develop their own style.

This course covers a variety of technical and expressive approaches to life drawing while offering an insight into their uses in art history and contemporary art.

Experience the best of the world’s stunning landscapes through a curated selection of Kendal Mountain festival award-winning short adventure films.

Discover the inspiring worlds of five remarkable women artists. Each week, explore the lives and artworks of Leonora Carrington, Gwen John, Hilma af Klint, Maria de Silva, and Käthe Kollwitz. Learn how their historical, political, and personal contexts influenced their art, and develop your own creative practice inspired by their art. Perfect for all levels.

Make time to work on your novel, memoir, short story, play or poetry in this warm and supportive space.

Explore the skills needed to step up your photography and start to gain real control over your camera and style in this 5 week course.

This 5-week course is designed for educators, artists, students, carers, parents, and anyone curious about the powerful links between creativity and learning. This programme invites you to explore your own creative potential through hands-on artistic activities and discussions as well as introductions to key pedagogical frameworks.

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Explore portraiture techniques and approaches in this five week course. Learn to translate the 3D model onto the 2D surface through various drawing and painting methods.

Take your first steps in podcasting and radio production with this one day masterclass!