Courses & Workshops

This six-month course has been designed to increase your writing confidence, help you find your voice, and start writing your novel. You’ll find the beating heart of your story and begin working on your first draft.

Freefall is a youth arts group for young people aged between 13-16 years run by Exeter Phoenix. The group aims to create a space to socialize, share ideas and opinions and develop creative projects together. 

A place where you can write in silence with others. Make time to work on your novel, memoir, short story, play or poetry in this warm and supportive space.

Work from a model and explore the principles of life drawing. Perfect for beginners or those wishing to improve their skills.

Az Dorey along with Russell Dorey and Leigh Valentine will be hosting a workshop covering a variety of topics of film production drawing on their collective experience, covering; motivations, the writing process and themes, building a company, the snowball effect, corporate and charity work, company evolution and overall vision.

Get into the festive mood and make a beautiful aromatic wreath using 100% natural materials.

Work with willow and other natural materials to weave a star to use for seasonal festive occasions.

Delve into some creative approaches to money. This is a great workshop for anyone interested in exploring a new artistic project (in any discipline), using money, economics and our relationship to them, as a starting point.

Want to vocalise your bare bones vision? Give it a try! Need to stand up and show without a ticketed audience? Go for it! Maybe you would like to hear people read your script out loud? Just ask! New to this and have a curiosity about making something from scratch? Start here!

Design a print ready business card in Adobe Illustrator.

Join us for a chat and a drink. Bring along seeds if you have any. Take away a few for yourselves. Everyone welcome.

Learn techniques and tips to help you confidently get your message across with a lens pointed at you.

Experienced marketeers Kelly and Christina will offer practical advice to help you connect your work with an audience from the ground up.

Explore the techniques used to create willow and tissue paper lanterns and create your own to light up those dark winter nights.

Festive family fun! Work together to craft a simple willow and paper lantern.

Take inspiration from Kusama’s compulsive repeating patterns. Work with ink and calligraphy brushes to create your own mesmerising patterns.

DOCLAB returns with its monthly Development Lab, offering a safe space to talk about, workshop and develop your documentary film projects. The labs will offer peer and professional support and feedback to help filmmakers hone their documentary film skills.

A practical and creative introduction to mixing and exploring colour combinations and looking at seasonal palettes as well as the colour palettes of artists for inspiration.

The Exeter Phoenix Camera Group is a monthly social meet-up for anyone keen on photography who has some experience, or may have been on the beginners course and would like to keep in contact with like minded enthusiasts.

Use 2D cut out animation to bring to life your very own digital Christmas card! This workshop is an introduction to 2D cut-out animation providing lots of creative fun for 7 – 14 year olds.

Work with willow and other natural materials to weave a versatile platter to use for seasonal festive occasions or to display as a decoration.