10.30am to 12.30pm ~ December 8 ~ December 18 ~ January 19 ~ January 29 ~ February 12 ~ February 16

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Nigel Lumsden invites you to join him for a winter walk with your camera (yes, a phone camera is absolutely fine!) You’ll walk, talk, look and click your cameras - benefitting from the exercise, fresh air, camaraderie, purpose and success. Afterwards you can enjoy a hot drink and blether some more about processing/printing, challenges and results.

Times vary ~ December 12 ~ January 14 ~ February 9

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Exploring the local environment as inspiration, we’ll use a
variety of natural objects we find interesting, note-worthy or uplifting, together with things such as glass, glue, papers, pressed flowers and leaves, paints, candles and lights, in a way that will give us that winter boost.

10am to midday ~ January 16

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As a lover of wildlife and nature, Anthony McCluskey will help you see what is around us in a different way. The workshop will focus on sketching winter trees (charcoal, pencil and watercolour) in the Lower Birks. No experience necessary.

10am to 12.30pm ~ January 17

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Woodland Walk and Gelli Printing Workshop with Ciara
Gibson. A gentle nature walk to gather textures, shapes, and inspiration from the world around us; then you’ll learn the gelli printing technique, a fun, hands-on process to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind prints.

11am to 1pm ~ February 19

 

Create a small felt pouch to hold nature’s treasures
collected on a gentle, mindful walk.

11am to midday ~ December 11 ~ January 15

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In one fun hour you will learn how to strum three chords to accompany singing of a blues song and to creatively improvise simple solos. It is fantastic for your neuroplasticity. No musical experience needed. Ukuleles provided.

2pm to 4pm ~ January 8

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Winter is a perfect time for us to be nurturing a sense of
creativity and feelings of being connected to each other and to the natural world. The workshop will involve being
outside with a notebook, observing the ebb and flow of
natural growth, our water courses, and how we feel in light and darkness, stillness and movement, and then some consolidation as a group together indoors.

2pm to 4pm ~ January 16 ~ February 20

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Easy modern techniques, to make hats, gloves, cowls, socks, jumpers or even an emotional support chickens. The first workshop, for beginners or refreshers, will look at casting on techniques, tension testing and use of colour and texture. The second will be knitting in the round and we’ll make a start on a pair of wrist warmers using simple stranded colour work.

10.30am to 1pm ~ January 28

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Beginning with a meditative walk through the woods and
collect some leaves, which will be used for an inside
workshop to decorate glass jars to use as lanterns.
A hot drink and cake to finish.