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Welcome to our summer 2017 new look workshops brochure which is jam-packed full of ways to keep creative minds busy. Our regular workshop favourites return including pottery, feltmaking, writing for stage, and adult contemporary dance. We’re incredibly excited to be offering young people the opportunity to enjoy a taster session for either Jigsaw, Seesaw or Filmmakers Anonymous (p.8-9) this season. It’s the perfect way to see and experience what our youth companies get up to before signing up.
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Find us We’re housed in the deconsecrated Church building on Bedwin Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 3UT
Summer Holidays | Pages 6 - 7 Young People | Pages 8 - 9 Adults | Pages 10 - 11 One-offs | Pages 12 - 13 Independent | Pages 14 - 15
If you’re looking for something during the summer holidays, we’ve got that covered too. Summer Stage (p.6) is a two week course which sees a group of young people create a performance from scratch. We hope to see you soon. Melanie Evans Programme Manager
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Booking & Access We are open Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 3pm Workshops go on sale on Monday 20 March online or Tuesday 21 March via the Box Office. Workshops have a limited capacity so please book early to avoid disappointment. A limited number of discounted places are available in cases of genuine hardship for individuals who would not otherwise be able to participate. Please call the Box Office for further information. Refunds and exchanges only apply if a workshop is cancelled. In line with most other UK venues, we charge a £1 transaction fee. Box Office 01722 321744
Thank you Ramps or lift provide access to all public areas. Two disabled parking spaces are available in the Arts Centre car park. Evening access is via the doors between the church and the extension. Please ring the bell and we will come and let you in.
In exceptional circumstances we may have to make changes to the planned programme of workshops. We avoid this wherever possible but we’re afraid we have to reserve the right to do so. St Edmunds Arts Trust is a company limited by guarantee trading as Salisbury Arts Centre: Registration No. 1412263 incorporated in England & Wales. It is also a registered charity: No 1023945. Front cover image: Parkour Dance (see page 12).
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Children Children’s Pottery with Mirka Golden-Hann
Saturdays 29 April - 15 July (not 3 June or 1 July)
9am - 10.45am OR 11.15am - 1pm £88 (plus materials)
Pre-school Pottery with Mirka Golden-Hann Fridays 28 April - 26 May 11am - 11.45am £28 (plus materials)
A five week course for children aged 3 and over, accompanied by an adult. This fun class will help develop your child’s dexterity and imagination. Build, squish, roll, model, construct and paint together to produce permanent memories of your child’s early creativity.
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A choice of ten week courses for children aged 7 and over. Learn pottery skills in a friendly environment, bursting with energy and creativity. Children are taught various hand-building methods and can even learn to work on the potter’s wheel.
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Toddler Sense with Katie Hayes
Fridays 26 May, 30 June, 28 July and 25 August 11.15am - 11.45am £5 parent and toddler ticket
Baby Sensory with Katie Hayes
Fridays 26 May, 30 June, 28 July and 25 August 10.15am - 10.45am £5 parent and baby ticket
A monthly workshop for babies aged 0 - 12 months old accompanied by an adult. Baby Sensory is an award-winning baby development class designed to stimulate, educate and provide precious memories. You and your baby will experience different sensory activities designed to support your baby’s sensory development.
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A monthly workshop for toddlers aged 13 months - 3 years old accompanied by an adult. These sessions are jam-packed full of fun and interactive activities, action songs, games, puppets, instruments and so much more! Come and join us in our fabulous exploratory play area, which isn’t just a great place to play, but also encourages a wide variety of skills from social and emotional to physical and cognitive plus lots more. This is your chance to share a multi-sensory adventure with your toddler.
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Summer Holidays Recycled Rhythms with Alex Miles Wednesday 26 July 10am - 3pm | ÂŁ20
Create, decorate and learn to play your very own instruments made from recycled materials in this fun workshop exploring junk percussion and found sounds. Learn how different elements of an orchestra work and make music for a special performance to family and friends at the end of the day. This workshop is suitable for all ages (children under 7 must be accompanied by an adult).
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Summer Stage
Monday 31 July - Friday 11 August with performances on Thursday 10 & Friday 11 August 10am - 4pm ÂŁ180 (10% discount for siblings) A two week residency for young people aged 11 - 18 years. Summer Stage brings together young actors, musicians and professional support from Salisbury Arts Centre, a theatre director and music composer, to create a multi-media performance from scratch. Interested in taking part? Contact Melanie on 01722 343020 or email melanie@salisburyarts.co.uk.
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African Arts Day with Alex Miles Wednesday 16 August
An Animated Experience with Matthew Dean Tuesday 1 - Thursday 3 August 10am - 4pm | £100
A traditional short course for young people aged 10 and over. Play with storyboarding, set design, camera angles and lighting to create a short animated film inspired by your everyday surroundings. Matthew Dean will help you bring all your ideas to life through the art of animation and film. Drawing and building skills are essential for this course.
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10am - 3pm | £20
Explore African drumming, song, dance and traditional folk tales to create a performance for the end of the day. You’ll also make props, like Maasai shields or animal masks, for your show and take home what you’ve made during the workshop.
This workshop is suitable for all ages (children under 7 must be accompanied by an adult).
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Young People Salisbury Arts Centre has eight trained Arts Award advisors to help you complete an Arts Award alongside any of our workshops courses. Want to try something new? Why not come along to the first session of Seesaw or Filmmakers Anonymous to see what it’s all about? Please contact melanie@salisburyarts.co.uk for further information about our free taster sessions. Kindly supported by
Jigsaw: Salisbury Youth Dance Company with Amie Hawker Mondays 24 April - 10 July (not 1 or 29 May) 5.30pm - 7pm | £84
A ten week course for young people aged 14 - 18 years. Salisbury Arts Centre’s resident youth dance company provides high quality dance provision and performance opportunies for gifted dancers. This term Jigsaw shall be working with professional performance company State of Emergency to create a curtain raiser. By audition only
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Interested in joining Jigsaw? Come along to a taster session on Monday 24 April. Please contact melanie@salisburyarts.co.uk for further information. @jigsawsalisburydance @jigsaw_SYDC
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Seesaw Youth Dance Company with Amie Hawker
Thursdays 27 April - 6 July (not 1 June) 5.15pm - 6.45pm | £68
A ten week course for young people aged 11 - 16 years. Develop your dance and choreographic skills in these fun and creative contemporary dance classes. There will be occasional performance opportunities and the chance to develop your skills in preparation for auditioning for Jigsaw.
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Youth Pottery with Mirka Golden-Hann
Filmmakers Anonymous with Simon Davison
4pm - 6pm | £95 (plus materials)
4.30pm - 6pm | £68
Thursdays 27 April - 6 July (not 1 June)
A ten week course for young people aged 12 and over. Enjoy lively classes full of creativity and discussion in a relaxed atmosphere. Lose yourself in imagination with various 3D ceramic projects. Try numerous hand-building techniques as well as throwing on the potter’s wheel. Come and learn new skills, try things you can’t do at school and support and extend your school art projects.
Thursdays 27 April - 6 July (not 1 June)
A ten week course for young people aged 13 - 19 years. Produce finished films from storyboarding to post-production. Work behind the camera, act in a film or help out on set. Filming around Salisbury Arts Centre and on location, the company has created a wide range of short films that have been screened at the Arts Centre and at UK film festivals.
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Adults Feltmaking with Suzie Gutteridge Mondays 24 April - 5 June (not 1 or 29 May)
7pm - 9pm | £42 (plus materials) A five week course open to all levels and abilities. Discover a range of techniques and processes including both wet and needle felting using a range of different wools that culminate in the making of projects. For those with more experience, expand your skills as you explore your own ideas.
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Adult Contemporary Dance with Amie Hawker
Writing for Stage with Angela Street
7.10pm - 8.10pm | £62
7pm - 9pm | £84
Mondays 24 April - 10 July (not 1 or 29 May)
Wednesdays 26 April - 5 July (not 31 May)
A ten week course to get fit and keep your body and brain active. These fun and friendly classes are open to all, whatever your experience, giving you the opportunity to practice contemporary dance techniques at your own level.
A ten week course where course writers will be encouraged to write and complete a first draft of a play.
As well as learning some set movement exercises, you’ll have the chance to have a go at choreography through creative tasks.
When you feel ready, you will be invited to present a short extract of your script which the group will read and give feedback on.
Using writing exercises you will explore the basic building blocks of writing for theatre, create diverse and complex characters and much more.
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Pottery with Mirka Golden-Hann
Life Sculpture with Charlotte Moreton
Tuesdays 25 April - 4 July (not 30 May)
Thursdays 27 April - 25 May 6.45pm - 9.15pm | £80 (plus materials)
6.30pm - 9pm | £118 (plus materials)
A five week course working with a life model. You’ll learn how to prepare a frame and be guided through building up a life-sized head in clay, bringing in character and expression as the portrait develops.
Thursdays 27 April - 6 July (not 1 June) 9.30am - 12.30pm | £145 (plus materials)
Thursdays 27 April - 6 July (not 1 June)
7pm - 9pm | £100 (plus materials) A ten week course covering throwing on a potter’s wheel as well as various hand-building techniques, together with many glazing and decorating techniques. These inspiring and relaxed sessions are designed to ignite the love for pottery in the beginner and expand the skills of the more seasoned potter.
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Pottery with Jennie Gilbert
Wednesdays 26 April - 5 July (not 31 May) 6.30pm - 9.30pm | £145 (plus materials)
A ten week course covering the basics of pottery making in a relaxed and fun environment. Learn new skills and work at your own pace making anything from an egg cup or a bird box to a vase or lamp base.
Life Sculpture and Armature Making with Charlotte Moreton Thursdays 8 June - 6 July 6.45pm - 9.15pm | £80 (plus materials)
A five week course where you will have the opportunity to make lively sculptures of people and animals, starting with building an appropriate armature to support the piece.
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One-offs How to Improve Your Singing with Helen Porter Saturday 22 April
10am - 3pm £20 | £15 concessions
Graffiti Art
Parkour Dance
10am - 12noon or 2pm - 4pm FREE but booking is required
10am - 12noon & 2pm - 4pm FREE but booking is required
Tuesday 18 April for ages 12+ years and Wednesday 19 April for ages 7 - 11 years
Come and learn graffiti spray can art with the help of a professional artist from the Graffiti Stars. They will show you how to make your own unique graffiti board to take home. Please wear old clothes and shoes as small amounts of paint may get on them.
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Tuesday 18 April for ages 7 - 11 years and Wednesday 19 April for ages 12+ years
Vault, spin, roll and explode into action! Play in the environment using elements of freerunning, tricking and physical dance to learn new skills, get fit and have fun! Learn impressive wall lifts, partner flips and achievable tricks to take into dance, parkour or just for fun!
Master the basics of singing, become aware of your own vocal habits and develop confidence in this workshop with singer and composer Helen Porter (Lead singer of Misbehavin’). If you want to improve your singing and have a lot of fun at the same time, you don’t want to miss this! Misbehavin’ will be performing at Salisbury Arts Centre on Friday 12 May. Tickets go on sale Monday 10 April online or Tuesday 11 April through the Box Office.
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Glaze Clinic with Mirka Golden-Hann Saturday 10 June 2pm - 4pm | £10
Craft Club
Zone Club
11am - 12noon Free drop-in sessions
10am - 2.30pm £18 per session
Tuesdays 2 & 16 May, 6 & 20 June and 4 & 18 July
A nationwide initiative for all ages to get people crafting. Enjoy knitting, stitching and crochet in a relaxed atmosphere. Bring along your own craft project or get involved with the planned activities.
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Saturdays 27 May, 24 June and 29 July
A music and filmmaking club for adults with learning disabilities, aged 16 and over. Have fun making music and films with new friends. Kindly supported by
The first series of talks by Mirka Golden-Hann covering the key points of the theory and practice of creating ceramics. In this session you will explore firing temperatures and methods as well as different types of kilns and how they are used.
Writing Drama for Radio with Angela Street Saturday 15 July
10.15am - 3.30pm | £25 An action-packed day course where you will explore some of the exciting possibilities of writing for radio. Listen to excerpts of recent plays, develop characters using language and sound, and write an opening scene in this workshop suitable for writers at all stages.
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Independent Salisbury Ukulele Band Mondays from 20 March
2pm - 2.45pm Beginners £6 per session 2.45pm - 4pm Intermediates £7 per session 4pm - 4.30pm Advanced £4 per session £10 to two sessions (instruments provided) A fun and friendly ukulele class, giving you the chance to learn to play and perform on this everpopular instrument.
Iyengar Yoga with Jackie Matthews
Iyengar Yoga with Susan Stephenson
10.30am - 12noon
7pm - 8.30pm
Mondays from 20 March Tuesdays from 21 March 10am - 11.30am £9 per session
Tuesdays from 21 March Wednesdays from 22 March 7pm - 8.30pm £8.50 per session
A yoga class for mixed abilities. Beginners always welcome.
A yoga class for mixed abilities. Beginners always welcome.
T: Jackie on 01722 336577 E: jackie@jackiematthews.uk.com www.jackieyoga.co.uk
T: Susan on 01722 413633 E: susansteph@gmail.com www.susanstephensonyoga.co.uk
T: Robin on 07824 552414 E: robinhdwalter@gmail.com
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Gentle Tai Chi for Parkinson’s and Osteoporosis
Wednesdays from 26 April (not Wednesday 31 May) 11.30am - 12.15pm £3 per session | Free to Parkinson’s UK members
T: Tricia on 01722 336970 E: triciahendy@aol.com
Salsa La Rueda with Keen Dance
Saturdays 1 April & 8 July
10.30am - 12.30pm £10 in advance | £10.95 on the door Start your weekend in style. Join us for some couples’ Salsa and group La Rueda with experienced, qualified teachers. You’ll learn some infectious rhythms, which you can show off on any dancefloor. Come along alone or with a friend. It’s an excellent way to meet new people, keep fit and have fun. T: Melanie on 07866 489781 E: info@keendance.co.uk
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Travels
Saturdays 6 & 13 May, 24 June, 1, 8, 15 & 22 July
10.30am - 3.30pm This workshop is FREE Ever wanted to tell your story, but not quite sure how? If the answer is yes then join us for Travels. Working with professional artists, our group will explore and develop essential communication skills through learning different ways of telling and producing stories. The programme will consist of 8 workshops covering different elements of storytelling For further information please contact LinkUpArts Project Manager Hayley Davies at admin@linkuparts.org.uk
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Saturday 2 September
10am - 5pm £55 or £12 to attend the talk An amazing opportunity to expand your clay working skills with potter Richard Miller (the kiln man from ‘The Great Pottery Throw Down’ series). During the morning there will be a talk by Richard covering his practice as a potter and as owner of Froyle Tiles as well as his time on the BBC TV series. During the afternoon, throw a large cylinder and create handmade carved tiles.
This programme is produced at Colourview on Edixion Challenger and has full FSC® certification (Forest Stewardship Council ®). By producing print in this way, we are supporting the growth of responsible management of sustainable forests worldwide.
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Pottery Throw Down with Richard Miller