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Introduction to Colour
Join Karen Frankel for this colourful workshop. It is for those of you who would like to enhance your drawings and sketches with colour. You will use different media and learn about colour mixing, tone with colour and what warm and cool colours are. Some drawing experience is an advantage. Learn from Karen Frankel, an experienced artist and teacher. OUTLINE • Colour theory – new split primary colour wheel • How not to get ‘muddy’ colours • Using watercolour pencils • What are...
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DNA and genealogy - what DNA tests can reveal about your family tree
Millions of people around the globe are enthusiastically charting their bloodlines. Genealogy has become a cultural phenomenon! Join Genealogist Mike Murray in our upcoming seminar and learn what DNA tests can reveal about your family tree. We all have two family trees – one that we can build up from family stories and genealogical records, and another that’s hidden within your DNA. Easy access to inexpensive DNA testing is revealing family secrets, breaking down stubborn brick...
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Emotional Lives of Pre - Modern Children
Discover children’s attitudes to children and childrearing methods from the perspective of children who lived during the tumultuous centuries of change from the Black Death until the eighteenth century. Explore historical books and toys for children and how children were educated, how children played, and what difference the Reformation brought to the lives of children.
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Ins and Outs of Instagram
Instagram is the current social media darling and with good reason: it’s fun, beautiful, interactive and engaging. But how can you use it to get people to buy your product, or sign up for your services, or click through to your website? This workshop will look at how Instagram has changed over time, the best way to use it today and how to develop an Instagram strategy that works. We’ll cover choosing the right images to use for your feed, what kind of hashtag strategy will be most...
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Laughing with Shakespeare - a humorous look at the comedies
From famous cross-dressing in Twelfth Night to magical misunderstandings in A Midsummer Night’s Dream how can we uncover the humour in comedies written hundreds of years ago? Take a journey with local Shakespearean scholar Bríd Phillips as she leads you on a journey through the iconic, the twisted, and the wonderful. Gain an understanding of how comedy functioned in Shakespeare’s England while enjoying a merry romp through his most famous comedic works.
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Creative Photoshop in a Day
Photoshop Skills for Digital Imaging Mastery of Photo Shop is essential for getting the ultimate from your photography and your best fine-art images for exhibition, competition or books. What you will learn from this workshop is that Adobe Photoshop is a powerful imaging program which is not hard to use. Soon you will be producing some amazing images from your initial camera capture, regardless of whether you have a point and shoot camera, or a more sophisticated Digital SLR. This...
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Developing your Writing Style - learn to write like your favourite author
How do they do it? How do our favourite authors synthesise style, voice and tone to transport us into the world of their novel? Aside from narrative structure and technique, what words do they use – and in what order? How do they employ narrative mode? What point of view do they adopt? How adept are they at analogy? This workshop will focus on style in popular writing and how you may develop your writing style to match that of published authors. The workshop will be hands-on and...
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Uncovering the literary history of the wheatbelt
Dr. Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, author of Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt, will examine the creation of the wheatbelt through its creative writing. Some of Australia’s most significant writers used their experiences of this landscape in their writing, providing insights into the human and environmental effects of this experiment of mass-scale agriculture.
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The Gut Brain Connection: How Gut Health Affects Wellbeing
Did you know we are essentially more bacteria than human? – and the microbes in our guts are responsible for 90% of the messaging to our brain rather than brain to gut! Science is beginning to catch up to the crucial impact our gut microbes have on our digestion, overall health and mental well being. In the last few years huge advancements in technology used to measure and detect the microbes that live on and in us has allowed researchers to map and track the diversity and the...
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Mailing Lists/ Newsletters/ Mail Chimp
Mailing Lists/ Newsletters/ Mail Chimp Your small business, not-for-profit or community organisation probably needs an email list and a newsletter to really spread the word about the work you’re doing. This workshop will introduce you to using the Mailchimp platform (free for up to 2,000 subscribers) to create a mailing list database, learn the legalities of this and hear tips on how to encourage more people to sign up to your list. It will also cover the mechanics of sending email...
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