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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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The Insider's Guide to: Fate of the missing masterpieces -DEFERRED DATE -
DEFERRED DATE - please check your email for more information Imagine a museum of lost art. It would contain more objects than all of the world’s museums combined. Only a modest percentage of the artworks created through the ages survive intact today. Some vanished masterpieces are definitely gone: consumed by fire, destroyed by iconoclasts, or fed to pigs. But what stirs the imagination are not the definitive tragedies of artifacts known to have been ruined, but the stories of...
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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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The Insider's Guide to: Florence circa 1500
After the French invasion in 1494, the Florentine people revolted against its de facto rulers and exiled the Medici family from Florence. Subsequently, the followers of the Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola (called piagnoni: weepers) instituted a theocratic government, taking fierce control over the city, while Savonarola was preaching the end of times and called for a large ‘bonfire of the vanities’ to ‘cleanse’ the city. Savonarola’s disgust of splendour is famous, but what...
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Introduction to Digital Photography
photo by Nick Melidonis Photography is one of the world’s most popular pastimes and yet many people who own or are thinking about upgrading their camera equipment don’t understand how to use and maximise the creative controls of their camera. Regardless of whether you use a compact; DSLR or a mirrorless camera; this workshop will explain the many creative choices you have in setting up and using your camera with the aim of shooting some stunning images the way you want to. Join...
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The science of happiness
Everyone wants to be happy and there are many ways to define and pursue happiness. But how many of those ways are supported by science? Learn the fundamentals of positive psychology and explore wellbeing, happiness and human potential from a whole new perspective. Discover what happiness is according to science, the important role it plays in our lives, and the benefits it brings. Let positive psychology expert Annika Rose guide you through the insights from research and how to...
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