- November 2024
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Tai Chi Beginners - Levels 1, 2 & 3
Monday 04 NovemberTai Chi is meditation in motion. It is a series of slow, continuous movements that promote physical and mental well being and improve coordination and balance. In this course you will learn Qigong, breathing exercises, Tai Chi Philosophy and some Tai Chi Yang style. This easy and relaxing class is an introduction to Tai Chi and Mindfulness. Read below for info. These courses usually fill with waiting lists each term - if you would like to book in the whole year, with payment closer to the course.$115.00 incl. GST -
Tai Chi Intermediate - Levels 1 & 2
Monday 04 NovemberTai Chi is meditation in motion: learn a series of slow, continuous movements that promote physical and mental well being, and improve coordination and balance. This is for Intermediate level students covering Levels 1 and 2. These courses usually fill with waiting lists each term - if you would like to book in the whole year, with payment closer to the start of each course. If you have not attended the Intermediate level before, please register only at Bruno's invitation.$115.00 incl. GST -
Delicious Seafood with June
Monday 04 NovemberDo you want to include more fish in your diet, but need inspiration? June will share with you her recipes, secrets and techniques for creating a great selection of versatile seafood dishes that you will find useful for a number of occasions. You will also learn how to fillet fish.$142.00 incl. GST -
French Pastries
Monday 04 NovemberJoin Chef Dean to learn authentic French pastries. Maximum ten students per class.$152.00 incl. GST -
Photography - DSLR Camera Beginners
Monday 04 November5 sessions - 4 x Mon 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM + 1 x Sat 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM At Selwyn College, Auckland.Learn the basics of DSLR photography and camera modes, aperture, shutter speed, night photos and much more.$124.00 incl. GST -
Accounting - The Basics
Wednesday 06 NovemberUnderstanding accounting concepts will help you successfully read, create and comprehend financial reporting. You will gain useful practical knowledge of accounting principles and methods. This course is designed for those new to accounting.$25.00 incl. GST -
Creating Beautiful Natural Dyes
Saturday 09 NovemberExplore the beauty of natural dyeing on wool and silk. Participants will learn to prepare the fibre to receive the colour and to extract the colour from natural plants.$164.00 incl. GST -
Microsoft Excel Advanced: Macros
Saturday 09 NovemberLearn how to use Visual Basic macros to automate routine activities. Save time and effort. Improve your consistency and accuracy with repetitive procedures.$70.00 incl. GST -
The Art of Kintsugi
Saturday 09 NovemberCome and learn this beautiful and healing Japanese art that uses gold or silver-coloured glues to bring together pieces of a broken pottery item and at the same time enhance the breaks.$165.00 incl. GST -
Barista: Latte Art
Saturday 09 NovemberThis course is for those who can already use an espresso machine confidently, and now want upskill milk and pouring.$40.00 incl. GST -
How to Grow Your Business with Digital Marketing
Saturday 09 NovemberThis workshop will give you an overview of digital marketing including channels, funnels, audience demographics and behaviour. You will learn how to create an online persona and start your own digital journey. Course fee $40 - $80.$40.00 incl. GST -
Italian For Travellers Weekend Course
Saturday 09 NovemberBuongiorno. This lively course introduces the basics of the Italian language. Enrich your time in Italy by being able to communicate. This course runs 10am - 4pm and is designed for those new, or relatively new, to the language.$98.00 incl. GST -
Make Your Own Body Products - Soothing Salves and Luxurious Lotions
Saturday 09 NovemberCome and learn how to make a range of gorgeous, inexpensive products for yourself, your family and your friends, and what’s more you will get to take them home. Course fee includes $30.00 for ingredients.$110.00 incl. GST -
Mosaics: Mosaic a Garden Rock or Paver Stone
Saturday 09 NovemberWeekend workshop, Saturday 10AM to 4PM and Sunday 9AM to 12PM At Selwyn College, Auckland.Learn how to mosaic and create your own designed piece of garden art on a natural stone or for your driveway or patio. All materials are supplied. Available as an evening or weekend workshop. This is an ideal opportunity to re-use the broken china you've been collecting or create a personal gift using the materials provided - it could be a letterbox number or a garden ornament or even a door stop.$138.00 incl. GST -
Pottery Beginners
Saturday 09 NovemberSaturday & Sunday 10 AM - 4:30 PM and glazing session 23 November 10 AM - 1 PM At Selwyn College, Auckland.Have you ever wanted to work with clay, but not known where to start? Come and learn a range of skills that you can later adapt to fulfil your creative ideas. This course, designed for beginners or relative beginners, teaches hand building skills in a structured way. It is essential to attend the first two evening classes or the first weekend day to learn foundational skills. Do you want us to email you when new courses are scheduled? Click on "Let me know about future course dates".$310.00 incl. GST -
Sashiko Stitching for Beginners
Saturday 09 NovemberCome and learn the beautiful Japanese art of Sashiko Stitching with a New Zealand flavour. You'll leave the course having embroidered a cushion cover, and with the skills to repair worn clothes, giving them an extended life.$130.00 incl. GST -
Watercolour and Drawing
Saturday 09 NovemberIn this course Susannah will teach you how to create eye-catching line and wash artwork, combining the linear qualities of pen and ink with the looser characteristics of watercolour. Suitable for beginners and all course materials are provided (a materials charge is included in your course fee).$105.00 incl. GST -
Soft Stone Sculpture
Saturday 09 NovemberCreate your own masterpiece to enhance your garden or interior spaces. The soft stone sculpture is one of the most accessible mediums to work with as ideas can be quickly realised and easily modified. Includes sculpting block. Courses run 11am - 4pm.$138.00 incl. GST -
Japanese Cherry Blossom Painting
Saturday 09 NovemberEnjoy a relaxing spell of art and design using gouache to create your own Japanese-style cherry blossom painting.$125.00 incl. GST -
Basic Soap-Making Workshop
Sunday 10 NovemberIn this three hour workshop, you will learn the basics of soap-making and have a chance to make your own soap from scratch, using oils that you can buy in the supermarket.$65.00 incl. GST -
Cyanotype Photographic Printing
Sunday 10 NovemberLearn this 19th century photographic printing process, also known as shadowgraphs or blue-prints, which can be used to create fine art prints, cards or bespoke books.$65.00 incl. GST -
Pointed Pen Calligraphy
Sunday 10 NovemberCome and learn the elegant script writing of past generations. You'll learn to use a pointed pen nib to write Script Cursive Lettering. All materials included and you'll take home your pen.$96.00 incl. GST -
A Roadmap to Starting an Online Business
Sunday 10 NovemberFind out about this rapidly growing way of doing business. Learn about getting online, market research, case studies and more. Course fee $60 - $142. This course was previously called How to Start an Online Business.$60.00 incl. GST -
Barista for Beginners
Sunday 10 NovemberThrough a combination of online learning and hands-on practice, learn about espresso and learn to make popular espresso coffees. A course fee subsidy applies for permanent residents of NZ (conditions apply).$40.00 incl. GST -
Create Your Own Printed Book Cover
Sunday 10 NovemberJoin textile artist Lesley Pearce to create your own personalised fabric book cover using dyes, stencils and block printing. The June 2024 course has been postponed. Please register your interest and we will advise you when the course is rescheduled.$104.00 incl. GST -
Delicious Rolled Sponge Cake
Sunday 10 NovemberDuring this course we will be making a delicious sponge cake. You will learn to create a light sponge and a delicious cream filling to create a sponge roll.$93.00 incl. GST -
Floral Design: Perfect Posies
Sunday 10 NovemberLearn the basics of floristry and how to arrange posies. The posies will be made with fresh seasonal flowers and participants will be able to take home their creation!$95.00 incl. GST -
Painting with Acrylics Workshop
Sunday 10 NovemberHave fun discovering your artistic ability and gain the confidence to start painting with acrylic paints.$95.00 incl. GST -
Sustainable Fabric Packaging
Sunday 10 NovemberWith a nod to the idea of Japanese furoshiki wrapping, we'll make a fabric pouch which can be reused each year for Christmas or birthday wrapping.$98.00 incl. GST -
Watercolour: Pattern and Abstraction
Sunday 10 NovemberExperiment with watercolours with a focus on pattern and abstraction using line, colour and texture to form and create dynamic compositions.$95.00 incl. GST -
Weekend DIY Workshop
Sunday 10 NovemberLearn a range of basic cost- and time-saving tips for your DIY Projects.$95.00 incl. GST -
Vinay's Vietnamese Spring Rolls Evening
Wednesday 20 NovemberJoin Vinay for an evening of learning, cooking and eating as he helps you to make Vietnamese spring rolls.$45.00 incl. GST -
Edible Garden Workshop
Saturday 23 NovemberLearn how to turn your backyard into a productive garden full of healthy, nutritious fruit, vegetables snd herbs for your family. You will learn about how to start, with soil preparation, plant selection, propagation using permaculture ideas. This course is held offsite at Ellen's food forest in St John's, Auckland.$65.00 incl. GST -
Vinay's Healthy South East Asian Cooking Class
Wednesday 27 NovemberIn this one night class you will create one delicious and aromatic meal using banana leaves less oil than usual SE Asian recipes.$48.00 incl. GST -
Microsoft Excel Continuation
Saturday 30 NovemberFollowing on from the Excel for Beginners course, this intermediate level course takes your Excel skills to the next level. You will learn more formulae, some awesome tips for working with multiple worksheets, advanced printing, sorting, filtering and more. These topics will really improve your productivity and save you lots of time. Course fee $25 - $98.$25.00 incl. GST -
Resin Glass Coasters
Saturday 30 NovemberJoin resin artist Andrea and learn to create your own 9 cm glass coasters using flowers, glitter, or even photographs. You'll create four personalised and beautiful glass coasters. These will need to set overnight and can be collected from the school over the next week.$83.00 incl. GST -
Calligraphy - An Introduction
Saturday 30 NovemberCome along and spend a day being introduced to the art of calligraphy and learn techniques to achieve beautiful lettering for stationery, invitations, signs and cards. Materials included and you'll take home a starter pack. Please note this is an adults course and is not suitable for children.$88.00 incl. GST -
English: Kiwi Idioms, Slang and Expressions
Saturday 30 NovemberYeah. Nah. Sweet! Eh. It's raining cats and dogs. She'll be right! Join Cathie for a fun weekend course (over two days) to understand idiomatic Kiwi English. Suitable for Intermediate level English learners and higher.$140.00 incl. GST -
Contemporary Textile Art: Flaming Hot Fibres
Saturday 30 NovemberFull weekend, Saturday & Sunday 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM At Selwyn College, Auckland.Join Alysn Midgelow-Marsden for this exciting and innovative mixed media workshop where you will experiment ways to use heat, flame and stitch to produce exciting colours, textures and patterns on various materials. You will explore the distinctive properties of Lutradur, Tyvek and Angelina and learn to manipulate these to create richly coloured, textured and embellished surfaces.$285.00 incl. GST -
Gelli Plate Printing
Saturday 30 NovemberFull weekend, Sat & Sun 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM At Selwyn College, Auckland.Lear the skills to confidently print your own designs with gelatin plates. You'll take home your own commercial gelli plate 8 x 10 inches, as well as the ones you create during the workshop.$225.00 incl. GST -
How to Use Instagram for Marketing
Saturday 30 NovemberThis introduction to Instagram will cover creating a profile, different types of content for posts, and how to create and edit reels or make a live feed that can be turned into a video. Course fee $40 - $80.$40.00 incl. GST -
Photography - DSLR Camera Beginners Workshop
Saturday 30 NovemberThis course is designed as an introduction to the DSLR and mirrorless camera. Bring your own camera.$87.00 incl. GST -
Traditional Japanese Cream Puffs
Saturday 30 NovemberLearn to create authentic Japanese cream puffs with delicious crusty choux pastry and filled with a sweet custard filling. Yu will show you the secrets and you will be able to create your own delicious puffs at home.$88.00 incl. GST -
Write a Winning CV and Get Noticed
Saturday 30 NovemberLearn to present your CV and covering letters in a way that stands out from the crowd. Then learn how to create an engaging LinkedIn profile that builds your network.$15.00 incl. GST -
Hissing and Sizzling - Barbecue Brilliance
Saturday 30 NovemberCome along and learn how to produce mouth watering, fall-off-the-bone meat every time you have a BBQ and the importance of rubs, marinades and accompaniments. And you will also learn a selection of fresh seasonal salads to accompany your meat dishes.$98.00 incl. GST -
Lampshade Making
Saturday 30 NovemberProduce your own stunning fabric lampshade in one short workshop. Equipment and a frame are supplied, just bring your own fabric. More details below course dates.$117.00 incl. GST - December 2024
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Floral Design: Celebrate Christmas with Flowers
Sunday 01 DecemberIn this course we will create a traditional event wreath for your table, and a Christmas day centrepiece using seasonally available flowers. Each participant will take home their creations.$95.00 incl. GST -
Pebble Mosaics
Sunday 01 DecemberLearn how to create gorgeous pebble mosaics through the precast indirect reverse method.$147.00 incl. GST -
Handmade Christmas Gifts from your Kitchen
Tuesday 03 DecemberTake the stress out of what to give at Christmas and learn to make a range of delicious and traditional sweet treats.$139.00 incl. GST -
Date Night - French Cuisine
Monday 09 DecemberSpice things up with a French Cuisine cooking lesson perfect for couples, friends, family members - these classes are fun and light-hearted with plenty of opportunity for hands-on learning. And then relax and share your delicious meal, and enjoy a glass of wine if you like.$82.00 incl. GST