Get yourself an education!

 

Did you manage to make a full list of New Year’s resolutions yet?  If you’ve failed completely to come up with a plan to improve yourself, then let us assist you.  We’ve trawled around for courses to improve you, your skills or just simply your soul.

For the kids

For the whole family

Craft and practical skills courses and workshops

Have you always promised yourself some 'me time' to get to grips with a new skill?  We've got all angles covered with our selection of classes and workshops to get involved with.  So, get wiggling your belly, tapping those feet, carving wood or stone or take to treading the boards.

Artform genre interest courses

Professional development

Keep your professional practice skills up to date. Also check out our Arts Training News page for many more opportunities.

Adult Education Centre courses

Here’s a round up of the Adult Education Centres around Derbyshire.  There are literally hundreds of courses on offer, so get in touch with the relevant Centre in order to find out which courses will go ahead and to enquire about course fees.  We’ve selected a few of the courses that will be taking place from the January term to tickle your fancy, but our listings will help you get in touch with the venue nearest to you to find out more.

  • College of the Peak are always keen to promote heritage skills and regularly run courses in crafts such as woodlands skills and dry stone walling.  This term, they have a Heritage Roofing taster course
  • There's a whole range of courses on offer at Hunloke ACE in Chesterfield, including Singing for Pleasure, Silvercraft, Making Clothes and Soft Furnishing
  • Assembly Rooms, Chesterfield Are offering Belly Dancing for Improvers!
  • At Codnor you can join a Mixed Crafts course
  • Long Eaton have on offer a diverse range of arts and crafts courses including Floristry Level 2 Award (QCF), Creative Writing (All Abilities) and Guitar for Beginners Level 1.
  • You can learn how to make Fashion Clothing, how to  Flower Arrange, have a go at Belly Dancing or  Garment Making at Alfreton
  • The Enterprise Centre at Cotmanhay are offering visual arts courses for all abilities with their Painting & Drawing and Mixed Crafts courses.
  • Shirebrook are offering Painting & Drawing and Sugarcraft
  • At Somercotes there is a Painting and Drawing Mixed Media workshop, as well as at Ashbourne ACE and New Mills ACE
  • Try your hand (or more precisely, your middle regions) at Belly Dancing at Buxton
  • Dronfield are offering Pottery and Painting and Drawing (mixed abilities)
  • Killamarsh Adult Education Centre are offering Floristry Levels 1 & 2.
  • You can learn Lacemaking, Pottery and Beadwork at Clay Cross
  • Try your hand at Watercolour Painting, or start with the basics in a Painting and Drawing class at Swadlincote
  • Melbourne ACE is offering an Upholstery and Furniture Restoration course, as is Ashford ACE
  • Bolsover is offering classes in Patchwork and Quilting, a City and Guilds in 2D and Watercolour Painting classes.
  •  
  •  

If you would like your course to be included in this round up, let us know the web address of your artsderbyshire workshop event and drop us a line to let us know about your course details dap@artsderbyshire.org.uk .

You can add your workshop or course as an event to the website for free here;


Get an event listed

If you know about an arts event in Derbyshire that is not on our site please send us the event details.