Courses on offer

5 - 12 June and 4 - 11 September 2010
Freestyle Painting Course (All levels)

•Stunning scenery and incredible vistas
• Abundant, luminous Mediterranean light
• Nature’s palette at its best
• Let the natural beauty and drama of the Alpujarra inspire...

Choose your preferred medium and create your original work with step-by-step guidance and individual tuition from local artist, Rachel Youds.

7 days includes field trips to surrounding area and the Alhambra, (Granada) to collect original source material.

Course Leader
Rachel Youds is a self-taught artist based in the Alpujarra. She has exhibited paintings and photographs both locally and in Brussels and has worked on commission since 2002. Her preferred medium is oil, but also enjoys working with acrylic, ink and water colour producing large-scale canvases encompassing a broad range of themes and styles.

28 June - 5 July 2010
Just Being

De-stress week, relaxing, swimming, walking, eating and drinking
Hosted by Christine and Walter Truscott
Sorry Fully Booked

23 - 30 October 2010
A Fresh Look and A Fresh Listen

A sharply focused 4/5 day poetry-driven creative writing course designed to enliven, enlarge and enlighten. Through challenging yet approachable and time-honoured exercises, the course is guaranteed to free up hitherto dormant source material and be both stimulating and highly enjoyable.
Free time for relaxation and visits.
Course led by Phil Bowen, poet, performer, biographer and playwright.
Enquiries welcome, some places still available.

October 2010
Creative Writing Course with Phil Bowen

Phil Bowen is a poet, performer, biographer and playwright who has worked in over 450 schools in more than thirty counties as a poet-in-education since becoming a freelance writer in 1994. Born in Liverpool in 1949, his poetry has appeared in The Forward Book of Poetry 1998 and he has published three full collections - Variety's Hammer and Starfly, both by Stride and this year – Nowhere’s Far – New & Selected Poems 1990 –2008 – Salt Publications - which has already sold out and being reprinted.

He has also edited books of poetry on both Bob Dylan and The Beatles. His biography of The Mersey Poets A Gallery to Play To was updated and re-published by Liverpool University Press last year when he both curated and co-ordinated Adrian’s Wall, a multi-media installation - celebrating the work of Adrian Henri – for Liverpool Capital of Culture, which was also a programme commissioned by Radio 4.

All the Stuff, his 20 minute - 500 line plus oral poem has been described as a ‘work of genius’ by John Cooper Clarke – and is available on a demo CD.

Cuckoo Rock, his first collection of poetry for children is to be published next year by Salt and is being adapted as a stage show. His most recent play Anything but Love - which sold out every night at The New End Theatre in Hampstead in November 09 - is playing at The Tobacco Factory in Bristol in April 2010 - before a 5 week London run later that year. He lives and works in Newlyn in Cornwall.

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