Past Melbourne Classes
Take a look back at the classes we’ve run in Melbourne.
Past Melbourne Classes
SOLD OUT – Festive Native Wreaths with Robyn
***This class runs a number of times over our festive season - 6: 15pm and 7: 45pm on Monday 27th Nov, Weds 6th Dec and Thurs 14th Dec***Whether it’s baking biscuits, wrapping the gifts, or putting on a meal for your family, the best bit about any festive season is getting into the spirit of…
Exploring Watercolour Pencils with Marloes (Online)
Join us to explore the world of watercolour pencils as well as traditional watercolours! Marloes will guide you through the steps and methods of applying and manipulating these mediums. We will explore and understand some tricks and tips to achieve awesome, realistic and sometimes not so realistic effects. In this hands-on session you’ll be…
Wooden Spoon Carving with Alma
Come and dip your toe into the skill of wood carving. Learn how to design and carve your own wooden spoon! At the end of the workshop you will have your own special spoon that you can take home and use with pride! What will we cover? In this hands-on and informative class, we will: Begin with…
Queer Social Moorabbin: Snap Button Jewellery with Raize
Would you like to accessorise yourself with a handmade pin or ring that proudly celebrates your gender and/or sexuality? This snap button rings and pins allow you to change the top and have lots of different designs in one. What a cute way to let others know that you are part of the community! …
Queer Social Moorabbin: Sex – Pleasure Anatomy for Every-Body with Louise
This class is all about pleasure! Queer sex educator Louise Bourchier will teach you the ins-and-outs of sexual anatomy so you can maximise pleasure in your sex life (whether solo or partnered). Rather than the heteronormative, reproductive focus most of us learned in school, Louise’s style of grown-up sex ed focuses on the feel-good aspects.…
Wooden Spoon Carving with Alma 615
Come and dip your toe into the skill of wood carving. Learn how to design and carve your own wooden spoon! At the end of the workshop you will have your own special spoon that you can take home and use with pride! What will we cover? In this hands-on and informative class, we will: Begin with…
Making Crêpes: Tips & Tricks with French Native Océane
Want to learn to make delicious crêpes like the real French? Making tasty home-made crêpes doesn’t require much equipment, but it does require a certain know-how. Come and learn all the tips & tricks to make delicious crêpes for breakfast and parties with the authentic recipe of a French grandma and the advice of her granddaughter - experts…
Printing with a Press with Emilie
Printmaking is a fun and accessible art form, but the main difficulty beginners encounter is access to a press! KANGA PRESS is a new 100% Australian made printmaking press and Emilie is offering a one-off curriculum to learn to use it for block printmaking (linocut, woodblock, etc). No experience necessary! Come and join this fun…
Pardon My French: How to Swear Properly in French with Océane
Sacrebleu ! P**n, petit fripon, malotru, m***e, tu m’énerves ! French may be well known as a language of manners, but they also know how to curse! Learning swear words in another language is always good for a laugh. But it can also be really informative about cultural contexts and history. Discover with us the…
Intro to Linocut with Emilie
More than just a floor covering! Did you know that linocut has been used in printing for over a century and this technique was originally for making wallpaper? Printing with linocut is similar to woodcut printmaking but a bit easier to work with (because it has no grain to consider like wood). In this…
Make Your Own Silver Ring with Qing
**This is a two-part class with the class taking place on Tuesday Nov 21st and Tuesday Nov 28th (fee covers both classes)** Come and make your own silver ring! Making something yourself if always so meaningful, and to make a ring - something significant that we likely wear everyday - has even extra charm. This class…
Make Your Own Silver Ring with Qing
This class also runs at 7: 45pm Tues Nov 21st**This is a two-part class with the class taking place on Tuesday Nov 21st and Tuesday Nov 28th (fee covers both classes)** Come and make your own silver ring! Making something yourself if always so meaningful, and to make a ring - something significant that we likely…
Journaling Writing to Embrace the Variety of Life with Ingrid (Online)
Knowing what you don't want can be a valuable stepping stone to working out what you do want. Both aspects add to the wonderful variety of life and ease decision-making. As you learn a unique step-by-step journal writing framework, you’ll also be inspired to appreciate all of your options. Imagine you were stepping into a…
Meditative Doodling for Beginners with Ethel
Fancy an art class that really, truly requires no drawing experience? Love art but don't always feel creative? This class give you an introduction to simple doodling using straight forward but versatile techniques. Pairing things black to simple black and white, learn to creative bold and striking patterns with just a single pen. As well…
DIY Organic Skincare with Lily
Lily's organic skincare class is educational, practical, and extremely effective. Using simple products that are good for you and the environment Lily can guide you through the use and creation of eco-friendly, vegan and natural beauty products for your face and body. No harsh or polluting chemicals, and reduced single-use plastics, these ingredients create products that are usually so much…
Watercolours for Beginners: Beautiful Botanicals with Marloes (Online)
Join wildlife artist Marloes and learn to paint beautiful botanicals with watercolours. Marloes will guide you through the steps and methods for applying and manipulating watercolour paints and pencils, as well as tricks and tips to get awesomely realistic (and sometimes deliberately less realistic) effects. Join us for a fun session that’s a great way to start your…
An introduction to Yonkoma Manga with Mek
Laneway Learning and artist Emilie Walsh have partnered to run Glow Comics Trails: an art trail by Melbourne comics artists featuring glow-in-the-dark easter eggs for you to find! As part of the event, Laneway Learning is offering the selected artists an opportunity to run a beginner workshop with us! A special opportunity to meet Melbourne…
Shortbread and Mince Pies in Time for Christmas with Jennifer (Online)
Very traditional and very delicious; who doesn’t love shortbread and shortcrust pastry? Learn all the tips and tricks before the silly season is upon you! In this class we will be inspired to make some classy shortbread and mince pie gifts for your friends and tuck away a little bit for ourselves. Cook along with this…
Macrame for Beginners: Bottle Bag with Maddy
Are you likely to be gifting a bottle of wine this Xmas? Or need to know you'll remain H2O hydrated all through the Summer, with your loyal drink bottle by your side? How about a fun reusable bag that you've made yourself? So many creations are possible with macrame, which in its basic form is…
Polymer Clay: Miniature Food – Festive Edition with Maria
How adorable are mini polymer clay creations? ! These clay cuties can be made into earrings, keyrings, fridge magnets or delicious looking table nicknacks! Polymer Clay is a medium that is easy to work with - with many fun colours to choose from. In this festive season class we'll learn how to make a tiny…
Beginner Pottery: Handforming Vessels with Maddy
Come and explore the world of pottery and hand forming! Maddy will guide you through an introduction to pottery, supporting you to make your own piece of pottery art from air-dry clay. You might like to make an ornamental dish, a bud vase, a little pinch pot. . . whatever you can think of! At…
DIY Kitchen Lithographs: Printing with Emilie
In this new class, Emilie will teach the fun and accessible printmaking technique: kitchen lithography. Lithography is a Fine Arts printmaking technique that usually requires a big limestone block, chemicals and an etching press. But with this DIY version, you can get a taste on the technique at home and create some beautiful prints! Come…
Feldenkrais: Floating Legs with Ralph (Online)
Come and experience Feldenkrais as we help you create lightness and ease in the legs. Your teacher Ralph will guide you through a series of floor exercises that soften and mobilise the legs and coordinate their movement with the pelvis and back. The result is easy, graceful walking with a feeling of weightlessness and floating…
Intro to Acrylic Markers: Colourful Patterns with Emilie
In this class, Emilie will teach you how to design colourful patterns using acrylic posca markers. Posca are paint markers that create beautiful smooth surfaces that give striking results for pattern design. Fill some notebooks with mini patterns and test out all the combinations of colour and shapes your imagination can think of! And enjoy…
Intro to Resin: Trinket Trays with Maria
Resin is a popular material that offers great variety in the projects you can make and the decorations that you can encase. Join us for an intro into resin where we will learn how to mix, colour and pour our resin into silicone moulds to make and decorate our own trinket trays. To achieve clear,…
Intro to Resin: Trinket Trays with Maria
Resin is a popular material that offers great variety in the projects you can make and the decorations that you can encase. Join us for an intro into resin where we will learn how to mix, colour and pour our resin into silicone moulds to make and decorate our own trinket trays. To achieve clear,…
Concrete Crafts: Make a Planter with Maria
From the humble construction material to popular home decor, concrete is being used as a designer material for candle holders, planters, platters, and more. Come join this class and learn how to use concrete in your craft and design projects and make a planter to take home! What will we cover? We will make a…
DIY Eco Paints & Painting: Proboscis Monkey with Serene
Come and learn how to create eco paints from safe, natural ingredients from your kitchen! And put them immediately to use as you learn to paint a proboscis monkey! Did you know that know that traditional acrylic paints, while bright and cheery, contain plastics that end up in our waterways? Not just their packaging, but…
Tofu: Healthy Plant-Based Japanese Recipes with Naoko (online)
How delicious is fresh Japanese! Such attention to detail of flavour, texture, colour, and aroma. While requiring an attention to details, Japanese cooking doesn't need to be too complicated to be both incredibly tasty and healthy. In this class you'll be able to cook along with Naoko in Kanazawa, Japan, as she demonstrates how to…
Signature Scents: Make Your Own Perfume with Lily
Have you been looking for an eco-friendly, vegan or a natural perfume? Maybe you've always wanted to design your own signature scent! Come and join Lily for this much anticipated Laneway Learning workshop and make your own natural perfume! Whether you're a floral fan, or citrus enthusiast - or perhaps earthy and spicy! - you'll certainly find…
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