Past Online Classes
Take a look back at the online classes we’ve run.
Past Online Classes
Acrylic Painting for Beginners: Starry Flinders St with Fran
Ever wanted to paint this most iconic Melbourne landmark, but not sure where to start? Maybe you've always wanted to try painting with acrylics but haven't felt confident enough with the materials to get going! In this class, you'll be taken step by step through a guided painting tutorial of the famous Flinders Street station…
Colourful Kantha: Indian Embroidery and Quilting for Beginners with Manjari
What’s it all about? Kantha sewing originated from the West Bengal region of India and is now popular all over the world. Kantha is the simplest of sewing techniques which provides a lot of scope for exploration, imagination and expression. This form of quilting comes from rural India, where resources were few, but imagination and…
Dry Felting 101: Summer Beach with Heather
What’s it all about? Needle felting is the simple process of turning loose wool into a solid felt using a barbed needle. It’s a very easy craft which doesn’t require extensive equipment. You can make toys, ornaments and decorations - a very fun and colouful hobby! In this beginner class we'll be learning to dry…
Free Your Hips: Feldenkrais with Ralph (Online)
Take a moment for your self and learn to relax and release the areas around your hips, to release habitual tensions and improve your posture, balance and coordination. Restore your natural flexibility with safety and stability. Clarify coordination and alignment of the back, pelvis, hips and legs for improved sitting, standing, walking or running. …
Watercolour for Beginners: Fruit & Vegetables with Emilie
Come and enjoy the wonderful world of watercolour paintings! Watercolour is an easy yet expressive painting skill to pick up, and this beginners class will teach you skills and techniques to create your own piece of watercolour art. In this class, Emilie will share with you her warm up exercises and tips for experimenting with colour and shapes to…
SOLD OUT – Queer Social Footscray: Leathercraft Basics, make a Leather Purse with Gosia
Discover the art of Leathercraft! In this workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of leatherworking while creating your own unique and sustainable leather pouch. Using 100% repurposed leather, you'll be guided through all aspects of this project, from creating the initial pattern, to stitching and embellishing, to create your own one-of-a-kind leather pouch that reflects your…
Portrait Drawing for Beginners with Emilie
Come to this drawing class and break the myth about what is often considered the most difficult artistic genre: portraits! Emilie will provide some technical pointers to draw the human faces. Through observation exercises, you’ll learn the basics about proportion, tone and shading. We will try different approaches, draw from observation and from imagination. We…
Beyond Bobbins: Using A Sewing Machine Part 2 with Robyn
What’s it all about? In an effort towards sustainability and adding extra life to our garments and textiles - reusing, repurposing, mending and repairing - Robyn will teach us how to use a sewing machine in a fun and informative class. This is a good introduction or refresher class that explores some of the extra…
Using a Sewing Machine 101 with Robyn
What’s it all about? In an effort towards sustainability and adding extra life to our garments and textiles - reusing, repurposing, mending and repairing - Robyn will teach us how to use a sewing machine in a fun and informative class. Sewing of any kind is a really nifty skill, but sometimes the time it takes…
An Intro to Pottery with Maddy
Come and explore the world of pottery and clay modelling! 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 engraved plate, a little pinch pot or both! At the end of the workshop you will walk…
Introduction to Silver Clay: Mini Charms with Maria
Silver Clay is an interesting material for silver jewellery making. It's a pliable clay with powdered silver through it, meaning the clay can be sculpted into unique shapes and designs. The silver clay is then fired in a kiln and the clay binding component burns away leaving your creation as solid silver! In this fun…
Dry Felting 101: Mushrooms with Heather
What’s it all about? Needle felting is the simple process of turning loose wool into a solid felt using a barbed needle. It’s a very easy craft which doesn’t require extensive equipment. You can make toys, ornaments and decorations - a very fun and cosy hobby for Melbourne's chilly months! In this beginner class we'll…
Smartphone Photography and Editing with Natalia (online)
Do you want to know how to take pretty pictures of the places and people around you to share on social media? Or professional photos of your wares as a small business? Or better snaps of your gigs for more impactful publicity. Make images that have an impact and stay on the viewers' minds. Whether for…
World Flavours Mauritius: Bol Renverse or Magic Bowl
What’s it all about? Come and learn some easy delicious recipes that you can easily cook yourself! In this series of cooking workshops, we will learn staple and traditional recipes from international students living in Melbourne. These have been thought out to be simple enough to cook yourself and they are just delicious. Then we'll…
Beginner Linocut Printing 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…
Glow-in-the-Dark Painting and Pigments with Emilie
Feel like a fun art class that's a little bit different? Welcome glow-on-the-dark paints and pigments! In this class, you will learn how to design a simple image or pattern to highlight a glow-in-the-dark element to your work. Choose your favourite fluoro colour palette as a base to create glow-in-the-dark paints, and your bold design…
Creepy Closed Terrariums with Winter
Closed terrariums are miniature, self-sufficient indoor gardens. They're cute, fun to make, simple to care for, and easy to recreate again at home. If you manage to kill even the most un-killable of cacti but still yearn for some greenery at your office or home, then working with terrariums might be your best bet. In…
Paper and Glass Jewellery and Accessories with Qing
Who would have thought glass and paper could be made into wonderful pieces of jewellery? ! So simple to create, yet stunning to wear! With the limitless bounds of print media (think books, old maps, sheet music, photographs, origami paper) you can take almost anything flat and make it into your very own piece of…
Floral Paper Quilling with Qing
How cute is quilling! ? You might remember this art form from you Primary School days but quilling is making a come back! These beautiful paper twirls can be twisted into hearts, flowers and spiralicious designs to adorn walls and make delicate pieces of art. Qing, our queen of all that is art and food…
Halloween Soy Candle Making with Maddy
If a colourful candle is the only touch of Halloween you get into this Spooky Season, then you're doing okay. Come and join this beginner class and learn how to make soy candle from scratch - a process that's safe and simple to replicate at home. Choose your favourite scents and fragrances, some…
Dark Dioramas and Muertos Nichos with Fran
A nicho box, or ‘nicho’, is a three-dimensional or recessed display box, used as a portable shrine to an important figure or loved one. Nichos are popular all around Latin America and specially in Mexico and Dia de los Muertos. You can actually do nichos for anything: loved ones, celebrities, your love for plants? tropical…
Dry Felting 101: Halloween Friends with Heather
What’s it all about? Needle felting is the simple process of turning loose wool into a solid felt using a barbed needle. It’s a very easy craft which doesn’t require extensive equipment. You can make toys, ornaments and decorations - a very fun and colouful hobby! In this beginner class we'll be learning to dry…
Finding your Ikigai: Purpose and Life Satisfaction with Maria Online
You might have heard that 2021 was the year of the Great Resignation, or the "Quitening" as they called it in US. Hundreds of people had a thought about what they were doing with their lives and if it was enough for them. Since then, many people have gone back to retraining, up-skilling or are…
Polymer Clay Accessories: Transfer Paper and Printing with Fran
Join us for a hands-on polymer clay class where creativity meets technique! In this workshop, you’ll learn the art of screen printing directly onto clay, as well as how to transfer stunning images from tissue paper or napkins. Perfect for beginners and seasoned crafters alike, you'll leave with unique pieces and the skills to continue…
Halloween Headdresses and Floral Crowns with Robyn
Are you celebrating Halloween or Dia de los Muertos? Planning to go out to a costume party? Come and finalise your outfit with a headdress, crown, fascinator or something else tres unique. In this class we will make creepy or cute headdresses to top off any costume. With heaps of sequins, tulle, pumpkins, bats…
Soft Cover Journal Binding with Cherie
Your teacher Cherie loves paper. She makes it, dyes it, decorates it, collects and repurposes it. In this class Cherie will introduce you to Junk Journals as you collate, decorate and bind your own soft cover journal. In this class you'll collate a soft-cover journal out of hand dyed and purposely distressed pages, giving your…
Job Seeking Strategies That Work with John (Online)
Looking for a job is never easy. It can be a daunting journey and an emotional rollercoaster ride, with awesome highs but also devastating lows. Job markets change continually and to remain connected and competitive, you need to go beyond the norm. It is said that only 20% of jobs are advertised! That means 80% of them…
World Flavours India: Bhel Puri, Sev Puri and Authentic Chai
What’s it all about? Come and learn some easy delicious recipes that you can easily cook yourself! In this series of cooking workshops, we will learn staple and traditional recipes from international students living in Melbourne. These have been thought out to be simple enough to cook yourself and they are just delicious. Then we'll…
Queer Social Footscray: 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…
Language Mastery – from Mediocre to Masterful Writing with Liliane (Online)
Beginner writers write in ‘summaries'; masterful writers know how to plumb the depths of the scene. Develop your ability to dive into compelling detail in this session. What will we cover? You think you learnt all you need to know about nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in school, but this class takes that information to…
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