In this beginner-friendly sketching session, you will explore fundamental drawing techniques, materials, and styles in a supportive and relaxed setting. Learn the basics of line, shading, and composition while practising simple sketching exercises. Perfect for those new to drawing or wanting to refresh their skills.

Learn how to draw a portrait in proportion and capture personality in this beginner-friendly workshop. We will cover facial proportions, simple shapes, and shading techniques step by step in a supportive and relaxed setting. Perfect for those new to portrait drawing.

Join us for a relaxed portrait drawing session. This meetup is perfect for artists wanting to learn proportions, shading and capturing personality. You will have opportunity to practice skills and meet other local creatives.

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Step away from Auto mode and gain full manual control over your camera in this comprehensive 3-hour masterclass set against the National Arboretum. With this extended time, we will dive deep into the exposure triangle - practicing aperture, shutter speed, and ISO - while exploring creative depth of field and custom focus modes through guided, hands-on field exercises across the forest pathways. What you will achieve: You will confidently transition to manual or semi-manual shooting modes, understand how to intentionally blur backgrounds for portraits, freeze motion, and correctly expose any scene without relying on the camera's auto settings.

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Take the guesswork out of colour in this relaxed acrylic painting session focused on colour mixing. You will learn how to mix clean, vibrant colours, avoid muddy results, and build a simple palette you can rely on. Guided step by step, suitable for complete beginners as well as those with some experience. Please bring your own acrylic paints, brushes and a canvas or canvas board. A friendly, encouraging atmosphere - come along and enjoy a creative morning.

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Join us for a fun, relaxed introduction to crochet! This beginner-friendly class covers the basic stitches and techniques to get you started on your first project.

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Join us for a spooky watercolour workshop painting a haunted forest scene. Capture the mysterious beauty of a dark, misty forest with spooky trees and moonlit atmosphere. All skill levels welcome.

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Join us for a relaxed acrylic painting session focused on creating a vibrant spring landscape. You will be guided step by step through blocking-in, colour mixing, and layering techniques to build your own spring scene to take home. Suitable for complete beginners as well as those with some painting experience, with plenty of guidance in a friendly and encouraging setting. Please bring your own acrylic paints in a range of colours suitable for a spring scene, brushes, a canvas or canvas board, a palette, and a water container. An apron or old shirt is recommended. Come along and enjoy a creative morning.

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Join us for a 3-hour deep dive into night photography high above the city at Mount Stromlo Observatory. This extended timeframe allows us to wait for optimal darkness and cover advanced astrophotography concepts. Learn how to capture the Milky Way, pinpoint stars, calculate the 500-rule to avoid star trailing, and practice creative foreground light-painting techniques around the historic telescope ruins. What you will achieve: You will master manual long exposures, learn how to manually focus in pitch-black conditions, effectively balance sky and foreground exposures, and walk away with striking, sharp images of the night sky and illuminated ruins.

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Ready to create stunning granny square blankets or elevate your crochet skills? Join our fun-filled Granny Squares Class and learn the classic crochet square plus tips on colour and joining techniques. Perfect for those who've done our Beginners Class or know the basic stitches. All our classes include crochet materials and instruction as well as a non-alcoholic drink during the class.

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Paint beautiful spring florals in this relaxed acrylic painting session. Guided step by step, you will learn simple techniques for painting petals, leaves and colourful blooms to create your own floral artwork to take home. Suitable for complete beginners as well as those with some experience. Please bring your own acrylic paints, brushes and a canvas or canvas board. A friendly, encouraging atmosphere - come along and enjoy a creative morning.

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Join an intensive 3-hour urban photowalk exploring fine art monochrome composition, brutalist architecture, and abstract geometry. We will take our time exploring the High Court, NGA Sculpture Garden, and National Library colonnades as the afternoon transitions into golden hour. Learn to eliminate visual noise, frame through concrete pillars, utilize negative space, and correct perspective (keystoning). What you will achieve: You will train your eye to see in black-and-white, master the use of negative space for minimalist appeal, accurately align architectural verticals, and create high-contrast, gallery-style architectural fine art images.

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Uncover the magic of crochet's special stitches! Elevate your crochet skills with our Special Stitches Class, where you'll learn some more advanced stitches perfect for blankets and other projects. Perfect for those who've done our Beginners Class or know the basic stitches. All our classes include crochet materials and instruction as well as a non-alcoholic drink during the class.

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Join us for a festive watercolour workshop creating beautiful Christmas cards. Learn techniques to paint holiday-themed designs perfect for spreading festive cheer to friends and family. All skill levels welcome.

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Join us for an in-depth 3-hour interactive online workshop dedicated to transforming your RAW photos into polished, finished images. This extended session allows for a complete start-to-finish workflow demonstration using RAW files from our previous field walks. Learn shadow recovery in high-contrast landscapes, astrophotography noise reduction, fine-art black-and-white conversions, and cinematic color grading in Affinity and Camera RAW. What you will achieve You will develop a cohesive, non-destructive editing workflow, learn how to rescue under-exposed images, master masking and local adjustments, and have the confidence to produce professional-grade final edits from your RAW files.

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