workshops

This intensive weekend workshop is designed for those with previous Classes cover more pattern work and is designed to enhance your ability to combine different pattern combinations into your design. Students will design a garment and work at their own pace and from there Sally will introduce new pattern making techniques that students will learn as they go, on their specific designs.

Sunday 27th June & Sunday 25th July 10am - 4.00pm | $100

"Come along and find that ‘Dita Von Tesse in you'! Bellydance-Burlesque is a new way to let that Va-Vroom woman come forth. A fun time learning some of Mademoiselle Ishtar's Bellydance-Burlesque dance combinations for all ages. Come frolic with a feather boa and fans, and pout your way to lunch! Learn the moves in the first part of the workshop, then you will do in the choreography the second part. Feminine, Fun, Frivolous & Flirty!! Once you've learnt how to be sassy, sexy and provocative you'll then have fun putting it all together to do a beautiful cheeky and sexy dance as a group!! " Ishtar

Bring comfortable clothing and something for the 15min lunch break.

Saturday 10th July, 10am - 1pm | $30

Caroline Zeeman in the recording studio

Join professional musician and experienced teacher Caroline Zeeman in this fun new ukulele workshop guaranteed to be lots of fun, singing and laughter. Caroline will help you get to know the instrument, teach different strumming techniques and show yiou how to tune your ukulele, plus lots more. Following the workshop you will be able to play some of your favourite songs! Beginners and all levels welcome. In term 4 we hope to have Caroline back to offer an 8 week ukulele course, so try it out now! Caroline can provide 8 ukulele's for the workshops, so booking early is essential if you don't own one yet.

Thursday 15th July 2pm - 4pm | $ 15
Saturday 31st July 10am - 12noon | $15

A fun and practical workshop to inspire and upskill potential home gardeners. Learn how to create an easy backyard garden with an abundance of fresh organically grown fruits and vegetables. 

Dee an ex-teacher, spends much of her time in her excellent organic garden which is for both pleasure and self-sufficiency. She has extended this interest to others with her organic gardening classes.
Dee, who is also author of Feed Me Right - Nutrition Know How and Body Science and Growing Gardeners. And together with her daughter, she teaches wholefood cooking classes.

Topics covered:
Planning the spring garden that will work for your backyard
How to keeping it going long-term
What to plant each season for fresh organic produce all year round.
Composting, Worm Farming, Liquid Manures and Organic Sprays
Seed sowing, transplanting, using cloches and watering

What you will need:
Bring along something homemade and healthy for a shared lunch.
To get great tips from Dee, bring along a plan of your home garden area, or the place you would like to put a garden, indicating fences, buildings, sun direction, shade trees and existing plants.

Saturday 2nd October 10.00am - 3.30pm | $45
To register your interest and recieve notification of a confirmed date please email renee@tetuhi.org.nz

To learn more about Dee and the courses she runs from both her own garden and other venues, please visit: FEED ME RIGHT
 http://www.boatingfun.co.nz and  http://www.urbanremedy.co.nz 

Oil Painting
Oil paint is a wonderful, luminous medium. Classically trained artist Nicole Peacock would like to introduce and encourage more artists to use this beautiful, versatile paint by simplifying methods and techniques in a step-by-step teaching method. Learn to understand how the paint works by creating your own painting, assisted with tutor demonstration and individually based instruction. Discover how to achieve the results and styles you like. All abilities are welcome, a complex medium made simple and fun.
Nicole offers this workshop at two levels. Level one is for absolute beginners and level two for those with some experience. A materials list will be provided on enrolment. Any questions on what materials to bring, contact Nicole at nicipeacock@hotmail.com

Saturday Workshops:
Level One: Saturday 21st August 10am - 4pm | $65
Level Two: Saturday 4th September 10am - 4pm | $65

Life Drawing
Learn how to create beautiful and accurate figure drawings from a live model under friendly and knowledgeable guidance. Nicole is a graduate of the prestigious New York Academy of Figurative Art, where she focused on methods to simplify and understand the art of drawing the human body. An age-old subject of the masters, life drawing is one of the best ways to maintain and increase skill in drawing with an expressive and aesthetic understanding of making art. All abilities are welcome. A materials list will be provided on enrolment. Any questions on what materials to bring, contact Nicole at nicipeacock@hotmail.com

Saturday 11th September, 10am - 4pm | $80

Learn To Paint or Draw
Welcoming everybody from the absolute beginner to the burgeoning artist, Nicole teaches this workshop on a one on one basis. Each student learns his or her chosen medium, whether it is watercolour, acrylic, pastel or oil paint. Learn the basics or increase your skills under Nicole's knowledgeable and friendly guidance. Bring an idea or a project, perhaps a picture you've always wanted to paint but not sure how to start, or just show up with some paints and your curiosity. If it's learning how to draw - she can teach you that too! Learn all there is to know about making your own artwork in a relaxed and easy atmosphere. A materials list will be provided on enrolment. Any questions on what materials to bring, contact Nicole at nicipeacock@hotmail.com

Saturday 14th August*, 10am - 4pm | $50
*please note this was printed as 14th June in the brochure, but the 14th August is the correct date

Nicole also offers full 8 week courses. view details. 
For a tutor profile see Nicole Peacok in Classes

Colour Design with Debbie Abercrombie - Professional and Promotional Use of Colour

For those who want to increase their understanding and confidence with colour, join Debbie for an intensive workshop. This weekend workshop is designed to introduce students to the theory and practice of colour in Architecture, Interior Design and related creative industries. Students will gain an understanding of the connection between these industries and how they relate to each other in their use of colour. Topics covered will be: Colour practitioners, colour in marketing, colour in pattern and texture.

Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th September, 10am - 4pm |$425

Mixed media with Mary Ferguson
The workshop is designed for those with a desire to mix their media to create a lively and dynamic composition, or playfully discover the variety of possibilities offered.
Mary will encourage a spirit of exploration by giving demonstrations of different mediums, such as; charcoal, pastels, acrylic paint, gesso, shellac, shoe polish, ink and collage. As well as different surfaces, such as; perspex, acetate, canvas, card and panel.
Emphasis will also be given to creating works by layering processes, giving stunning results.
Personal guidance will be offered at every step. Beginners welcome.

Mary offers two independent workshops.
Students are welcome to enroll in both for a fee of $70
Saturday 11 September 10am - 4pm | $50
Sunday 12 September 10am - 4pm | $50

Life Drawing workshop for adults with Mary Ferguson
Explore a variety of media and exercises while working from a life model in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Beginners to advanced students welcome, as guidance is personal. Longer studies in the afternoon allow for experimentation and working with mixed media will be encouraged.

Saturday 14th August 10am - 4pm | $80

Mary Ferguson
Mary 's career spans working in the areas of Fine Art, Public Art, Graphic Design and Illustration. She has spent eleven years as a part time art educator, and has taught drawing, painting, mixed media and life drawing for adults, as well as children's classes in drawing and painting.  Currently pursuing her passion for working with the human form, Mary's practice combines
figurative and abstract works, drawing, painting and mixed media, with a recent extension into ceramics. A new Zealander, Mary lives and works as an artist in Sydney and her work is represented in collections in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Hong Kong.

A one day introduction to Calligraphy - the art of beautiful writing.
If you are interested in improving your writing or simply what to learn a new skill then don't miss this opportunity to learn from Dale, a qualified and professional Calligraphy teacher and current Director and Editor for the New Zealand Calligraphers, Auckland. Dale's workshop will consist of learning a little history of writing, using nibs, learning angles and holding the pen, and then trying some simple characters, to help construct the letter forms and finally writing a poem or quote. The letter form will be Italic, it is a simple elegant and legible script. If you have any pen sets please bring them with you or nibs or fibre pens made by Sanford width of 2.5mm available from any stationary shop.

Saturday 18th September, 10am - 1pm | $30