Details: Open studio for FDAC members. A volunteer will be present to sell clay or tools. Lessons are not provided.
Cost: $2/session.
Contact: Kerri Holmes for more information, 423-7329 or skerriholmes@hotmail.com.

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Discover the joy of making pottery on the wheel. From mugs to simple bowls the items will be trimmed and finished then glazed and fired in a kiln for a useful finished article. Anything is possible. This class is for beginners and those with limited experience. Limited to 4 people, this becomes almost individual instruction.

Cost: $40, plus clay costs (glaze included).
Registrations: Please contact The College of the Rockies @ 250.423.4691 or email fernie@cotr.bc.ca

Build your knowledge and the potters secrets from a full-time potter. Take your wheel skills to a new level… The class will focus on learning how to make jars, lids and spouts. Eventually, putting all these parts together to make a teapot! Also wheel made forms will be altered to create exciting art forms.

Cost: $40, plus clay costs (glaze included).
Registrations: Please contact The College of the Rockies @ 250.423.4691 or email fernie@cotr.bc.ca

Working with a choice of a full or eight pane 20”x33”antique window (supplied), the workshop will teach how to prep the old window and learn to apply pressed flowers in a ‘flower garden’ design. The finished piece will adorn a house beautifully. Small groups enables almost individual attention by the instructor.

Cost: $150 includes all materials. Bring a brown bag lunch!
Registrations: Please contact The College of the Rockies @ 250.423.4691 or email fernie@cotr.bc.ca

Delve more deeply into developing a painting in simple, easy steps. The course will include discussion on how to work with paints to catch the beauty in painting: mountains; cliffs; rocks; water; and rapids. Start with simple materials and finish with a work of art! Students will learn how to tone a painting surface, blocking in a painting and then going back in to complete the details. Learning how to achieve a fair amount of realism by building on basic skills. Bring your own paint & supplies (listing given on registration).

Cost: $95
Registrations: Please contact The College of the Rockies @ 250.423.4691 or email fernie@cotr.bc.ca

Starting with understanding the instrument, learn how to: tune a guitar; basic chords; and strumming & learning to pick a simple tune. Start to learn melodies & rhythm. Limited registration allows for individualized learning. Bring your (or a friends) guitar!

Cost: $50/pp
Registrations: Please contact The College of the Rockies @ 250.423.4691 or email fernie@cotr.bc.ca

This is the time to strut your stuff! Don’t be shy. A beginners workshop for adults who want to learn some solid skills in acting. Learning from a trained & skilled actress, gain skills and confidence to present on stage. Learn Scene Studying, text analysis, improve games, and more. Its fun to be outgoing! It’s fun to be involved in this two day workshop.

Cost: $45, all materials included.
Registrations: Please contact The College of the Rockies @ 250.423.4691 or email fernie@cotr.bc.ca

A technique developed many thousands of years ago, create an art work that uses coloured waxes that are ‘burnt-in’ with the use of heat and solvent. Starting with the simplest marks that a heated iron makes with the molten waxes it will be worked onto the sealed painting card surface. These basic effects are complied into abstracts, landscapes and fantasy scenes. Gaining skills, other low-heat tools and equipment allows further exploration and a huge variety of potentials for encaustic art work. This medium gives instant gratification … your can complete a masterpiece in a matter of minutes. No previous artistic experience is necessary to partake in this workshop. Fun is the word!!!

Cost: $45/person. Materials & Use of Tools: $15/person
Registrations: Please contact The College of the Rockies @ 250.423.4691 or email fernie@cotr.bc.ca

‘All the World’ a Stage’ – learn how to direct it! Open the wonderful world of acting and direction to create the magic of theatre. Jump start your learning about Stage Dynamics, how to put a scene on its feet, how to provide words for your cast and meaningful direction as well as development of ‘the observational eye’ to bring it all together.

Cost: $40, all materials included.
Registrations: Please contact The College of the Rockies @ 250.423.4691 or email fernie@cotr.bc.ca