Make Do and Mend Sewing Classes (21 hrs)

Venue:             Hyson Green Community Centre

Dates:              Wednesday 4 September for 7 Wednesdays

Times:              9.30am to 12.30pm

Facilitator:       Evadney Jalloh

Women are welcome to bring their own garments to mend, alter and enhance. We’ll learn a range of hand and machine techniques and make a small range of items for sale at a DreamWeavers arts and crafts event.

*Women Only*

Note we have a sewing class in St Anns on Mondays for those unable to make Mondays.

Booking essential. Contact Bright Ideas Nottingham: 07989 302 571

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Introduction to Teacher Training (20 hrs)

Venue:             Central Library, Angel Row (Meeting Room 1^st Floor)

Dates:              Friday 6, 13, 20 and 27 September

Times:              10am to 3.30pm

Facilitators:     Lisa Robinson, Evadney Jalloh

Participants will be able to:

• Write measurable learning outcomes
• Devise a course outline and session plan
• Choose appropriate methods for evaluating learning and assessing learners
• Deliver and evaluate a micro-teach session

Booking essential. Contact Bright Ideas Nottingham: 07989 302 571

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Dates: Wednesday 25th September for 8 Wednesdays

Time: 2-4pm

Venue: Nottingham Central Library, Angel Row, NG1

This is an active hands-on course that will develop your heritage research skills.  It will improve your understanding of how to work in archives and with digital resources.  We will be working with Legacy Makers, a National Lottery Heritage Fund project based in Nottingham Legacy Makers is exploring the slavery links to the Derbyshire cotton mills and Nottinghamshire hosiery industry during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  It is also discovering more about the local business and the people worked in the cotton mills and hosiery industry at this time. 

On this course we will identify and discover how to assess different historical documents and sources to help us to explore the cotton and hosiery industry in the East Midlands from the past to the present.

·         Develop our understanding of how and where cotton was grown in the world and how it reached Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. 

·         Identify the role of slavery in the cotton industry.

·         Discover the lived experience of enslaved people.  

·         Find out about the lives and working conditions of the cotton-spinners and framework knitters in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire with a particular focus on women and children.

·         Explore methods to share the results of our research on this course.

Ideal for anyone not currently in paid work, interested in developing a career in heritage, returning to education or volunteering on community heritage projects to gain further research experience. Volunteering opportunities will stem from this course

All levels welcome from complete beginners to those with previous experience.  

Tutor:  Helen Bates, heritage consultant.  Helen has worked on various heritage research projects including collaborations with: Lincoln Castle, Newstead Abbey, Hyson Green Flats Oral History Project, Derwent Valley Mills, Boughton House, St Lucia National Trust and the nationally recognised Slave Trade Legacies Project.

Booking essential. Contact Bright Ideas Nottingham: 07989 302 571

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Dream Weavers Community Gospel Singers (15/20hrs)

Venue:                 Pilgrim Church, (church hall), Meadows, NG2 2DF

Dates:                   Monday 16 Sept for 6 weeks

Times:                   6pm to 8.30pm

Facilitators:         Freddie Kofi and Evadney Jalloh

A course for anyone who loves to sing.  We’ll be having fun, choosing songs, practising harmonies and preparing a short programme to perform at a community event on Saturday 26 October 2019 at the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site with the Legacy Makers project.

Participants will be able to:

• Perform a range of songs from the Deep South and Caribbean
• Contribute to the creation of a new song
• Work as a team to plan a community performance
• Perform at an event at as part of a community choir

Booking essential. Contact Bright Ideas Nottingham: 07989 302 571

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Photography: Capturing Notts Black Histories (27 hrs)

Venue:             Pilgrim Church (church hall), Meadows, NG2 2DF

Dates:              Starts Thurs 26 Sept for 9 weeks

Times:              10am to 1pm  

Facilitators:     Jagdish Patel, Lisa Robinson

We’ll be travelling around Nottingham to capture photographs of black community organisers and activists and community centres and spaces past and present. At this first course we’ll be focussing on the Pilgrim Church and their history of activism. Improving our photography techniques, we’ll produce and arrange a set of images for the Off Centre Exhibition at the New Art Exchange which runs from 16-23 November 2019.

Participants will be able to:

• Contribute to a map of past and present African and African-Caribbean organisations in Nottingham
• Improve their photography skills
• Take photographs to capture the people and places in the black community and voluntary sector
• Contribute work to a public photography exhibition

No experience required. All abilities welcome.  

Booking essential. Contact Bright Ideas Nottingham, 07989 302 571

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More information

At the first session of every course, students design the course with the tutor to ensure that it covers the subjects that you want.

All courses will enable you to build your confidence, make new contacts and feel more positive about yourself and your future. No previous experience or knowledge is required.

All courses provide support to students to help you get the most out of your time with us.

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