DREAMWEAVERS JANUARY 2020
Goal Setting for 2020
Do you feel like you could be doing more with your life? Setting personal and professional goals using our tools and approaches will help you feel more productive and focussed. This course will give you the time and space to focus on your life and what you want out of it. We also explore how our lives can help others around us and the wider world.
Participants will be able to:
- Identify and set their goals for 2020
- Set longer term goals for their lives
- Use a range of strategies to keep them on track
Venue: College Street Centre, College Street, Nottingham, NG1 5AQ (2 minutes walk from Nottingham Playhouse)
Dates: Thursday 8 and Friday 9 January 2020
Times: 10am to 3.30pm (10 hrs)
Facilitator: Lisa Robinson
Booking essential. Contact Bright Ideas Nottingham, 07989 302 571
#DreamWeavers: FREE courses for adults NOT in paid employment
DREAMWEAVERS NOVEMBER 2019
Working with Children and Young People
Have a go at designing fun and engaging activities for young people. Learn about creating a safe environment, co-producing codes of conduct and dealing with difficult situations.
Participants will be able to:
- Assess their skills, qualities and knowledge/understanding
- Devise an activity for children and young people
- Identify opportunities for working and volunteering with children and young people
Venue: Nottingham Central Library, Cecil Roberts Room
Dates: Monday 4, 11, 18 and 25 November
Times: 10am to 3pm
Facilitator: Evadney Jalloh
Booking essential. Contact Bright Ideas Nottingham, 07989 302 571
#DreamWeavers: FREE courses for adults NOT in paid employment
DREAMWEAVERS OCTOBER 2019
Dementia in the Black Community
Venue: Pilgrim Church, (church hall), Meadows, NG2 2DF
Dates: Tuesday 1 October for 4 weeks (20hrs)
Times: 10am to 3.30pm
Facilitators: Dr Mary Tilki, Lisa Robinson, Dr Rose Thompson
This course uses a different way of thinking about memory loss/dementia. It is about challenging contemporary notions of people with dementia and focussing on ourselves, how we think about and behave towards people with memory loss. Because of the ways in which dementia is viewed in society, those who experience memory loss can be stigmatised and deprived of their rights. This training is an attempt to put ourselves in the shoes of people with memory loss/dementia and their carers, to open our hearts and minds and to welcome and retain them in our community. Ultimately the course will help to start planning a Caribbean Memories Café (dementia café) in the Meadows.
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
Booking essential. Contact Bright Ideas Nottingham: 07989 302 571
#DreamWeavers: FREE courses for adults NOT in paid employment
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.
NOTE: Times, dates and venues may be subject to change so please join our text list for updates: 07989 302 571
Creative Writing and Storytelling
Explore your creative potential through writing and storytelling
Participants will be able to:
· Create a rhyming poem
· Create a free verse poem
· Use their voices creatively to add expression and depth to their writing
· Contribute to a group story
· Identify volunteering opportunities to use their creative writing and storytelling skills
Venue: College Street Centre, College Street, Nottingham, NG1 5AQ (2 minutes walk from Nottingham Playhouse)
Dates: Wednesday 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November and 4 December.
Times: 10am to 1pm
Facilitator: Michelle Hubbard
Booking essential. Contact Bright Ideas Nottingham, 07989 302 571
DREAMWEAVERS COURSES SEPTEMBER 2019
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*
Booking essential. Contact Bright Ideas Nottingham: 07989 302 571
#DreamWeavers: FREE courses for adults NOT in paid employment
Introduction to Teacher Training (20 hrs)
Venue: Central Library, Angel Row (Meeting Room 1st 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
#DreamWeavers: FREE courses for adults NOT in paid employment
Developing Heritage Research Skills
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
#DreamWeavers: FREE courses for adults NOT in paid employment
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
#DreamWeavers: FREE courses for adults NOT in paid employment
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
#DreamWeavers: FREE courses for adults NOT in paid employment
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.
NOTE: Times, dates and venues may be subject to change so please join our text list for updates: 07989 302 571
Designing a community heritage project
Dates: Wednesday 25 September for 8 Wednesdays
Time: 10.30am – 1pm
Venue: Nottingham Central Library
On this course you will be able to:
- Design a community heritage project
- Create partnerships with museums, heritage sites and other organisations.
- Identify and apply for funding
- Devise strategies for recruiting and inspiring volunteers
- Develop heritage project management skills
- Develop heritage activities
- Design and deliver creative outputs: exhibitions and learning materials
- Develop digital resources: blogs and social media
- Evaluate your project
Ideal for anyone not currently in paid work, interested in developing a career in heritage or volunteering on community heritage projects to gain management experience.
Volunteering opportunities will stem from this course.
Tutor: Helen Bates, heritage consultant. Helen has worked on various heritage 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.
NOTE: Times, dates and venues may be subject to change so please join our text list for updates: 07989 302 571
DREAMWEAVERS AUGUST 2019
Setting Up A Social Enterprise or Community Group (10 hrs +)
Venue: Nottingham Contemporary (Meeting Room)
Dates: Wednesday 14 August & Saturday 7 Sept (plus further workshops if required)
Times: 10am to 3.30pm
Facilitator: Lisa Robinson
Discover your entrepreneurial and leadership potential – whether it is setting up a business or community group. We’ll explore organisational structures, vision and values, publicity and marketing ideas and sources of finance and funding.
Participants will be able to:
- Decide on the best organisation structure for them
- Draft or evaluate their vision and values
- Create a marketing and publicity plan
- Identify potential sources of funding
#DreamWeavers: FREE courses for adults NOT in paid employment
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.