As well as touring the exhibition in the community hall, and viewing the original artwork on display and for sale, you may also like to spend your time in the village attending one or more of the workshops being held. There will be a map at the village community hall for location of workshops. Coffee and cake will be available to buy all day outside the Village Hall.
However hard we try to keep the costs down, we are moving to a small fee structure to help cover costs for the workshops we host. To go to a workshop, you will first need to buy a ‘workshop ticket’ (these will be $5) from the exhibition (cash or eftpos) and then take this ticket to the workshop, and hand it to the tutor at workshop venues, – workshops are usually one hour and materials provided.
Workshop Timetable
The following workshops are scheduled so far, please visit in April for final confirmation of the timetable.
Saturday 19th April 2025
| Time | Meet | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9am – Photo Trail | Meet at Village Hall | Join John O’Malley and Conor Boyd around the village for tips and tricks on landscape photography, conditions will dictate where exact location. Will probably require initial travel by car, so please be prepared to car-pool. (potentially Kura Tawhiti or beyond) – allow 2 hrs |
| 9am – Kids Trickle Painting | 21 Torlesse Place | Maree will guide children to trickle paint rocks with prepared stones with their own designs. These will be spray varnished later that evening when dry and will be available for you to hide around the village on Sunday. Pick them up from the cake marquee (next to hall) from Sunday morning onwards. Then you can spend some time finding each others’ and hiding them again. Workshop is limited to 10yrs and under – 8 people – 1 hour |
| 10am – Nature Craft | 15 Porter Place | Helene will guide adults through making a natural wreath for door or table decoration, complete with tips and ideas to add to your wreath, suitable for 16+ years – 12 people – 1 hour. |
| 10.30am – | Village Hall | poss Geology walk? Will probably require initial travel by car, so please be prepared to car-pool. (Kura Tawhiti) – allow 1.5hrs |
| 10.30am – Kids Zentangle | The Doug – 60 Trelissick Loop | Ildica will help kids draw with dots, curves, lines and orbs, to create a beautiful small piece of ‘egg themed’ tangle patterns artwork, built up in a simple and creative way. Suitable for ages 6 and up. 1 hour |
| 11 am – Decorate your Easter Egg bag | 3 Olympus Terrace | Catherine will support children as they decorate their bag for egg collecting tomorrow – various stamps and ink pads, and pens on offer to make their collection bag the best ever! Supervision and help is given, but their creativity can run loose! 1 hour |
| 12 noon – Kids Trickle painting | 21 Torlesse Place | Maree will guide children to trickle paint rocks with prepared stones with their own designs. These will be spray varnished later that evening when dry and will be available for you to hide around the village on Sunday. Pick them up from the cake marquee (next to hall) from Sunday morning onwards. Then you can spend some time finding each others’ and hiding them again. Workshop is limited to 11yrs + – 8 people. – 1 hour |
| 1.30pm – Nature craft | 15 Porter Place | Helene will guide children to explore their creativity in lots of different ways with a selection of natural materials to create some 3-dimensional designs, mini sculptures or pictures. – 1 hour |
| 1.30pm – 3.30pm Rock Carving | 19 Cheeseman Terrace | Dave is on hand to give you a chance to try your hand at stone carving – with various tools to share and some Oamaru stone chunks to start creating into a new form. Find out how this traditional craft feels as you sculpt the stone. The workshop is limited to 10 people . – 2 hours Age restricted to 16+ (because we will be working with carving tools). |
| 2pm – Forest Bathing | Meet at Village Hall | Join Catherine who will guide you through some invitations in the forest that focus on sensory engagement and connecting with nature to promote a sense of calm, connection and wellbeing. Bring a work jacket, sensible shoes and something to sit on. Limited to 12 people each session.. 1 hour and a quarter. (foundation session.) |
| 2pm -Kid Beading | 4C Cheeseman Terrace | Nicki will support children as they build their own necklace or bracelet from a wide selection of fancy and fantastic beads onto an elastic string. Supervision and help with tying the knot and sealing the join, is given, but their creativity can run loose! 1 hour |
| 3pm – Knotted Forest Pixies | 60 Trelissick Loop | Evie will guide children through making some macramé forest pixie broches. Using cotton yarn and wooden rings these cute little fellow can then be mounted with a fastening to add to a bag or garment. Materials supplied. 1 hour 10+ (or younger with supervision) as there will be scissors in use. |
| 4pm – 5pm – Chalk the Court! | Tennis Court at the Village Hall | Let your creativity loose for an hour, and decorate a canvas of tennis court, chalks provided and at the end of the hour, we’ll judge them to give out some prizes. We’ll mark out a 1m square for each participant to draw for 45 minutes before the judging. |
| 7pm – Creative Thinking | 60 Trelissick Loop | Join Sarah for an informative hour talk about how to adjust your thinking to get into the creative mode to gain a route to be inspired and creative. This doesn’t apply to tradition creativity, it is also a route to take to adjust your daily life too. |
Sunday 20th April 2025
| Time | Meet | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9.30am – Easter Egg Hunt | Village Hall | The annual hunt is on again, no cash donations but please get your donation of chocolate eggs to 19 Slalom Place before 8.30am on Easter Sunday (and extra bunnies will also be welcome at 8.30am to help set up) |
| 10.30am | ||
| 10.30am – Matariki Lantern | 60 Trelissick Loop | Decorate a wooden lantern in preparation of the shorter winter hours, and celebrating Matariki. It is completed with battery tealight and glittery decoration. 1 hour |
| 12 noon – Zentangle | The Doug – 60 Trelissick Loop | An easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. Come along and see how your creativity appears in the Zentangle zone. Ildica will guide you through creating non-representative art work by drawing structured ‘tangles’. This workshop is for adults and older kids. 1 hour |
| 1.30pm – Kids Beading | 33 Torlesse Place | Nicki will support children as they build their own necklace or bracelet from a wide selection of fancy and fantastic beads onto an elastic string. Supervision and help with tying the knot and sealing the join, is given, but their creativity can run loose! 1 hour |
| 2pm – Zentangle Duo | The Doug – 60 Trelissick Loop | Adult and child – get creative together! Come along to an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. This Zentangle class will run as a creative project to do as a pair. If you want to come along with a friend (of any age) and work together you are also most welcome. This workshop is for all ages. 1 hour. There is a session for younger children on Saturday, and also an adult session earlier on Sunday. 1 hour |
| 2pm – Forest Bathing | Meet at the Village Hall | Join Catherine who will guide you through some invitations in the forest that focus on sensory engagement and connecting with nature to promote a sense of calm, connection and wellbeing. Bring a work jacket, sensible shoes and something to sit on. Limited to 12 people each session.. 1 hour and a quarter. (deeper session.) |