Coda Half Term News
A reminder that it’s the Coda (music) half term next week from Monday 28th October - Friday 1st November so there is no music tuition or groups during this week.
However, we have LOTS of fun Halloween activities for families, children and young people over half term as part of our new creative arts programme. Plus there are now workshops throughout November and December available to book now, including some lovely festive activities.
HALF TERM & HALLOWEEN WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES
Halloween Garland Workshop
with Kyleigh Orlebar
Tuesday 29th October & Wednesday 30th October
11am - 1pm
£15
These are workshops for children (7+) accompanied by an adult.
Join papercut artist Kyleigh Orlebar at Coda for a papercut Halloween garland workshop. You’ll create your own spooky pumpkin or ghost papercut garland from Kyleigh’s templates using super sharp craft knives or scissors. Choose from various different pumpkin faces (spooky or nice!) and a variety of ghastly ghouls.
You’ll cut them out and arrange them on your bakers twine to have a lovely Halloween garland to take home with you.
Over 7s only due to super sharp scalpels used. All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Price includes child plus one adult. This workshop is running twice.
To book Tuesday 29th October 11am - 1pm Click here
To book Wednesday 30th October 11am - 1pm Click here
Batty Cattys
with Emily Stracey
Thursday 31st October
10am - 12pm
£15 per person
Feline Frightful… Come and have an AMEOWZING time exploring a bite of Halloween fun making and creating some batty cattys in clay. Will yours have whiskers and wings or fangs and frightly pointy ears!?
This is a workshop for the whole family.
Click here to book
Which Witch is hiding in my shopping basket?
with Emily Stracey
Thursday 31st October
1pm - 3pm
£15
This workshop is for children age 8+
This Halloween workshop will be taking inspiration from the exhibition: Lists Lost & Found by Kyleigh Orlebar which will be in the Coda gallery space from 24th October.
We will be creating our own mystery shopping lists and wondering which witch has created that list. What would be on your list?
Magic black cat food? Slimey slug eyes? Mushy pea pies?
We will create, through sculpting from cardboard and other materials, the mystical characters who the lists belong to.
Click here to book
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES
After-school mixed-media Sculpture Club
with Emily Stracey – Creative Workshops
Thursdays 4.30 - 6.00pm
For 8-14 years
£60 for 6 weeks 7th November - 12th December
Emily has been making and selling ceramic, textile and illustration work for over 25 years. She hand builds in clay and illustrates humorous, colourful animal themed work. She has also run Art workshops over this time in a wide selection of materials.
The sculpture course will be an opportunity to come and explore making some fun Artwork; drawing and creating from a clay and a variety of materials.
Click here to book
Family Creative Nature Workshop
with Hayley Potter
Saturdays 10.30am - 12.30pm
Starting 9th November
£50 (per child + 1 adult) for 5 week course
Age guidance 3-11
In this workshop we will enjoy exploring our relationship with nature creatively and how this can be included in our everyday lives. This welcoming class, held in a studio overlooking a meadow, intends to give you time and space as a family to learn new skills together that you can then use to inspire quality creative time at home and in nature with those you love. These sessions will include making with clay, painting, drawing and 3D. Each child should be accompanied by a parent or carer to get the most out of this workshop.
This 5 week course will run on 9/11, 23/11, 30/11, 7/12, 14/12 (N.B. no session on the 16th November)
Click here to book
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS
Hand Built Ceramics for beginners and improvers
with Hayley Potter
Tuesdays 11.30am - 2.30pm
Starting 5th November
£100 for 5 week course
Age guidance 16+
This friendly and inviting class will guide you through the basics of hand building with clay. We will take inspiration from nature around us as we learn some of the creative processes needed to successfully hand build and work towards a personal project. We will be in a studio overlooking a meadow. A few hours of time and space to learn new skills, express yourself, build confidence and make new friends. There will be an optional short lunch break during this class.
This 5 week course will run on 5/11, 19/11, 26/11, 3/12, 10/12 (N.B. no class on 12th November)
Click here to book
VILLAGE HALL DRAW
with Tracy Dovey
For adults of all ages and ability
Tuesdays 7 – 9pm
£90 for a 6 week block 5th November - 10th December
We will be gathering in the barn for relaxed and intuitive creative drawing sessions for adults of all ages and abilities – most of whom haven’t drawn since childhood! Each week there will be the opportunity to explore a variety of materials, ideas and artists in a playful way.
All materials will be provided.
Click here to book
Create Space - a creative co-working class
with Hayley Potter
Wednesday 6th November &
Wednesday 4th December,
12 - 3pm
£15
Age guidance 16+
This session invites creatives of all abilities and backgrounds to come together to work on their own personal creative project that they are already working on, or you can receive tutor support to help you begin one. This may include drawing, painting, ink and brush, hand building with clay or your own craft. We will be in a studio overlooking a meadow. A few hours that will give you that time and space you may have been promising yourself to be creative and focus. Tutor and peer support for your creative project will be optional. You are welcome to simply use the time and space to work independently. There will be an optional short lunch break during this class.
For 6th November click here to book
For 4th December click here to book
Wild Women Create
with Hayley Potter MA RCA
Fridays 6.30 - 9pm
starting 8th November
12 - 3pm
£15 per session or
£75 for a 5-week course
Age guidance 18+
“Be wild; that is how to clear the river.” Clarissa Pinkola Estes
For women, or those who identify as women, with an intuitive connection or interest in nature, the seasons and cycles around us. Each session we will create something inspired by these themes. This may include ceramics, painting, drawing and book arts.
The intention is that this session in a meadow studio will give you time and space to explore themes and ideas about women in nature, express yourself, learn new skills, nurture your creative voice and make new friends.
This course will run on 8/11, 22/11, 29/11, 6/12 & 13/12
Contact hayleypotterstudio@gmail.com to book
Christmas Pottery Workshop
with Sally Ovenden
Saturday 16th November 2 - 4.30pm &
Thursday 21st November 10am - 12.30pm
£45
For adults (Age guidance 18+)
In this Christmas Pottery workshop, we will be making up to three Christmas decorations. Choose to make an Angel family, Santa Family, or a set of trees.
I will provide you with all the tools and techniques - and the price includes all the materials and firings. I will glaze them with a glossy clear glaze and fire and return your works of art in about 3 - 4 weeks time
To book, contact justsostudio@gmail.com
Christmas Papercutting Workshop
with Kyleigh Orlebar
Monday 2nd December &
Monday 9th December
1pm - 4pm
£45
For adults (Age guidance 18+)
Join papercut artist Kyleigh Orlebar at Coda for a fun and festive Christmas papercutting workshop.
You’ll learn how to use a fixed blade and swivel scalpel to cut a typographical hanging paper decoration from Kyleigh’s gorgeous template provided that reads ‘Merry Christmas’.
It will be finished with a white ribbon ready to hang up in a window or wall for Christmas.
The hanging template is cut from A3 red, green or white G.F.Smith paper. Please let us know the colour choice on booking.
A wonderfully mindful and festive afternoon awaits!
For 2nd December click here to book
For 9th December click here to book
THE GALLERY
VISIT OUR GALLERY
From 25th October, our new exhibition will be
Lists: A Lost & Found by Kyleigh Orlebar
This new exhibition is all about the list. We all write them, whether helping us to order our lives through the eternal “To Do” list or the simple shopping list, but every list is personal and reveals something about the creator. The artist Kyleigh Orlebar has been foraging for them for the last 20 years, collecting the lost and found, the private and the public, keeping them safe like treasures and a pondering the worlds of all who’ve written them. Her new exhibition reveals her favourites and invites you to contribute to the collection.
Heading towards the festive season, with our own lists in full flow, Kyleigh’s new exhibition reveals her favourites and offers an invitation to ‘post’ your lists to contribute to the collection. We are also looking forward to exploring the ways you might make a list and celebrate yours in creative workshops.
PRIVATE VIEW
24th October 5 - 7pm
Kyleigh will be holding a private viewing to launch her exhibition Lists: A Lost & Found on 24th October from 5pm - 7pm. You are invited to join her and enjoy being one of the first to see the new exhibition.
GALLERY OPENING TIMES
Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday midday - 9pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 6.30pm
Friday 10am - 2pm
CAN YOU HELP US? VOLUNTEER GALLERY INVIGILATORS NEEDED!
We would love to encourage some volunteers to help invigilate our gallery space. You will help to ensure the security of the artworks is not compromised and provide visitors with information about the exhibitions. If you would be interested in volunteering for Coda in this role, please contact heidi@coda.org.uk
MUSIC
ARE YOU A KEYBOARD PLAYER? RUSTY ROCKERS NEED YOU!
Coda Rusty Rockers is a relaxed, friendly and supportive jam session, for over 50s, led by Stuart Jebbitt. The group is currently at capacity, but a space has recently opened up (specifically) for a keyboard player.
Any keyboard player interested in joining the sessions would need to be at least ‘busker’ level (know basic major, minor and 7th chord shapes).
Sessions run on Tuesdays 1.30 – 3pm and are £7 per session (paid termly).
These fun ‘turn up and jam’ sessions are a great, social way to make music and learn songs as a group.
If you are a keyboard player who may be interested in joining the Rusty Rockers, please get in touch:
call 01425 276161 or email contact@coda.org.uk
FREE CLASSICAL GUITAR TASTER SESSIONS
We would love to encourage some more Classical Guitar students to join us at Coda and we are offering FREE taster sessions for lessons before the end of the year.
Stephen Kenyon is our highly qualified and experienced Classical Guitar tutor. If you'd like to know a bit more about Stephen's background, experience and approach to teaching, click here
Learning classical guitar will teach you solid, formal guitar technique. If you would like to try a taster lesson, we are offering a limited number of FREE taster sessions (specifically for Classical Guitar, limited to one per person and subject to availability).
Taster sessions are also available for all other instruments for £5.
If you would like to take up our free taster session offer or book for any other instrument, please contact Coda to arrange - call 01425 276161 or email contact@coda.org.uk
END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL
A HUGE thank you to End Of The Road Festival, who have raised a fantastic £3,820 for Coda from guest-list donations from this year's festival.
EOTR has supported Coda as a partner charity for eight years running and has now raised over £14,000 for us in the years since the partnership began.
We are so grateful that End Of The Road choose to support us in this way. Guests are always incredibly generous and the contributions genuinely help Coda to make a difference to those in need of our help.
Tickets for this fabulous festival in 2025 are on sale now. Visit https://endoftheroadfestival.com/tickets/
MUDEFORD ARTS FESTIVAL
A huge thank you also to Mudeford Arts Festival who have very generously donated £2,000 to Coda following the festival this year. This contribution will help people of all ages and abilities to benefit directly from Coda’s activities and services.
We are so grateful that the festival chose Coda as a beneficiary for these funds – every penny is appreciated and helps to enrich and improve lives.
PARTY NIGHTS FOR OUR ADULT LEARNING DISABLED COMMUNITY
Coda is hosting two PARTY NIGHTS on Friday 8th November and Friday 10th January from 7 - 10pm at Hoburne Naish Holiday Park for learning disabled adults & carers, welcoming everyone from our learning disabled community.
The venue is accessible, with a bar, dancefloor and free parking and we will be enjoying both a DJ set from the Mix It Up Kru and live music from Stuart Jebbitt and the SGC band.
Come along, celebrate together and have fun!
Tickets are just £2 and available from the Coda website shop:
For tickets for Friday 8th November Click here
For tickets for Friday 10th January Click here
For more information, contact Coda Music & Arts Trust on 07999 492808 or email martin@coda.org.uk
Hoburne Naish Holiday Park can be found at
Christchurch Rd, Barton on Sea, New Milton BH25 7RE
We hope you all have a fantastic half term - whether you’re getting creative or taking a break - and we look forward to welcoming you all back for the final half term of the year.