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performance

Flabbergast Theatre in Tatterdemalion Sat 21 May 7pm£7/£5(c) Friends £6/£4(c) On the day £12 Family Deal £20/£18(Friends)After Tatterdemalion visited Prema last season

we knew we just had to get the show back

and invite new friends and families to share

this hilarious, uplifting and deliciously naughty

theatre spectacle. Tatterdemalion introduces

loneliness and (be)longing to a rip-roaring sense

of joy and exhilaration through one man’s quest

for a friend in a world that can, at times, feel

mightily chilly. Riotous hilarity ensues as Henry

Maynard (originator of the Balkan bad-boys Boris

& Sergey) creates our loveable fool who may know

more than he lets on - without ever saying a word!

A really brilliant night out for audience members

over the age of eight – we promise you’ll leave the

theatre with a spring in your step and a massive

smile on your face! Mega-affordable tickets too!

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performance

Spitz & Co in GloriatorFri 10 Jun 8pm£10/£7(c) Friends £8/£6(c) On the day £15 Family Deal £25/£23(Friends)Another feel-good theatre show which is entirely

suitable for a grand night out for the whole

family. A hilarious new show revealing just what

happens when a glamorous French actress and

her hapless assistant attempt to stage their own

version of Hollywood blockbuster Gladiator …

Inventive, physical and very silly, Gloriator was

created by French/English female comedy duo

Spitz & Co. with the help of Spymonkey’s Aitor

Basauri and Angus Barr from Publick Transport.

Gloriator won the Critics’ Choice Award at Exeter

Ignite and was originally developed as part of

Bristol Old Vic’s Ferment.

Suitable for theatre-goers aged nine and over.

“Belly-achingly funny” Gloucester Citizen

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performance

Stephen Mottram in The ParachuteThu 21 Jul 7pm£10/£7(c) Friends £8/£6(c) On the day £15 Family Deal £25/£23(Friends)An end-of-term treat for you and a UK premiere

for Stephen Mottram with his spellbinding new

show.

The Parachute is a funny and mesmerising story

of youth, love and confronting old age. Armed

with glorious, atmospheric music from composer

Sebastian Castagna and an armful of white

tipped wands, puppeteer Mottram conjures up his

characters from nowhere.

The Parachute plays with the way our brains make

sense of things we see and stealthily reels us into

a world of movement, populated by captivating,

non-existent actors.

Don’t miss this truly remarkable, inspiring piece

of science-theatre which is suitable for audience

members aged 9+

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live music

Club of No RegretsSat 18 Jun 8pm£12/£9(c) Friends £10/£8(c) On the day £15 It’s been twenty years since Club of No Regrets

formed as a performance conduit for the songs of

Uley songwriter Phil Harris.

Founder members Phil (acoustic guitar), and Ken

Lush (basses) are still there. Sarah Dowling-

Wilkinson (vocals) and Matt Hopkins (electric

guitar) who has been cutting up a storm recently

since working with jazz sax virtuouso Andy

Sheppard, complete the line-up of this dynamic

and exciting quartet.

Club of No Regrets paint a rich audio landscape

that playfully crosses styles of jazz, blues and

folk-roots in an exhilarating pot-pourri of sound

textures. The songs are beautifully constructed,

performed with verve and panache, and the

melodies infectious and memorable. Join the Club

- it’s a musical treat!

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live music

Rob Heron & the Tea Pad OrchestraFri 8 Jul 8pm£12/£9(c) Friends £10/£8(c) On the day £15 Rob Heron and his Tea Pad Orchestra have created

“North Eastern Swing” – a toe-tappin’ amalgam

of swing, blues, gypsy jazz and country music.

Their eclectic style has a distinct tang of early

20th century American music with the addition

of razor-sharp solos, opulent arrangements and

original songs - their music harks back to a

golden age whilst staying perfectly modern.

Rob Heron, a self-professed ‘crazy fool for

country music’ and a full-time dandy-cowboy,

writes the songs – each one brimming with

character, tinged with satire, and always given a

good old-fashion hollerin’.

Don’t miss Rob and the Tea Pad Orchestra’s

summery sounds at Prema, Gloucestershire’s most

intimate live music venue. Book good and early –

we’re gonna be busy!

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live music

Curtis Eller’s American CircusFri 5 Aug 8pm£15/£12(c) Friends £13/£10(c) On the day £18 Curtis Eller is a banjo player, songwriter and rock

& roll singer. After beginning his showbiz career

at the age of seven as a juggler and acrobat, the

Detroit native turned to the banjo and set off for

New York City where he rose to obscurity as “New

York’s angriest yodelling banjo player”.

Curtis Eller’s American Circus is a brutish and

inelegant rock & roll outfit specializing in banjo

music for funerals and gospel tunes for atheists.

Tonight, this tantalising, unsettling and energetic

troupe offer us a smorgasbord of glittery show

tunes, sentimental tear-jerkers and rock & roll

rave-ups whose lyrics are populated with two-bit

prize fighters, Hollywood has-beens, lapsed

gospel singers and forgotten pop stars. Sounds

punchy!

Make sure not to miss this unforgettable night of

vaudevillian spectacle and damn-fine toons.

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live music

The EskiesThu 18 Aug 8pm£12/£9(c) Friends £10/£8(c) On door £15 Having been cast-out, blacklisted, rejected and

ejected from gentlemen’s clubs far and wide, five

dejected cast-asides joined forces in what was to

be their own celebration of commonality, creating

a unique sound in the folk-noir genre.

The Eskies are purveyors of fine music that

meanders from a sea-soaked waltz to an Italian

tarantella, lamenting its way from a brassy funeral

march to a weep-along Klezmer knees-up and

percussing from a chain-gang holler to ragtime

finger-snap. The band has brought this distinctive

blend of folk noir/gypsy-jazz/sea-shanty (always

with with a swaggering stage spectacle) to

ballrooms and booze-houses far-and-wide,

inspiring much toe-tapping and some cray-zee

dance moves from the audience. Don’t miss the

inimitable Eskies for their sweltering summer

evening gig at the Prema jook-joint!

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exhibitions

Anna Harley25 Apr-5 JunAnna Harley’s work is rooted within the landscape

tradition while the metallic inks and muted

colour palette she uses provide an echo of her

Scandinavian background. Anna’s inspiration

comes from the landscapes of her childhood and

the countryside around Bristol where she now

lives.

Verging on the abstract, her tree forms are often

cropped and focus on the silhouettes and negative

spaces between the branches. To produce her

screenprints, Anna uses a combination of drawn

marks, digital photography and objects directly

exposed on the screen. These individual print

layers are then registered and printed on top of

each other to make up the finished work. Since

completing her Masters Degree in Print at UWE,

Anna now produces her work at Spike Print Studio

in Bristol.

www.annaharley.com

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exhibitions

Chris Dunn25 Apr-5 JunChris Dunn is a young illustrator based in Calne,

Wiltshire. From 2013-15 he was resident artist at

the Pound Arts Centre in Corsham and during

that time was commissioned to work on a series

of forty-one watercolour illustrations for the

prestigious Galerie Daniel Maghen, Paris, which

are due to be exhibited July 2016. Chris’ painting

style takes inspiration from artists such as Arthur

Rackham, Alan Lee and John Howe.

The content of his most recent work is heavily

influenced by the quintessentially English

children’s stories of Beatrix Potter and Kenneth

Grahame’s ‘Wind In The Willows’. In this series,

atmosphere, nostalgia and narrative combine to

form a magical backdrop, allowing his anthro-

pomorphic animal characters to interact with one

another in their own highly detailed world.

www.chrisdunnillustration.blogspot.co.uk

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exhibitions

Mary-Rose Young25 Apr-5 JunMary Rose Young is a ceramic artist whose

distinctive and instantly-recognisable range

of flamboyant, colourful pottery needs no

introduction. Each hand-thrown ceramic piece is

fiercely colourful, powerful in its form and design

but always brimming with playfulness.

Much of Mary Rose’s work uses the characteristic

“rose encrusted” motif but she has continually

expanded her range of shapes and designs, using

gold lustre across a range of goblets and vases

encrusted with jewels. Gold has become a stronger

theme in her range while candlesticks, mirrors,

toilets and clocks have all joined the original

mugs, jugs and vases.

Her bold, vivacious style of ceramic decoration is

instantly recognisable and Mary Rose enjoys an

ever-expanding number of new collectors of her

joyful and exuberant functional ceramics.

www.maryroseyoung.com

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exhibitions

Sophie Rae20 Jun-31 JulSophie Rae is a printmaker who favours a

spontaneous printing process. She likes to work

quickly, building up her prints with layers of

transparent printing inks. Sophie has used this

process since experimenting in the print rooms at

The Arts University Bournemouth, from where she

graduated in 2011.

Her work takes its inspiration from the scenery

during her travels and the natural world around

her. One particular source of inspiration came

from a recent trip to India where she was

undertaking a residence at Chhaap Printmaking

studios in Gujurat.

She now works from a shared studio in Hamilton

House, Bristol. Look out for Sophie’s printmaking

workshop at Prema on Sunday 17th July (see our

Adult Workshops section for further details).

www.sophie-rae.com

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exhibitions

Ashley Percival20 Jun-31 JulAshley Percival is an illustrator who currently lives

in London. He, like so many artists and makers,

takes his inspiration from wildlife and nature,

although the humorous and sometimes unsettling

modifications come from his imagination and

some of the darker/sillier recesses of his mind.

Since graduating in 2010 Ashley’s artwork has

been licensed across a range of products including

homewares, wall-art, greeting cards, clothing

and album covers. He uses a range of materials

to create his illustrations - he draws them first

and then digitally adds greater quirk and detail.

Ashley’s prints are playful and wholly suitable for

all ages, adding colour and a delicious oddity to

the nursery, kids’ room and teens’ bedroom. They

might equally take pride of place on any wall in

the home or workplace of someone with a keen

sense of off-beat, left-field waggishness.

www.ashleypercival.com

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exhibitions

Harry Marshall & Zanna Goldhawk20 Jun-31 JulHarry Marshall and Zanna Goldhawk are two

young makers who met while studying illustration

at the University of Gloucestershire.

The pair found they had a shared love of nature

and colour and a similar aesthetic across their

drawings and illustrations.

And so in 2014 Harry and Zanna joined creative

forces to conceive their company; Papio Press.

Papio Press is an online-based company, creating

beautiful illustrated gifts and stationery. For their

showcase exhibition with us Harry and Zanna will

be showing framed prints of their work, depicting

various flora and fauna as well as their range of

paper products.

Zanna commences her illustrations with pencils

and paper whereas Harry favours the iMac as his

preferred device for drawing.

www.papiopress.co.uk

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happenings

Girls’ Night Out£18 or £15 (Friends) per person per session

These fun and relaxing sessions are a chance to

catch up with friends with a taster of something

creative. With no pressure on learning or end

results and all materials included, treat yourself

or someone else.

Tue 24 May 7-9pm Macaroons

Create sumptuous and fabulously tasty confection

with our Queen of the Macaroon, Rachel Opher.

You’ll be making and baking the mac shells in the

Vestry’s oven and creating an opulent ganache

filling to boot.

Tue 14 Jun 7-9pm Beaded Bracelet

Brilliant beaded jewellery from designer Emily

Loveday from Sienna Star Designs. Tonight

you’ll explore a simple yet enormously effective

beading technique to create a stunning bracelet

to show off to your friends!

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happenings

Mon 16 May 7-9pm Bumble Bee

Needle-felting nectar is the name of the game.

Use the barbed needle to make a bee and get that

craftin’ buzz!

Mon 13 Jun 7-9pm Hamster

Sculpting wool and the cutest of household pets –

what’s not to love? Your created masterpiece will

have no need for a cage or a wheel (unless you

really, really want to accessorise!).

Mon 11 Jul 7-9pm Small Butterfly

Recreate the beautiful colours and symmetrical

patterns of the butterfly in Sophie’s third session.

Here’s your chance to make your very own version

of Sophie’s beautifully detailed and delicate

design.

Needlefelt Narratives£20 or £18 (Friends) per person per sessionThese crafting sessions are devised and led by

Prema resident textiles artist and published

author Sophie Buckley and are just the thing

for anyone with an interest in working creatively

with wool.

Use Sophie’s knowledge, expertise and technical

wizardry to familiarise yourself with needle-felting

in these fun and friendly sessions to make some of

Sophie’s fantastic designs.

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creative experiences for families

The Owl & The PussycatSat 11 Jun 10am-2pm£30 or £28 (Friends) for a family of fourThe owl and the pussycat went to sea in a

beautiful pea-green boat that resident illustrator

Imogen Harvey-Lewis helped to create from

willow withies and paper, well that’s how our

story goes! Here’s a fabulous morning of family

creativity, making the characters of this beloved

rhyme and some of their props too. Imogen brings

illustration alive with this brilliant technique,

you’ll thoroughly enjoy the creative process and

have fun problem solving the construction of

these amazing shapes. Suitable for age 5+

My Family & Other AnimalsSat 9 Jul 10am-2pm£30 or £28 (Friends) for a family of fourIllustrator and printmaker Simon Tozer is back for

this early summer treat for families with children

over the age of five. The family portrait is about

to be turned on its head as you create a series of

prints representing your family in animal form!

What animal best describes you? With a brilliant

mix of hand-cut stencils, gloriously colourful inks

and pre-prepared screens of texture, fur and

scales, there’ll be everything you need to create a

very special family bestiary. Book good and early

to avoid disappointment.

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adult workshops

Get To Know Your Digital CameraSat 23 Apr 10am-4pm£42 or £39(c) Friends £40 or £37(c)Photographer Rupert Russell is back with this

popular session that promises to give you a sound

understanding of how to get the very best out of

your DSLR camera when it’s off the ‘auto’ setting.

You’ll explore a range of functions on your camera

with bags of hands-on snapping challenges to

put your newfound skills into practice.

Bring along your own DSLR camera (ideally Canon

or Nikon).

When booking please let us know the make and

model of your camera.

House Number MosaicSat 14 May 10am-4pm£48 or £45(c) Friends £46 or £43(c)Our lovely friends at TomatoJack Studios are back

for more mosaic magic. This time we turn our

attention to creating something special to adorn

the outside of our homes. You’ll be given the

materials and skills, with plenty of hands on help

from Ange and Linda, to create your mosaic house

number. There’ll be two loose designs to work

from, highly customizable, with some beautiful

tiles and colours to cut and shape. The final piece

will be an 18 x 18 cm square. All the materials

provided are suitable for outdoor display.

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adult workshops

Best In Show – Dog PortraitSun 22 May 2-4pm & Sun 5 June 10am-4pm£54 or £51(c) Friends £52 or £49(c)£42 or £39(c) Friends £40 or £37(c) Acclaimed portrait artist Lucy Milne brings along

her wealth of knowledge and artistic brilliance to

help you create a colour portrait of your favourite

hound. The 22 May session requires you to bring

your dog to Prema for a photography session. The

5 June workshop is primarily a drawing session,

learning how to scale-up your photos and draw

from all your reference materials. Full details and

simple materials list available on 22 May.

Taking PicturesSat 11 June 2-5pm£35 or £32(c) Friends £33 or £30(c)Work with lens artist Rupert Russell to locate and

hone your “photographer’s eye” and learn how to

apply it to your photography. Composition, rule

of thirds, the golden spiral, Ansel Adams’ Zone

System, depth of field, ‘bokeh’ and lots of other

‘tog’ related lingo. You might not be shooting

like a pro at the end of the class but you’ll be well

on your way! This is going to be a technology-lite

but technique-heavy session that is open to all

levels of experience, including beginners. Bring

anything that can take a picture!

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adult workshops

Face PaintingSat 18 Jun 10am-1pm£30 or £27(c) Friends £28 or £25(c)Ever wondered how professional face painters

make it look so easy? Pick up loads of new skills

and top tips from the brilliant Jodie Winter-Smith

of Aponi during this morning workshop session!

If you’re a parent or carer or working in education,

this hands-on workshop is just the ticket to give

you ideas, inspiration and the necessary skills

to make the forthcoming summer fete utterly

fabulous! Invite your children, nieces or nephews

to join you for the final hour so you’re able to

apply your new-found skills to their excited faces!

The Illustrator’s Sketchbook – Colour Sat 25 Jun 10am-4pm£45 or £42(c) Friends £43 or £40(c)This new series of workshops is dedicated to a more

illustrative approach to sketchbooking, filling you

with a creative enthusiasm to be expressive.

Illustrator Martha Lightfoot is passionate about

using the sketchbook as a visual playground to

explore colour and line, bringing together ideas,

memories, stories and beginnings and essentially

setting your imagination free! This workshop is

ideal for anyone stuck in a creative rut and perfect

for anyone who wants to exercise their creativity.

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adult workshops

Needlefelt Blossoms & BloomsSat 2 Jul 10am-4pm£45 or £42(c) Friends £43 or £40(c)Join our resident artist Sophie Buckley for a whole

day workshop - ideal for those wanting to get their

teeth into a more substantial needlefelting project.

You’ll be creating the most beautiful flowers using

a versatile flat needlefelting technique and the

results will lend themselves perfectly to a variety

of uses - beautiful buttonholes & embellishments

for clothes or bags. This particular session will see

you making around 7 to 10 flowers that you’ll be

able to put together as a bouquet or arrangement

(even a branch of blooming blossoms).

Extreme Life DrawingSun 3 Jul 10am-4pm£67 or £64(c) Friends £65 or £62(c)Here’s a rare opportunity to explore life drawing

from alternative perspectives as models hold

unusual poses in elevated positions using a

trapeze. Artist Paul Fowler helps you to develop

your observational skills - improving proportion

and scale to produce unique, fascinating results.

This workshop is ideal for drawing enthusiasts

and perfect for those working towards A level and

GCSE. Bring along your own choice of drawing

materials such as charcoal, graphite, inks and

pencil and we’ll supply large paper on the day.

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adult workshops

Get To Know Your Digital Camera – Part 2Sat 16 Jul 2-5pm£35 or £32(c) Friends £33 or £30(c)Okay, so you’ve mastered the exposure triangle

and you’ve got that mode dial off the full-auto

setting, excellent! But your DSLR is capable of

so much more! So Rupert Russell has designed

a follow-on course to delve deeply into the

more detailed aspects and techniques of digital

photography. He will explain Ansel Adams’ Zone

System by applying it to your camera’s metering

settings to help you on your journey to become a

master-manipulator of light!

Printing With StencilsSun 17 Jul 10am-4pm£45 or £42(c) Friends £43 or £40(c)Today we’re taking inspiration from artist Sophie

Rae’s exhibition in our upstairs gallery to explore

multi-layered print, using vivid ink applied

through hand-cut paper stencils. Our workshop

offers you time to experiment with a range of

brilliant materials to combine stencils and rollers

over several layers to build-up your own print.

This technique can be replicated back at home

without the need to invest in screens or a printing

press. A real treat for those with little or no

experience with no prescribed outcome.

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adult workshops

Best In Show – Needlefelt CruftingSat 10 Sep 10am-4pm£45 or £42(c) Friends £43 or £40(c)We’re putting the Crufts into crafting with resident

textile artist Sophie Buckley. Sophie is helping us

to carry on our canine theme by inviting you to

make a palm-sized pooch based on your own

beloved pet.

Make a (gentle) stab with the barbed needle to

make a miniature replica of your hound to take

pride of place in your home. Sophie asks that you

bring along three photographs of your dog - one

taken from above, one from the front and one

from the side to help you achieve an accurate

scale whilst you’re manipulating the wool fibres.

When booking please tell us the breed and

colour(s) of your faithful friend so that we’re able

to ensure that we have sufficient wool-roving in

the right colours to make your four-legged friend.

Woof!

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kids' workshops

So You Want To Be A Special FX Make-Up ArtistSat 14 May 10am-4pm Ages 12-15£30 or £28 (Friends)Following the runaway success of this course

in our last programme, we warmly welcome

back the super-talented make-up artist Jodie

Winter-Smith of Aponi for a repeat of our

brilliantly creative introduction to casualty

special effects. Take a glimpse into the busy and

creative world of a special fx make-up artist by

learning how to create scarily-realistic wounds,

cuts, bruises, skin conditions, burns and much

more! Allergy information is available on request.

So You Want To Be A WriterSat 21 May 10am-4pm Ages 12-15£30 or £28 (Friends)Is your head full of stories just waiting to be jotted

down? Here’s the acclaimed writer and published

author Billy Muir to help you learn how to make

every word count in this imaginative, creative

course for young people who reach for a pen and

pad when looking for creative expression. Explore

different narrative tasks including telling a story

in ninety-nine words and taking a dip into the

world of flash fiction. Billy’s advice and dynamic

series of creative writing challenges will help you

to spin a darned good yarn.

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kids' workshops

MicrofictionTue 31 May 10am-4pm Ages 7-10£30 or £28 (Friends)Calling all youngsters with a vivid imagination

and a way with words. Today’s holiday

workshop invites our younger writers to work

with wordsmith Billy Muir to help formulate

their creative stories and jot them down in a

tantalising and compelling manner. We’ll create

micro-stories using just twenty-five words as well

as creating characters and exploring how to use

dialogue to best effect within your prose. Billy’s

session is ideal for wannabe writers and those with

a fertile sense of adventure and a story to tell.

Print & Collage – The SeashoreWed 1 Jun 10am-4pm Ages 7-10£30 or £28 (Friends)Printmaker and illustrator Sophie Rae introduces

you to some fab techniques that are lo-tech and

super-versatile helping you to make bright and

expressive images. Using rollers and water-based

printing inks you’ll create colourful backgrounds

and bold marks to get things started. Then you’ll

be able to cut some of your marks into shapes to

collage together on top of the first prints. And

with a seashore theme running through there’ll

be cockles and mussels (alive, alive-o!). Well …

definitely plenty of seaweed and rock pools!!

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kids' workshops

Creatures In A BoxSat 4 Jun 10am-1pm Ages 8-11£20 or £18 (Friends)There’s a touch of the theatrical to this brilliant

day workshop with amazing illustrator Martha

Lightfoot. Here’s an opportunity to create your

very own world in a box! These small-scale

dioramas will involve plenty of drawing and

paper cutting to create scenery and characters

to inhabit these magical boxes. There’ll be plenty

of story behind the scenes too. This workshop is

perfect for budding illustrators or young artists

who love a bit of detail and lots of drawing and

character development.

So You Want To Be A Prosthetic Make-Up ArtistSat 10 Sep 10am-4pm Ages 12-15£30 or £28 (Friends)Here we have the much-anticipated second

of Jodie Winter-Smith’s excellent theatrical

make-up workshops, this time focusing on

prosthetics. Learn how to make, apply & colour

match prosthetic make-up to create characters,

animals or enhance special-effects wounds. This

workshop is ideal for those who want to develop

their existing skills and a great follow-on for

anyone who attended the special FX workshop.

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adult classes

Nia Dance Mon & Tues 10-11am Drop-in£6 per sessionThe Nia Technique is a remarkable and highly

enjoyable way to gain total body fitness through

the expressive quality of dance and the power of

martial arts. Nia’s stimulating choreography is

adaptable to all – men, women, all ages, abilities

and fitness levels. Usually done barefoot and

wearing loose, comfortable clothing, Nia offers a

fun, friendly and creative pathway to health and

well-being. For more information don’t hesitate

to contact Nia teacher Geri Timmins directly on

01453 844766.

Yogasara Mon Starts 18 AprDeep Slow Flow 6.30-7.45pmDynamic Flow 8.00-9.15pm £63 or £60(c) Friends £61 or £58(c) 9 week courseSarah Harlow and Christopher Gladwell are back

with two distinct evening courses encompassing a

variety of disciplines and yogic styles.

Deep Slow Flow is ideal for learning the basic

principles of yoga, restoring peace and balance.

Dynamic Flow is a focused, rejuvenating course

designed for those who want to further develop or

challenge their practice.

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adult classes

Adult Ballet Tue 7-8pm Starts 19 Apr£70 or £67(c) Friends £68 or £65(c) 10 week courseWhether you’re already passionate about the

plié or returning to ballet after a few years,

our exceedingly popular class is ideal for those

wanting to improve their agility and core strength

in a playful, enjoyable way.

Dance artist Marie-Louise Flexen offers a gentle,

friendly and thorough ballet experience for both

male and female dancers. Suitable for improvers

and intermediates.

Contemporary Dance Tue 8.15-9.15pm Starts 19 Apr£70 or £67(c) Friends £68 or £65(c) 10 week course Contemporary Dance is a dynamic, fluid movement

class led by Marie-Louise Flexen. Ideal for anyone

with some dance experience, these sessions are

the perfect partner to our Adult Ballet class (or

work just as well as a stand-alone course). Just

the thing for anyone who wants to improve their

timing, movement and fitness, this energetic and

hugely enjoyable course is accompanied by a

diverse soundtrack of stimulating music including

pop, film-score and contemporary piano.

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adult classes

Drawing For The TerrifiedWed 7-9pm Starts 8 Jun£56 or £53(c) Friends £54 or £51(c) 4 week courseDoes the idea of drawing fill you with a sense of

dread? Then join our brilliantly inventive resident

illustrator Imogen Harvey-Lewis in a course

designed to guide you gently through a variety

of drawing projects to help you capture a sense

of aptitude and confidence. Take the terror out of

putting pen to paper as you embark on a drawing

discovery, developing your own distinctive style

and basking in your new-found confidence in

mark-making.

Creative SketchbookingThu 7-9pm Starts 12 May£65 or £62(c) Friends £63 or £60(c) 6 week courseJoin artist Lucia Leyfield for a delicious dose

of weekly inspiration and uplifting creativity.

The point of this course is to take away some of

the fear of making a mark, whether you are a

keen doodler, someone looking to restart their

creativity, or even someone who enjoys making

but needs a bit more guided input. You’ll be

given a sketchbook at the beginning of the course

and create double page spreads each week using

all sorts of brilliant illustrative techniques.

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kids' classes

Creative FactoryWed 4.30-6pm Ages 7-10Starts 11 May £54 or £52 (Friends) 6 week courseHere’s an exciting opportunity for young creative

minds to explore great imaginative projects and

pick-up a plethora of making-skills with the

wonderfully talented Imogen Harvey-Lewis.

With a fresh batch of new ideas and activities,

this ever-popular course is ideal for exploring

illustrative techniques, bringing characters to life

and picking up a whole range of nifty skills.

Our weekly course provides a place where

imaginations can run wild and artistic passions

can be channelled into new exciting talents using

Imogen’s guidance and inspiration.

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kids' classes

Drawing FactoryThu 4.30-6pm Ages 10+Starts 12 May £54 or £52 (Friends)6 week courseThe return of Drawing Factory brings a fresh

assortment of drawing activities and experiments

led by our resident illustrator Imogen

Harvey-Lewis.

These fun-packed sessions provide a platform

for creative minds to develop their own visual

language and gain confidence in mark-making.

A truly brilliant opportunity to pursue an interest

in drawing and develop new skills to encourage

personal practice at home, using Imogen’s

ingenuity and expertise for inspiration.

There’s plenty of room to grow on this weekly

class, with independent creative thinking

positively reinforced.

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vestry café

Vestry Café at PremaOur café is open Tuesday to Saturday from 9am

until 5pm.

If you’re looking for an idyllic location, a rich,

powerful coffee and a comprehensive menu of

affordable, delicious homemade food you’ve

found the perfect place.

Rachel’s cakes are back – her legendary

macaroons, opulent chocolate brownies, flapjacks

and always a cutting-cake or two made with the

very finest of ingredients and perfectly baked

each morning. If savoury options are your thing

there’s Nicola’s bacon, sausage and potato hash

(topped with a poached egg) for hungry tums,

flatbreads with a variety of veggie/non-veggie

toppings and a range of breakfast options too.

If you have a large party coming along why not

book a table by calling Nicola on 01453 861177

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friends of prema

The Friends of PremaWe have two kinds of Friends’ membership:

Life membership costs £150 – a one-off payment

which means that you will be a life-long Friend

and will not need to renew your membership

on an annual basis. This covers all people living

at your address and those within your party

booking.

Annual Household membership costs just £30

per year and covers everyone who lives at your

address. If you’re block-booking tickets for one

of our excellent performances or gigs, these are

eligible at the Friends’ prices too.

The monies raised via your subscription are

used to directly support many of our free and

subsidised events - Big Draw, Knitting Picnic etc.

- as well as helping us to update and refresh the

many resources around the arts centre.

How to book Bookings can now be made from our website -

www.prema.org.uk or by calling Prema on 01453

860703. Please note that from September 2016 we

will be making a £2 booking charge for orders

placed over the phone or in person at the arts

centre. Give booking online a try - it’s super-easy

to use. And there’s the added benefit of paying

via PayPal - the safest way to pay over the Net.

Family Ticket for ShowsOur family deal is for 2 adults and 2 children (or

equivalent). Ring 01453 860703 for more info.

Concessions (c)Concessionary rate tickets are for those who rely

SOLELY on a state benefit to survive. If you can

afford to pay the full price please do not ask for

a concession. The amount you pay invariably

affects the amount that artists earn.

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Cover illustration: Chris Dunn, Exhibitions Prema

South Street, Uley

Gloucestershire GL11 5SS

01453 860703hello@prema.org.uk

www.prema.org.uk