Creative and Culture
Our cultural and creative courses are all about inspiring your creativity and helping you to find your passion. Whether that be through learning a new language, playing an instrument or developing your practical creative skills, Medway Adult Education can provide a stepping stone to progress and help you to explore the possibility of creative and cultural based careers.
Creative courses
Crafts
Whether you are looking for a longer course or a one-off workshop, our expert led courses can help you to develop your creative crafting skills. Offering a wide range of courses to suit all tastes and abilities, you are sure to find something to expand and challenge your creative practical side.
Creative writing
Develop your creative writing skills and start to work on that short story or novel you have been longing to write.
Your tutor will show you how to enhance your abilities and turn your ideas into written reality.
Cookery
Join us in our professional teaching kitchen to explore the varied and creative practical skill of cooking. Whether you would like to learn new creative skills or to investigate the possibility of a new food-based career, MAE Community Learning courses can provide you with a stepping stone to progress.
Languages
Open a world of opportunities and make new friends with one of our language courses. We offer a variety of levels to suit those beginning their language learning journey, to those with more experience and fluency. To offer flexibility we deliver language courses at both of our centres as well as online to cater for those who may want to learn when travelling or abroad in holiday homes.
Art and Design
We offer a wide range of Art and Design courses to suit all abilities and interests. Specialist tutors deliver courses such as calligraphy, mixed media, printmaking, life drawing, water colour to name but a few. We also offer a BTEC level 2 in Art and Design Skills for those wishing to follow an accredited course.
Our professional tutors will develop your skills and work with you to provide a programme of study to inspire and develop both your technical ability and individual style.
As well as longer, general art courses we offer specialist workshops, short courses, opportunities to exhibit and participation in enrichment activities throughout the year.
All courses will have a contextual studies element, but if you are interested in Art History, please consult out Art Appreciation course category for more dedicated courses.
Our tutors love to inspire all learners, particularly those who may think that they are not creative.
Horticulture and Floristry
Whether you would like to learn new creative skills or investigate the possibility of a new floristry or Horticulture based career, MAE Community Learning courses can provide you with a stepping stone to progress. We offer a wide range of floristry courses and offer outreach horticulture classes across Medway.
Jewellery making
Learn to create unique jewellery with our tutor, who is an accomplished practising metalsmith and jewellery designer.
Our jewellery design and making mixed ability courses are suitable for all, beginners to those with more experience.
You will learn skills from developing an initial concept, soldering, stone setting and creating textures from metal to create professional finished pieces.
Music
Our tutors will help you to progress at a pace that suits you. They will help you create manageable goals that keep music learning fun.
Whether it is singing or learning to play an instrument, group learning provides a more affordable and social option.
Look out for our Ukulele, electric guitar and singing for health classes.
Photography
You may wish to study for pleasure, as a hobby or to develop new, professional skills. From learning to master your own camera settings in our photography classes to using creative approaches to plan and develop film ideas in our film making classes, Medway Adult Education has a variety of courses to help you progress.
Pottery, ceramics and sculpture
Feeling inspired by The Pottery Throwdown? Then join one of our classes, where you could even be taught by a past finalist!
Develop your creative skills and build confidence with one of our pottery, ceramics or sculpture courses. From hand building to throwing, our studio-based courses aim to develop confidence and creativity through working on a broad variety of ceramics skills and techniques.
Whether you want a longer course or a one-off workshop, our professional tutors will help you to develop pieces and skills you will love.
Sewing, Dressmaking & Fashion
Whether you would like to learn new creative skills or investigate the possibility of a new textile-based career, MAE Community Learning courses can provide you with a stepping stone to progress.
Our fashion studio is equipped with up to date sewing machines, over-lockers and cover stitch machines, providing a professional learning environment supported by our talented team of tutors.
We have a wide range of courses to build your machine confidence as well as progression courses to develop and stretch your sewing, dressmaking and fashion skills. Looking for hand stitching classes? Try one of our mindful stitching classes to learn the ancient skill of Sashiko to repair upcycle items
Stained glass and Glass Art
Our stained-glass and glass art mixed ability classes will help you to develop the skills needed to make create amazing designs with the medium of glass.
The stained-glass classes will cover the traditional techniques to cut, lead, solder, connect, fuse glass and create unique projects.
The glass art classes will cover smaller projects using pre-cut glass shapes to develop unique decorative pieces.
Woodwork
Learn traditional woodworking skills in our Rochester workshop.
Our woodwork courses are suitable for all abilities with specialist classes in wood carving and project design.
You will be guided by our professional woodworking tutor in skills from design and planning through to the creation of professional finished pieces.
Art Appreciation
If you're a practising artist or simply enjoy visual and art history, you will love our art appreciation classes.
You will examine both the artists and concepts behind traditional and contemporary art and learn what influences movements and trends in the visual arts field. Participatory practical elements are intended as a fun edition to these courses to aid understanding of the artworks being studied and further understand the artist’s style.
An ideal complimentary course for those studying on our practical drawing and painting courses.
Millinery
Whether you would like to learn new creative skills or investigate the possibility of a new millinery career, MAE Community Learning courses can provide you with a stepping stone to progress.
Join our professional milliner, in our Rochester studio, to explore this exciting and varied subject area. Create beautiful, unique, and wearable items whilst learning new skills.
