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Arts and Creativity

Drawing for Beginners (AC71)

Friday, 3-Feb-2023

Open

Membership is required

Cost $180 (includes GST)
Date Friday 3-Feb-2023
8 weeks
Time 11:45am (2 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 4
(Open)

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Local award-winning artist, Migara, is keen to share his drawing techniques and knowledge with you. You will begin by constructing a simple object from basic shapes and forms and move to effective shading for 3-D effect, Materials list printed on receipt. OXLADES Art Suppliers discount card available at SPLC.

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Talks and Lifestyle

Burglary Prevention Advice (T35)

Wednesday, 8-Feb-2023

Open

Cost $10 (includes GST)
Date Wednesday 8-Feb-2023
Single session
Time 1:00pm (1 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 1
(Open)

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In crime prevention the best way to stop a crime is to never have it happen. We do this by researching what a criminal looks for and make ourselves seem too difficult to victimise. With burglary we implement target hardening and community awareness to reduce the criminal event. Lecturer in Criminology, Tash Press, will discuss some of the most beneficial ways to target harden you home for burglary using criminological theory and statistical data, with a focus on criminal behaviour.

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Language

French for Travellers (L3)

Membership is required

Cost $160 (includes GST)

Date Tuesday 18-Oct-2022
8 weeks
Time 10:30am (2 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 3
(Open)
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Date Tuesday 7-Feb-2023
8 weeks
Time 10:00am (2 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 3
(Open)
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It's time to get back to your travel dreams and learn the linguistic and cultural essentials to make your trip to France more enjoyable. Greetings, reading menus and ordering meals, buying clothes, booking a taxi or seats to a cultural event will all be covered. Build your understanding of the weather reports and road conditions. Gradually expand your vocabulary and sentence compositions to increase your fluency.

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Arts and Creativity

Drawing - Portraiture (AC35)

Full

Membership is required

Cost $175 (includes GST)

Date Thursday 20-Oct-2022
8 weeks
Time 1:00pm (2 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 2
(Full)

Date Thursday 9-Feb-2023
8 weeks
Time 1:00pm (2 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 2
(Open)
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Imagine becoming a portrait artist in your own social circle, creating lasting images of your family and friends! You can achieve this, under the expert guidance of award-winning local artist Migara Ramanayake. Discover the skill of constructing and positioning the head for perfect effect. Build the confidence to move from drawing within a grid to free-hand. Explore the styles and effects created through shading and pencil-grips. Practise Silverpoint drawing, a classical drawing technique, which has nearly disappeared in contemporary art. This technique improves your accuracy and skill level. See receipt for list of materials. OXLADES Art Suppliers discount card available at SPLC. Artwork by Robert Oxford.

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Social Clubs

Mahjong - Beginners Chinese Style (SC22)

Membership is required

Cost $120 (includes GST)

Date Saturday 22-Oct-2022
8 weeks
Time 12:00pm (2 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 5
(Open)
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Date Saturday 11-Feb-2023
8 weeks
Time 12:00pm (2 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 5
(Open)
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This course introduces participants to the fascinating and ancient game of Mahjong. Players will learn the structure and the rules of the game in a friendly, social environment and by the course conclusion, have acquired the knowledge, skills and ability for independent gameplay, in a self-managed group. New learners welcomed.

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Arts and Creativity

Brilliant Watercolours Ongoing (AC13)

Membership is required

Cost $270 (includes GST)

Date Monday 24-Oct-2022
8 weeks
Time 9:30am (2 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 2
(Open)
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Date Monday 6-Feb-2023
8 weeks
Time 9:30am (2 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 2
(Open)
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In this course, students will continue to develop their repertoire of skills and techniques. This includes colour mixing, brush control, wet-on-wet painting and planning a successful composition. Students will complete a variety of artworks, including still-life, landscape and portraiture. BYO materials. Arches 300gsm CP paper available for purchase from teacher. OXLADES Art Suppliers discount card available at SPLC.

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Arts and Creativity

Botanical Watercolour Ongoing (AC59)

Membership is required

Cost $195 (includes GST)

Date Monday 24-Oct-2022
8 weeks
Time 12:30pm (2 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 2
(Open)
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Date Monday 6-Feb-2023
8 weeks
Time 12:30pm (2 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 2
(Open)
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Reveal your hidden botanical artist by learning to observe and draw the details of beautiful flora around us! Tania is a practising botanical ink artist and a qualified art teacher who is delighted to share her love of all things botanical. Learn to use watercolour paints and pencils to create beautiful watercolour flower techniques with fun exercises each week, before completing your very own Watercolour Botanical artwork. Bring your own materials from last class. . OXLADES Art Suppliers discount card available at SPLC. Artwork by Tania Daymond

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Talks and Lifestyle

Sailing Tall Ships -Extraordinary Ship Called Tenacious (T33d)

Thursday, 24-Nov-2022

Open

Cost $10 (includes GST)
Date Thursday 24-Nov-2022
Single session
Time 1:00pm (1 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 3
(Open)

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There is an extraordinary English ship called Tenacious, designed and built specifically to cater for people with disabilities; she can even take wheel-chair bound voyage crew on board. Those with a disability are paired with a shipboard "buddy", to assists them on deck if necessary. Normally sailing in northern hemisphere waters, she had been visiting Australia for a few months. In 2017 Fran had the privilege of taking part in one of her voyages from Melbourne to Hobart, which culminated in the ship taking part in Hobart's famous Wooden Boat Festival - the largest gathering of its type in the southern hemisphere. On this particular voyage, our two voyage "stars" were a blind girl, and a wheel-chair bound lady. Both of these special people took part in virtually everything on board, and even went aloft!

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Computers and Technology

Mindfulness & Sleep Meditation Smartphone Apps (CT12)

Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022

Open (2 remaining places)

Cost $0 (includes GST)
Date Wednesday 30-Nov-2022
Single session
Time 1:00pm (1 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 5
2 places remaining (Open)

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Thanks to recent advances in technology, smartphone apps can facilitate your mindfulness and meditation practice. In this 1-hour class, we survey the various free and paid mindfulness and meditation apps that are available (including sleep meditation apps), and discuss the pros and cons of the different types.

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Talks and Lifestyle

Sailing Tall Ships - Square Riggers Galore (T33e)

Thursday, 1-Dec-2022

Open

Cost $10 (includes GST)
Date Thursday 1-Dec-2022
Single session
Time 10:00am (1 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 3
(Open)

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sail in an old-fashioned square rigger? Come along and hear Fran's tales of some of her voyages, during which she endured some very rough weather and it wasn't when she went round the infamous Cape Horn, or even the Cape of Good Hope. It was "down the road" going round our own Cape Leeuwin! She's now been on 10 different ships, and has sailed most of the world's oceans visiting places like Hawaii, Fiji, the Caribbean, the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, as well as having been round Australia, New Zealand and both sides of the North American continent. There are still a few places on her "bucket list" ... perhaps some of her slides will inspire you to add some locations to your own bucket list.

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Computers and Technology

Look Up Recyclables on Your Phone (CT11)

Wednesday, 7-Dec-2022

Open

Cost $0 (includes GST)
Date Wednesday 7-Dec-2022
Single session
Time 1:00pm (1 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 5
(Open)

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Kerbside Recycling (a.k.a. the yellow-topped council bin) is a recycling initiative in which every household in Australia participates through their local council. However, we often wonder whether an item should or should not go into kerbside recycling. With the help of a locally-made smartphone app, in this 1-hour class we will help you demystify kerbside recycling! We will also help you install this app on your smartphone, so you always have a handy directory of what is/isn't kerbside recyclable. *This FREE class is funded by the federal government's Be Connected initiative*

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Talks and Lifestyle

Sailing Tall Ships - Cape Horn or Bust (T33f)

Thursday, 8-Dec-2022

Open

Cost $10 (includes GST)
Date Thursday 8-Dec-2022
Single session
Time 1:00pm (1 hr)
Venue SPLC Room 3
(Open)

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In 2018 Fran had the privilege of taking part in the "Tenacious'' voyage on her way back to the UK from Australian waters. An epic adventure, we had to join the ship in Auckland, New Zealand, sail round the infamous Cape Horn to the Falkland Islands, thence to South Georgia and on to Cape Town, where Fran disembarked and flew home to Perth. Cape Horn has been on Fran's "bucket list" for about 20 years, as there aren't many ships which round the Horn these days, for obvious reasons! Come along and see and hear Fran's tales of the voyage and visits to many wildlife colonies, and share the experience of extreme trust being placed in fellow crew members by our special needs people as they went about the business of sailing a Tall Ship.

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2022 covid-19 Updates

Current WA Government Public Health and Social Measures state:

"Masks are strongly encouraged indoors and where physical distancing is not possible."
"Proof of vaccination is not required when entering venues and businesses."

The WA government has withdrawn the mask mandate. Therefore, wearing masks in SPLC is now optional.

Welcome to the South Perth Learning Centre

We aim to provide a focal point in the South Perth area for the social and educational interaction of all adult members of the community.

Our objectives are to create a welcoming environment in which people can develop their personal and community lives in a friendly neighbourhood context.

Our courses and activities include arts & creativity, club activities, language classes, computer & technology classes, cooking classes, health & wellness classes and more! Please visit our Programme page for a complete list of activities.

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