Artroom Brighton is a cutting edge art school for children and young people who have a passion for art and feel that creativity might play an important role in their future. We believe that EVERY child is capable of exceeding their own, artistic expectations. We offer after school art courses for 6 – 16 year olds, ALL DAY HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS - 9am - 3pm, One on one art tuition, Saturday art school, Portfolio preparation for Art Scholarships at 13+ and G.C.S.E. & A-Level Sketchbook development and Curriculum support. For full details of all our courses and examples of pupil's work, please visit www.artroombrighton.co.uk or call 01273 240308 "You have done a wonderful job with these children. Their work and your teaching were a wonder to behold." - Ralph Steadman: Artist & Illustrator

Opened in 2006, Firefly Studio is fitted out to accommodate seven full-time jewellery designer/makers. The open-plan space is a vibrant, creative environment where everything needed to design and make contemporary jewellery is to hand. Having worked in various jewellery workshops, its owner Chris Hawkins set out to combine the best elements of each in this new venture. Three years down the line and the community of jewellers has grown considerably. The atmosphere is one of friendly, industrious professionalism with each pursuing their own endeavors, while sharing skills and information with each other. Alongside the full-time professional jewellers, there are spaces for those who want to take advantage of the facility on a casual or part-time basis. Benches can be rented out on a daily or weekly basis. Evenings are taken up with jewellery courses. Taught in the main by daytime users, they give an introduction to the ancient and diverse craft of jewellery making. Students are encouraged to work on their own projects, while expert tutors are always on hand to advise and instruct. Most people work in silver and semi-precious stones. But wood, plastic and shells have all been incorporated into beautiful jewellery.

The Brighton Life Drawing Sessions promote drawing in all forms, running a range of drop-in workshops and public events throughout Brighton and the South East. Driven by a belief that everybody should be able to access flexible, affordable drawing sessions, BLDS represents more than just a life drawing class, it is an open creative community encouraging engagement with the visual arts in all forms. A regular program of tutored and untutored life drawing sessions run from the main Life Drawing studio welcoming all ages of amateurs, professionals and students; painters, sculptors and draftsmen. Specialist sessions are available for students and animators; group sessions can be booked extra to the main schedule and private tuition is also available on arrangement. Gift vouchers are also available for the sessions. The Brighton Life Drawing Sessions are run and tutored by Jake Spicer. To find out more about the full schedule for 2010 or to book a session, just get in touch on the details provided.

bip-Art is a fine art printmaking workshop that offers an open access facility in intaglio, relief and lithography, as well as courses in etching, drypoint, mezzotint, woodcut, linocut, lithography, letterpress, monotype, collograph and small books. Courses run from six to eight weeks during the day, evening and weekend, with week-long courses in the summer months. Other events include informal, artist-led discussion groups and talks, taster days and an outreach programme where bip-Art brings the press to you. Everyone is welcome – from the professional artist to the enthusiastic beginner. Ann d’Arcy Hughes, Helen Brown and Hebe Vernon-Morris invite you to visit them at the workshop.

This artist-led, voluntary organisation is dedicated to the production and promotion of original prints as a fine art medium. The studio is an open access, fine art print workshop that welcomes all those interested from beginners to accomplished printmakers to learn and use printmaking as a creative process. Facilities are available for screen printing, etching, collagraph, mono-printing, relief printing and glass, but users must have sufficient experience to work on their own. BIP also runs a series of courses from one-day and weekend tasters to five or six weekly sessions.