Bridging the Gap
Bridging the Gap is a two year full-time course for young people aged 16 -19 years old who are looking for variety, challenge and a different approach to learning.
Bridging the Gap encourages young people to develop themselves through experience, reflection and understanding in a creative way. The course emphasises learning new skills through the crafts, being on the path of self discovery through the arts and developing a coherent world view while working collaboratively with tutors and peers.
Bridging the Gap is funded and accredited through Stroud College, so the course does not charge tuition fees. The first year course begins in September 2012 and there are 14 places.
Waldorf College
The Waldorf College is an independent college for 16 - 20 year olds and is based in the Centre for Science and Art, a beautiful Victorian building and former Art college in Stroud. The College has been developing and practising Experiential Education since 2000 with many students benefiting from its unique approach.
Lighting Fires
Lighting Fires' is a workshop for 18 and 19 year old's in transition, collaboratively designed and run by inspiring people in their twenties who have experience in group facilitation, who have travelled widely and are on interesting life pathways.
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Open Day for young people aged 16 - 18 years
Bridging the Gap students will host an Open day on Monday 6th February for young people interested in finding out about Bridging the Gap. The day will be experiential with activities planned both indoors and outdoors from 9.30am - 3.30pm with time given for question and answers and discussion.
The next Bridging the Gap course starts in September and there are 14 places. Please email Waldorf College for more details and to book a place.
Building a Workbench - September 2011
World Cafe Discussion Forum - Friday 27th January 11 - 1pm
Our students are hosting a world Cafe Discussion Forum on this Friday for members of the public so there can be an intergenerational; discussion on a theme. The theme worked on by the students is exploring ways of countering the negativity that pervades society so that we free to act positively. The World Cafe process is a way of exploring 3 related questions with a large group of people so that everyone can contribute in small groups and meet a diversity of views. Our students benefit from organising, facilitating and taking part in the World cafe. Refreshments are provided.
The Master and Margarita - The Devil comes to Moscow
On the 29th and 30th March 2012 the students are performing a play that they have co-created through improvisations on the scenes and story of the Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the 1920s and set in Moscow during the leadership of Lenin. The drama is being directed and co-created by Richard Ramsbotham and will be performed at the Cotswold Playhouse in Stroud.
