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News from the GeoparkFrom cave art to recycling, there's a course for you!14 Jan 2010Brixham residents can whet their appetites for learning this winter with 10 new free courses. Thanks to a Government grant, Brixham Adult and Community Learning team is holding a series of free short courses which would normally cost £33 each. The classes are on the themes of recycling, healthy eating, green agenda and volunteering. They include three courses to be held at Torquay's Kents Cavern, a walk and talk on Dartmoor based on the prolific novelist Eden Phillpotts, the chance to recycle everyday materials into works of art and instruction on how to create a productive garden. In a bid to promote the concept of the Torbay Geopark, Kents Cavern is hosting cave art, creative writing and photography lessons in the cave. The location will be the inspiration for creative poetry or prose. Artists will be able to draw and paint the cave's unique stalagmite and stalactite formations and artifacts from earliest man, while photographers can learn the techniques of taking pictures in the cave's dark depths. Afterwards, a mobile art exhibition of the work produced on the courses at Kents Cavern will be displayed at Geopark venues around the Bay.Create a Recycled Sculpture group will create a sculpture which can be exhibited on site and at the Teignmouth TRAIL this summer. For more information about these courses phone the Brixham Adult and Community Learning centre contact 01803 853302 or email adulted@admin.brixhamcollege.torbay.sch.uk The courses are being funded through the Government's Learning Revolution and Transformation fund |