Studio Sound Production - Evening

Interested in getting the most out of your recording - perhaps as part of a band, your own solo work, for home recording or even for specialist sound design? This introductory course will give you a hands-on starter on the workings of a modern recording studio. Working with a specialist member of staff to identify the skills you most want to pick up, you will be introduced to planning, setting-up, recording and editing within a studio environment, as well as getting the chance to try your hand at recording some of your work.

This course will be delivered on Thursday evenings.

Tracing your Family Roots: An Introduction - Evening

This course is suitable if you are new to family history or have little knowledge of how to trace your family roots. It will focus largely on using Scottish records but the techniques used can be applied to search records in other countries. It will look at civil registration of births, marriages, deaths, census records, parish registers, as well as covering other useful traditional and online resources which can be used to trace your ancestors. Learners should be confident  and  familiar with the Windows operating environment, file management, using emails and using the internet to gain maximum benefit from this course.

This course will be delivered on Tuesday evenings. 

Writing for Publication - Evening

This course considers the different possible ways to have your work published so that it can be discovered by a public readership. Subjects such as copyright law, adaptation rights and legal contracts are all covered. In addition to the publication process itself, the course will consider what is involved in effective authorship after your book is released into a highly competitive market, looking at publicity, events and building a personal profile as a writer.

Attendees will gain knowledge of what is involved in considering a career as a writer, including working with publishers, publicists and literary agents. Copyright law, financial matters and licensing rights will all be addressed, as well as the types of post-publication matters which might be expected once a book is on sale.

The instructor is a director of an independent publishing house which has been named Independent Publishing Company of the Year at the Scotland Prestige Awards in 2021/22 and 2022/23.