London’s best weekend masterclasses

Listen up: weekends are not for rest but for self-improvement. Across the capital imaginative masterclasses can help us get creative. Here are five of the best.

This weekend the Ace Hotel hosts two masterclasses in one afternoon: the first, about setting up a magazine, is hosted by Openhouse magazine editors Mari Luz Vidal and Andrew Trotter. The second, led by photographer Anton Rodriguez, is about how to curate a compelling photography book.

Info: Tomorrow, free, 100 Shoreditch High Street, E1, acehotel.com

Next month, The School of Life hosts a masterclass in confidence, telling disciples how to overcome imposter syndrome and mastering shyness. You’ll walk out of there a new person.

Info: June 16, from £180, 70 Marchmont Street, WC1, theschooloflife.com

The Wellcome Collection presents Fresh: Adventures in Refrigeration. It might sound pedestrian but this talk focuses on how refrigeration changed our cuisine, and examine the progress in taste and texture (there’s a five-course meal too).

Info: June 17, from £35, 83 Euston Road, NW1, wellcomecollection.org

The Culpeper hosts a monthly master- class in botanical sketching. Pick a plant from a table, then put HB pencil to paper.

Info: June 3, £65, 40 Commercial Street, E1, theculpeper.com

McQueens offers one-day workshops to teach budding florists how to create bouquets brimming with bright petals.

Info: July 1, £225, 229 Cambridge Heath Road, E2, mcqueens.co.uk