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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  2. Learning to use your iPhone
    Last Few Places
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    Course start date:  Mon 9 Mar 2026 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Is your iPhone confusing you? Are you unsure how to make the most of its many features? This short course will help you understand your phone, troubleshoot problems and use some of its most popular features and apps. By the end of the course you will be confident you can use or find out how to use the key features of your phone.



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £25.00
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  3. Exploring Kant: the concept of freedom
    Course start date:  Mon 9 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gabriel Olumide Apata

    Kant is one of the greatest thinkers in Western philosophy.  He wrote on many subjects from knowledge to morals and aesthetics. In almost all his writings he emphasised the idea of freedom. 

    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  4. Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00
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  5. The Epic of Gilgamesh - part 2
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 9 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Yentl Love

    Suitable for those who have completed the first course on the Epic of Gilgamesh. Continue your journey back to third millennium BCE to discover the world’s oldest surviving work of literature, the story of the king Gilgamesh and his epic quest to conquer gods, monsters, and even death itself.

    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00
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  6. Drypoint and intaglio printmaking in a day
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    Course start date:  Tue 10 Mar 2026 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Anne-Marie Foster
    Drypoint is a way of creating grooves in a solid surface, it produces a rich unique type of drawn line, from which you will make prints using intaglio inking methods, This workshop offers the opportunity to use specialist techniques and tools and gain insight into how these sit within the creative practice of artists using drypoint. For all levels, although some experience of drawing is preferable.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00
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  7. Build a website with Wix
    Course start date:  Wed 11 Mar 2026 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gal Sapir

    Learn how to create a professional-quality website without writing a single line of code. This beginner-friendly course introduces you to the Wix platform and guides you step-by-step through building your own site-from layout and design to publishing online. Perfect for small business owners, creatives, and anyone looking to establish a strong web presence quickly and easily.

    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00
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  8. Una stagione con Dante: Purgatorio
    Course start date:  Wed 11 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Francesco Bucciol
    Vedremo come i dannati vengono rappresentati dal poeta. Parleremo della condizione politica del tempo e leggeremo un estratto dal Canto VI dove emerge la rappresentazione dell’Italia.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  9. Understanding the Middle East: authoritarianism and democracy
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Caglar Ezikoglu
    Join Dr. Çaglar Ezikoglu to exlore the dynamics of authoritarianism and democracy in the Middle East, analysing key political structures, movements, and their impacts on regional stability.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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  10. Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  11. Digital skills for business: how to create successful business presentations on PowerPoint and Canva (intermediate)
    Course start date:  Wed 11 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Do you have to give presentations at work, for business, to future clients that need to be professional and impacting? Do you want to know how to create a PowerPoint presentation that tells a story and engages the audience? On this course, you will learn how to structure a presentation using data effectively in which the PowerPoint enhances the message. You will focus on both your communication and digital skills so you develop your professional presence and how you relate to the listeners and you learn how to create impacting slides to create your storyline, present data and other information appropriate to your audience and purpose.



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £35.00
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  12. Social Media Manager Skills: introduction
    Course start date:  Wed 11 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Amber Raney-Kincade
    This course will introduce you to how you can become a social media manager. Managing the social media platform for someone else’s business or organisation takes skills, knowledge and a full understanding of marketing for that business to their target audience. By offering social media manager services, you are able to assist a business in their marketing needs and help promote their business to new audiences.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00
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  13. Full fee £14.00 Senior fee £11.00 Concession £9.00
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  14. Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00
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  15. Social Media Building Better Posts
    Course start date:  Thu 12 Mar 2026 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Amber Raney-Kincade

    This course will discuss how to improve posts on social media. Each platform is unique, but you can learn to improve your content and present your business by creating better posts. You can no longer get away with a simple text message or a stolen image from Google. You must learn how to improve your posts in order to get the most from your social media.

    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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