- Elena Ferrante
Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Elena Ferrante is the author of the Neapolitan novel series, whose global success has established her as one of the most powerful voices of contemporary world literature. Her identity, however, is still one of the greatest mysteries in modern literature. In this workshop we will explore why the novels have attracted such interest and passion and we will look at the various hypotheses advanced in the Italian and foreign press as to her real identity.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Communication with older people with a hearing loss Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lorraine BragginsThe course will cover the features of age-related hearing loss and how these relate to what, and how, older people hear and understand. Participants will learn communication strategies so that older people can understand them better.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - A condensed history of sculpture: ten sculptors who’ve shaped art historyCourse start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SandersStudy sculptors from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern, including Donatello, Bernini, Canova, Rodin, Picasso and Whiteread, considering styles, materials, and techniques of key works within social and cultural contexts.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Neurodiversity as a fact of society: a brief introductionCourse start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vina TheodorakopoulouBritish society is diverse, and not only in terms of faiths, ethnic backgrounds and other mostly visible differences. Neurodiversity is also a central aspect. Join us on this non-accredited course for a brief introduction to neurodiversity in society and discover how to engage with and support neurodivergent strengths.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Masters of style: reading and writing Virginia Woolf Course start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Thomas McMullan, Patricia SweeneyVirginia Woolf was one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Her approaches to writing character interiority were at the forefront of modernist literary innovations. This day workshop explores the literary interpretations of several seminal texts and writing exercises that encourage you to experiment with Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness style. - Writing political journalism Course start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Erica BuistWhether you’re looking for a role at a newspaper or want to pitch freelance pieces, this one-day course will cover the basics of writing journalistically about politics.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Writing film journalism Course start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Colin CrummyLearn how to write journalistically about film, from features to reviews, in this intensive one-day course.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - The Rise and Fall of the Mughal EmpireCourse start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: T HussainFollow the fortunes of the Mughal Emperors, rulers of Northern India from the 1500s to the 1800s. What were their contributions to the religious, political and cultural life of northern India and how can we explain the decline of their powers in the 1700s and 1800s?Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00 - Landmark Poetry: places and spacesCourse start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Deirdre OsbourneWhat is the role of poetry ‘off the page’ in public spaces? Can a poem change the way we might re-encounter cultural history? Do statues serve as ‘informants’ from the past? We read poetry by Jackie Kay, Lemn Sissay and Dorothea Smartt commissioned for bridges, pavements, monuments, even super sewer ventilation shafts to identify the challenges, revisions and celebrations that emerge from exploring the place of poetry in public spaces.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Japanese Etiquette Course start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chikako NakagawaCome and experience the customs of Japan, and gain an insight into Japanese society. Open to all levels.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Sound TherapyCourse start date: Sun 29 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Do you want to learn and experience something new? Immerse yourself into the powerful healing of the sound.
Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - Drawing 2 Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025 (and 10 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea VoiseyBuild your confidence in tackling more personal, complex drawings. Further explore observational drawing and visual language. Develop your drawing skills by working with different approaches and exploring a range of artists' drawing process.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Acting Shakespeare (intensive)Course start date: Sun 29 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laura BaggaleyA one-day workshop exploring scenes from two Shakespeare comedies, Twelfth Night and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Broaden and develop your acting skills in an intensive encounter with Shakespeare! - Experimental ceramics Course start date: Sun 29 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tana WestA chance to use different clays with the addition of oxides, fluxing agents and natural combustible materials. Fuse found objects in the kiln, make biscuit slips and investigate the textural possibilities of glazes.Full fee £599.00 Senior fee £479.00 Concession £389.00 - Return to Spanish (advanced)Course start date: Mon 30 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Roser Martínez-SánchezIf you have learned Spanish in the past, but it has been a while, then come and join this lively course to refresh your advanced Spanish. You will review, revise and practice in a course that is tailored to your needs. After attending this course, you will be able join a level 4 or 5 course.
Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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