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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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  1. Improve your speaking voice
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 6 Jun 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Jonny Black
    Come and improve your vocal skills through voice production and speech exercises. Learn about self presentation, develop spontaneity and gain greater confidence by improving your communication skills in the workplace.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  2. Influence of the Greek language on English
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 21 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Maria Contos
    Did you know that the Oxford companion to the English language states that more than 150,000 words of English are derived from Greek, which is considered to have the richest vocabulary in the world?







    Join this lively workshop in the heart of London where you will be introduced to how Ancient Greek influenced the vocabulary of the English language.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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  3. Demystifying Poetry
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 21 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Linda Grant
    Whether you are new to poetry or an experienced reader of verse, this course will enable and enhance your enjoyment by exploring the techniques that poetry uses to affect our response and create meaning. Exploring rhythm and rhyme, voice, mood, imagery, language and allusions, we will focus on a diverse range of poetic examples to examine how this powerful form of literature works to create emotion and connection with the reader.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  4. International Monetary Fund (IMF): Friend or Foe?
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 21 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Tariq Hassan
    After more than 75 years since the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world’s lender of last resort, made its first loan, the effects of its policies in general and lending practices in particular remain contested.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00
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  5. A condensed history of sculpture: ten sculptors who’ve shaped art history
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 28 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rachel Sanders
    Study 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
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  6. Essenian Healing: workshop
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 28 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Antonello Brunetti
    Discover this ancient form of Spiritual-Energy Healing. Learn Auric Reading techniques using the Anatomy of physical and subtle bodies. Identify the emotional reasons behind illnesses, promoting a deeper understanding of the root causes. Perform Energy Healing therapies using Vibrational Sound, Acupressure and Essential Oils.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00
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  7. Masters of style: reading and writing Virginia Woolf
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 28 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Thomas McMullan, Patricia Sweeney
    Virginia 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.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  8. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  9. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  10. Landmark Poetry: places and spaces
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 28 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Deirdre Osbourne
    What 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
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  11. Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00
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  12. Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  13. Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  14. Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00
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  15. NADA Protocol ear acupuncture
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 5 Jul 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Farrah Idris
    Do you want to become a certified NADA ear practitioner?
    The NADA Protocol is a five-point ear acupuncture treatment that effectively reduces stress and anxiety, chronic pain, symptoms of addiction, supports smoking cessation, weight management and boost overall wellbeing.
    Full fee £509.00 Senior fee £509.00 Concession £509.00
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