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- Advanced figure and portraitCourse start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul Dixon, Desmond Haughton, Amy-Rose Holland, Brian Sayers, Benjamin Senior, Andrea VoiseyThe human form offers inexhaustible potential for communication and expression of ideas; this is an exciting advanced course for those with experience of working with the figure and/or portrait who would like the challenge of exploring new perspectives on the figurative tradition in drawing, painting and mixed media.Full fee £2,749.00 Senior fee £2,199.00 Concession £1,924.00 - Belonging: Identity, Difference & CommunityCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join exciting speakers including Shaun Flores, mental health campaigner and TEDX speaker, Rebecca Kenny, poet and Founder of Written Off Publishing, and Dr Patrick Campbell, former trustee of The British Stammering Association, for an informative a lively discussion around the relationship between identity, difference, stigma and prejudice and the how a sense of belonging can support wellbeing.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Work, Rest, Play: Connecting Physical Activity, Sleep & Mental HealthCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join Brian Marshall, Head of Sleep Support at The Sleep Charity, and special guests for an insightful exploration of the ways in which physical activity, connection with nature, and healthy rest and sleep influences and supports wellbeing and mental health.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Developing Art Practice year 2Course start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Eleanor Bedlow, Rolina Elsje Blok, Ute Kreyman, Joe Richardson, Heidi WigmoreThis is the second year of Developing Art Practice, designed for those developing and practicing artists who have completed the first year (or equivalent - ie another advanced contemporary practice course) and are interested in working and connecting with a widening group of their creative peer group. This course is about how to sustain and maintain a creative practice within a contemporary context.
Work-based seminars facilitated by peers and artist-tutors present the opportunity to develop and present your ongoing work for critical discourse and to continue to develop a contemporary critical language.
The course includes individual tutorials and mentoring, critical investigation via group crits, engaging with gallery practice and artist-run organisations and the potential for collaborative work and discussion and debate. This course will be delivered onsite.
If you are interested in this course, please email course leader Heidi Wigmore to apply: heidi.wigmore@citylit.ac.uk, or the Visual Arts admin team: visualarts@citylit.ac.uk.Full fee £899.00 Senior fee £719.00 Concession £629.00 - Yoga retreat afternoonCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Madlyn Ray-JonesTreat yourself to an afternoon of yoga to move, restore, and deeply relax and create more ease in the body and the mind. Practice asanas, meditation, mindfulness, breathing practices, and Yoga Nidra. Everyone is welcome.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - French 2 lower: module 1
Course start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024 (and 8 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Yolande Mallet De ChaunyImprove your elementary French on this lively interactive course. The emphasis of the course will be on the developing your speaking and listening skills.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Corruption and colonialism: how the past affects the presentCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tariq HassanIn large parts of the Global South, corruption is rampant but that was not always the case. By upending local values and customs and forcibly replacing indigenous institutions with Westerns structures, colonialism introduced systemic corruption on a grand scale that continues to this day.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00 - French: Sing for happinessCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Trista SelousLet’s sing in French with a smile! Combine your love of singing with the French language in this fun workshop based on simple songs that French speakers learn as children.You do not need to speak French. This session is part of the 2024 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - Transcribe jazz solosCourse start date: Sun 13 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tim RichardsA study and sharing group for experienced jazz players with a good working knowledge of harmony and experience of improvising. We will focus on in-depth listening and transcription of recorded examples by jazz musicians. Sessions will include demonstration and performance opportunities. The class meets at college once a month. Course dates: 13 October, 10 November, 1 December, 19 January, 16 February, 16 March.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £174.00 - VTCT level 3 Award in crystal therapy Course start date: Sun 13 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Oge OkohCrystals are much more than just pretty stones; they have been used for their healing properties and as protective amulets and talismans in many different cultures around the world for centuries. Learn how to practice crystal therapy to a professional level on this exciting course.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £449.00 Concession £449.00 - Alexander technique: workshopCourse start date: Sun 13 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cristina Codina LlavinaDiscover how to return your body to its natural state of balance and poise in this beginner's guide to the Alexander Technique. Learn to become mindful of muscular and mental tension in this session.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £71.00 Concession £62.00 - Introduction to painting portraitsCourse start date: Sun 13 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Luke JonesAn opportunity to paint and draw from the life model focusing on portraiture. Basic observational skills will be explored as well as advice on how we can convey mood, character and tell a story through a portrait, inspired examples of artists portrait drawings and paintings.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Bitesize maths: an introduction to statistics for work and life (level 1-2) Course start date: Mon 14 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Data is all around us. From Covid to football matches, cost of living crises to sales reports, from the workplace to home, we are hugely affected by it. Understanding data, producing it and making decisions based on it are now essential skills for everyone. This course will focus on what data is, why it is important, and how to use it You will learn how to ask the right questions about data, how to make different types of calculations using it, such as percentages and averages, how to identify and present different data patterns, and how to use different types of graphs and charts. By the end of the course you will have developed the key mathematical, numerical and analytical skills you need to use and interpret important data at work, in the news and in your daily life.
You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).
Free course: This is a Multiply course. Multiply is a new government programme to help adults improve their numeracy skills. This course is free for Londoners aged 19 or over. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - Using your voice for audio books and talking newspapersCourse start date: Mon 14 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: David ThorpeWould you like to narrate audio books? Are you interested in community work such as talking newspapers for the blind? Explore vocal skills and techniques required in these areas and identify what style works for you. This course will be delivered online.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00 - Art history taster Course start date: Mon 14 Oct 2024 (and 10 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayCurious about art history? Join us for this taster session where we explore different ways into visual art and its histories from the ancient to the contemporary.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00
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