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- Craft focus: character in fiction
Course start date: Sat 5 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tasha KavanaghIn fiction, character and plot are inseparable elements of craft. Without characters there can be no action or plot. In this short course you will learn how to create characters that can drive a narrative forward and deepen its themes.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Study day: Kandinsky and Expressionism Course start date: Sat 5 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SandersExplore Expressionism as it developed in different locations and within different movement, with a focus on Kandinsky as its key example, considering issues such as artistic influences and stylistic developments.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Reflexology: taster workshopCourse start date: Mon 7 Oct 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Janet WhiteheadExperience the relaxing benefits of hand and foot reflexology and learn how to relieve stress. Please wear comfortable clothing.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Shiatsu: taster workshopCourse start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Fernando CaboShiatsu is a Japanese healing art, deeply rooted in the philosophy and practices of traditional Chinese medicine. This therapeutic form of body work involves applying pressure to the body using a practitioner’s thumbs, palms, elbows, knees and feet. Discover the basics of how to give this relaxing and therapeutic pressure point massage.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Colour therapy: taster workshopCourse start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Janet WhiteheadCurious about colour and its uses in healing? Explore colour as living phenomenon and begin to expand your awareness and practice of this unique form of energy healing.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - An Evening with Sir Grayson Perry Course start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
An exclusive evening with renowned artist and City Lit Fellow Sir Grayson Perry. Headlining this year’s Mental Wealth Festival, he will discuss the fascinating intersection between art, creativity and mental health. This will be followed by a drinks reception in the City Lit Gallery, which offers a unique opportunity to meet and interact with the artist personally. This event is a fundraiser, with all proceeds going towards the City Lit student bursary.Full fee £50.00 Senior fee £50.00 Concession £50.00 - Study day: Neoclassicism – age of revolution, cult of beauty Course start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SandersExplore the Neo-classical movement, focusing on David as its key example, considering issues such as politics and social change, biography, artistic and theoretic influences, notably that of Winckelmann.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - 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 - 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 - Reiki: taster workshopCourse start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Oge OkohReiki means 'universal energy'. Learn the basic philosophy this gentle system of healing, according to the tradition of Dr Usui.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Indigenous Australian art: an introduction Course start date: Wed 16 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Arjmand AhmadIndigenous Australian art has, in recent years, been increasingly exhibited and discussed in Britain. Yet little is known about the history and development of this art movement and the oeuvres of the artists responsible for its creation. This introductory course will provide a history of how Indigenous Australian artists have changed and challenged the course of national and international art fields in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00 - Myofascial release: taster workshopCourse start date: Wed 16 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Mark WoollardInterested in myofascial release but don’t know where to begin? Why not try this general introduction to the technique! Learn about fascia and the benefits of myofascial release that you can practice on yourself and friends and family!Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Spanish 4/5: artistas de color contemporaneos Course start date: Wed 16 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anna Riera MoraEn el campo del arte la tendencia general es poner el foco en los creadores blancos que, a su vez, suelen poner el foco en sujetos de su misma raza. La falta de visibilidad conlleva una falta de representación y la representación es fundamental para crear referentes. (Inés de León, 2020)
Ideal para estudiantes de nivel 4 o 5 o que han estudiado español por 5 años (los participantes deben tener las habilidades necesarias para debatir activamente en clase usando el español).
No es necesario tener conocimientos previos del arte.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Essenian Healing: workshopCourse start date: Sat 19 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Antonello BrunettiDiscover 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 - Study day: Manet & the revolutionaries of realism Course start date: Sat 19 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SandersExplore Realism in the nineteenth century, focusing on Manet as its key example, considering such issues as social and political change, formal and subject developments, theoretic interests and artistic influences.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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