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- The Super Helper Syndrome Workshop with Jess BakerCourse start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Are you a compulsive helper? If you are, you may well suffer from ‘Super-Helper Syndrome’. Join psychologist, coach and author of The Super Helper Syndrome Jess Baker for this intimate and interactive workshop, to explore the challenges of being a super-helper and how to develop more healthy ways of helping.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Ready Steady Retire!Course start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jenny BardwellCome along and find out how your peers are coping with their newfound freedom in retirement - or perhaps you are approaching retirement and are wondering how to create structure and meaning in your new weekly routine? Maybe you will miss the deadlines and frequent communication you had with colleagues.
In this two-hour workshop, we will explore the pros and cons of retirement and find out how to combat isolation through forging new contacts and finding mental stimulus in a variety of ways from volunteering to lifelong learning.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - Living & Dying – the search for meaningCourse start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
From birth to death, our lives are a quest for meaning, filled with moments of satisfaction, regret, and everything in between. Join City Lit Principal Mark Malcomson as he delves into the topic of ‘living and dying’ with palliative care doctor and best-selling author Dr Kathryn Mannix, and Books Beyond Words Chair, Baroness Sheila Hollins.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - The Super Helper Syndrome: in conversation with Jess BakerCourse start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Are you a compulsive helper? If you are, you may well suffer from ‘Super-Helper Syndrome’. City Lit’s Ian Tucknott sits down with author and psychologist Jess Baker to discuss the concept of super helpers and how it impacts their lives.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - 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 - Humour Through Adversity #2Course start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Garth MacAnally shares his continued journey into understanding humour and the role it plays when things take unexpected turns in life.
“The road to recovery isn’t always what we might expect. An introspection of the reframed journey of recovery where a keeping a sense of humour in the face of continued adversity has been essential to my mental health.”.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £3.00 - Textiles and surface pattern: drawing and design development
Course start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lara MantellInvestigate mark making, layering and juxtaposing ideas through experimental drawings. Explore the importance of imaginative research and how to record it in a sketchbook. Develop versatile design ideas for textiles: interiors, fashion, stationery or text.Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £303.00 Concession £246.00 - Chinese Character, The Balance of LifeCourse start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Xiaolan BiGet to know Chinese characters, beginning with the ancient ‘oracle bone script’, and understand their basics while exploring their roots in nature and tranquility.
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 - Haiku for wellbeingCourse start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pearl MayWriting Haiku poems can provide a peaceful distraction from life's challenges by focusing on creative writing. Composing Haiku can produce a feeling of achievement, and help you to get in touch with the natural world and show us our place within it. This workshop 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
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