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- Join RED January & Decathlon: Introducing a Game-Changing Workplace Wellbeing InitiativeCourse start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join RED January, Decathlon and some exciting guests as they reveal and explore their new workplace wellbeing initiative. RED January has raised millions for mental health causes, and inspired communities to embrace regular physical activity, helping to decrease inactivity levels and boost people’s mental health, wellbeing and quality of life.Full fee £0.00 - German for opera lovers (intermediate and advanced)
Course start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Katja ParmarThis is a German language course for lovers of German operas.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Working parents: Simple coaching strategies for success at work and homeCourse start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Working mother and business coach Rachel Morris shares her expertise about the transition working people navigate when they become parents. She will be sharing her insight about the needs people have before a child arrives in their lives, after the arrival of a child and the phase when they re-enter to the workplace as a ‘working parent’.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - Film studies taster Course start date: Sat 30 Nov 2024 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul SuttonLearn how to evaluate and discuss films while enjoying a working example of a City Lit Film Studies class. In this class we will view and explore clips from a number of films, including popular remakes, enabling us to consider and compare themes and techniques from differing filmmaking countries. There will be a chance to review – in brief – film courses at City Lit (January - March 2025).Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - German Christmas carols Course start date: Thu 5 Dec 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gisela MeyerDo you love singing at Christmas? Join this workshop to learn and sing German Christmas carols.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Christmas carols sing-alongCourse start date: Thu 12 Dec 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Siobhan BlakeTransport yourself into a joyous frame of mind and festive spirit as you sing through some of the most beautiful settings of medieval carols. Explore harmonic textures, musical interpretations, get technical tips for tricky corners and enjoy singing these wonderful pieces with others!Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Great musical eras: Paris in the 1920s Course start date: Thu 12 Dec 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Karen Betley, Pauline GreeneCome and discover the music of an explosive period of artistic expression which followed the horrors of the First World War.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £34.00 - Return to German (intermediate)Course start date: Thu 26 Sep 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anna RiolandLearn German in the heart of London. Come and improve your upper-intermediate German. Suitable if you have studied the language for at least four years (1.5 hours per week) or 2 years (3 hours per week). Based on Aspekte NEU B1+, 1. Teil.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - The holistic voiceCourse start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate MontagueAn introduction to accessible and empowering mind-body techniques that can deepen your awareness and connection to your voice so that the message you give out is true to your intention.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - Improve your speaking voice: tasterCourse start date: Thu 30 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Giles AbbottA taster class to introduce you to how you can improve the quality of your voice and standard of speech through relaxation, breath technique and articulation. This taster class will take place in one of our studios.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Great composers: Puccini Course start date: Thu 3 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pauline GreeneEveryone knows at least one Puccini tune, even if they’ve never seen a Puccini opera. Football fans, for example, can sing ‘Nessun dorma’, and there are plenty more where we know the tune even if we can’t sing all the words or know which opera it comes from. What is it about this composer that made him so famous in his own time and in ours? In this centenary year of his death we look at his operas, his bohemian lifestyle, and his reputation. Is he a ‘great’ composer? How can we decide?Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - Great works: Bizet's Carmen Course start date: Thu 10 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pauline GreeneBizet’s Carmen is one of the most performed operas world-wide. We know it as a thrilling drama involving love, betrayal and death, focused on a charismatic character who brings about her own destruction at the hands of the man who loves her. Bizet never saw the popular version of his opera and died thinking it was a flop. We explore the story behind its composition and how it became a super-hit.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - City Lit Mental Wealth Festival: mosaics workshopCourse start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vanessa BensonJoin us for this introduction to the world of mosaics. Working with mosaics can be a mindful activity for many of our learners. The repetitive sequences of shaping and placing the tiles to form the final composition can be a meditative process that can help to focus and calm the mind. 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 - City Lit Mental Wealth Festival: mosaics taster workshopCourse start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vanessa BensonJoin us for this introduction to the world of mosaics. Working with mosaics can be a mindful activity for many of our learners. The repetitive sequences of shaping and placing the tiles to form the final composition can be a meditative process that can help to focus and calm the mind. 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
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