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  1. How to read a film: a beginners' guide to cinema
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 17 Sep 2024 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    This course will develop your critical appreciation of the cinema by teaching you how to read and understand film texts. We will look at the elements that underpin film form – narrative, mise en scène, cinematography, editing and sound – alongside its historical development. We will consider film style by exploring classical, post-classical and art cinema and we will examine influential critical modes of analysis, such as genre, authorship and spectatorship.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
    Rating:
    87% of 100
  2. Contemporary dance: beginners
    Course start date:  Tue 17 Sep 2024 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Orley Quick
    This Contemporary dance class is a dynamic and fun experience based on the principles of Release-technique and some playful explorations. Simple movement phrases and tasks are built upon to develop greater awareness of the body in space and in relation to others. Floor, centre and travelling exercises lead to efficiency of movement, rhythmical and free-flowing dance sequences. There is no class on Tuesday 22 October 2024.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £139.00
    Rating:
    97% of 100
  3. Ballet pointe: beginners
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Tue 24 Sep 2024 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Abigail Bulfin
    This short course offers you the opportunity to get introduced to pointe work at a pace that allows you to understand how to execute the basic exercises correctly. Working with correct alignment and safely are a focal point and to address any issues and concerns you may have. To get the most out of this course you should have attended regular ballet classes for at least 6 to 12 months.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00
    Rating:
    95% of 100
  4. Exploring the music of Anton Bruckner
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Tue 24 Sep 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Katy Hamilton
    Composer of vast symphonies, virtuoso organist, mystic… simpleton? Anton Bruckner’s remarkable catalogue of works and unorthodox career path – not to mention his seeming lack of confidence in his own abilities, even as a senior musical figure – have long been a subject of fascination. Come and discover more about this brilliant, unusual figure and his music.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £90.00
  5. Ancient Greek 5
    Course start date:  Mon 30 Sep 2024 (and 13 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Doukissa Kamini
    In this advanced course, you will read and translate unadapted texts by ancient Greek authors to deepen your enjoyment and appreciation of their work.



    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
  6. Latin 5 advanced: poetry group
    Course start date:  Tue 1 Oct 2024 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Justin Murray
    In this advanced course, you will read and translate unadapted texts by Latin authors to deepen your appreciation of their work and your knowledge of Roman culture, history and society.



    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 £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  7. Develop your confidence in writing: grammar, punctuation, expression (level 1-2)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 8 Oct 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Would you like to be more confident in the way you write whether emails or reports at work or messages to friends? Do you want to work on how you form sentences, understand grammar and use punctuation so your writing is more creative? Do you want to learn how to create meaning in your writing?. This course will help you be more secure in your professional, academic or creative writing skills and help you improve some of your weak areas around forming and punctuating sentences with appropriate grammatical form. You will develop your confidence in the most essential areas of writing including different sentence structures, writing paragraphs, using punctuation effectively, using active and passive voices and proofreading.



    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).



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £65.00
  8. Return to Spanish (advanced)
    Course start date:  Tue 5 Nov 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paula Riofrio
    If you have learned Spanish in the past, but it has been a while, then come and join this lively course to refresh your advanced Spanish. You wil review, revise and practice in a course that is tailored to your needs. After attending this course, you will be able join a level 4 or 5 course in January.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
  9. Exploring the music of Gustav Holst
    Course start date:  Tue 5 Nov 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Katy Hamilton
    Composer, teacher, trombonist… Gustav Holst is known above all for his orchestral suite The Planets, premiered in 1918. But this intriguing musician was also profoundly interested in Hindu literature and philosophy, early British music, English folksong and Wagner. This course provides a brief introduction to his life and career.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £90.00
  10. Ancient Greek drama
    Course start date:  Tue 12 Nov 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Maria Contos
    Have a taste of exploring the ancient Athenian stage, and how they still speak to us about the challenges we face today.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
  11. The beauty of the medieval manuscript
    Course start date:  Wed 20 Nov 2024 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    It is generally accepted that medieval illuminated manuscripts are very beautiful things. Something to do with all that gold-leaf maybe. While we cannot hold them in class, close-up digital reproduction will allow us to see if they really are as beautiful as we are told. Indeed, are none of them ugly? Join this course to find out.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00
  12. Ways into advanced film studies: film history
    Course start date:  Tue 7 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    The history of the cinema is a rich, rewarding and dynamic area of study. Cinema, because it is both an art form and an industrial product, can be studied from several different historical perspectives. These have included investigations into the history of technological development associated with cinema’s origins and its subsequent development, but historians have also explored its evolution into an art form. They have written about important individual figures or influential groups and have examined specific films in great detail. Historians have also examined the national, cultural, political and social contexts that might offer insight into the cinema at a given historical moment. They have examined the changing demographic and viewing habits of spectators and explored the mutability of cinemas themselves. With so much to consider and so many different approaches to take, the history of cinema continues to evolve. As such this advanced level film studies course will explore what it means to study film history, examine the various methodologies that one might take, while at the same time looking at relevant filmic and cinematic examples.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00
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