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For experienced writers, this supportive but rigorous workshop offers the perfect opportunity to develop your novel or short story. Receive in-depth feedback and benefit from detailed group discussions on the art of fiction.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Un cours de français animé et structuré pour réviser et pratiquer la langue tout en participant à des discussions sur différents sujets d'actualité.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Continue improving your elementary French in this lively interactive course. This course is suitable if you have completed a French 2 lower: module 1 course or studied French recently for at least a year.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 12 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.

Explore a variety of creative approaches for painting flowers from observation. Discover the rich history of this genre while taking inspiration from artists who use flowers as their subject matter.

Want to learn (continue learning) French but worried that you might not be able to keep up? French 4 at a gentle pace: module 2 is designed to cover the same material as our standard French 4: module 2 course, but at a slightly slower pace, and with more opportunities for revision built in.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Explore imaginative, dynamic approaches to drawing the figure with a variety of media: be inspired by new ways of seeing and access innovative ways of approaching your drawing.

Do you want to continue learning French but worried that you might not be able to keep up? Our French at a gentle pace courses are designed to cover the same material as our standard French courses, but at a slightly slower pace, and with more opportunities for revision built in.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

These sons of Russian Jewish immigrants chased away European operetta from Broadway, and revelled in American jazz harmonies and syncopation to produce great musicals - and an opera - overflowing with joy and pizzazz. break week: 20 Feb 2025.