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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  2. Medieval and Renaissance art at the V&A
    Course start date:  Wed 1 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Andreas Petzold
    Explore the one of the finest and most diverse collections of medieval and Renaissance art and material culture in the world at the V&A Museum.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  3. Advanced painting: practice and discourse
    Course start date:  Mon 6 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Blended (learn both online and in-person)

    Tutors:  Clare Barton-Harvey, Michael Harding, Stuart Jones, Mario Lautier Vella, Joe Richardson, Benjamin Senior, Ian Tucknott
    Develop your painting in greater depth on this advanced course, working with a team of artist-tutors and a committed network of peer-practitioners, across a set of projects focusing on a range of contemporary themes, processes, and debates. The course is intended for experienced painters with a positive and enquiring attitude to the practices and discourses of painting in its various forms, and a commitment to peer-dialogue and critical discussion. Focused and intensive studio-based weekend projects (once per month), are interspersed with weekly online tutorials, feedback, discussion and seminars.
    Full fee £2,649.00 Senior fee £2,119.00 Concession £1,854.00
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  4. Contemporary practice: personal project
    Course start date:  Tue 7 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Blended (learn both online and in-person)

    Tutors:  Ian Tucknott
    On this course you will develop your creativity, your personal artistic understanding, and a body of contemporary art work at an advanced level through the experimental exploration of a personal project. The course is facilitated by practicing artists and theorists, who will support you through guided critical and creative research, experimental workshops, critical studies, studio practice and tutorials.
    Full fee £2,399.00 Senior fee £1,919.00 Concession £1,679.00
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  5. The City of London: the Square Mile
    Course start date:  Wed 8 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Hazel Baker
    Explore the City’s development from Roman and medieval times through to the Tudors and Stuarts. This course will consist of 8 guided walks starting with Roman London.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  6. Advanced printmaking: practice and discourse
    Course start date:  Wed 8 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Blended (learn both online and in-person)

    Tutors:  Claire Hynds
    This year-long advanced course is aimed at artist-printmakers who wish to develop a sustainable personal practice through the medium of print. With the support of expert tutors, you will be guided through experimental, practice-based research and developmental tasks that challenge your preconceptions of print media including etching, screen-printing, lithography and relief. You will eventually focus on a longer project that encourage both a personal enquiry and the development of an individual methodology. The course involves theoretical, contextual and practical components.
    Full fee £2,099.00 Senior fee £1,679.00 Concession £1,469.00
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  7. Lipreading teacher training course
    Course start date:  Fri 18 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Blended (learn both online and in-person)

    Tutors:  Anita Thornton
    Part-time 19 days spread over 10 lecture blocks







    This course will be a mixed delivery mode. Students will attend City Lit, Covent Garden, London for some of the teaching blocks and access some of the blocks online.







    You will attend lecture and teaching practice blocks on the following dates.



    2024: October 18th/19th November 15th/16th December 13th/14th



    2025: January 10th/11th February 7th/8th March 7th/8th



    April 4th/5th May 9th May 16th/17th June 13th/14th







    If combined with a teaching qualification such as our GT105 Award in Education and Training, this will qualify you to teach Lipreading in the Further Education sector.







    You cannot enrol online for this course. Please contact us at lipreading@citylit.ac.uk to request an application form.
    Full fee £2,599.00 Senior fee £2,599.00 Concession £2,599.00
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  8. Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00
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  9. Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00
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  10. Demystifying Tate Modern
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 6 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Sarah Jaffray
    Get an overview of Tate Modern with this straightforward and lively insight into the gallery’s current displays and the role of the gallery in the contemporary art world. #arthistory #tatemodern.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
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  11. In Scrooge's Footsteps: A Christmas Carol & Dickens Walk
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Eleanor Jackson

    Join us for a festive walk in the footsteps of Scrooge, looking at the locations and impact of Dickens’s most famous work. We will also examine how Dickens’s story has influenced our ideas of Christmas.

    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00
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  12. Lamplit Hampstead
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Marilyn Greene
    Discover the mysterious atmosphere to Hampstead on a tour after-dark where the streets are lit by old-fashioned lamps. We will wind through the narrow back streets and catch glimpses of its fascinating history from the glow of lamps and lit buildings. This tour is particularly stunning over the Festive season where subtle Christmas lights add to the effect. We will end at the historic Holly Bush Tavern where we can warm up with a drink!



    Tour starts outside Wagamama 58-62 Heath Street, NW3 1EN Ends Hampstead Tube Station.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00
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