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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. Art revolutions from 1905-1925
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 4 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Christopher Collier
    Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism are pivotal movements in the history of modern art – encapsulating all the promise and peril of the 20th century’s devastating birth, and even helping rewrite perceptions of space and time.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  2. Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £32.00
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  3. Communicating effectively at work
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 5 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Jonny Black
    How skilfully do you manage the impression you make on people both in person and in online meetings and interviews? Develop your personal effectiveness by looking at voice and body language, assertiveness, sensitive listening, interviewing techniques and communication skills for business meetings. This course will be taught online.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00
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  4. Origins of the Italian Renaissance: the Primitivi
    Course start date:  Fri 6 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Simone Chisena
    Discover the history, politics and intellectualism that fuelled the Italian Renaissance. Explore the art of Giotto and his peers from a new perspective.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  5. German for art lovers (intermediate and advanced)
    Course start date:  Fri 6 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Annette Kossow
    This an upper intermediate German language course (B2) discovering and discussing German art.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  6. Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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  7. Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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  8. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  9. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  10. Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00
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  11. The beauty of the medieval manuscript
    Course start date:  Tue 10 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    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 £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  12. Tuesday talks: Painted love – homosexuality in Ancient Greek vase painting
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 10 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Simone Chisena
    Discover the ways in which homoeroticism found its way onto Ancient Greek vases and how its depiction flourished in the ancient world.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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  13. Tuesday talks: Mystic modernism - modern art and spirituality
    Course start date:  Tue 10 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Chantal Condron
    Art has long been inspired by themes, ideas and concepts of spirituality and magic. With the dawn of industry and technology in the modern age, what motivated artists to continue their pursuit of spiritual worlds? Why have these ideas remained so compelling to contemporary artists? On this engaging evening of art, magic and myth, explore work by selected artists from the early 1900s to the present day.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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  14. Lunchtime lecture: Ithell Colquhoun - mystical surrealist
    Course start date:  Tue 10 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Sarah Jaffray
    An introduction to the art of Ithell Colquhoun from her academic days at the Slade to her mystical landscapes in Cornwall. We explore her subject matter, artistic process and her surrealist tendencies.
    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £7.00
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  15. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00
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