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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. Radio and podcast presenting: advanced (online)
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Allis Moss
    This is an opportunity to take your love of radio to the next level. The course supports you with a tutor-editor to craft a pre-recorded radio programme or extended feature on a subject of your choice, mixing interview clips, music and sound effects into your own production. This course will be delivered online and is supported by a media technician.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £125.00
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  2. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  3. Spanish 4/5: Spanish accents explained - Chile
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Pilar Villanueva Martinez
    How do you cope with different Spanish accents? Do you find some easier to understand than others? This series of short courses will help you understand the specificities and intricacies of a variety of Spanish and South American accents, so you can spot their speakers more easily and understand them better to keep the conversation going.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
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  4. Looking at contemporary art
    Course start date:  Wed 4 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Francesca Cavallo

    Explore and discuss contemporary art on show in London. Each week we’ll visit 1-2 commercial galleries or a public gallery and examine specific exhibitions of contemporary art across a range of media including painting, works on paper, photography, new media and sculpture.

    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  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. A sense of place: Constable’s Hampstead
    Course start date:  Mon 9 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Marilyn Greene
    Explore Georgian and Regency Hampstead walking in the footsteps of John Constable and seeing places he painted and quotes about his thoughts and feelings on Hampstead and his art.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00
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  12. Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00
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  13. 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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  14. Costume and fashion in art
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Tue 10 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Julie Barlow
    Costume from the past rarely survives, except in the depiction of it in paintings. Explore 500 years of costume in European art across a range of subject matter and decode the socio-political contexts and cultural identities contained within the choice of dress. This course takes place in London-area museums.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  15. 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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