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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 £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
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  2. Stanislavski workshop
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Juliet Prague
    Drawing on Stanislavski’s system you will gain skills to extend your physical, vocal and emotional expression. Suitable for students who wish to work with greater authenticity and depth in their acting. Explore the principles of psychological realism pioneered by Stanislavski and developed by the Method practitioners to enrich and enhance your performances and characterisations in this supportive and expressive environment.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £195.00
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  3. English pronunciation: stage 3
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  David John Gwillim
    Designed for fluent non- native students and all who have completed 'English Pronunciation' stages 1 and 2. Conversation and the reading aloud of a variety of texts will help to pinpoint those pronunciation worries still to be addressed.



    This course will be taught online.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £181.00
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  4. Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00
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  5. Philosophy and the self
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 13 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ariel Kernberg

    Who am I? Is there such a thing as “my true self”? These and related questions will be looked at from various philosophical perspectives.
    NB There will be no class on 26/05/26.

    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £168.00
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  6. Exploring the music of Richard Strauss
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Katy Hamilton
    Explore the music of Richard Strauss. Come and discover more about this brilliant, unusual figure and his music.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  7. Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £130.00
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  8. Listening to the 20th century 1
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edward Henderson
    Using Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' as a guide, we'll investigate art music in the first half of the 20th century. This module covers Mahler’s last symphonies, fin de siècle Paris and the Ballet Russes, and Expressionism and the Second Viennese School. Break week: 28 October 2025.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  9. Victorian Visions
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Julian Birkett
    “It was the best of times…it was the worst of times.”



    How did the Victorians see the world? They lived through one of the most dramatic periods in our history – and their literature reflects that. Victorian Visions looks at a wide variety of themes in Victorian culture: from the city to the home, from dreams to nightmares, from faith to doubt, from moralism to decadence, from ideology to empire.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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  10. Medieval London
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Mike Berlin
    This course explores the forces that shaped London between the coming of the Normans and the age of



    the Tudors.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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  11. Advanced crime fiction workshop
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Hone your understanding of the crime genre and push your fiction in new directions, on this advanced course for crime writers. This course is for experienced writers who are developing ongoing projects.

    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £130.00
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  12. Music in the Weimar republic
    Course start date:  Tue 21 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Katy Homden
    Discover the colourful landscape of music in Germany between the wars. Break week: 26 May 26.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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