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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 £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
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  2. 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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  3. Argonautica: reading group (in translation) module 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 7 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Nikoletta Manioti
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    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00
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  4. Advanced children's book illustration: professional practice
    Course start date:  Tue 7 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Tim Ellis, Zehra Hicks, Dee Shulman
    Interested in a career in Children’s Book Illustration, or advancing your practice to the next level? With the guidance and support of your tutors, you will have the opportunity to engage with experienced industry professionals, and develop your practice and personal visual vocabulary to a professional standard.







    Visitors on previous years have included:



    - Davinia Andrew-Lynch, Curtis Browne Agency



    - Helen Chapman, Art director Penguin Random House, Bloomsbury, Little Tiger Press, DK & Penguin



    - Rebecca Garrill Art Director Andersen Press



    - Margaret Hope, art director MacMillan Books



    - Anne McNeill, Editorial director Random House and Penguin books



    - Rachel Petty, former editorial director Macmillan Children's Books, currently author/illustrator agent at the Blair Partnership



    - Arabella Stein, Managing Director, Bright Agency



    - Millie Van Grutten RCW Literary Agency.
    Full fee £2,849.00 Senior fee £2,279.00 Concession £1,994.00
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  5. Teatime Talks: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, imagined portraits
    Course start date:  Tue 14 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Chantal Condron
    One of the most absorbing contemporary artists working in the UK today, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye paints startling ‘portraits’ of characters entirely derived from her imagination. Discover aspects of her artistic process and the ideas and themes behind her paintings on this course.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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  6. Develop your confidence in writing: grammar, punctuation, expression (level 1-2)
    Course start date:  Fri 2 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Would you like to be more confident in the way you write whether emails or reports at work or messages to friends? Do you want to work on how you form sentences, understand grammar and use punctuation so your writing is more creative? Do you want to learn how to create meaning in your writing?. This course will help you be more secure in your professional, academic or creative writing skills and help you improve some of your weak areas around forming and punctuating sentences with appropriate grammatical form. You will develop your confidence in the most essential areas of writing including different sentence structures, writing paragraphs, using punctuation effectively, using active and passive voices and proofreading.



    You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £90.00
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  7. Literary translation in practice (Portuguese into English)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 14 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Christina Baum
    Do you enjoy reading in Portuguese and writing in English? Are you interested in the similarities and differences between English-speaking and Portuguese-speaking cultures? Do you have a particular interest and/or background in literature, especially literature in other languages? Would you like to see if you have a special knack for translation, perhaps with a view to doing it professionally? Come and join this interactive translation course to hone your translation skills.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
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  8. Debt in the global political economy
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 21 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Caglar Ezikoglu
    Explore the intricacies of debt within the global political economy, examining its impacts, mechanisms, and socio-economic consequences.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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  9. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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  10. The Spanish Empire: Power, Conquest, and Legacy
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 28 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Maisa Edwards

    Join Dr. Maisa Edwards to explore the rise, global reach and fall of the Spanish Empire from the 1400s to the 1800s. 

    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00
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  11. Hand Massage & Reflexology: taster workshop
    Course start date:  Tue 28 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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  12. Play-reading
    Course start date:  Tue 28 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Simon Bowen
    Come together with others to explore the work of different playwrights, share the spoken word and gain insight into different plays. These fun and friendly sessions are for people who would like to read and discuss plays under the guidance of a theatre professional. Working in a supportive atmosphere you will read out loud and discuss the main themes of a range of both contemporary and classic texts.
    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £111.00
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