- Using your voice for audio books and talking newspapers: improversCourse start date: Mon 23 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David ThorpeWould you like to narrate audio books? Are you interested in community work such as talking newspapers for the blind? This Improvers' course will explore a variety of essential voice techniques such as engaging storytelling, clear and precise articulation and subject-appropriate intonation. Additionally the course looks at how to differentiate your reading styles between audio books and talking newspapers. - Presenting on the spot: advancedCourse start date: Mon 23 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie LunnTo gain greater credibility through improving your communication skills and confidently achieving a public presentation with very little time to prepare. This course will be delivered in the college.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00 - Screen printing workshopCourse start date: Mon 30 Jun 2025 (and 9 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David HolahThis course is a creative and practical introduction to the screen-printing process, aimed at beginners and the curious. You will learn step by step how to make your own series of silk screen prints using a variety of techniques.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Writing for magazinesCourse start date: Mon 15 Sep 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Phyllis RichardsonGet inspired to write on this practical course for freelance journalists and bloggers. Learn to carry out research, interview people, pitch and publish stories, and build your presence on social media.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00 - The art of negotiatingCourse start date: Mon 2 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Gavin IllsleyNegotiation is a communication skill essential in solving problems and reaching your goals. Learn to prepare well and to feel confident using logical and emotional tools to achieve great outcomes. This course will be delivered online.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £90.00 - Ancient Greek 5Course start date: Mon 29 Sep 2025 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jordan DyckIn this advanced course, you will read and translate unadapted texts by ancient Greek authors to deepen your appreciation of their work.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Yoga for Deaf people: mixed levelsCourse start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sarah ScottDiscover enhanced energy - as you find space in your body to breathe and move a little more freely and with more awareness. This course will help to deepen your yoga, your inner strength and stamina for this wild world. We will draw on breathing practices (pranayama) and mudras to steady and calm the mind. - Writing a memoir (continuation)Course start date: Wed 11 Jun 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Julie GartonSome moments in our lives are so powerful they beg to be shared with the world. This continuation course guides students in developing a memoir project that will resonate and inspire.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00 - Spanish 3 conversationCourse start date: Mon 6 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Roberto GallegoRevise, consolidate and improve your listening and speaking skills on this lively course, which will help you communicate more confidently in daily life situations. Ideal if you have an intermediate level of Spanish, are doing 'Spanish 3 lower', 'Spanish 3 upper' or have an equivalent level (B1 level).Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £90.00 - Using your voice for audio books and talking newspapersCourse start date: Mon 13 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: David ThorpeWould you like to narrate audio books? Are you interested in community work such as talking newspapers for the blind? Explore vocal skills and techniques required in these areas and identify what style works for you. This course will be delivered online. - French 3 lower: conversationCourse start date: Wed 15 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michel WillameCome and practise your intermediate spoken French and develop your language skills in these topical discussion classes. Based on recordings from French television, radio news and newspaper articles.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00 - Presenting on the spotCourse start date: Wed 11 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie LunnLearn key vocal techniques and public speaking strategies that will support you when you need to give a memorable impromptu presentation or speech with gravitas and confidence. This course will be delivered in the college.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £90.00 - Advanced creative non-fiction workshopCourse start date: Mon 23 Feb 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul LaffanThis advanced workshop is designed for students who have already completed introductory and intermediate creative-non fiction courses and would like to focus on workshopping their writing.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00 - How to plot your children’s novelCourse start date: Wed 29 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sophie McKenzieYou’re a writer with some experience and a great idea for a children’s novel, but plotting is the thing that lets you down. Over six weeks on this fun and interactive course you’ll learn how to structure your book, finding fresh ways to develop your idea into a compelling plot.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00 - Fixity and Flux: poetry in motionCourse start date: Mon 2 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Suzannah V. EvansCome and revel in the sheer variety and possibility of poetic form, as we consider how form might shape what a writer has to say and how they say it. This course will allow you to explore the many shapes that a poem can take.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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