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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. Classical singing workshop
    Course start date:  Fri 2 May 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Hakan Vramsmo
    A lively workshop class for singers with a solid foundation in vocal technique and musicianship: employ your vocal technique in a more flexible and artistic way and deepen your understanding of critical evaluation of singing. Break week 30th May 2025.
    Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £209.00
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  2. Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £195.00
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  3. Sing jazz 1
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Emzee Haywoode
    Improve your singing technique and solo performance and learn some standard repertoire and jazz protocol. Explore style, develop good timing and phrasing, breath control, and extend your vocal range. Not suitable for beginner singers.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £181.00
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  4. Acting: scenes to performance
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sean Croft
    Practise and develop your acting skills by rehearsing in depth scenes from contemporary plays or a whole short play. These will be performed in the college's John Lyons Theatre to an invited audience at the end of the course. This course is suitable for students who have completed a broad range of our acting courses at beginners and improvers level or who have gained suitable experience elsewhere.
    Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £244.00
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  5. Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £209.00
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  6. Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £195.00
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  7. Chamber music: advanced
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gisela Meyer
    Discover the pleasure of playing in small, mixed instrumental ensembles, one per part, in a variety of repertoire. For classical instrumentalists at grade 5/6 or above. Due to the demanding nature of most piano parts, pianists should play at Grade 8 level or higher. Good sight reading skills and experience in chamber music are required.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £195.00
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  9. Sing jazz 3
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 3 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Laura Zakian
    A performance class for singers who have completed Sing jazz 1 and 2. Develop and maintain your vocal technique, jazz and blues style, presentation of repertoire, and learn relevant musicianship.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £181.00
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  10. Philosophy and cultural theory
    Course start date:  Fri 9 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Barrie Selwyn
    Merleau Ponty’s concept of embodied subjectivity continues to shape our views in cultural theory and theories of knowledge in general. We will explore his ideas and their applications as well as the general context from which they emerge.
    Full fee £289.00 Senior fee £231.00 Concession £188.00
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  11. Japanese philosophy
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  John Goff
    Japanese philosophy extends well beyond Zen, with several philosophical traditions including that of the modern Kyoto School. Developing distinct cultural, aesthetic and political concepts, Japanese philosophers offer a rich field of thought.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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  12. Sing musical theatre: technique
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Wed 17 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Shachar Shamai
    This course explores musical theatre singing with a focus on technique. Suitable for singers and actors wanting to improve their singing technique for musical theatre repertoire.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £195.00
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  13. The emergence of Europe 300-1000
    Course start date:  Fri 19 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Vanessa King
    Explore reasons for the fall of Rome and the emergence of the ‘barbarian’ kingdoms of western Europe. Was it really ‘the Dark Ages’? Were the Vikings simply long-haired tourists who occasionally beat up the natives?
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00
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  14. Drumming 4A
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 20 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Mark Huggett
    Our advanced class is a great chance to practise all the essential popular grooves. Enhance and maintain your technique, listening, reading and stamina. Break week: 1st November.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £259.00
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  15. Italian 5: lingua e letteratura
    Course start date:  Wed 24 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Roberto Minardi
    Questo corso si propone di migliorare le tue capacità espressive tramite lo studio approfondito di un testo letterario. Alla lettura e la discussione letteraria saranno abbinate la riflessione scritta e l'esercitazione grammaticale e sintattica.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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