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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. Presenting on the spot: advanced
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 23 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Stephanie Lunn
    To 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
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  2. Using your voice for audio books and talking newspapers: improvers
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 23 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Thorpe
    Would 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.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  3. Translate a short story (French into English)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 23 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Trista Selous
    Enjoy reading in French? Like translating? Come to join this short lively translation course to discuss the subtlety of the language.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £90.00
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  4. Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £179.00
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  5. Queer UK: rebels and revolutionaries
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 24 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Siobhan McGuirk

    Under-sung heroes, heroines and trancestors have long battled to make life bearable, better and even brilliant for LGBTIQ+ people in the UK. Join us to celebrate key figures in local history – and groups still battling for change

    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00
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  6. Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00
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  7. Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00
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  8. Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00
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  9. Narration for podcast and documentary
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 26 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Spencer
    A fun and intensive course about the incredible world of narration. This enormous and lucrative area of the voiceover world includes podcasts, e-learning, documentaries, audio books, medical/technical narration, explainer videos and more. You’ll learn how to deliver great reads from the inside out. It’s not just about the sound of your voice! The course will be delivered in the media studio.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £160.00
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  10. Literary Landscapes: Black London in Caleb Nelson’s Open Water and Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 26 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Black London is shifting and ever-evolving. This course explores how Costa award winning Caleb Nelson’s novel ‘Open Water’ and the great 1950’s classic of immigrant fiction, Sam Selvon’s ‘The Lonely Londoners’ reimagined our multicultural metropolis.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00
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  11. Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00
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  12. Full fee £289.00 Senior fee £289.00 Concession £202.00
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  13. Screen acting: improvers
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 30 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gary Grant
    Build your confidence and strengthen your camera technique in this improvers class. Work towards creating more truthful screen performances.
    Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £299.00 Concession £209.00
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  14. Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  15. An Introduction to 21st century British drama and society
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 30 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    This online course offers an introduction to the concept of the 21st century British dramatist as a social observer, enabling a deeper understanding of how playwrights can illuminate and comment on social issues. Join us to find out how playwrights Polly Stenham, Jez Butterworth and Phillip Ralph have interrogated a variety of societal ills including a miscarriage of justice, dependency issues, class and the façade of contentment amongst the upwardly mobile.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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