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  1. Masters of Cinema: Claire Denis
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 4 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    This course will consider Claire Denis’ importance as a filmmaker by exploring in some detail a number of her key films from Chocolat (1988), I can’t sleep (1994), Beau Travail (1999), White material (2009), and High Life (2018). Claire Denis’ transnational postcolonial work, from Djibouti, South Africa to multi-ethnic France, deals with themes of migration, human desires and fears. Her films are renowned for being filmed mainly on location, for playing with many cinematic genres and languages and they are internationally acclaimed.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  2. The Hindu Temple: an introduction
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 4 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Arjmand Aziz

    Discover more about the development, history and sacred geometry of the Hindu temple in this weekend course which includes a guided visit to a local temple.

    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  3. Study day: Millet, Manet & Courbet - revolutionaries of realism
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 4 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rachel Sanders
    Explore Realism in the nineteenth century, focusing on Manet as its key example, considering such issues as social and political change, formal and subject developments, theoretic interests and artistic influences.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  4. German intermediate intensive
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 4 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    This an intermediate in person German course in the heart of London. The emphasis is on developing your speaking skills. Suitable if you have studied German for an equivalent of about 2 years.

     

    Full fee £329.00 Senior fee £329.00 Concession £214.00
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  5. Developing art practice
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 4 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Eleanor Bedlow, Rolina Elsje Blok, Ute Kreyman, Joe Richardson, Heidi Wigmore
    This advanced course for developing and practicing artists consists of work-based seminars facilitated by peers and artist-tutors, giving you the opportunity to develop and present your work for critical discourse. The course includes individual tutorials and mentoring, critical investigation via group crits, visits to galleries and artist-run organisations, collaborative work and discussion and debate. This course is one of the eligible programmes for application to Bloomberg New Contemporaries.



    The course will be delivered onsite.











    This course requires an application prior to enrolment. Please click 'start assessment' to begin your application.
    Full fee £1,249.00 Senior fee £999.00 Concession £874.00
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  6. German advanced
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 4 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Tim Matschak
    Vertiefen Sie Ihre Deutschkenntnisse durch eine vielseitige Auswahl an aktuellen Materialien, Texten, Videos und Hörverständnissen. In diesem Kurs können Sie auch Ihre Diskussionfähigkeit, Ihre Grammatik und Ihren Wortschatz erweitern. This is an advanced German course.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  7. Mobile Hot and Cold Stone Therapy: a CPD workshop
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 4 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Mark Woollard
    This course is specifically aimed at the mobile therapist wishing to offer clients a hot and cold stone massage, without the need to carry a massive traditional hot stone heater around with you!
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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  8. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  9. Guided Photo Walk Focussing on Composition - City Lit Silver Sunday
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 5 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michael Harding
    A Guided Photo Walk in the area, emphasizing how to improve your photographic composition. (Suitable for camera phone or DSLR). This walk takes place on firm, level ground covering a modest distance.







    Age UK’s Silver Sunday is a day dedicated to older people which takes place every year in October. Fun and free activities are held across the UK where older people can make new friends, visit new places, try new activities, and connect with other generations in their local communities. This year’s Silver Sunday will be taking place on Sunday 6th October, and City Lit will join in the activities by offering a diverse selection of workshops.







    This tater session is aimed specifically to older people but that everyone is welcome to join in, as connecting generations forms an important part of this day.
    Full fee £0.00
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  10. Hitchcock's Horror Thrillers 2: The Birds, scene by scene
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 5 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Jon Wisbey
    Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), sees the director exploring a familiar theme: the 'romantic couple' tested by suspenseful events. But unlike his glossy 1950s hits, Hitchcock opts for muted visuals and performances in an unflinching examination of femininity under threat and masculine cruelty, framed by a dystopian revenge of nature narrative. Explore the master's last great film, scene by scene.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  11. World music: rhythm driven tunes from Brazil, Cuba, Ghana and Senegal
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 5 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sarha Moore
    Come to play tunes from several traditions and two continents, working with complex rhythms in related and contrasting ways. There is a musical narrative that begins in Africa, travels to the Caribbean and South America, then back to Africa, carrying musical styles and rhythmic patterns. We will explore samples of this rhythmic timeline.







    Piano places are limited to two so please check with the department prior to enrolling if you want to play piano on this course.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  12. Five Easy Steps to Taking Better Photographs on your mobile or DSLR - City Lit Silver Sunday
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 5 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michael Harding
    An illustrated guide to improving your photograph in easy steps.







    Age UK’s Silver Sunday is a day dedicated to older people which takes place every year in October. Fun and free activities are held across the UK where older people can make new friends, visit new places, try new activities, and connect with other generations in their local communities. This year’s Silver Sunday will be taking place on Sunday 6th October, and City Lit will join in the activities by offering a diverse selection of workshops.







    This taster session is aimed specifically to older people but everyone is welcome to join in, as connecting generations forms an important part of this day.
    Full fee £0.00
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  13. Advanced painting: practice and discourse
    Course start date:  Mon 6 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Blended (learn both online and in-person)

    Tutors:  Clare Barton-Harvey, Michael Harding, Stuart Jones, Mario Lautier Vella, Joe Richardson, Benjamin Senior, Ian Tucknott
    Develop your painting in greater depth on this advanced course, working with a team of artist-tutors and a committed network of peer-practitioners, across a set of projects focusing on a range of contemporary themes, processes, and debates. The course is intended for experienced painters with a positive and enquiring attitude to the practices and discourses of painting in its various forms, and a commitment to peer-dialogue and critical discussion. Focused and intensive studio-based weekend projects (once per month), are interspersed with weekly online tutorials, feedback, discussion and seminars.
    Full fee £2,649.00 Senior fee £2,119.00 Concession £1,854.00
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  14. Advanced graphic design
    Course start date:  Mon 6 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Andrew McCarten
    This course will help you improve your skills in graphic design and visual communications in their broadest sense, for delivery or publication in print and online, working with text, image, layout, medium and message across a range of physical and digital media and formats.



    It is ideal for anyone who has already completed our City Lit graphics course, and for anyone wishing to build a more extensive and professional portfolio of graphics work, whilst developing a deeper understanding of the connection between text, image, message and media.



    Confirmed industry specialist guests: Lydia Thornley, Designer, Creative Director and Reportage Illustrator and award winning film producer/director Mark Craig, maker of the film “The Last Man On The Moon”.
    Full fee £2,549.00 Senior fee £2,039.00 Concession £1,784.00
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  15. 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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