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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 £499.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £324.00
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  2. Maths foundation GCSE
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Are you excited by the language of Maths? Join this GCSE course after completing Maths higher GCSE (introduction) and learn how numbers, symbols and formulas enable us to identify and solve problems as well as find patterns and structure in the world. This course will extend your analytical and problem-solving skills and help you develop logic to plan and manage activities. A Maths GCSE is one of the most commonly required qualifications by employers and universities and by achieving it you will enhance your job and education prospects.







    You must attend every class and do the necessary homework. If you do not, you will not be able to continue the course.



    Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 4582 0423 for information and to book a pre-course assessment. You can also click the Start Assessment button on this page.



    This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in Maths. For more information Click here

    Full fee £589.00
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  3. Piano/keyboards 4A
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edward Henderson
    For pianists with around three years' experience. Improve your finger technique, coordination, phrasing, music



    reading, and your confidence.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £153.00
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  4. Dance 60+
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Francis Angol
    Join our weekly dance and movement classes to improve mobility, posture, balance and coordination. Our aim is to inspire older men and women to get creative with dance and movement.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £125.00
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  5. Music theory: counterpoint 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Selena Kay
    Explore the art of counterpoint, a musical technique in which two or more melodies are combined to create a highly



    engaging musical texture. Over the year you will learn contrapuntal technique from Renaissance to Twentieth Century styles, through score analysis and practical exercises. The course is split into three terms, focusing on Renaissance style in term 1. Break week: 28 Oct 2025.
    Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £174.00
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  6. Jazz harmony, ear training and ensembles: intermediate
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Cerys Hogg
    Develop your jazz musicianship, repertoire, playing and improvising. Practise ear training, study jazz harmony, learn challenging repertoire. For players with established jazz education at foundation level. Assessment for entry to this course can be arranged when you apply to music@citylit.ac.uk. Break week: 28th October.
    Full fee £479.00 Senior fee £479.00 Concession £335.00
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  7. Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £349.00 Concession £244.00
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  8. Lunchtime lecture: Understanding Abstraction
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Sarah Jaffray
    Learn the common reasons for abstraction in art, across time and culture. From the Byzantine icon to the Igbo figurine, from Young Sook Park to Mark Rothko, we’ll think about how abstraction is more common in the history of art than is typically thought. Explore ways into thinking about and experiencing abstract art.
    Full fee £14.00 Senior fee £11.00 Concession £9.00
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  9. London at Leisure: Three Great Squares
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Eleanor Jackson
    Too often we rush around without looking, this course takes time to examine 3 of London’s most famous Squares in depth. A gentle walk allows us to explore these London landmarks at our leisure.
    Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £71.00 Concession £58.00
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  10. Listening to the 20th century 1
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edward Henderson
    Using Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' as a guide, we'll investigate art music in the first half of the 20th century. This module covers Mahler’s last symphonies, fin de siècle Paris and the Ballet Russes, and Expressionism and the Second Viennese School. Break week: 28 October 2025.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  11. Lipreading and managing hearing loss: long term learners advanced
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Anita Thornton
    Are you an experienced lipreader, confident in your theory, but wishing to keep up your skills with continued practice? Suitable if you have been coming to lipreading classes for a while and want to continue to be stretched.







    This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
    Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £292.00 Concession £225.00
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  12. Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £130.00
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  13. Foundation diploma in art and design
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Multiple
    The UAL Foundation Diploma in Art & Design at City Lit is an exciting and challenging multi-disciplinary art, design, craft and media programme. It is designed to give you the best possible introduction to a wide range of materials, techniques and processes, and to support you in identifying and developing your creative interests and thinking. Validated by the University of the Arts London Awarding Body, it is an internationally recognised qualification with a UCAS tariff that enables you to apply directly to University.



    The Free Courses for Jobs initiative is for Londoners aged 24 or over at the start of the course who are: on a low-income; or on certain benefits; or do not have a full level 3 qualification. For more information Click here





    Full fee £5,421.00 Senior fee £5,421.00 Concession £5,421.00
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  14. City Lit wind ensemble: advanced
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Pamela Pecko Smith
    Explore the wonderful repertoire for mixed wind ensemble, developing your technical, musical and ensemble skills. You need to play an orchestral wind instrument at grade 5 standard or higher. To apply for the ensemble please click the pink 'Start your interview' button and someone from the music department will be in touch. Break week 28th October 2025.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £153.00
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  15. Saxophone 5
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Harrison
    Maintain and extend your playing skills and musicianship in our advanced course. Repertoire is jazz and popular music and you will occasionally rehearse sax ensemble arrangements.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £153.00
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