- Gateway to English Language GCSE
Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Are you excited by the English language? Do you need to test your abilities before attempting the qualification course? Do you want to give yourself more than a year to achieve the qualification? Then this Preparing for English Language GCSE is the course for you. It will get your ready you for the accreditation and familiarise you with its content, level and expectation.
You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £105.00 - How to get an agent Course start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Neil ArkseyThis workshop, designed for authors who have finished their manuscript, offers practical advice on finding and approaching a literary agent.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Indian Head massage: taster workshop Course start date: Thu 26 Jun 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Janet WhiteheadDiscover the ancient practice of Indian Head Massage. You will learn the basics of how to give and receive this highly therapeutic and relaxing form of massage.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - French 3 upper: taster Course start date: Tue 1 Jul 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie RadetCome and discover what an upper intermediate French class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied French for 4-5 years recently or have done an A-level some time ago.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Art history taster Course start date: Tue 1 Jul 2025 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayCurious about art history? Join us for this taster session where we explore different ways into visual art and its histories from the ancient to the contemporary.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Piano: advanced performance workshop Course start date: Thu 4 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Maria RazumovskayaThe advanced performance workshop is for pianists playing at Grade 8 standard and above, comprising two three-hour sessions. This insightful class will address issues of interpretation and style as well as dealing with aspects of technique and performance practice.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Art and design portfolio projects Course start date: Mon 15 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rod JudkinsDevelop and realise your creative language in art and design through the development of a personal project. Through workshops and small projects you will be able to build a portfolio of work in 2D and 3D related to your own personal theme or interest.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00 - Piano: advanced workshop Course start date: Thu 23 Apr 2026 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Petros MoschosCity Lit's most advanced, regular classes are for advanced pianists, whether performers or specialist teachers. This course is designed to continue to develop your technique, broaden your repertoire and increase your understanding of piano playing to the highest level.
Entry to this course is subject to audition with the Head of piano. If you are interested in joining this class, please apply using the pink button; someone will be in touch with you to arrange an audition.
Break week 27th May 2026.Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £379.00 Concession £265.00 - Piano: repertoire workshopCourse start date: Wed 22 Apr 2026 (and 8 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Shelagh SutherlandIf you have a minimum playing standard of grade 8, come and explore the wealth of piano repertoire, concentrating on style and period. Broaden your interpretive skills and gain experience in performance practice.
Please note that entry to this course is subject to audition with the Head of Piano. If you would like to apply, please click the pink button; someone from the music department will be in touch to arrange an audition.
Break week 27th May 2026.Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £379.00 Concession £265.00 - From mythical heroines to the emperor's subjects: epistolography in the Roman EmpireCourse start date: Tue 2 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nikoletta ManiotiFind out more about epistolography (letter writing) as a literary genre in the Roman world.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Una stagione con Dante: introduzioneCourse start date: Wed 3 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Francesco BucciolThis session - conducted entirely in Italian - is the first part of an introduction to the Divine Comedy. The first session introduces you to Dante's life, his political and philosophical views and gives an overview of the structure of the poem. We will devote the following three sessions (from January onwards) to reading, analysing and commenting on a selection of cantos. Please note that the selection of the cantos read in the following sessions will be different from that of previous years, so you are welcome to re-enrol even if you have attended before.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Spanish 3 upper tasterCourse start date: Tue 9 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Come and discover what an intermediate Spanish class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied Spanish for about 4/5 years recently.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Italian film nightCourse start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Francesco BucciolWith proceeds going to the City Lit Student Bursary, the Italian Film Night is a chance to round out the term with a fun movie night in the college. The film will be presented by Francesco Bucciol, head of the Classics department and our Italian GCSE and A Level tutor. Francesco will also lead a discussion after the film.
For this term's Italian film night, we will be showing and discussing excerpts from a classic (perhaps THE classic) Italian film, La Dolce Vita.Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00 - French 3 lower: taster Course start date: Thu 11 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Come and discover what an intermediate French class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied French for 4-5 years recently or have done an A-level some time ago.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Hindi through Bollywood singingCourse start date: Tue 16 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Roopam AggarwalLearn to speak Hindi and develop your listening and speaking skills in this communicative class which emphasizes the practical use of the language via singing. Suitable for complete beginners.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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