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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 £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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  2. String Winter School
    Course start date:  Fri 12 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Robert Puzey
    Learn technique, repertoire and ensemble skills for all orchestral strings. Develop your confidence and make new string friends. For players at grade 3 or above.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £97.00
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  3. German advanced: Von Hirten und Engelschören - die Advents- und Weihnachtszeit in der deutschen Kunst
    Course start date:  Fri 12 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Annette Kossow
    Come to this one off German advanced x mas special in the heart of London.
    Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £31.00 Concession £25.00
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  4. Music history bookclub: The Great Passion
    Course start date:  Fri 12 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Edward Breen

    The music history book club meets towards the end of each term to discuss novels and biographies with musical themes and references relevant to the music history programme. 

    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  5. Christmas at the cinema
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 13 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  John Wischmeyer
    Carefully-curated Christmas cornucopia overflows with seasonal films, from new entry The Holdovers (2023 Alexander Payne) to Home Alone (1990 Chris Columbus/John Hughes). This is a celebration of the genre of the Christmas film packed with clips and hidden gems: Scrooge (1951 Brian Desmond Hurst) remixed as a film noir, Lindsay Anderson’s Every Day Except Christmas (1957), his film about the old Covent Garden market later seen in My Fair Lady (1964) or Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972) just before it closed down. Full of delights, discussions and a grown man dressed as an Elf (2003).
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  6. History of ideas: the invention of Christmas
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 13 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Angela Platt
    Beginning around the middle of the 19th century, a ‘new Christmas’ came into the fore; a reinvented Christmas, if you will. Why did this Christmas shift as it did – to produce the modern celebration many people still enjoy today? In this course, the stories of those groups and individuals who impacted this ‘reinvention of Christmas’ will be shared.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00
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  7. Lamplit Hampstead
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Marilyn Greene
    Discover the mysterious atmosphere to Hampstead on a tour after-dark where the streets are lit by old-fashioned lamps. We will wind through the narrow back streets and catch glimpses of its fascinating history from the glow of lamps and lit buildings. This tour is particularly stunning over the Festive season where subtle Christmas lights add to the effect. We will end at the historic Holly Bush Tavern where we can warm up with a drink!



    Tour starts outside Wagamama 58-62 Heath Street, NW3 1EN Ends Hampstead Tube Station.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00
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  8. Hindi through Bollywood singing
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Roopam Aggarwal
    Learn 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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  9. Digital skills for the workplace: creating newsletters, reports and tables with Word (intermediate)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Do tables in Word seem to move of their own accord? Do you need to produce newsletters for work or for volunteer groups but are frustrated by shifting text and images? Are you unsure how to maintain consistent formatting across a report? If so, then this is the course for you. On this course you will learn how to produce a newsletter, insert tables, and create simple reports while maintaining consistent formatting and ensuring the layout and presentation is effective and impacting. You will focus on how to produce attractive documents fit for purpose in an efficient and timely manner, vital skills both inside and outside work.



    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 £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £75.00
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  10. Business administration: ICT skills for business (advanced)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 5 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online





    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 £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £80.00
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  11. Radio and podcast presenting: advanced (intensive)
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 14 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Spencer
    This is a new opportunity to take your love of radio presenting to the next level. The course supports you with a tutor-editor to craft a pre-recorded radio programme or extended feature on a subject of your choice, mixing interview clips, music and sound effects into your own production. This weekend workshop will be delivered in the media studio.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00
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  12. ITEC Level 5 Certificate in Sports Massage Therapy
    Course start date:  Fri 20 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Been practising at level 4 sports massage and wanting to update your skillset? Looking to expand your knowledge to confidently manage the more complex musculoskeletal injuries? If yes, the ITEC Level 5 Certificate in Sports Massage will equip you with these skills and more.
    Full fee £839.00 Senior fee £839.00 Concession £839.00
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  13. Great works: Arvo Pärt's Passio
    Course start date:  Mon 30 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edward Breen
    Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (b.1935) is one of the most frequently performed classical composers of our times. Explore his setting of St John’s passion and learn about his compositional techniques.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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