- Pilates: balance and strengthCourse start date: Tue 23 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Eleanor ShearnThis is a mixed levels Pilates course focusing on improving posture, mobility, muscle strength and balance. While conferring the benefits of a regular Pilates class, there is a particular emphasis on improving fitness to aid balance. - Swedish beginners: module 1Course start date: Tue 23 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Yohanna JacobssonStart your Swedish learning journey with City Lit! Our fun and interactive courses are suitable for complete beginners.
Choose either an in-person course in Covent Garden or live online sessions.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00 - Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £125.00
- Irish beginners: module 1Course start date: Tue 23 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sarah O'DonnellSuitable for complete beginners wanting to learn this fascinating Celtic language.
Note that we are running a taster in September if you would like to experience learning Irish, search for "Irish taster".Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00 - Getting away with murder: how to write crime fictionCourse start date: Thu 25 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Want to write a murder mystery that will knock readers dead? On this course you'll learn how to plot a murder most horrid and develop your writing to create maximum suspense.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00 - Stage 1 stammering therapyCourse start date: Mon 29 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vivien Grant-JonesLearn strategies to help you speak more easily. You'll also work on becoming less sensitive about stammering, reducing avoidance strategies and developing self confidence. Designed specifically for people who stammer /stutter.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £181.00 Concession £52.00 - Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £109.00
- Textiles: experimental hand stitchCourse start date: Tue 20 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Amarjeet NandhraA contemporary approach to hand stitching and embroidery exploring a variety of traditional stitches and techniques.
Create experimental and expressive samples using traditional and non-traditional materials.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - America in the 50s: culture and societyCourse start date: Tue 30 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pauline Greene, Mark Malcomson, Dale Mineshima-Lowe, Paul Sutton, Patricia Sweeney, Ian TucknottFrom America's domestic expansion and boom in the 1950s, this online intertextual course explores the political, social and cultural context of 1950s America through a study of literature, history, music, film and art of the period. With different tutors for each specialism, the course provides a 'taster' in each subject as a gateway to further study in understanding this fascinating period in American culture and society.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Comedy writing and performing: tasterCourse start date: Tue 30 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Alan NixonExplore your comedy writing and performance potential under the guidance of an Emmy-award winning comedy producer/director. Alan Nixon shares an introduction to the skills behind creating powerful comedy using classic and modern techniques.Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00 - Latin 5Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sean GabbIn this advanced course, you will read and translate unadapted texts by Latin authors to deepen your appreciation of their work and your knowledge of Roman culture, history and society.
Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Solitude in fiction and memoirCourse start date: Tue 30 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Kate WilkinsonThis online literature course explores representations of solitude in recent fiction and memoir. Reading twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts, we’ll consider experiences of solitude across rural and urban settings, from remote islands to crowded cities. How is solitude shaped by places, culture, gender, age and technology?Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 - Lunchtime Lecture: Bloomsbury and the art of Vanessa BellCourse start date: Tue 30 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Julia MusgraveAvant-garde painter, designer, decorator, inspired colourist, mother and muse, Vanessa Bell was the warm heart of the Bloomsbury Group, a set who Dorothy Parker once described as “living in squares and loving in triangles”.
Full fee £14.00 Senior fee £11.00 Concession £9.00 - The introduction to art historyCourse start date: Tue 30 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Do you enjoy looking at art but want to understand it more deeply? This introduction to art history course will help you build confidence in interpreting art by exploring topics such as beauty, the role of the artist, gender, the art market, and global art history—giving you fresh insight into what you see in galleries and museums.
Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £168.00
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