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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 £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00
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  2. Introduction to jewellery making
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 9 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Linda Connelly
    Learn and develop a range of essential jewellery making techniques and processes for creating metal jewellery. This course is designed for beginners who would like to gain fundamental skills like sawing, filing, sanding, drilling, texturing, forging and soldering. Explore these techniques in set projects and use them to design and make your own pieces.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00
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  3. Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
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  4. Return to French (lower intermediate)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 15 May 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Silvana Avram
    Revise and consolidate your speaking and listening skills, as well as your grammar. Suitable if you have completed completed 2-3 years of study in the past.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  5. Drawing and mindfulness: morning meditation
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Helen Burgess
    Join us and set up your day in a tranquil, reflective way with our 5 day Drawing and mindfulness: morning meditation course. As daily life is full of uncertainty and with our attention getting pulled in many directions why not take some personal time to reset and focus combining meditation with some simple drawing exercises. You will be guiding your mind to settle and to look with care at the world around us and our inner experience. Whether you want to do something nourishing before you go to work or are setting up for a day of creative activity, the practices of drawing and mindfulness will bring a positive start to each morning, helping you begin the days with fresh eyes and mind. Suitable for all levels.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00
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  6. The City Lit 7-day intensive course for adults who stammer
    Course start date:  Fri 6 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Learn strategies to help you speak more easily, work on becoming less sensitive and worried about stammering (also known as stuttering), reduce avoidance strategies and work towards saying what you want to say when you want to say it. This intensive course will enable you to make maximum progress in minimum time and will give you a solid foundation to continue to make positive changes following the course. It runs on these dates (Fri and Sat): June 6-7; June 20-21; July 4-5; July 25. We will also provide videoconferencing (Zoom) group support sessions dates tbc.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £195.00 Concession £56.00
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  7. Calligraphy: Spencerian scripts
    Course start date:  Mon 21 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Veiko Kespersaks
    Learn how to use a pointed pen for writing in copperplate hand. Spencerian script developed from the English Cursive and stands out for its delicately shaded lowercase and prominent capitals. With very intense shadows, obtained with a pointed pen, it is famous for its fine lines, hand-made quality and romantic overtones. Suitable for both beginners and improvers, left and right handers.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  8. Italian beginners: module 3 intensive
    Course start date:  Mon 21 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Evi Campetella

    Italian beginners: module 3 intensive is a one-week course that will cover the same material as a standard Italian beginners: module 3 course, but it will do so more quickly for those of you who wish to start second-year Italian in the new academic year. 

    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  9. Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
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  10. Actor summer school: beginners
    Course start date:  Mon 21 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sean Croft, Juliet Prague
    This is a five day intensive encounter with the acting process. Designed for beginners to explore the fundamentals in a safe and supportive enviroment. Also suitable for those with some prior experience wanting to refresh and focus their skills.
    Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £349.00 Concession £244.00
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  11. Calligraphy: decorated letterforms
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sharon Shaw
    Gilded initials make perfect gifts for family and friends. You’ll learn painting techniques and how to apply a PVA mordant and use real leaf. You will be provided with a number of decorative alphabet templates and then taken step-by-step through the stages of drawing, painting and applying real gold to create your own illuminated decorated letterform.
    Full fee £359.00 Senior fee £287.00 Concession £233.00
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  12. Full fee £539.00 Senior fee £431.00 Concession £350.00
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  13. Full fee £329.00 Senior fee £263.00 Concession £214.00
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  14. French beginners: module 1 intensive
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Jul 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Yolande Mallet De Chauny
    Learn to speak French on this intensive, self-contained class for complete beginners.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  15. Modern Greek: holiday kit
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Maria Contos
    Learn to speak Greek and develop your listening and speaking skills on this intensive course. You will also learn the basics of the Greek alphabet. Suitable for complete beginners.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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