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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. New Testament Greek 1: module 1
    Course start date:  Thu 2 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Jordan Dyck
    Begin to learn New Testament Greek, starting with the alphabet and pronunciation, basic grammar and reading a passage from John’s Gospel.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  2. Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00
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  3. Lunchtime lecture: Cezanne – from aspiring Impressionist to Post-Impressionist revolutionary
    Course start date:  Thu 23 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Julia Musgrave
    Explore the development of Cezanne revolutionary approach to painting, his techniques and motifs and some of the many artists whose work he influenced.
    Full fee £14.00 Senior fee £11.00 Concession £9.00
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  4. 20th to 21st Century War Poetry: British and International
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Stephen Winfield
    Explore the astonishing range of poetic responses to a hundred years of warfare, acts of witnessing, endurance, defiance and condemnation by writers across the globe: Sassoon and Wilfred Owen in Britain, Brecht, Milosz, Celan, Akhmatova and Stepanova in Europe and Russia, Darwish and Zhadan in the Middle East and Ukraine, and many others. How do they describe the indescribable? High art or doggerel, what does it matter once the bombs start to fall?
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  5. Adoring the Christ Child in art: images of the very generous Magi
    Course start date:  Thu 11 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    The images of the Adoration of the Magi will be taken from medieval illuminated manuscripts, as well as panel paintings done for churches and chapels and fresco cycles. Artists covered include Italian artists such as Duccio, Giotto, Botticelli, Fra Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Gentile da Fabriano, and northern Renaissance artists including Gossaert and Breughel.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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  6. Lipreading and managing hearing loss: improvers module 2
    Course start date:  Mon 12 Jan 2026 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Nicola Hicks
    Develop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have completed improvers module 1.







    This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £155.00 Concession £120.00
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  7. Exploring classical music 3
    Course start date:  Thu 15 Jan 2026 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Neil Luck
    Do you want to know more about Western classical music? Explore selected topics and key works in Romantic and modern music on this informative 10-week course. Ideal for people with no specialist knowledge. NB: Break week 19 Feb 2026.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £153.00
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  8. Art and environment in Ice Age Europe
    Course start date:  Thu 22 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Simone Chisena
    Discover the artistic treasures of our most remote past, when our ancestors in the Ice Age created beautiful cave paintings and astounding sculpted works.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  9. Lipreading and managing hearing loss: improvers module 3
    Course start date:  Mon 20 Apr 2026 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Nicola Hicks
    Develop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have completed improvers module 1 and 2.







    This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £155.00 Concession £120.00
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  10. Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £125.00
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  11. Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  12. Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00
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  13. Biblical Hebrew advanced
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Rachel Montagu

    In this advanced course, you will deepen your knowledge of Hebrew grammar and further develop your ability to translate from the Bible.

    Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00
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  14. Welsh 4: clwb darllen / reading club
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Clare Whitehead
    Come to improve your intermediate Welsh through reading short novels in this supportive and structured group.



    This course aims at developing your understanding of the Welsh language as well as improving pronunciation.



    Books details in the course outline below. Please note that this club has a half term break.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  15. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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