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- Spanish beginners: revisionCourse start date: Mon 6 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Analía ToloneRevise and consolidate your speaking and listening skills, as well as your grammar. Suitable if you have completed 'Spanish beginners: module 3' or have an equivalent knowledge of the language (one year's study).
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00 - Feldenkrais: awareness through movement
Course start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Charlotte SeirbergLearn how to reduce tension and move with more ease, and notice improvements in your mobility, posture, breathing, balance, coordination and quality of life.
This course is delivered in-person at City Lit.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00 - Yoga: beginners Course start date: Fri 10 Jan 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Caroline Ings-ChambersAre you new to yoga? This beginners' class offers a chance to develop and improve your body and breath awareness, posture, strength and flexibility, and practise relaxation techniques to help you release tension.
This course is delivered in-person at City Lit.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00 - Hula hoop workout Course start date: Mon 13 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Hula hoop your way to fitness! In this fun workout class you will work out all muscles, but mainly the core muscles. Hula hooping is way more fun than what you might have remembered as a child.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Yoga: mixed levels Course start date: Mon 13 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Biljana CacicWhether you are a beginner who has done little yoga before, or you have more experience, this course will help you to unwind and relax after work. Learn postures and breathing exercises, improve your body and breath awareness, strength and flexibility, and practise relaxation techniques to help you release tension.
This course is delivered in-person at City Lit.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £199.00 - The Renaissance at home in the V&ACourse start date: Tue 14 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Lydia GoodsonStep into the Italian Renaissance home in this three- part course taught in the unrivalled collection of Renaissance objects in the V&A. Discover how furnishings, paintings and objects were made and used in the fashionable homes of Renaissance Italy.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Nutrition to prevent or slow down dementia and Alzheimer’s diseaseCourse start date: Sat 18 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ellie HollyDo you want to feel more energised and motivated? Find out how diet and nutrition can support clear thought, concentration and memory. Discover how you can reduce apathy and protect your brain cells.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Self Defence and personal safety for women Course start date: Sat 18 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Carla DraytonExplore physical and non-physical techniques for self defence, developing your assertiveness, body language and more. Women of any age or fitness level are welcome to come and enhance their confidence.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - The holistic voiceCourse start date: Sun 19 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate MontagueYour voice should be an extension of your character. This Sunday workshop offers accessible and empowering mind-body techniques to deepen your awareness and holistic connection to your voice so that the message you give out is true to your intention.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £55.00 - Yoga Nidra Course start date: Mon 20 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah ScottWant to move away from usual mental chatter and experience profound relaxation? You will experience that in this short Yoga Nidra course.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Arabic beginners: short introduction Course start date: Tue 21 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alaa SonjoqGet a short introduction to the Arabic language and discover aspects of Arabic language culture in these live online communicative classes. Suitable for complete beginners.
.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Learn English - learn about London (entry 2-entry 3)Course start date: Tue 21 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Do you want to improve your English and learn about London at the same time? This course will help you feel more confident about living in London and using your English. You will visit interesting places and learn about the history of the city and the people who live there. You will also learn about important events in the city in the past and now. You will improve your speaking, listening, reading and writing. You will learn a lot of new words to describe people and places and how to express yourself fluently and correctly.
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 £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £30.00 - From late Silent to early Sound cinema Course start date: Sat 25 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeyWith films such as Metropolis (1927) and Sunrise (1927) many critics felt that silent cinema had attained a level of sophistication that could not be surpassed by the 'talkies', but the imaginative use of sound and dialogue, in, for example, Blackmail (1929) and M (1931), could not be denied. Explore this exciting, transitional moment in cinema through these and other key films of the period.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Partition in Palestine Course start date: Thu 30 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Martin JorgensenPalestine has a long history. Join us in this short course to explore the most recent Palestinian history from the late Ottoman era through the British Mandate era and Al-Nakba to our own moment.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00 - An introduction to good nutritionCourse start date: Sat 1 Feb 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ellie HollyWould you like to explore the relationship between diet and wellbeing? This is an introductory course aimed at giving you a good overview of healthy nutrition and current nutritional trends. You will discover the impact of food on your health and wellbeing, and explore ways to improve your general nutrition. Particular attention will be paid to how food and drink influences the health of your immune system and how you can build resilience through healthy eating.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00
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