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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 £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00
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  2. The philosophy of race
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ovett Nwosimiri

    This course session touches upon the philosophical foundations of race, engaging with historical and contemporary debates on racial identity, racism, and justic

    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00
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  3. Spanish 4/5: Spanish accents explained - Chile
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Pilar Villanueva Martinez
    How do you cope with different Spanish accents? Do you find some easier to understand than others? This series of short courses will help you understand the specificities and intricacies of a variety of Spanish and South American accents, so you can spot their speakers more easily and understand them better to keep the conversation going.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
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  4. Struggles for Racial and Gender Justice in Latin America
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Pilar Villanueva Martinez

    This course explores key contemporary movements for racial and gender justice in Latin America, including the feminist and women's movement, Indigenous peoples' land defense, and the anti-racist struggles of Afro-descendant communities.

    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00
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  5. Land Acknowledgement and Racial Justice: Approaches from Different Settler Societies
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Olivia Durand

    Learn about the origins and purpose of land acknowledgements in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. Examine their role in racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and whether they create real change or remain symbolic gestures.

    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00
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  6. Racism and Migration
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Siobhan McGuirk

    We will explore how ideas about race, Empire and belonging have shaped migration to and from Britain – alongside migration policies, laws and society – from the 1900s to today.

    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00
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  7. Who is presumed guilty? Amnesty International UK keynote on predictive policing, Prevent and protest clampdowns
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Join Amnesty UK’s Amnesty UK’s Racial Justice Director Ilyas Nagdee for the keynote talk Who is presumed guilty? Amnesty International UK keynote on predictive policing, Prevent and protest clampdowns . The talk will take place 3 June from 10.30am to 12 noon, in the Cultureplex.

    Full fee £0.00
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  8. Art and critical theory: feminism and post-colonialism
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Irina Chkhaidze
    Explore the role of critical theory within the field of art history, and learn new ways of thinking about art by focusing on feminism, post-colonial theory and the notion of the death of the author.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00
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  9. Jewellery making: cold connections
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Elizabeth Bone
    Would you like to learn how to combine / integrate materials and objects that are not metal into your jewellery making without the use of heat? This course offers you the opportunity to explore joining several different materials together using a variety of cold connection techniques such as rivets and tabs. Come and experiment with a number of techniques and adapt them to use with your own designs.
    Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
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  10. Art for social change: introducing the photography of Gordon Parks
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sarah Jaffray

    An introduction to the photography of Gordon Parks and its significant impact on social justice in the United States. We’ll develop Parks’s biography before looking at some of his famous photo-essays for Life and Ebony Magazines in the 1940s and 50s.

    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £7.00
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  11. Ethnicity, Racism, Crime and the Criminal Justice System in Britain
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michele Scott

    Join us to discuss ethnic inequalities within the British Criminal Justice System (CJS) and why these inequalities continue to persist in the 21st century. This session is part of the day on Racism and Racial Justice with Amnesty International UK..   

    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00
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  12. Hindi 2 lower: module 3
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Geeta Sharma
    Continue learning Hindi on this lively online course. Suitable if you have studied Hindi for a year and a half or have an equivalent level.



    The course will introduce students to essential vocabulary and grammar structures, with a focus on practical communication in everyday situations.
    Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £136.00
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  13. Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £34.00 Concession £25.00
    Rating:
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  14. Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00
    Rating:
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  15. Spanish 2: focus on listening
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 4 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Analía Tolone
    This skills-based course is for lower intermediate learners of Spanish and aims to train you on strategies you can apply to listen more effectively to spoken Spanish in a variety of different contexts. You will also look at elements of pronunciation to give you a better idea of how Spanish is spoken.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £32.00
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