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- Hitchcock's Horror Thrillers 2: The Birds, scene by sceneCourse start date: Sun 5 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeyHitchcock's The Birds (1963), sees the director exploring a familiar theme: the 'romantic couple' tested by suspenseful events. But unlike his glossy 1950s hits, Hitchcock opts for muted visuals and performances in an unflinching examination of femininity under threat and masculine cruelty, framed by a dystopian revenge of nature narrative. Explore the master's last great film, scene by scene.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Advanced painting: practice and discourse
Course start date: Mon 6 Oct 2025Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Tutors: Clare Barton-Harvey, Michael Harding, Stuart Jones, Mario Lautier Vella, Joe Richardson, Benjamin Senior, Ian TucknottDevelop your painting in greater depth on this advanced course, working with a team of artist-tutors and a committed network of peer-practitioners, across a set of projects focusing on a range of contemporary themes, processes, and debates. The course is intended for experienced painters with a positive and enquiring attitude to the practices and discourses of painting in its various forms, and a commitment to peer-dialogue and critical discussion. Focused and intensive studio-based weekend projects (once per month), are interspersed with weekly online tutorials, feedback, discussion and seminars.Full fee £2,649.00 Senior fee £2,119.00 Concession £1,854.00 - Maths for Data Analytics Course start date: Mon 6 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rich CochraneLearn a range of commonly-used techniques from statistics and data processing from the mean and range to kernel density estimation and the Fourier transform.Full fee £499.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £324.00 - Reflecting the Nation: 21st Century British Drama & SocietyCourse start date: Mon 6 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
This course explores how dramatists use their position as commentators to reflect the societal and political issues affecting the nation. Drawing on texts by Laura Wade, Jez Butterworth, Roy Williams and others, we’ll discuss how issues such as class, national identity, queer and black lives, and activism have been interrogated by Britain’s finest contemporary playwrights.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 - Cult TV: I'm not a Number; I am a Free Man - The PrisonerCourse start date: Mon 6 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Graham RinaldiWho was Number 6?, Why did he resign?, Who was Number 1? – Patrick McGoohan the highest paid actor on British television had grown tired with the espionage series Danger Man (1960-67) and with the writer George Markstein created a new project – The Prisoner (1967-68). Over 17 episodes, with its mixture of surrealism, paranoia, pop art and spy thriller, The Prisoner defined the term “Cult Television”. From its inception to the present day, The Prisoner continues to intrigue and raise debate among television viewers.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00 - Writing about food Course start date: Mon 6 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Love food and want to write about it? Whether you’re keen to review dishes, interview chefs or write about sustainable eating, now is your chance. This course will cover writing for established publications as well as personal blogs.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £105.00 - Bookbinding: rare book design drop-back box Course start date: Mon 6 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nesta DaviesCut, construct and cover a standard Rare Book design drop-back box to protect and conserve books, archival material or precious objects and artefacts. Great for artwork presentation too! - Spanish 3 conversation Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Roberto GallegoRevise, consolidate and improve your listening and speaking skills on this lively course, which will help you communicate more confidently in daily life situations. Ideal if you have an intermediate level of Spanish, are doing 'Spanish 3 lower', 'Spanish 3 upper' or have an equivalent level (B1 level).Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Old English level 1 Course start date: Thu 8 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Stephen Pollington.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Contemporary practice: personal project Course start date: Tue 7 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Tutors: Ian TucknottOn this course you will develop your creativity, your personal artistic understanding, and a body of contemporary art work at an advanced level through the experimental exploration of a personal project. The course is facilitated by practicing artists and theorists, who will support you through guided critical and creative research, experimental workshops, critical studies, studio practice and tutorials. - Argonautica: reading group (in translation) module 1Course start date: Tue 7 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nikoletta Manioti.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00 - History reading group: political biographiesCourse start date: Tue 7 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Zoe QuinnThrough discussion of selected biographies we will explore in depth key individuals in world history , their legacy and the era in which they lived.The first class will discuss The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin. Winner of the Whitbread First Book Prize As this was published a few years ago there are cheap 2nd had copies available.
NOTE: This course consists of four sessions on the following dates:
7/10/25, 25/11/25, 13/1/26, 10/3/26. - Arabic reading group Course start date: Tue 7 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Alaa SonjoqDo you want to start reading more fluently in Arabic while improving your knowledge of vocabulary and pronunciation? Then, come and join this friendly online reading class which focuses on practical, everyday texts. You will need to be able to read the alphabet and individual words to join this course. Suitable if you are studying at 2 lower module 1 level or above (more than 1 year of Arabic). - French DELF B2Course start date: Wed 9 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pierre PorcheronThis online course will prepare you for the exam of the 'Diplôme d'études en langue française' (DELF), B2 level, in June 2025. Suitable if you have studied French for about four to five years. Ideal if you would like to live, study or work in France.
Please note that exam fees are not included in the advertised fees. The course can be paid in instalments.
Term dates:
Term 1: 09/10/2024 - 11/12/2024
Term 2: 15/01/2025 - 09/04/2025
Term 3: 30/04/2025 - 15/06/2025
There will be a minimum of two mock exams per term.Full fee £639.00 Senior fee £639.00 Concession £415.00 - Spanish preparation for DELE B2Course start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Prepare for the 'Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera B2'. The course does not include exam fees and each learner will be responsible for their own enrolment in the exam. Please note that you should have studied Spanish for about 5 years or have an equivalent level.
Please do not buy the book until after the first session, as if you transfer to another course, you will use a different book.Full fee £649.00 Senior fee £649.00 Concession £422.00
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