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- An introduction to medieval art and architecture
Course start date: Tue 9 Jan 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Richard PlantAn introduction to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Study the art of the era and the architecture of the prominent Gothic cathedrals and medieval buildings of the continent and England.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Getting away with murder: how to write crime fiction Course start date: Tue 9 Jan 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sophie McKenzieWant to write a murder mystery that will knock readers dead? On this course you'll learn how to plot a murder most horrid and develop your writing to create maximum suspense.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00 - Ancient Rome: art & architecture Course start date: Tue 9 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Richard PlantThe ancient Rome Empire has provided a model for artistic and particularly architectural production in nearly all the centuries since its fall. We will study the development of Roman architecture and explore works of art in the best-preserved media; sculpture, painting and mosaics.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Introduction to experimental filmCourse start date: Tue 9 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gillian McIverExperimental film is often non-narrative and avant-garde. It is made to explore the boundaries of film and push the limits of what is considered so-called normal filmmaking. Experimental films often use unconventional techniques such as animation, found footage and non-linear narrative structures to create unique visual experiences. The class will look at early experimental films by Georges Méliès, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Maya Deren, alongside recent digital works.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Poetry workshop: intensive Course start date: Tue 9 Jan 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Julie IrigarayWant to have your poems critiqued in a supportive environment? This intensive poetry workshop focuses on offering feedback to poets who have already written a selection of poems and are looking to push their writing further.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00 - Writing fantasy: in partnership with the British Library Course start date: Tue 16 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Victoria M. AdamsTaking place alongside the British Library’s Fantasy exhibition, this course will teach you to write your own fantasy fiction, from casting heroes to crafting believable worlds.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00 - Five revolutionary exhibitions in art historyCourse start date: Tue 16 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Henry MartinFrom the opening of the Louvre in 1793 to the present-day Venice Biennale, this course uses five exhibitions (in Anglo-European history) as a jumping off point to explore and examine art-historical and contemporary themes and talking-points, including nationalism, modernism, colonialism, identity politics and representation.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Ways into creative writing: intensive Course start date: Tue 16 Jan 2024 (and 9 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Not sure whether creative writing is for you? Give it a try on one of these fun and supportive short courses covering the basics of fiction and poetry. Increase your confidence and produce work through guided exercises and discussion.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00 - Women in art 1800-1900 Course start date: Tue 16 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Elizabeth EyresDuring the 19th century female painters and sculptors gained greater prominence, although a career in art was still challenging for women artists. In this course we examine their work and how such progress was achieved.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Writing for magazines Course start date: Tue 14 May 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Yvonne SinghGet inspired to write on this practical course for freelance journalists and bloggers. Learn to carry out research, interview people, pitch and publish stories, and build your presence on social media.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00 - British literature of the 1950s: a new eraCourse start date: Tue 23 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lewis WardThe 1950s in British literature was a time of bold new movements alongside struggles to break free of the past. Find out how writers like Daphne du Maurier, Philip Larkin, Iris Murdoch and Sam Selvon forged a new era of British writing to reflect the rapidly changing times.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Towards freedom: from Christina Rossetti to Sylvia PlathCourse start date: Tue 23 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laurie SmithWe look at how some women poets challenged the expectations of their families and the society in which they lived (reflected in the male-dominated publishing world of their time) to create highly original poetry which changed people’s views of what poetry could achieve.
).Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Writing science fiction
Course start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: KR MoorheadLearn how to build futuristic worlds and set them to explore thought-provoking concepts in this course on writing science fiction.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00 - Unreliable and impossible storytellers: Hotel World, Elizabeth is Missing, Lincoln in the Bardo, PiranesiCourse start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate WilkinsonThis course focuses on the intriguing and unlikely storytellers at work in recent fiction. How do we believe a story told by a woman who has dementia or a man who thinks that only fifteen people ever lived? What do we think when a dead person is telling the story, or a ghost? What are we to make of these improbable and sometimes unsettling stories? Can these unusual narrators open up new ways of thinking about the world?Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Exploring literature: Irish Poetry in the 20th CenturyCourse start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Niall CulliganIn this introductory course, we will read and discuss Irish poetry from across the twentieth century, examining how poets responded to cultural and political issues, such as Irish Independence, religion, and the Troubles. Poets will include: W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, Derek Mahon, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and many others.
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