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- Looking together: art as communal spaceCourse start date: Sat 14 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayExplore art as a communal space of conversation. Join this workshop to develop or deepen your art interpretation skills by listening and thinking about the meaning of an artwork collaboratively. This session is part of the 2023 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - Art history taster
Course start date: Sat 9 Dec 2023 (and 14 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayCurious about art history? Join us for this taster session where we explore different ways into visual art and its histories, from the ancient to the contemporary.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Black British literature of the early twentieth centuryCourse start date: Sat 21 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rebecca BalfourthDiscover Black British Literature in the twentieth century, featuring early work that has become part of the canon. Includes works by Samuel Selvon and Una Marson and an exploration of key themes and styles of narration for the literature 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 £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - An introduction to poetryCourse start date: Sat 28 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laurie SmithAlways wanted to read and discuss poetry? Enjoy this introduction to a range of poetry from the last 400 years and explore how the poets shape our responses. - German history: 1923 - existential crisis and miraculous survival of the Weimar RepublicCourse start date: Sat 18 Nov 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rudolf Muhs1923 was a crucial year in the history of Weimar, with multiple existential challenges making it an annus horribilis while it can also be regarded as an annus mirabilis as the Republic survived almost against the odds.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - Film studies taster Course start date: Sat 2 Dec 2023 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul SuttonLearn how to evaluate and discuss films while enjoying a working example of a City Lit Film Studies class. In this class we will view and explore clips from a number of films, including popular remakes, enabling us to consider and compare themes and techniques from differing filmmaking countries. There will be a chance to review – in brief – film courses at City Lit (January - March 2024).Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Emily Dickinson – ‘Open me carefully’ Course start date: Sat 2 Dec 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laurie SmithWe explore how the myth of Emily Dickinson’s solitary life was shaped by others. The course investigates the reality behind the myth through letters and poems written to and shared with her great friend and confidante, Susan Gilbert, over many years. We also look at how and why her first editor, Mabel Loomis Todd, set about excluding Susan from the record, establishing Emily as a recluse, writing for herself alone.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - A taste of philosophy Course start date: Sat 9 Dec 2023 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Oliver JosiahHave you ever wondered what philosophy is? What do philosophers talk about? Can they tell you the meaning of life or is it just jargon and navel gazing? Come along and find out.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Literature taster Course start date: Sat 9 Dec 2023 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Patricia SweeneyDo you want to explore how to go about understanding a poem? How to do a close reading of a work of fiction? Come and find out what makes a literature class at City Lit so special.
The course also presents an overview of our literature offering for term two in fiction, poetry, drama and literary non-fiction (January to April 2024).
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - What are Greek myths?Course start date: Sat 9 Dec 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Maria ContosMyth permeated all aspects of ancient society and much the same can be said today. Investigate the relevance and perseverance of the Greek myth and why these tales continue to fascinate. - Christmas at the cinema: holiday favourites
Course start date: Sat 9 Dec 2023Location on this date: Online
Tutors: John WischmeyerA Christmas cracker filled with seasonal films, from It’s a Wonderful Life to Die Hard, a carefully-curated cornucopia celebrating the genre of the Christmas film with classic clips and hidden gems: Scrooge as a film noir, Covent Garden market in the fifties, and a grown man dressed as an Elf. Full of delights, discussions and a quiz or two.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - An introduction to poetry: W. H. Auden and Elizabeth BishopCourse start date: Sat 20 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laurie SmithCome and join an introduction and exploration of the poetry of W H Auden and Elizabeth Bishop. We will read, discuss and enjoy a selection of their poetry and consider how the poets shape our responses.Full fee £29.00 - An Asian and Middle Eastern history on the black deathCourse start date: Sat 17 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vanessa KingWe trace the history of the Black Death in the East which is now believed to have originated in the thirteenth century, a hundred years before it reached Europe.Full fee £49.00 - History taster: from one empire to another?Course start date: Sat 2 Mar 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Martin JorgensenJoin us for an introduction on to how to make sense of the British and American ways of seeking global dominance and the ways in which people have resisted as we see the (re-)emergence of China, India and Russia in global politics and economics.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £10.00 - Emma of Normandy: twice Queen of EnglandCourse start date: Sat 2 Mar 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vanessa KingEmma of Normandy dominated English politics for nearly 50 years (1002-1050) and commissioned a spin doctor to rewrite history when the chips were down.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
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