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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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  5. Representing nature in early modern Europe
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Thomas Balfe
    Explore the links between the visual image and ideas of nature in early modernity (c.1500-1750). At this time, tools like the microscope were visualising nature in new ways, changes were afoot in how humans related to animals, and the environments of Asia and the Americas were becoming more familiar to Europeans. We will focus on how artists and skilled artisans engaged with these subjects.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00
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  6. Cult TV: David Lynch's Twin Peaks
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    When it hit UK TV screens in October 1990, David Lynch’s Twin Peaks was more than just another US television series, it was as one critic describes it, ‘a seismic event in popular culture’ (Tobias 2020). In an era when TV aired live it was a must-see series with fevered pre-episode speculation and critical post-broadcast discussion characterising viewers’ engagement with this cult phenomenon. The mystery over who killed Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) preoccupied TV viewers across the autumn and winter of 1990. For me it was the first live series that I watched from start to finish.
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  13. Private portraits: painted miniatures in early modern Europe
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Elizabeth Eyres
    Portrait miniatures are some of the most exquisite and beguiling likenesses ever produced. Their tiny scale and painstaking creation give them an intricacy, intimacy and sense of intrigue. These often reflect the circumstances in which they were gifted to their new owners by the person commissioning them, and both the images and their wider contexts repay our close study on this course.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  14. Art and Anthropology: looking at Indigenous 'art'
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ben Pollitt
    Explore, through case studies, how the production of Indigenous material culture has been shaped by colonial definitions of ‘art’ and, alternatively, how Indigenous people have used ‘art’ as a means of resisting colonial authority. We will also investigate the contested terms: Indigenous and Indigeneity.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  15. Ealing Studios: projecting Britain and the British character
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    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Graham Rinaldi
    “We made films at Ealing that were good, bad and indifferent, but they were indisputably British. They were rooted in the soil of the country.” Under the stewardship of Michael Balcon, Ealing Studios created a national cinema through drama, documentary and comedy producing a body of work portraying realistic British life.
    Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £58.00
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