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- The healing power of Dionysian festivals: ancient rituals for the modern world.
Nietzsche in his book ‘The death of tragedy’ claims that by not experiencing Dionysian festivals in the modern world, we have lost the capacity to truly affirm life.
This session is part of the 2026 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.
Keeley Street
Wed 7 Oct 2026Maria ContosFull fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £5.00 - In Conversation with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Join acclaimed singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor as she sits down with former Good Housekeeping Editor Lindsay Nicholson to receive her City Lit Fellowship Award. She'll discuss her chart-topping career, touring experiences, Kitchen Disco and her podcast helping women balance motherhood, work and mental wellbeing.
All proceeds from this event will go towards the City Lit student bursary, giving disadvantaged students the opportunity to access transformative learning.
Keeley Street
Wed 7 Oct 2026Full fee £30.00 Senior fee £21.00 Concession £21.00 - Music Is the Answer: The Case for Intentional Listening
We listen to music every day - but rarely on purpose. In this session, DJ, TEDx speaker and author Rob Stephenson sits down for a conversation to introduce and explore the ideas behind his new book, Music Is the Answer: how sound shapes mood, focus and recovery, and why most of us are leaving music's power on the table.
All proceeds from this event will go towards the City Lit student bursary, giving disadvantaged students the opportunity to access transformative learning.
Keeley Street
Wed 7 Oct 2026Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Great Minds Interact. Artists, Dramatists and Philosophers in Ancient Greece - part 2
This course continues our exploration of Greek art considering the extent to which it relates to key ideas and issues of the time. These are exemplified by contemporary philosophy, myth, poetry, and drama. Includes a visit to the British Museum.
Keeley Street
Wed 7 Oct 2026Michael DuiganFull fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00 
Drawing from plants and flowersExplore the delicacy and beauty of plants and flowers through the medium of drawing. Respond to their structural qualities and colours, using a range of media and taking inspiration from a rich and varied history of the subject. Suitable for all levels of experience.Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00- City Lit Mental Wealth Festival: stitching through the senses
Join this workshop for some slow stitching using the five senses through flora as the conduit to a small, embroidered piece. This session is part of the 2026 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.
Keeley Street
Wed 7 Oct 2026Emily MasonFull fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - City Lit Pro: Adobe Creative Cloud intensive stage 1
Learn essential Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign skills in this fast-paced, professional course. Ideal for beginners and professionals looking to upskill quickly in graphic design and layout.
Full fee £649.00 Senior fee £519.00 Concession £422.00 - Becoming confident on the cloud: a new way of sharing and managing your files - OneDrive and Google drive (foundation)The digital world is changing from sending emails to sharing files. Attaching files, sending them, downloading them, working on them, saving them, re-attaching and re-sending them is becoming a thing of the past. Instead, with cloud computing, you can share and collaborate on files either at the same time or separately without any emailing or downloading. Join this course and learn how to do this and stay on top of your file management. Learn how to use OneDrive and Google Drive to create, store, share and collaborate on different types of documents on your PC as well as other devices. Discover also how to maintain security while syncing your devices and accounts. By the end of this course, you will have grasped what cloud-computing means and be confident of exploring it further.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are unemployed and claiming certain benefits. For more information Click here
Keeley Street
Wed 7 Oct 2026 (and 1 other date)Full fee £133.00 Senior fee £106.00 Concession £67.00 - The Art of Living: A Tribute to Artist Susannah Goulding
Join us for a special celebration of the life and art of Susannah Goulding. A regular speaker and exhibitor at the Mental Wealth Festival, Susannah was an inspiring campaigner for creative health and a passionate advocate for the value of the arts for people living with incurable illness and ill health. Through talks, poetry and film, this event will explore Susannah’s creative practice, her remarkable contribution and the legacy she leaves behind.
Keeley Street
Thu 8 Oct 2026Full fee £0.00 - City Lit Mental Wealth Festival: quilting
Learn how to design and make a mini quilted piece, working with simple shapes from recycled fabrics and haberdashery. You will experience how acquiring new skills creatively helps you focus to maintain general well-being. This session is part of the 2026 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.
Keeley Street
Thu 8 Oct 2026Beverley SellFull fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - City Lit Mental Wealth Festival: quilting and embellishment
Learn how to design and make a mini quilted piece using a range of construction and embellishment techniques. Working with simple shapes from recycled fabrics and haberdashery. This session is part of the 2026 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.
Keeley Street
Thu 8 Oct 2026Beverley SellFull fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Burnout Free Working with Dr Richard Duggins
Building resilience won't stop you from burning out, at least, not on its own. Dr Richard Duggins, known as 'The Doctor's Doctor' and a leading expert and trainer on preventing burnout, argues that real prevention means changing how we work, not just how we cope.
In this conversation with City Lit Principal Mark Malcomson, he shares the tools from his book Burnout-Free Working, showing how to avoid burnout before you even get close.
Keeley Street
Thu 8 Oct 2026Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Spanish 2 conversation
Revise, 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 are doing Spanish 2 lower, Spanish 2 upper or have studied Spanish for about 2 years.
Please note that the in-person version of this course runs every other week (refer to the How will I be taught section for specific dates).
Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Mindful Pilates
Would you like to develop mindfulness, a strong core, and practice functional movement? Join Madlyn for focused breathing and mat-based Pilates to build strength, improve flexibility, and reduce stress while promoting body and mind awareness.
Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - Introduction to children's book illustration
This course is an introduction to the practical, as well as conceptual skills integral to the discipline of Children’s Book Illustration.
Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00
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