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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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  1. French 2 upper: taster
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 1 Jul 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Valerie Jézéquel
    Come and discover what a lower intermediate French class feels like.



    This course is suitable if you have studied French for 2-3 years recently or have done a GCSE some time ago.
    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00
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  2. Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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  3. Master drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt: experiment and expression
    Course start date:  Thu 3 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Explore the significant role of drawing in shaping art and how artists have used different drawing techniques for creative expression.

    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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  4. Jazz piano: introduction
    Course start date:  Thu 24 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Della Rhodes
    Meet the jazz idiom as you explore time feels and harmonic progressions at your piano. For pianists at grade 5 and above, with some knowledge of chord structures (triads and 7ths), this session in our pianos room will give food for thought and practice.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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  5. Japanese calligraphy: Shodo / peace and harmony
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Thu 31 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Chikako Nakagawa
    Come and experience the calming effect of writing Japanese with a brush on a large scale. Shodo is an aesthetic and artistic calligraphy skill used to write the Japanese language. You need to have basic knowledge of the Japanese writing system.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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  6. Ways into poetry
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Sep 2025 (and 7 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Cecilia Knapp
    Relatively new to writing poetry? This inspiring course offers an opportunity to experiment with language and a variety of poetic devices alongside fellow emerging poets. Discover the key elements of a poem in a friendly and interactive class.
    Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £125.00
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  7. BSL level 2 for Deaf people
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Peter Brown
    This course is for Deaf people who already have BSL level 1. Build up your BSL skills and knowledge in a range of topics. You can achieve a level 2 qualification, accredited by Signature.



    This course is FREE if you are a resident in London and your preferred language is BSL

    Full fee £0.00
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  8. Spanish Quiz/game night: level B1-B2
    Course start date:  Thu 4 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Amaia Ibargüen
    Come and join us in this fun Spanish night! Do you like pub quizzes? Do you want to put into practice your knowledge of Spanish grammar, vocabulary, culture, and music while having fun in the process? Then you are in the right place!
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  9. Spanish Quiz/game night: level A1-A2
    Course start date:  Thu 4 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Adriana Itriago Gavidia
    Come and join us in this fun Spanish night! Do you like pub quizzes? Do you want to put into practice your knowledge of Spanish grammar, vocabulary, culture, and music while having fun in the process? Then you are in the right place!
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  10. German Christmas carols
    Course start date:  Thu 4 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gisela Meyer
    Do you love singing at Christmas? Join this workshop to learn and sing German Christmas carols.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £19.00
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  11. German for opera lovers (intermediate and advanced) x mas special
    Course start date:  Thu 11 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Katja Parmar
    Come to this one off German for German opera lovers x mas special in the heart of London.
    Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £31.00 Concession £25.00
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  12. Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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  13. Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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  14. Improve your speaking voice: taster
    Course start date:  Thu 29 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Giles Abbott
    A taster class to introduce you to how you can improve the quality of your voice and standard of speech through relaxation, breath technique and articulation. This taster class will take place in one of our studios.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  15. ESOL, maths and digital skills - for life and work (entry 2-entry 3)
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Are you quite confident about your everyday English? Can you have some short conversations and read and write simple emails? Can you go shopping, talk about simple subjects, and write a letter? But do you make quite a lot mistakes? Is it difficult to speak, read or write about more complicated topics? This course will help you learn more vocabulary and grammar so you can talk, read and write about more interesting everyday things and make fewer mistakes. Your will practise your speaking, listening, reading and writing so you can understand people better, talk about most daily topics, read a simple news story, and write a long email or letter. You will also improve your maths and the English you need to do maths such as for simple calculations with money and using percentages.



    You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

    Full fee £15.00
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