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- Ways into poetryCourse start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrew WealeRelatively 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 £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £120.00 - A women’s history of modern China
Course start date: Sat 3 May 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Qiuyang ChenDiscover the untold stories and hidden legacies of women in modern China in this illuminating one-day course. Traverse time, from the late Qing Dynasty to the present, to examine how women have shaped and been shaped by social, political, and cultural currents.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - 50 drawings in a day Course start date: Sun 4 May 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Joe RichardsonA high energy programme of directed and self-directed drawing projects, with rapid shifts in materials, scale, subject and focus. Strictly no discards - come ready to play, risk, invent and discuss. For those with some drawing experience.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Generative AI: a short introduction Course start date: Fri 9 May 2025 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Kate ScottThis is a short introduction to Generative AI for non-technical beginners who want to find out what all the fuss is about over ChatGPT, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Craft focus: character in fiction Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tasha KavanaghIn fiction, character and plot are inseparable elements of craft. Without characters there can be no action or plot. In this short course you will learn how to create characters that can drive a narrative forward and deepen its themes.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Modern art in America, 1900-1930: the Ashcan School to Precisionism Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SandersStudy American art, including paintings, illustrations and cartoons from late-nineteenth century Impressionism and Realism to Precisionism, analysing movements and styles, social and political context, materials, and art theory. - Spanish 3: one season, one painting: primavera Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
En estos talleres dedicados a las cuatro estaciones vamos a activar nuestros sentidos: vista, oido, olfato y gusto. Ven a practicar tu español mientras intercambiamos las sugestiones, impresiones y sentimientos que nos evoca una musica, un color o una pintura.
Ideal for students who have done 3 or 4 years of Spanish, and are looking to practise more talking and listening skills, as well as develop their knowledge of art.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £19.00 - Alexander Technique: Workshop Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Cristina Codina LlavinaDiscover how to return your body to its natural state of balance and poise in this beginner's guide to the Alexander Technique. Learn to become mindful of muscular and mental tension in this session.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Jewellery: a buyer's guide to pearls Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Judith Crowe, Derek JhinnooJoin this fascinating one-day course for a valuable insight into pearls, their cultivation and trade, and use in jewellery. Learn how to recognise the many types on the market, judge the good from the bad, spot the imitations and buy your pearl jewellery with confidence. - Craft focus: grammar, syntax and style for creative writers - getting started Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: William BradyGreat poetry and prose begin when the writer puts the right words in the right places. Learn how and why the rules and conventions of language matter in this new course, which combines creative writing with a review of essential points of grammar.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Dickens' London Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Molly Rumbelow'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' Enjoy this introduction to Dickens' work and the London of his time. Morning lecture at City Lit followed by a walk in the area of the city connected to his work.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Ways into screenwriting: getting started Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alan NixonWant to write scripts but don't know how to start? Discover the basics of screenwriting - character, conflict and more - on this short course that will help you shape your ideas and get your story going.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Writing inspiration jam Course start date: Sun 11 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Claire CollisonThis fun, inspiring day workshop explores the many sources of inspiration available to writers in their everyday lives. - The physics of life Course start date: Sun 11 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Radmila TopalovicFind out why physics is the science upon which everything depends. In this course we will use basic physics concepts to understand the biological processes in living organisms, including the relatively new field of quantum biology. - Journalism: writing sex and relationships Course start date: Sun 11 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alice RobbLearn how to write journalistically about dating, sex and relationships in this one-day course.
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