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- Writing creative non-fictionCourse start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Erica BuistExplore practical and imaginative approaches to creative non fiction, including travel writing, life writing and the essay. Analyse published work, produce your own pieces, and benefit from detailed feedback.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £125.00 - Piano/keyboards 1C
Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 7 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Gisela MeyerThis is the third term in our beginners piano programme. If you have completed ‘Piano/keyboards 1B’ or have existing keyboard and music reading skills, this course will further develop your technique and musicianship.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00 - French beginners: module 1 Course start date: Mon 13 Jan 2025 (and 9 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Michel WillameLearn French on this lively interactive course for beginners. The course will be taught in French, with an emphasis on developing your speaking and listening skills.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Piano/keyboards 1E Course start date: Wed 15 Jan 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ana Claudia MagalhaesThis is the second year of our beginners piano programme and repertoire will be of a pre-grade 1 standard. Improve your eye/hand coordination, your reading and technique.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £160.00 - Piano/keyboards 1D Course start date: Mon 13 Jan 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lindsey FillinghamThis is the second year of our beginners piano programme and repertoire will be of a pre-grade 1 standard. Improve your eye/hand coordination, your reading and technique. - French 2 lower: module 1 Course start date: Mon 20 Jan 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Isabelle FontanLearn French in the heart of London.Improve your elementary French on this lively interactive course. The emphasis of the course will be on the developing your speaking and listening skills.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - French 3 lower: module 2 Course start date: Fri 17 Jan 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michel WillameContinue improving your lower intermediate French on this communicative course. The emphasis will be on developing your speaking and listening skills and on acquiring a greater understanding of French grammar and fluency.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Piano/keyboards 2B Course start date: Mon 13 Jan 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ana Claudia MagalhaesCan you play grade 1 standard pieces? Work on technique, fluency of reading and explore more complex rhythm patterns. - Latin 5 Course start date: Sat 18 Jan 2025 (and 10 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Judith RiceIn this advanced course, you will read and translate unadapted texts by Latin authors to deepen your appreciation of their work and your knowledge of Roman culture, history and society.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Craft focus: grammar, syntax, and style for creative writers Course start date: Mon 20 Jan 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.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £100.00 - Meditation De-mystified and Made Easy Course start date: Mon 20 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sally PageLearn all about meditation and learn how to make it easy, simple and enjoyable. 10 sessions will take you through the basic theory and a step by step meditation practice which we build as the course progresses. Includes mantra, breath and visualisation meditation techniques.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00 - Return to German (lower intermediate)Course start date: Mon 20 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Barbara PölletLearn German in this online German course. Improve your elementary German. Suitable if you have completed module 2 or equivalent. Based on the tutor's own material and Berliner Platz 2 Neu 1. Teil. European Framework A2.1.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - German 3 consolidation Course start date: Mon 20 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Barbara PölletCome and improve your upper-intermediate German. Suitable if you have studied the language for at least four years (1.5 hours per week) or 2 years (3 hours per week). Based on Aspekte NEU B1+, 2. Teil.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Life Writing: chronicling the selfCourse start date: Mon 27 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Megan BeechWhat draws writers to write about themselves? How might memoirs, diaries, letters and other kinds of self-reflective writing enable us to explore issues beyond the individual lives that they chronicle?
We'll look at the interesting and innovative (and sometimes obsessive) ways in which writers have documented their experiences, identities and travels, exploring what it means to share the most intimate parts of our experience with others.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Artists eye: painting portraits Course start date: Mon 17 Feb 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Kate HardyPaint a series of portraits inspired by the work of contemporary and historical artists. Learn from their individual ideas and techniques to introduce new ways of painting to your practice. The course can be used to progress from beginner level, or for experienced painters interested in portraiture. This is a live online course.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £169.00
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