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  1. Full fee £699.00 Senior fee £559.00 Concession £454.00
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  2. Contemporary dance: improvers
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 2 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Francis Angol
    The course aims to give you a further embodied understanding of Contemporary dance that is underpinned by Somatics practice, and other contemporary dance techniques, to bring greater flow and dynamics to your expression as you allow yourself to move from your inner space and to negotiate the flow of weight, rhythm, breath, space and time.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £90.00
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  3. Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00
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  4. Fashion and editorial photography
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 3 Nov 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ed Gregory
    This course will help you to develop your skills in editorial fashion photography.
    The course is project driven and will take you from the creation of a basic story board through to a photo shoot. By the end of the course you will understand the workflow, the tools and thinking / planning required to run a successful shoot for yourself. The course also provides advice on getting material published.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  5. Painting and drawing dialogues: working with found images
    Course start date:  Mon 3 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Tony Hull, Monika Kita
    Discover how the ‘once-removed’ quality of found images like film stills can change your response to the world around you, as well as expanding the interpretive potential of painting and drawing.
    Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
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  6. Chess for intermediates 1
    Course start date:  Tue 4 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Rowson
    This course builds on a basic understanding of chess and explores key ideas from the opening, middlegame and endgame.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  7. Pre-level 2 in BSL: refresher
    Course start date:  Tue 4 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Antony Rabin
    If you have passed level 1 in BSL but are not quite ready to do level 2, this course is for you. Practise storytelling, having conversations and presenting information to others in an unhurried and friendly class. This is not an exam class, but you will receive an attendance certificate.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £258.00
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  8. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00
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  9. Exploring Kant: the theory of knowledge
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gabriel Olumide Apata
    What do we know? How do we know it? What are the limits of knowledge? Join this course to explore the area of Kant’s philosophy which focuses on his theory of knowledge.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  10. Indigenous Australian art: an introduction
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Arjmand Aziz
    Indigenous Australian art has, in recent years, been increasingly exhibited and discussed in Britain. Yet little is known about the history and development of this art movement and the oeuvres of the artists responsible for its creation. This introductory course will provide a history of how Indigenous Australian artists have changed and challenged the course of national and international art fields in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  11. Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  12. Still life in the history of art: opulence and fragility
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Elizabeth Eyres
    Still-life paintings usually represent ordinary things, often small and arranged on an indoor surface, without human presence. Long regarded in western art as the lowliest subject or “genre”, one that only required technical skill rather than imagination, still lifes are now considered some of the most charming and best loved paintings and can contain intriguing meanings that repay close study.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  13. Shakespeare: King Lear and The Tempest
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sophie Oxenham
    Join us to explore two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, his tragedy King Lear, and his late ‘romance’, The Tempest. We’ll consider the connections – and differences - between these works, thinking about Shakespeare’s use of genre and language, the historical contexts, changing critical perspectives, and aspects of the plays in performance.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  14. The Contemporary Global Novel
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 7 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rebecca Jones
    Are you curious about reading contemporary global literature? Would you like to understand what we mean by the ‘global novel’, reading across cultures and national borders? This in-college course will introduce you to the study of global literature through reading three brilliant 21st century global novels: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled and Julie Otsuka’s Buddha in the Attic.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  15. Italian 3: cinque settimane, un libro
    Course start date:  Fri 7 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Ottavia Castellina
    Improve your knowledge of Italian through on this short literature course which will give you an opportunity to learn new vocabulary and practise your grammar by being exposed to authentic Italian texts. Each term learners will look at a new text and use it as a base to improve not only their reading skills but also their speaking, grammar and vocabulary.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00
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