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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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  2. Looking at photography: Wedding photography
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sara Epstein
    This course will prepare you to compete in the challenging world of client-facing photography in the areas of wedding photography. You’ll be taught by knowledgeable and highly experienced professional practitioners who bring all their skills and experience to help launch or evolve your professional practice.
    Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00
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  3. Music history bookclub: Viva Violetta and Verdi
    Course start date:  Fri 17 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Edward Breen
    The music history book club meets towards the end of each term to discuss novels and biographies with musical themes and references relevant to the music history programme.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  4. Lipreading and managing hearing loss: improvers module 3
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 22 Apr 2026 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Nicola Hicks
    Develop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have completed improvers module 1 and 2.







    This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
    Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £105.00
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  5. Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £174.00
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  6. Cyanotype and alternative processes in photography
    Course start date:  Tue 21 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Catriona Gray
    Accept an experimental and playful attitude to photographic image-making.You will be guided through three hands-on creative techniques exploring the physical photographic print.
    Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00
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  7. Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  8. Music in the Weimar republic
    Course start date:  Tue 21 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Katy Homden
    Discover the colourful landscape of music in Germany between the wars. Break week: 26 May 26.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  9. English for deaf people: Communicating confidently at work (entry 2) - part 3
    Course start date:  Wed 22 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Do you want to develop your communication skills to participate, express and progress at work? This course will use a range of techniques to teach you how to get ahead in work situations. You will be introduced to practical language, vocabulary and skills. You will learn through realistic activities that are based on various work situations. This course has no exam.



    This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in English. For more information Click here

    Full fee £0.00
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  10. Speak Shakespeare monologues and scenes: comedies
    Course start date:  Wed 7 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Vernon Thompson

    Do you enjoy speaking Shakespeare or would you like to enjoy it? Whether you are preparing a Shakespearean monologue for audition or simply have an interest in their structure, rhythm and poetry, this course enables you to work on and speak monologues from the Comedies with confidence as well as rehearse duologues/ scene work from As You Like It and All's Well That Ends Well specifically. The course is held at the college, and includes a trip to the Box Office Studio in Shoreditch, site of the original Theatre where the Lord Chamberlain's Men performed.

     

     

    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  11. Aural training (solfa) 2C
    Course start date:  Thu 23 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Selena Kay
    This practical course focuses on sight-singing, putting the musical experience at the heart of learning. Gain a better understanding of musical concepts and develop your musicianship. Based on the famous Kodály method.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £139.00
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  12. Madrigals: a brief history
    Course start date:  Thu 23 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edward Breen
    Dive into the charismatic world of madrigals and discover a world of nuance and reflection. Break week: 28 May 2026.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  13. ITEC Level 3 Diploma in Reflexology: fast-track
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 27 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Janet Lee
    Gain a recognised qualification in reflexology which will enable you to practise professionally. This is a FASTRACK, low cost course taught by experienced industry professionals. You must have completed the ‘ITEC massage diploma’ or equivalent and preferably an introductory reflexology course.







    (equivalent being an Ofqual recognised qualifaction e.g. City and Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Massage - Active IQ Level 3 Diploma in Massage - VTCT Level 3 Diploma in Massage). There is one session per week on this course. It is every Sunday for 13 weeks.



    The Free Courses for Jobs initiative is for Londoners aged 24 or over at the start of the course who are: on a low-income; or on certain benefits; or do not have a full level 3 qualification. For more information Click here





    The course fee is £1029.00 payable at the time of your enrolment. If you are unable to pay the course fees, you can choose to apply for an Advanced Learner Loan from Student Finance England (SFE) to help cover the course fee, repayable after the course ends. You can find more information about the Advanced Learner Loan www.citylit.ac.uk/advanced-learner-loans



    For more information, please call Health & Wellbeing on 020 8142 4577.
    Full fee £1,029.00 Senior fee £1,029.00 Concession £1,029.00
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  14. Business administration: how to organise and manage with OneNote, MS Outlook and OneDrive (intermediate)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 28 Apr 2026 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    How do you keep on top of your notes, to do list, tasks, meetings and ideas? Are you still using paper notebooks and post-it notes? Is there too much in your head cluttering your mind? This course will show how to use the digital notebook, OneNote, in conjunction with Outlook, and integrate both apps with OneDrive so you become an organised and self-managing administrator. You will learn how to take notes at any time and arrange them so you can always find what you are looking for. You will practise how to integrate Outlook and OneNote so you can organise meetings and share meeting notes and minutes easily and quickly, record the meetings, relate sections of the audio to tasks and action points for yourself and others, create to do lists, and link these tasks to tasks and emails in Outlook . In addition you will learn other useful tips on how to make the most of OneNote, for example to make calculations, translate text and edit text inside images. By the end of the course you will have clear idea of how to be organised digitally and have developed the necessary skills to put your ideas into practice.



    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 £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £70.00
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  15. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £90.00 Concession £26.00
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