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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. Brush up your lower intermediate Latin
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 22 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Judith Rice
    Refresh your forgotten intermediate Latin and enhance your pleasure in understanding the language.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00
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  2. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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  3. Piano/keyboards: revision for levels 1 and 2
    Course start date:  Tue 22 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ana Claudia Magalhaes

    Study pieces from the current Grade 2 piano syllabus. Learn the required scales and try some aural tests. An ideal way to boost your learning over the summer.

    Tutor: Ana Claudia Magalhaes.
    Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £76.00
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  4. String ensemble: summer season
    Course start date:  Tue 22 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Robert Puzey

    Come and play string repertoire in a friendly group, and develop your confidence in ensemble playing. Suitable for those who have been playing violin, viola, cello or double bass for at least two years, playing at Grade 3 standard or above. Please click the 'start interview' button to apply. This is to make sure we have a balanced array of instruments for our ensemble. Break week 27 May 2025.

    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £48.00
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  5. Ballet: technique and repertoire
    Course start date:  Wed 23 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Alexander Simpkins
    This is a great opportunity to learn sections of repertoire from a well-known classical ballet. These will be group or solo dances, including some mime sequences. As preparation, a condensed ballet class will be offered, focussing on technical aspects that will occur in our repertoire section. You should have attended regular ballet classes for at least 1 year and have good knowledge of classical ballet vocabulary.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  6. Debating: intensive
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 23 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gavin Illsley
    Debating requires the ability to speak English persuasively in public and, crucially, to respond rapidly to other people’s objections to what you say. In this shorter, intensive version of our highly popular course, we will cover the theory and practice of debating, and you will progress quickly in areas of content, strategy and style. A great mental workout.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £83.00
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  7. 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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  8. Excel: analysing your spreadsheet with pivot tables
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 24 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)

    Tutors:  Aurica Jalba
    Learn how to create and edit pivot tables to analyse large lists of data with multiple views and calculated fields using drag and drop. You should have a good understanding of Excel.
    Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00
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  9. Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £45.00
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  10. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00
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  11. Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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  12. Japanese calligraphy: Shodo / peace and harmony
    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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  13. Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  14. From mythical heroines to the emperor's subjects: epistolography in the Roman Empire
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 2 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Nikoletta Manioti
    Find out more about epistolography (letter writing) as a literary genre in the Roman world.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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  15. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £65.00
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