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  1. Tai Chi Chuan: Beginners
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Tue 22 Jul 2025 (and 6 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Carla Drayton
    Learn the Yang-style Tai Chi form. This flowing movement sequence contains the basic movements of Tai Chi which will help you to develop and practice smooth movement, good alignment and improved balance. Develop good personal practice that will enable you to fully realise the benefits of this absorbing Taoist art.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £55.00
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  2. Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £69.00
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  3. Recorder ensemble: study day
    Course start date:  Wed 23 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Caoimhe de Paor

    Learn to play ensemble music for recorders, with repertoire ranging from early to present day. Suitable for recorder players who have been learning for at least a year and can read music.

    Repertoire will include:

    •    Bassano - Pavan & Galliard arr. Norrie Williams
    •    Gabrieli - Canzon Seconda
    •    Scat Singer - Andrew Challinger
    •    Beep Beep -Nicholas Wynne (includes sopranino and Great Bass line)
    •    Pieter Campo - The Willow Tree
    •    Gabrieli - (two part choir) Canzon Septimi Toni a 8 
     

    Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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  5. Sing opera workshop
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Wed 23 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Trevor Alexander
    A lively short workshop class for singers with some solo experience: employ your vocal technique in a more flexible and artistic way and deepen your understanding of critical evaluation of singing. This workshop will have a focus on Operatic repertoire and the techniques required for this demanding genre.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £69.00
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  8. Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  9. German advanced: Konversation und Grammatik
    Course start date:  Wed 1 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Barbara Pöllet
    Practise your German in the heart of London. This is an advanced fortnightly in person German course.
    Dieser Kurs bietet von allem etwas: Lesetexte zu aktuellen Themen,Videoausschnitte, Deutschland heute, andere deutschsprachige Länder, Diskussion, und etwas Grammatik zur Auffrischung!
    Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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  10. Myofascial release: taster workshop
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Mark Woollard
    Interested in myofascial release but don’t know where to begin? Why not try this general introduction to the technique! Learn about fascia and the benefits of myofascial release that you can practice on yourself and friends and family!
    Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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  12. Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  13. Music analysis for listeners: Messiah Part I
    Course start date:  Wed 10 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Pauline Greene
    Handel’s Messiah, composed in1741, is a stalwart work for concert programmers everywhere at Christmas and Easter. We look at Part I, from the beginning to the duet and chorus ‘His yoke is easy’, briefly putting the work in context and examining its forms and overall structure. We will then analyse a passage of recitative, an aria, and a chorus, in order to show how the composer created his effects and how effective this was for audiences then and now. *This course includes a 60 minute break.
    Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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  14. Citta' di mare
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Wed 9 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Roberto Minardi
    Esploreremo alcune delle città portuali italiani più importanti (Ancona, Bari, Genova, Napoli, Palermo, Trieste) cercando di comprenderne l’importanza storica, culturale e lo spirito che le caratterizza.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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