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We offer online courses and in-person courses. Our interactive online courses are taught live and in small groups. Read our guide to online learning for more information. In-person courses are delivered at our modern college campus in London near Covent Garden.
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- Meditation for pain relief and wellbeingCourse start date: Sun 3 Dec 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sally PageWhether you experience long term physical or acute pain, unpleasant body symptoms or simply want to understand the pain better or improve your health and wellbeing, this course offers the possibilities available to you. It will also guide you to the direct experience of peace, a relaxed body and improved functioning as well as providing you with the know how to make the choice.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Contemporary dance: improversCourse start date: Sun 14 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Francis AngolThe 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 £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £69.00 - The Coen brothers: road trips through HollywoodCourse start date: Sun 21 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: John WischmeyerThe Coens’ Blood Simple (1984) was a new kind of film noir set in Texas. A career later they returned to post-Civil War Texas to re-make True Grit (2010). This map of their USA trips through Raising Arizona (1987), then mainstreams to Fargo (1996), but somehow never far from Hollywood and its genres: Barton Fink (1991), O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), or Hail, Caesar (2016). If their America was No Country For Old Men (2007), then where art they now? (See separate but related courses on Once Upon a Time in New Hollywood, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, and David Lynch).Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Geology and LondonCourse start date: Sun 4 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Charles ClarkeExplore how the geology below greater London has shaped its landscapes, infrastructure and built environment, making it such a fascinating and visually diverse city; look at stone types and their effects on the buildings around us. - Craft focus: dialogue in fiction
Course start date: Sun 11 Feb 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Maria ThomasWhen your characters speak, what are they really saying? Develop that all-important ‘ear for dialogue’ through writing exercises and analysis of proven techniques.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - Mask technique and performance (level 2)Course start date: Sun 11 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sean CroftA creative, high energy and inspiring workshop in mask characterisation and mask physicality. If you are interested in learning about performing in full mask this one day workshop will introduce techniques helping to build confidence and understanding of mask performance. Masks provided.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £41.00 - Cutting it fine: collage in modern & contemporary art Course start date: Sun 3 Mar 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chantal CondronImmerse yourself in an exploration of the history of collage going as far back as ancient China to international contemporary art today. This engaging study day will enhance your knowledge of the roots of this fascinating media, and illustrate how collage techniques have been pivotal to major modern and contemporary art movements, from Cubism, Dada and Surrealism to photomontage and digital art.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Pregnancy massageCourse start date: Sun 3 Mar 2024
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Farrah IdrisPregnancy is an exciting time in a woman’s life. In this professional one-day training course learn how, as a massage therapist, you can support a woman through the variety of transitions she experiences. Safety in giving the treatment, along with appropriate adaptations and suitable review of anatomy and physiology are all covered in the session. - Masters of cinema: Steve McQueen Course start date: Sun 24 Mar 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul SuttonThis course will explore the work of the Turner prize winning artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen. Awarded an Oscar in 2014 for his film, 12 Years a Slave, McQueen has been producing politically and racially committed artworks and films since the early 1990s. His most recent project, the five film Small Axe (2020) was broadcast on the BBC amid increasing recognition that racial prejudice for Britain’s ethnic minorities remains as prevalent today as it was half a century ago. This course will examine McQueen’s work as a response to and an engagement with these experiences.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Costume jewellery 1800 to now Course start date: Sun 14 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Judith Crowe, Derek JhinnooCostume jewellery tends to be viewed as the poor cousin of fine jewellery but the reality is far from that. This is a one day course that looks at the history of costume jewellery from 1600 and how the advances in materials and technology made it so popular. Tutor: Judith Crowe. - Core energeticsCourse start date: Sun 12 May 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate MontagueCore Energetics is a body-mind practice designed to enhance your self-awareness, aliveness, creativity and focus, and a means to opening up physically, helping you to become aware of your energy flow.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £38.00 - The physics of lifeCourse start date: Sun 12 May 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Radmila TopalovicFind out why physics is the science upon which everything depends. In this course we will use basic physics concepts to understand the biological processes in living organisms, including the relatively new field of quantum biology. - How to write a novel synopsis
Course start date: Sun 2 Jun 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
This one-day workshop teaches students how to write a synopsis of their completed manuscript, an essential requirement of submitting to agents and publishers.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - Mask technique and the physical body (level 1)Course start date: Sun 2 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sean CroftThis playful and creative mask course, suitable for students at any level, introduces you to the mask. You will be carefully guided to explore the principals and techniques required to bring a character to life, to create speech with the body and without the voice. Masks will be provided but why not bring along some different style outfits and a variety of hats with you, then you’ll have more to play with on the day.Full fee £59.00 - Managing stress and increasing emotional resilienceCourse start date: Sun 23 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Ameena RahmanDevelop your skills and confidence to deal with difficult and challenging situations by understanding stress and building your emotional resilience.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £71.00 Concession £62.00
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