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  1. Creative Dance Exchange with ROH
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Mon 3 Jul 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    This is a short project in partnership with the Royal Ballet for people with learning disabilities.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00
  2. The City Lit 7-day intensive course for adults who stammer
    Course start date:  Mon 10 Jul 2023 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Cathinka Guldberg, Jan Logan, Jenny Yeatman
    Learn strategies to help you speak more easily, work on becoming less sensitive about stammering (also known as stuttering), reduce avoidance strategies and be introduced to ways of managing difficult thoughts and feelings. This intensive course will enable you to make maximum progress in minimum time. It runs for five days Monday to Friday, then two follow-up days on September 11-12.
    Full fee £249.00
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  3. Spanish beginners: an introduction
    Course start date:  Mon 10 Jul 2023 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Elena Ugarte
    Learn to speak Spanish from scratch, focusing on your listening and speaking skills.Taught in Spanish with the emphasis on developing your listening and speaking skills.
    Full fee £169.00
  4. Italian beginners: module 1 intensive
    Course start date:  Mon 10 Jul 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Evi Campetella
    Learn to speak Italian with an emphasis on developing speaking and listening skills. Suitable for beginners. Once you've completed this course the next recommended course for you is 'Italian beginners: module 2 intensive' (LBN02), or an Italian beginners: module 2 course in the new term starting in September.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
  5. Classical acting
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Mon 17 Jul 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Laura Baggaley
    Broaden your skills and discover the freedom to act with classical text in a safe and fun environment, playing with a range of texts from Ibsen to Oscar Wilde. Gain the confidence to tackle different styles of language and performance through practical exercises and scene work.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00
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  6. Ceramics: throwing and assemblage
    Ceramics: throwing and assemblage
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Mon 17 Jul 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Carina Ciscato
    Build on your existing skills by exploring form and surface. Create functional or non-functional objects by throwing, cutting and later assembling different components. Intermediate level, requiring basic throwing skills.
    Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
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  7. English pronunciation: stage 1 (intensive)
    Course start date:  Mon 17 Jul 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David John Gwillim
    Improve your pronunciation of Standard English on this intensive course spread over five days in one week, which includes detailed study of vowel and consonant sounds. This course is or speakers of other languages who are fluent in English. Some homework required.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £167.00
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  8. Italian beginners: module 2 intensive
    Course start date:  Mon 17 Jul 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Evi Campetella
    Improve your basic knowledge of Italian, focusing on your speaking and listening skills. Suitable if you have completed 'Italian 1: module 2 intensive' or if you have studied the language for about 15 hours recently. Suggested progression route: 'Italian beginners: module 3 intensive' (LBN03), or an Italian beginners:module 3 course in the new term in September.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
  9. Modern Greek beginners: an introduction
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 17 Jul 2023 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Maria Contos
    Learn to speak Greek and develop your speaking and listening skills on this introductory course, which emphasises the practical use of the language.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £89.00
  10. Intensive throwing week
    Intensive throwing week
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Mon 24 Jul 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Matt Sherratt
    Develop your skills on the wheel. You will have your own wheel and the opportunity to use a variety of types of clay. The course is for experienced throwers and is ideal if you wish to develop your practice further. Intermediate level, throwing skills required.
    Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
  11. Calligraphy: decorated letterforms
    Calligraphy: decorated letterforms
    Course start date:  Mon 24 Jul 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sharon Shaw
    Gilded initials make perfect gifts for family and friends. You’ll learn painting techniques and how to apply a PVA mordant and use real leaf. You will be provided with a number of decorative alphabet templates and then taken



    step-by-step through the stages of drawing, painting and applying real gold to create your own illuminated decorated letterform.
    Full fee £329.00 Senior fee £263.00 Concession £214.00
  12. Calligraphy: Spencerian scripts
    Copperplate script on white paper
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 24 Jul 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Veiko Kespersaks
    Learn how to use a pointed pen for writing in copperplate hand. Spencerian script developed from the English Cursive and stands out for its delicately shaded lowercase and prominent capitals. With very intense shadows, obtained with a pointed pen, it is famous for its fine lines, hand-made quality and romantic overtones. Suitable for both beginners and improvers, left and right handers.
    Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00
  13. Life figurative sculpture intensive
    Course start date:  Mon 24 Jul 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Shelley Wilson
    Create a figurative clay sculpture from observing a life model. Learn basic anatomy as well as gaining clay modelling



    techniques. Beginners are welcome on this intensive course.
    Full fee £439.00 Senior fee £351.00 Concession £285.00
  14. Introduction to clothes making
    The tutor Silvia is with a group of students modelling the short sleeved round neck tops they have made in the Introduction to clothesmaking class
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 28 Apr 2023 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Silvia Sacrestano
    Learn how to make your own clothes. This beginner's course will teach you how to use the sewing machine, as well as basic sewing techniques and processes. We start by sampling, then construct a simple garment.
    Full fee £319.00
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  15. Actor summer school: beginners
    Course start date:  Mon 24 Jul 2023

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sean Croft, Juliet Prague
    This is a five day intensive encounter with the acting process. Designed for beginners or for those with some



    prior experience wanting to refresh and focus their skills.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00
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