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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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- Autobiography into fiction: getting started
Course start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024 (and 4 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vicky GrutLearn how to turn real-life experiences into gripping fiction in this fun short course for fiction-writing beginners and experienced writers. Develop your writing skills and explore techniques for transforming personal stories into strong narratives.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Stop motion animationCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie GriffithsLearn how to do traditional model armature puppet animation and plasticine animation. On this practical course you will learn the principles of animation and apply them to the puppet sequences produced during the sessions. You will be introduced to some examples of professional puppets used on broadcast TV and, using professional equipment and you will learn how to use timing and performance to create dynamic animations.Full fee £329.00 Senior fee £263.00 Concession £214.00 - Japanese beginners module 1 Course start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Kiyomi UntenLearn to speak Japanese, with the emphasis on developing your listening and speaking skills. Suitable for complete beginners.
We offer one hour Japanese tasters: one online on 5/09/24 (LJT2) and two in person on 11/09/24 (LJT1) or 18/09/24 (LJT4). Please check the details by using the following course codes in the above search function on this page.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00 - Integrating philosophy and ethics in a capitalist world Course start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vina TheodorakopoulouEmbark on a journey to explore the intricate interplay between philosophy, ethics and capitalism. Join our exploration into aligning values with the demands of a dynamic global economy. Explore how values and principles can harmonise with the demands of a global economy.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00 - ITEC Level 3 Award in Indian Head MassageCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Ameena RahmanIndian Head Massage is an ancient tradition that provides many therapeutic benefits. Learn the theory and practice of Indian Head massage at a professional level. City Lit is a leading training provider in London for Massage and Complementary Therapies, providing outstanding achievement at high industry standards. Our courses are taught by experienced and practising industry professionals who have current knowledge of the massage sector.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £449.00 Concession £449.00 - Looking at winter trees Course start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Letta JonesJoin Letta Jones for two tree identification walks in Regent’s Park. These walks will take place on Saturday morning. We will explore common trees, focussing on bark, twigs, leaves, outline, seeds and fruits, with the aim of giving you the confidence to get to know what to look for when identifying trees.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Belonging: Identity, Difference & CommunityCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join exciting speakers including Shaun Flores, mental health campaigner and TEDX speaker, Rebecca Kenny, poet and Founder of Written Off Publishing, and Dr Patrick Campbell, former trustee of The British Stammering Association, for an informative a lively discussion around the relationship between identity, difference, stigma and prejudice and the how a sense of belonging can support wellbeing.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Excel: analysing data (stage 1) Course start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Nick BrownDevelop essential skills to tackle complex data sets & create conclusions and recommendations for non-data minded stakeholders in your organisation. Focus on pivot tables, formatting and perfecting your commentary skills. Some familiarity with using Excel is required.
This course will be delivered online or in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Work, Rest, Play: Connecting Physical Activity, Sleep & Mental HealthCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join Brian Marshall, Head of Sleep Support at The Sleep Charity, and special guests for an insightful exploration of the ways in which physical activity, connection with nature, and healthy rest and sleep influences and supports wellbeing and mental health.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Developing Art Practice year 2Course start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Eleanor Bedlow, Rolina Elsje Blok, Ute Kreyman, Joe Richardson, Heidi WigmoreThis is the second year of Developing Art Practice, designed for those developing and practicing artists who have completed the first year (or equivalent - ie another advanced contemporary practice course) and are interested in working and connecting with a widening group of their creative peer group. This course is about how to sustain and maintain a creative practice within a contemporary context.
Work-based seminars facilitated by peers and artist-tutors present the opportunity to develop and present your ongoing work for critical discourse and to continue to develop a contemporary critical language.
The course includes individual tutorials and mentoring, critical investigation via group crits, engaging with gallery practice and artist-run organisations and the potential for collaborative work and discussion and debate. This course will be delivered onsite.
If you are interested in this course, please email course leader Heidi Wigmore to apply: heidi.wigmore@citylit.ac.uk, or the Visual Arts admin team: visualarts@citylit.ac.uk.Full fee £899.00 Senior fee £719.00 Concession £629.00 - Yoga retreat afternoonCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Madlyn Ray-JonesTreat yourself to an afternoon of yoga to move, restore, and deeply relax and create more ease in the body and the mind. Practice asanas, meditation, mindfulness, breathing practices, and Yoga Nidra. Everyone is welcome.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Reenchantment: Turn over a leaf in Lincoln's Inn FieldsCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join Reenchantment in Lincoln's Inn Fields for some fun and therapeutic nature writing. We'll guide you through a nature meditation, explore nature in the heart of the city, then gather our thoughts to create a word poem together. We'll guide you through some creative writing ecotherapy as a way to express your feelings, nurture a dialogue with yourself, the plants, trees and wildlife.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Film Screening and In Conversation: Matt Ottley and The Tree of Ecstasy & Unbearable Sadness Course start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us for a film screening of ‘The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness’ by internationally acclaimed artist/author/composer Matt Ottley. A groundbreaking project weaving together the worlds of art, music and literature in the poignant story of one boy’s journey into mental illness. Following the screening, Matt Ottley will be in conversation with festival curator Ian Tucknott to explore further Matt's intermodal creativity and the themes that inform his incredible art.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Afrocentric drumming Course start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul ChiversExplore your enthusiasm for drumming with African rhythms and their variations. Enjoy improving your individual and group playing skills and learn how to apply a variety of percussive instruments to any musical style or setting.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Beyond Words: Afternoon Book ClubCourse start date: Sat 12 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join Beyond Words’ Afternoon Book Club from 1-3pm in the Student Centre to read books from their word-free picture series. Beyond Words staff and self-advocates will lead a series of small book clubs developing visual literacy, empathy and understanding as we tell the stories we see in the Beyond Words’ books.Full fee £0.00
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