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Whether you want to try something new, revive your passion, or take your skills to the next level; we have a huge range of courses for you to explore. Discover Languages, Art & Design, Drama, Music & Dance, Technology & Business, Writing, British Sign Language and much more!
All our courses here at City Lit are taught by expert tutors such as published authors, academics, practising artists, and experienced professionals. Our friendly, supportive, and inspiring tutors are here to boost your confidence and motivate you at every step. We always ensure that your journey with us is enjoyable, positive, and thought-provoking.
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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- Singing 1Course start date: Tue 23 Apr 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Penelope HomerStart singing and explore your voice in this fun, confidence-building course. These classes will introduce you to healthy use of your singing voice and basic musicianship through a selection of songs from a variety of genres.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £167.00 - Italian beginners: module 3Course start date: Mon 15 Apr 2024 (and 8 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ottavia CastellinaContinue learning to speak Italian on this communicative course, with the emphasis on the practical use of Italian and the development of your speaking and listening skills. Suitable if you have completed beginners: module 2 or equivalent. Based on Nuovo Espresso 1 (Alma Edizioni - Italian version). Suggested progression route: Italian 2 lower: module 1.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Singing 2Course start date: Tue 23 Apr 2024 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katherine StrohmaierContinue your singing journey and explore your voice in the second year of our training programme. These classes will further develop your singing voice and musicianship skills through a selection of technical exercises and songs from a variety of genres to suit all musical tastes.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £167.00 - Piano/keyboards 4ACourse start date: Tue 23 Apr 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andriana MinouFor pianists with around three years' experience. Improve your finger technique, coordination, phrasing, music
reading, and your confidence.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Sketching at the museum: Tate ModernCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Steve WrightExploring the pleasure and challenge of sketchbooks; learn and improve your drawing skills and 'ways of seeing' and understanding, working from an exciting range of artworks in Tate modern.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Introduction to pattern cutting IIICourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SelormeyThis is a chance to work on your own project of your own choice creating a pattern of a garment you have designed or, a style you have always wanted to recreate from your favored garment.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Jazz piano 1Course start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David FrankelIf you have pop piano training or equivalent classical keyboard harmony skill, come and tackle the easier end of the jazz piano repertoire. The focus is on jazz harmony and voicing, interpretation of a lead sheet and good timing. You'll need to play piano at grade 5 or above.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £132.00 - Piano/keyboards 5CCourse start date: Mon 22 Apr 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: David FrankelFor pianists with around four years' experience. Improve your finger technique, coordination, phrasing, music
reading, and your confidence. Break weeks: 6 May & 27 May 2024.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Britain and France in the Hitler yearsCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alison ApplebyThis course will explore how Britain and France reacted to the rise of Hitler and how the Nazi dictatorship led to strife between former allies, but eventual partnership and triumph.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Irish history and identity 5: American and European Influences in the Modern EraCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Colm HickeyAlthough inextricably linked to Britain, Ireland’s history, identity, and nationhood has equally been shaped by its relationship with Europe. This course traces Ireland’s the influence of European and American
politics.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - The merry monarch: Charles II & the Restoration eraCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ellen CarpenterJoin us for a six-week course to explore politics, society, religion and culture during the Stuart Restoration era, with reference to the reign of the ‘Merry Monarch’ Charles II (1660 – 1685) and the succession crisis that followed his death in 1685.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Dance 60+ improversCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Francis AngolOur improvers class is an exciting new dance class for people over 60 who would like to engage their body in a more challenging and dynamic manner, to further develop their skill and knowledge of dance cultures.
We aim to improve stamina, coordination, balance, confidence and musicality. The class will consist of a mixture of exercises and dance sequences set to great music.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Cultureplex ciné-clubCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul SuttonCome and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 12 weeks, we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Acting: sceneworkCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laura BaggaleyContinue your development as you explore a range of acting exercises that will illuminate and bring to life a variety of scripts and scenes. Consolidate skills and techniques, and deepen your understanding in a safe and supportive atmosphere. We will focus on ensemble and group scenes this term.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Bookbinding: simple leather bindingCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ina BaumeisterDiscover how leather, combined with simple sewing and cutting techniques can create a wonderfully flexible and stylish bindings. Create books with folded and crossed structure covers, and include some decorative elements to personalise your work.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £175.00
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