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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £181.00
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  2. Return to Spanish (lower intermediate)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Pilar Villanueva Martinez
    If you have learned Spanish in the past, but it has been a while, then come and join this lively course to refresh your lower intermediate Spanish. You wil review, revise and practice in a course that is tailored to your needs. After attending this course, you will be able join a level 2 upper course in September or level 2 course in the summer.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00
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  3. Spanish beginners: module 2
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 10 May 2025 (and 6 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Cristina Casado
    Continue learning to speak Spanish on this lively, communicative course for near beginners. Taught in Spanish with the emphasis on developing your listening and speaking skills.







    Based on Units 5-6 Nos vemos Hoy 1; publisher: Campus Difusión, (please see the coursebook section below for the ISBN).







    Please do not buy the book until after the first session, as if you transfer to another level you might use a different book.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00
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  4. Italian beginners: module 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 8 May 2025 (and 14 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Anita Szabo

    With its rich culture and history and its incredible landscapes and architecture, there are countless reasons to learn Italian. Whether you wish to learn Italian in order to make your visits to Italy more enjoyable, or because you'd like to speak with family and friends in their native language, this course will provide the groundwork for you to begin your journey towards fluency. Our emphasis is on speaking and listening skills so that you can start communicating quickly in Italian. Once you've completed this course you can continue with 'Italian beginners: module 2.’

    With its rich culture and history and its incredible landscapes and architecture, there are countless reasons to learn Italian. Whether you wish to learn Italian in order to make your visits to Italy more enjoyable, or because you'd like to speak with family and friends in their native language, this course will provide the groundwork for you to begin your journey towards fluency. Our emphasis is on speaking and listening skills so that you can begin communicating quickly in Italian. Once you've completed this course you can continue with 'Italian beginners: module 2.'.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00
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  5. Photography for beginners
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 25 May 2025 (and 16 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Photography Studio

    Tutors:  Sara Leigh Lewis
    Always wondered what half the buttons on your camera actually do? Discover how to use them properly and produce impressive photographs, even as a complete beginner. Gain useful technical knowledge and get expert creative guidance in easy-to-understand language. An ideal first step before enrolling on our intermediate courses.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00
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  6. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00
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  7. Portraits 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 30 May 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Luke Jones, Andrea Voisey
    This course aims to introduce you to this fascinating genre in both drawing and painting portraits through practical experience of the basic skills and concepts involved, including structure and proportion of the head and features, tone, colour, pose and expression. Working from direct observation of the live model.
    Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
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  8. Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00
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  9. Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  10. Italian 3 Conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Silvana Vistola
    This skills-based course is for intermediate learners of Italian and is intended to improve your Italian speaking skills in everyday situations. We will be looking at both formal and informal scenarios, and the aim is to help you to feel more comfortable speaking Italian in order to improve your fluency.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  11. Fixity and Flux: poetry in motion
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Suzannah V. Evans
    Come and revel in the sheer variety and possibility of poetic form, as we consider how form might shape what a writer has to say and how they say it. This course will allow you to explore the many shapes that a poem can take.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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  12. The art of negotiating
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Gavin Illsley
    Negotiation is a communication skill essential in solving problems and reaching your goals. Learn to prepare well and to feel confident using logical and emotional tools to achieve great outcomes. This course will be delivered online.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £90.00
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  13. Russian beginners: reading group
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Marina De Yong
    The course aims to develop students` basic reading skills in Russian.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00
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  14. Introduction to illustration
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Adam Graff, Lucia Vinti
    Our 'Introduction' courses provide a perfect way-in to a creative field.







    Illustration is a form of visual communication which often exists alongside text. Illustrations can help to explain or clarify (or sometimes contradict) the words on a page. Most of all, you could say, they bring the message 'alive', by making it more immediate and exciting. For this reason, illustrations are found across books, magazines, newspapers, websites and social media channels.







    Learn how to create powerful illustrations on our exciting range of Illustration courses.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00
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  15. Drawing: focus on space and depth
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Amanda Bracken
    Explore the potential of perspective, layering, light and shade to create space and depth in a drawing. By experimenting with different drawing mediums play with the picture plane in a drawing to achieve an illusion of depth. Using observational drawing make a still life come alive through the play of contrast and cast shadows.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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