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- Writing true crimeCourse start date: Sat 5 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Learn how to research and write a compelling true crime novel or script.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Literary werewolves and vampiresCourse start date: Sat 19 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Megan BeechOn this short course we will explore the way in which authors in the nineteenth century created and shaped what we write and think about vampires and werewolves today. We will read extracts from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla alongside various short stories, penny dreadfuls, and news articles from the period.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Fifties film noir: Kiss me DeadlyCourse start date: Sat 26 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: John WischmeyerFilm Noir was the term coined by French critics to describe a distinctive style in American cinema during the decade after the war. In the transitional 1950s, genres that had been Hollywood staples began to change, evolve, or fade away. Film Noir evolved because it was too vital, too useful, and just too enjoyable to fade away. Just as John Huston’s Maltese Falcon (1941) kick-started film noir in the forties, his Asphalt Jungle (1950) introduced a darker fifties’ noir. Or did noir begin and end with Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) and Touch of Evil (1958)? ((See related courses on Fifties Melodrama and Musicals and 50 Films From the ‘50s: Hollywood’s Last Stand).Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Feldenkrais: freeing your eyes, jaw and tongueCourse start date: Sat 2 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Charlotte SeirbergLearn how to ease tension in your eyes, jaw and tongue. Re-educate your nervous system through gentle Feldenkrais movement sequences to help improve your vision, breathing, face tension, quality of voice and sleep pattern.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Pilates Chill Out and Relaxation AfternoonCourse start date: Sat 9 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cathy NorrisTake time out to relax and de-stress by spending an afternoon performing gentle Pilates movements and learning relaxation techniques. This is taught at a gentle and enjoyable pace and is suitable for all, including complete beginners.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - How to write your PhD research proposal
Course start date: Sat 16 Nov 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anne WilsonPreparing a research proposal for a PhD? This course covers the process of researching and articulating the questions that will make your proposal stand out. - Dante's Divine Comedy: an introduction
Course start date: Sat 16 Nov 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Francesco BucciolThe Divine Comedy is an imaginary journey through the three realms of the afterlife, a fascinating compendium of life in 14th century Italy. Dante's ability to depict humanity in all its aspects is timelss and has fascinated readers ever since. - An introduction to Yoga AsanaCourse start date: Sat 23 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Carolina SanchezThis is a yoga workshop called “Introduction to Yoga asana” which is designed for anyone who is interested to start a yoga journey. This is also a workshop for those online learners who want to try a face-2-face class with a dedicated teacher who will adjust, align and guide their yoga practice within a class setting.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - An introduction to Japanese anime: history, genres and authorsCourse start date: Sat 23 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cristina MassaccesiWhat is anime? What are the artistic and narrative features that make these films so instantly recognizable? This one-day film course will provide an overview of the history of Japanese animation cinema, its inextricable links with manga and its multi-faceted and varied productions that range from children’s films to genres such as cyberpunk and yaoi. During the course, we will watch and discuss clips from a variety of production companies and directors, such as Haya Miyazaki, the Studio Ghibli and Katsuhiro Otomo.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Queen of Egyptology: Amelia EdwardsCourse start date: Sat 30 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rosalind JanssenFamed Victorian novelist and travel writer, skilled artist, intrepid and renowned Egyptologist. No wonder that London born Amelia Blanford Edwards (1831-1892) was dubbed the ‘Queen of Egyptology’ by her American fans. Our concentration is on her legacy to London, and we end our day by visiting one of her enduring foundations in the capital: UCL’s Petrie Museum.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Christmas at the cinemaCourse start date: Sat 14 Dec 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: John WischmeyerCarefully-curated Christmas cornucopia overflows with seasonal films, from new entry The Holdovers (2023 Alexander Payne) to Home Alone (1990 Chris Columbus/John Hughes). This is a celebration of the genre of the Christmas film packed with clips and hidden gems: Scrooge (1951 Brian Desmond Hurst) remixed as a film noir, Lindsay Anderson’s Every Day Except Christmas (1957), his film about the old Covent Garden market later seen in My Fair Lady (1964) or Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972) just before it closed down. Full of delights, discussions and a grown man dressed as an Elf (2003).Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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