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- Italian 3: lingua e cultura
An ideal chance to put your Italian into practice discussing Italian culture and practise your language skills. We'll talk about food, art, music and other topics of interest to the class.
Please note that this course takes place once every two weeks for a total of five lessons.
Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Flavia D'AngelantonioFull fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00 - Ready Steady Retire!Come along and find out how your peers are coping with their newfound freedom in retirement - or perhaps you are approaching retirement and are wondering how to create structure and meaning in your new weekly routine? Maybe you will miss the deadlines and frequent communication you had with colleagues.
In this two-hour workshop, we will explore the pros and cons of retirement and find out how to combat isolation through forging new contacts and finding mental stimulus in a variety of ways from volunteering to lifelong learning.Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Jenny BardwellFull fee £10.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 
The Mixed and Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing"What aaaaarrrrrrrrrreeeeeee you?!"
If that question gives you a familiar sinking feeling - or you've caught yourself asking it of someone else - this talk is for you. Every mixed and multiracial person's experience is different, but living in a largely monoracial world creates shared threads that run through many lives.
Drawing on experience from both sides of the therapist's couch, Namalee Bolle, author of The Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing offers practical tools for handling microaggressions, confronting systemic issues, and reclaiming your own narrative.
Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00- The Power of Empathy with Jess Baker and Rod Vincent
Join chartered psychologists, co-authors of The Super Helper Syndrome: A Survival Guide for Compassionate People, and Emplify co-founders Jess Baker and Rod Vincent as they explore the strengths and challenges of being a deeply compassionate person.
Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Art History Festival: In Conversation with Charmaine Watkiss
Join us for a special ‘In Conversation’ event with acclaimed artist and former City Lit student Charmaine Watkiss, who’ll be interviewed by cultural historian Michael Ohajuru in celebration of this year’s Art History Festival. This lecture is part of the 2026 Art History Festival organised by the Association for Art History.
Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Full fee £0.00 - Afrocentric drumming
Explore and indulge your enthusiasm for drumming with African rhythms and their variations. Improve your individual and group playing skills and learn how to apply a variety of percussive instruments to any musical style.
Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £179.00 - Reading Through Art
How do we learn about life events such as love, death, despair or illness? Beyond our own experience, we draw on cultural stories-books, films, songs-that we interpret personally.
In this Mental Wealth Festival Sheila Hollins, founder of Books Beyond Words, will introduce the purpose and methodology behind word‑free storytelling.
Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Full fee £0.00 - City Lit Mental Wealth Festival: visible mending techniques
Join this workshop for a creative insight into textile repair. Please feel free to bring something small you would love to try and repair using embroidery. This session is part of the 2026 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.
Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Selina LatourFull fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - The Gift of Teenagers: Connect More, Worry Less
Around a quarter to a third of teenagers are affected by anxiety but many never tell the adults in their lives what they are worried about. In this workshop, best-selling wrote and mental health advocate Rachel Kelly shares ways to connect with our teenagers and find out more about their concerns. Rachel also shares practical strategies and tools to raise calmer, steadier adolescents.
Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Caring for Men & Boys: Men's Mental Health & Wellbeing
Join George from The Tin Men, Mark Brooks OBE, journalist Lisa Britton and Dr Rebecca Owens-leading voices in psychology, advocacy and the wellbeing of men and boys-for a thought-provoking discussion about the issues shaping men’s and boys’ mental health today.
Together, they will explore the evidence, challenges and opportunities behind the headlines, challenge common assumptions, and consider how we can better understand and support the mental health and wellbeing of men and boys.
Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Piano: return to playing
Did you once play the piano? Are you thinking of returning to playing? This short course, taught in a friendly and supportive environment, will help you refresh your skills and re-kindle your passion for piano!
Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £174.00 - Mental Wealth, Working, Not Working and Retirement?
The lines between working and retiring are increasingly blurred. In the 20th century, the only century where retirement was formalised, it all seemed a lot easier: retire at 65, draw your final salary pension scheme, and live for around 10 years more.
Now, the official retirement age is going up, but many people stopped working earlier when we came out the pandemic. Equally, we have rock stars entertaining us in their 70s.
This panel discussion brings a fresh view of the work of work and later life and aims to work out what’s in our best interests, individually and collectively.
Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Finding Peace of Mind: An Inspirational Journey Through Bipolar, Depression, Addiction and Dyslexia
For the first 40 years of his life, Jonathan Kemp battled undiagnosed mental health conditions (bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, and dyslexia), and contemplated death by suicide. He spent years trying to distance himself from family expectations, searching for a sense of well-being as a punk, a cowboy in Australia, a London bricklayer, a Metropolitan Police sergeant, and later an entrepreneur.
This powerful and inspiring talk traces his extraordinary journey through mental illness and neurodiversity - one of hard-won insight, resilience, and wisdom.
Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - Beyond the Tremor: The Essential Guide to Parkinson’s
Parkinson's is the fastest-growing neurological disorder in the world, but most people still don’t know much about it beyond the tremor.
City Lit tutor, Edward Breen, was diagnosed in his early 40s and a few years later ran the London Marathon for Parkinson's UK. He's joined by Caroline Rassell (Chief Executive of Parkinson’s UK), Gaynor Edwards (founder of Spotlight YOPD - a key charity for those with young-onset Parkinson's), consultant neurologist Thomasin Andrews, Gillian Lacey-Solymar (from Movers and Shakers podcast) and Nicola Wydenbach (Opera singer, and director of training for Sing to Beat Parkinson's) for a frank discussion about physical and mental symptoms of Parkinson's.
Keeley Street
Fri 9 Oct 2026Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £3.00 Concession £3.00 - French: Sing for happiness
Let’s sing in French with a smile! Combine your love of singing with the French language in this fun workshop where together we will sing simple songs in French. Open to everyone willing to have a go, you do not need to speak French.
This session is part of the 2026 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.
Keeley Street
Sat 10 Oct 2026Estelle HélouinFull fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £5.00
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