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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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- Counselling: an introductionCourse start date: Mon 6 Jan 2025 (and 12 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nadia PerezEnhance your personal skills, learn more about yourself and take your first step in counselling training on this primarily experiential course, underpinned by the 3 main theoretical approaches in counselling.
We have courses running daytimes, evenings and weekends. Whatever your schedule, you can find a course that works for you! - Introduction to BSL
Course start date: Mon 6 Jan 2025 (and 5 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Antony RabinInterested in learning British Sign Language? Learn some basic vocabulary and grammar, and decide if you want to progress to the level 1 qualification.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £181.00 - Jews in London from the 1650s to the 1950s: a closer look Course start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David RosenbergThis course will provide an exploration of 300 years of Jewish life, culture and history in London from the small scale resettlement in the 1650s through to the 1950s when the borough of Hackney was home to London’s largest and most diverse Jewish community.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Jewellery: texturing and colouringCourse start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sally LeesCourse length: 6 weeks.
Dates: 07/01/25 – 11/02/25. Times: 10:30am – 4:30 pm
Tutor: Sally Lees
Texturing and colouring copper and silver for jewellery.
Would you like to learn how to incorporate colours and textures into your jewellery making? In this course you will be able to learn a variety of techniques to do this. You will be able to experiment with chemicals and processes to achieve this.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Developing watercolour paintingCourse start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jack DuplockExplore the specific qualities of watercolour and the opportunities this adaptable medium offers to create dynamic painting compositions. Develop a fluency with brush work and layering of colour to develop compositional possibilities.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Develop your confidence in writing: grammar, punctuation, expression (level 1-2) Course start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Would you like to be more confident in the way you write whether emails or reports at work or messages to friends? Do you want to work on how you form sentences, understand grammar and use punctuation so your writing is more creative? Do you want to learn how to create meaning in your writing?. This course will help you be more secure in your professional, academic or creative writing skills and help you improve some of your weak areas around forming and punctuating sentences with appropriate grammatical form. You will develop your confidence in the most essential areas of writing including different sentence structures, writing paragraphs, using punctuation effectively, using active and passive voices and proofreading.
You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £75.00 - Rise and fall of the Spanish global empire Course start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael SchraerHow and why Spain won – and lost - the world’s first truly global empire; its impact on the Spanish colonies and on Spain itself; how far it acted as a model for the empires that followed.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Ancient Rome: art & architecture Course start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Richard PlantThe ancient Rome Empire has provided a model for artistic and particularly architectural production in nearly all the centuries since its fall. We will study the development of Roman architecture and explore works of art in the best-preserved media; sculpture, painting and mosaics. Two sessions take place at the British Museum.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Pilates Barre: Mixed LevelCourse start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Caroline Ings-ChambersPilates Barre brings a dynamic standing element to the regular core muscle work of Pilates. Pilates sequences at the barre improve upright posture, build core strength, strengthen and shape the muscles of the hips and legs, and develop co-ordination skills.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00 - Feldenkrais: awareness through movement Course start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Charlotte SeirbergLearn how to reduce tension and move with more ease, and notice improvements in your mobility, posture, breathing, balance, coordination and quality of life.
This course is delivered in-person at City Lit.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00 - Piano workshop 8 Course start date: Thu 9 Jan 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Petros MoschosIf you play piano at around grade 8 standard, join one of these online workshops to develop your playing by studying a wide repertoire, learning to make your own stylistic and interpretive decision under your tutor's guidance.Full fee £329.00 Senior fee £329.00 Concession £230.00 - Introduction to pattern cutting II Course start date: Thu 9 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SelormeyLearn introductory skills and techniques of pattern cutting to understand how to draft your garment from a design. Expand your knowledge as you learn how drape, adapt blocks, manipulate patterns and understanding garment fitting and shape.
This course is suitable for learners with some pattern cutting knowledge.
For learners who have already completed this course, you can try a more advanced dress featuring detailing such as pleats, ruffles or gathering.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Ways into abstract painting Course start date: Fri 10 Jan 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Mario Lautier VellaEncounter different approaches to making abstract paintings while developing your skills in using a range of painting materials. With reference to the work of a variety of abstract artists explore the visual language common to both representation and abstraction, eg. colour, composition, tone and paint application.Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00 - Drawing 2 Course start date: Fri 10 Jan 2025 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tony HullBuild your confidence in tackling more personal, complex drawings. Further explore observational drawing and visual language. Develop your drawing skills by working with different approaches and exploring a range of artists' drawing process.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Jewellery: soldering workshop Course start date: Sun 12 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth BoneWork through a series of guided exercises designed to improve your understanding and technique of soldering and build up your confidence to apply a range of soldering methods based on your design. For beginners with some basic experience and intermediate levels.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
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