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- Contemporary dance: beginnersCourse start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Orley QuickThis Contemporary dance class is a dynamic and fun experience based on the principles of Release-technique and some playful explorations. Simple movement phrases and tasks are built upon to develop greater awareness of the body in space and in relation to others. Floor, centre and travelling exercises lead to efficiency of movement, rhythmical and free-flowing dance sequences.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £139.00 - Payback Time: Historical injustices and reparationsCourse start date: Sat 3 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tariq HassanWhat does a society owe to the descendants of people colonised, brutalised or otherwise exploited? The issue of financial compensation – reparations – to make amends for past horrors and their continuing harm remains complex and contentious.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00 - Kenya & Britain: The Mau Mau UprisingCourse start date: Sat 3 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sunday Abraham OgunodeThe Mau Mau revolution,” writes Koster, “was a violent African struggle against colonial rule and a precursor for Kenyan independence in 1963. This course is essentially designed to examine the activities of the British Empire in East Africa using the Mau Mau uprising to complicate conversions on Africans' resistance to foreign domination.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Medieval London 1000-1350: the archaeology of a capital cityCourse start date: Sat 3 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stuart BrookesThis one day course looks at a period that fundamentally shaped London as a city, from the laying out of a new town within the old Roman city wall to the rapid growth of the 11—13th centuries.
Includes an introductory lecture and guided walk.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00 - An introduction to drawing and the art of mindfulness
Course start date: Sat 3 May 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Clare Barton-HarveyAn introduction to drawing and mindfulness and how mindfulness can support greater confidence, creativity, and a sense of freedom when drawing. The workshop is suitable for beginners to mindful drawing including those with experience in one or other discipline.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - A women’s history of modern China Course start date: Sat 3 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Qiuyang ChenDiscover the untold stories and hidden legacies of women in modern China in this illuminating one-day course. Traverse time, from the late Qing Dynasty to the present, to examine how women have shaped and been shaped by social, political, and cultural currents.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Turkish beginners: holiday kitCourse start date: Sat 10 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cavidan SeyitcemalogluMake the most of your holidays in Turkey with this live online. short course. This Holiday Kit will provide you with all the language you need to communicate in the most common holiday situations & have a friendly chat with the locals!Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - Modern art in America, 1900-1930: the Ashcan School to Precisionism Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SandersStudy American art, including paintings, illustrations and cartoons from late-nineteenth century Impressionism and Realism to Precisionism, analysing movements and styles, social and political context, materials, and art theory. - Craft focus: character in fiction Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tasha KavanaghIn fiction, character and plot are inseparable elements of craft. Without characters there can be no action or plot. In this short course you will learn how to create characters that can drive a narrative forward and deepen its themes.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Social Purpose, Community and Good CitizenshipCourse start date: Sat 10 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vina TheodorakopoulouThis course allows for an exploration of social regeneration, community engagement and good citizenship, providing an understanding of the societal dimensions of ethics and sustainability.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - Alexander Technique: Workshop Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Cristina Codina LlavinaDiscover how to return your body to its natural state of balance and poise in this beginner's guide to the Alexander Technique. Learn to become mindful of muscular and mental tension in this session.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Tutankhamun’s fashionCourse start date: Sat 10 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rosalind JanssenRecent examinations of Tutankhamun’s underwear have revealed that the boy king was decidedly ‘pear-shaped’. What can his clothing tell us about the minutiae of daily life in Ancient Egypt? Afternoon visit to the Petrie Museum.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Writing myths Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Maria ContosWhether you want to write about mythical beasts in a modern-day setting or pen a traditional epic, this fun, interactive taster will equip you with the craft basics to write a myth that will move and inspire.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Japanese beginners: holiday kit Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Hisaka BuntingMake the most of your visit to Japan with this short, intensive course. This Holiday Kit will provide you with all the language you need to communicate in the most common holiday situations and to have a friendly chat with the locals!Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - Dickens' London Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Molly Rumbelow'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' Enjoy this introduction to Dickens' work and the London of his time. Morning lecture at City Lit followed by a walk in the area of the city connected to his work.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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