- German 2: revive your GermanCourse start date: Fri 18 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Friederike SchroederRevise and consolidate your speaking and listening skills, as well as your grammar. Suitable if you have studied German for at least two years. Based on the tutor's own materials.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - Discover WelshCourse start date: Sat 19 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jack Pulman-SlaterGet a flavour of a new language and its basic sentence structure. Learn some useful phrases and some pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners and those who might like to take it further. - French beginners: taster
Course start date: Tue 1 Jul 2025 (and 7 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Valerie JézéquelGet a flavour of French and its basic sentence structure. Learn some useful phrases and some pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners and those who might like to take it further.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Folk and pop guitar tasterCourse start date: Sat 26 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tony RowdenLearn the essential chords that will begin your guitar career, and develop the motor skill to strum pop songs. Please bring an acoustic guitar.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Discover Scottish GaelicCourse start date: Sat 26 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael HillIntrigued by Scottish Gaelic? Gain an insight into this fascinating Celtic language on this lively in-person workshop in central London. Learn some useful phrases and get some pronunciation tips. An interesting introduction for complete beginners and those who might like to take it further.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - A taste of philosophy Course start date: Sat 26 Jul 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Karl WhiteHave you ever wondered what philosophy is? What do philosophers talk about? Can they tell you the meaning of life or is it just jargon and navel gazing? Come along and find out.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Nature Connection in the City: Nurturing Mental Well-Being with Urban Green Spaces Course start date: Sat 26 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Christopher CollierJoin us at Greenwich Park to explore the transformative power of nature in urban environments through a mix of informative content and participatory techniques. Meeting Point: the Sundial by the boating pond.
Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00 - Classical guitar tasterCourse start date: Sat 26 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tony RowdenEnjoy this introduction to playing classical guitar. Please bring a nylon-strung guitar.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Drum kit tasterCourse start date: Sat 26 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Mark HuggettSpend time with our drumming tutor, meet the drum kit, sticks and practice pads supplied. Come and play. - Sing jazzCourse start date: Sat 26 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laura ZakianLearn essential tools to sing jazz, including what to listen for in the piano accompaniment and the importance of pulse, groove and vocal technique. This session is for singers with musical experience who are new to the jazz idiom.
- Saxophone tasterCourse start date: Sat 26 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David HarrisonDiscover how a saxophone class works, and learn about embouchure, breathing, and fingering. Bring your tenor or alto saxophone to this session.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Celebrating London’s Caribbean communities – Brixton Heritage walkCourse start date: Sat 2 Aug 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: A. SThis walking tour is based in Brixton (Starting point: Brixton Tube Station), which was once considered the cultural capital of Britain’s Caribbean population. This walking tour is intended as an immersive experience to commemorate the longstanding presence, experiences and cultures of Caribbean people in London. We will visit monuments and sites that relate to Caribbean contributions to the World Wars, anti-racist struggles, Black journalism, music, food and more.
.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Black internationalism in the heart of the Empire – Heritage walkCourse start date: Sat 9 Aug 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: A. SThis walking tour takes us along a route of heritage sites commemorating the history of Black activism and anti-colonialism in the heart of the British empire (Starting point TBC). We will come across some familiar faces and stories in the form of commemorative statues, plaques and buildings, and consider how each individual site is connected to the other, and why it’s important these sites exist..
.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Screenwriting: a taster Course start date: Mon 8 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Give screenwriting a try in this fun and supportive one-off taster session. Ideal if you want to unlock your imagination and express yourself, but need a bit of encouragement to get started.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £10.00 - Film studies taster Course start date: Sat 13 Sep 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Paul SuttonLearn how to evaluate and discuss films while enjoying a working example of a City Lit Film Studies class. In this class we will view and explore clips from a number of films, including popular remakes, enabling us to consider and compare themes and techniques from differing filmmaking countries. There will be a chance to review – in brief – film courses at City Lit (September - December 2025).Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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