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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Return to French (lower intermediate)
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 2 Jul 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Valerie Jézéquel
    Revise and consolidate your speaking and listening skills, as well as your grammar. Suitable if you have completed completed 2-3 years of study in the past.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  2. Calligraphy: Spencerian scripts
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 21 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Veiko Kespersaks
    Learn how to use a pointed pen for writing in copperplate hand. Spencerian script developed from the English Cursive and stands out for its delicately shaded lowercase and prominent capitals. With very intense shadows, obtained with a pointed pen, it is famous for its fine lines, hand-made quality and romantic overtones. Suitable for both beginners and improvers, left and right handers.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  3. Classical acting
    Course start date:  Mon 21 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Laura Baggaley
    Broaden your skills and discover the freedom to act with classical text in a safe and fun environment, playing with a range of texts from Ibsen to Oscar Wilde. Gain the confidence to tackle different styles of language and performance through practical exercises and scene work.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00
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  4. Italian beginners: module 3 intensive
    Course start date:  Mon 21 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Evi Campetella

    Italian beginners: module 3 intensive is a one-week course that will cover the same material as a standard Italian beginners: module 3 course, but it will do so more quickly for those of you who wish to start second-year Italian in the new academic year. 

    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  5. Full fee £539.00 Senior fee £431.00 Concession £350.00
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  6. Italian beginners: a summer journey
    Course start date:  Mon 21 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Veronica De Felice

    If you're interested in learning Italian and want to get a quick intensive introduction to the language, perhaps before a visit this year, this course will introduce to you the basics. You'll also get some cultural insight from the course tutor on interesting places to visit and different aspects of Italian culture and history. 

    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  7. Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
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  8. Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £303.00 Concession £246.00
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  9. Actor summer school: beginners
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Mon 21 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sean Croft, Juliet Prague
    This is a five day intensive encounter with the acting process. Designed for beginners to explore the fundamentals in a safe and supportive enviroment. Also suitable for those with some prior experience wanting to refresh and focus their skills.
    Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £349.00 Concession £244.00
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  10. English pronunciation: stage 1 (intensive)
    Course start date:  Mon 21 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David John Gwillim
    Improve your pronunciation of standard English on this intensive course, running each day in the same week, which includes detailed study of vowel and consonant sounds. This course is for speakers of other languages who are fluent in English. Some homework required.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £160.00
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  11. Calligraphy: decorated letterforms
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sharon Shaw
    Gilded initials make perfect gifts for family and friends. You’ll learn painting techniques and how to apply a PVA mordant and use real leaf. You will be provided with a number of decorative alphabet templates and then taken step-by-step through the stages of drawing, painting and applying real gold to create your own illuminated decorated letterform.
    Full fee £359.00 Senior fee £287.00 Concession £233.00
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  12. Develop your jewellery design and making intensive
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Elizabeth Bone
    Fancy honing your jewellery making skills in a professional workshop with an expert tutor? If you're an intermediate to advanced jewellery maker and would like to improve your designs and push your technical skills to a higher standard, this hands on, expert led course is for you. Perfect your skills, try different techniques and discover new design approaches.
    Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £303.00 Concession £246.00
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  13. Actor summer school: improvers
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sean Croft, Juliet Prague
    A five day intensive course designed to enhance your skills and develop your confidence in acting. Explore a range of exercises and acting techniques that will illuminate and enliven scripts and scenes. Ideal for those who have completed a beginner’s level course.
    Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £349.00 Concession £244.00
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  14. Modern Greek: holiday kit
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Maria Contos
    Learn to speak Greek and develop your listening and speaking skills on this intensive course. You will also learn the basics of the Greek alphabet. Suitable for complete beginners.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  15. English pronunciation: stage 2 (intensive)
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David John Gwillim
    Ideal if you have completed 'English Pronunciation: stage 1', this intensive course develops fluency and clarity and explores diphthongs and triphthongs, inflexion and intonation, and the rhythms of standard English.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £160.00
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