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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. Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  2. Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £160.00
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  3. Painting: oil techniques and mediums
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sisetta Zappone
    Oil paint is a medium with a long historical tradition, capable of heavy impasto effects and delicate transparent colour films. Working practically, in the studio, this course will expand your understanding of approaches to building a variety of surfaces in your paint working with mediums and expanding your use of texture and glazing This course is for all levels – both beginners and more experienced painters.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  4. Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  5. Ukulele 2
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Jake Rodrigues
    If you have already begun your ukulele career, come and learn new songs and tricks, chord theory, picking and split strokes, and apply these to popular and vintage tunes. Enjoy learning and playing in a group. Classes will include singing along!
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  7. The death of God
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  John Holroyd
    Over the past five hundred years in the West belief in God has declined. This course will examine why this has happened and consider the meaning and significance of what has taken place.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  8. Black British Studies: Beyond Windrush
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michele Scott
    Join a journey of the examination of the modern day complexities and critical deconstruction of contemporary Black British Life.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00
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  9. Keyboard harmony and performance workshop
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    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ricardo Gosalbo
    A practical workshop integrating keyboard harmony with piano performance skills. Taught in-person on a grand piano, this workshop is aimed at classical pianists with a music theory standard of grade 6+ and good sheet music reading skills. We shall deepen our understanding of musical works by studying the harmonic constructs that underpin them, tackle the technical challenges they present, and explore how harmonic analysis can inform our interpretative choices. NB: Break week 5 & 26 May 2025.
    Full fee £329.00 Senior fee £263.00 Concession £230.00
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  10. Keyboard harmony 5D
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    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ricardo Gosalbo
    A practical workshop for classical pianists who are new to studying harmony but have piano skills of grade 5 or higher. Broaden your understanding of piano repertoire by studying the underpinning harmonic constructs. It is recommended you have completed all other modules (A, B and C) in preparation for this class. NB: no classes on bank holiday Mondays (5 & 26 May 2025).
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £160.00
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  11. Full fee £549.00 Senior fee £439.00 Concession £357.00
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  12. Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £174.00
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  13. Screen acting: beginners
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gary Grant
    Build your confidence and strengthen your camera technique to create truthful ‘on screen’ performances in this practical course.
    Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £299.00 Concession £209.00
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  14. Bookbinding improvers’ workshop
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gavin Moorhead
    This one term course is designed to help students to develop their bookbinding skills. You will already have some experience of binding techniques and some knowledge of tools, materials and equipment in order to benefit from this workshop-style class. There will be the opportunity to work on your own projects, or to practice skills in which you feel less confident in order to enable you to progress to higher level courses. Not suitable for beginners.
    Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00
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  15. How to read a film: a beginners' guide to cinema
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    This course will develop your critical appreciation of the cinema by teaching you how to read and understand film texts. We will look at the elements that underpin film form – narrative, mise en scène, cinematography, editing and sound – alongside its historical development. We will consider film style by exploring classical, post-classical and art cinema and we will examine influential critical modes of analysis, such as genre, authorship and spectatorship.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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