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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. Welsh 4: clwb darllen / reading club
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Clare Whitehead
    Come to improve your intermediate Welsh through reading short novels in this supportive and structured group.



    This course aims at developing your understanding of the Welsh language as well as improving pronunciation.



    Books details in the course outline below. Please note that this club has a half term break.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  2. Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00
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  3. Ealing Studios: projecting Britain and the British character
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Graham Rinaldi
    “We made films at Ealing that were good, bad and indifferent, but they were indisputably British. They were rooted in the soil of the country.” Under the stewardship of Michael Balcon, Ealing Studios created a national cinema through drama, documentary and comedy producing a body of work portraying realistic British life.
    Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £58.00
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  4. Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00
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  5. Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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  6. Korean beginners: holiday kit
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 3 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Hakkyoung Lee
    Make the most of your holidays in Korea with this face to face short, intensive course in central London over one weekend. 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 £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00
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  7. Becoming confident on PowerPoint 365 (beginner)
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 4 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Do you want to learn how to create presentations? Are you completely new to PowerPoint? Can you use some PowerPoint features but want to expand your skills? On this course you will learn the essential elements of how to create an effective and engaging presentation from creating slides and slideshows from scratch, to using templates, to appropriate use of images and text. You will focus not only on the specific functions of PowerPoint but also what makes a presentation successful.



    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 £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £60.00
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  8. Japanese beginners: short introduction
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 6 May 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Noriko Inagaki
    Get a short introduction to the Japanese language and discover aspects of Japanese language culture in these online communicative classes. Suitable for complete beginners.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00
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  9. Indigenous Australia: the beginnings of the Western Desert art movement
    Course start date:  Thu 8 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Arjmand Aziz
    Explore the beginnings of Western Desert painting in 1970s Australia by focussing closely on the cosmopolitan and intercultural worlds of the Indigenous Australian artists at its heart.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  10. Tales of transformation: Ovid’s Metamorphoses
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 8 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Nikoletta Manioti
    So many works of art refer, in a way or another, to Ovid's Metamorphoses. In this course, you'll become familiar with some of the most memorable stories in this masterpiece and begin to understand why its stories are - and have been - so universally fascinating and influential.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00
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  11. Spectacles of the Ancient world
    Course start date:  Thu 8 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michael Bloomfield
    This course explores some of the most elaborate and powerful displays of the Graeco-Roman world. Designed to entertain, inform, and elicit support, often at times of great political or religious significance, they were unforgettable, and have long exercised an influence on our own understanding of the nature of power.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  12. Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00
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  13. Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £71.00
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  14. Becoming confident on Word 365 (beginner)
    Course start date:  Thu 12 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Are you new to Word and word processing? Do you want to learn this essential skill both for work and private life? This course will help you create and organise digital letters and short documents.You will learn all the basic functions of creating documents: adding, copying, moving and formatting text, inserting pictures and creating tables, checking spelling and grammar, changing the page layout and printing different documents accurately. All you need is enthusiasm, and confidence using a mouse and basic keyboard functions.



    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 £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £40.00
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  15. Literary Landscapes: Black London in Caleb Nelson’s Open Water and Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 26 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Black London is shifting and ever-evolving. This course explores how Costa award winning Caleb Nelson’s novel ‘Open Water’ and the great 1950’s classic of immigrant fiction, Sam Selvon’s ‘The Lonely Londoners’ reimagined our multicultural metropolis.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00
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