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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. Adobe Premier Pro and digital editing: stage 1
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 19 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Lily Markiewicz
    Learn the fundamentals of this industry standard package alongside the basic principles of editing moving image footage. Become familiar and work with the most important technical and conceptual conventions in video editing.
    Full fee £359.00 Senior fee £287.00 Concession £233.00
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  2. Full fee £489.00 Senior fee £391.00 Concession £318.00
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  3. Beginners' jewellery I
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 2 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rebecca Ilett
    Learn all the basics of metal jewellery work by making a range of sample pieces in copper and a finished jewellery piece of your own design. You will be shown how to buy silver so you can take home at least one wearable piece.
    Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00
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  4. Contemporary dance: improvers
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 2 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Francis Angol
    The course aims to give you a further embodied understanding of Contemporary dance that is underpinned by Somatics practice, and other contemporary dance techniques, to bring greater flow and dynamics to your expression as you allow yourself to move from your inner space and to negotiate the flow of weight, rhythm, breath, space and time.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £90.00
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  5. Full fee £599.00 Senior fee £479.00 Concession £389.00
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  6. Full fee £699.00 Senior fee £559.00 Concession £454.00
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  7. Six day taster course in ceramics
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 11 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Alex Simpson
    Ideal if you are a beginner and would like to experience and explore the major ways of making pottery – throwing and hand building. Pots will be decorated, glazed and fired during the course.
    Full fee £599.00 Senior fee £479.00 Concession £389.00
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  8. Drawing 3
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 15 Jan 2026 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Andrea Voisey
    Explore a range of materials and challenging approaches to develop your creative potential in drawing, informed by artists contexts. Building on your previous experience, develop your observational drawing skills for greater accuracy and complexity as well as learning to manipulate composition, surface and mark-making to create dynamic, expressive drawings.
    Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
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  9. Beginners' jewellery II
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 22 Feb 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Linda Connelly
    Make a bezel setting for a cabochon stone and a tube setting for a round faceted stone. This course is suitable for those who have done an introductory course as well as for complete beginners or those who would like to have a refresher of all the basic metal jewellery working skills.
    Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00
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  10. Introduction to carving
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 1 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Belinda Edwards
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    Full fee £409.00 Senior fee £327.00 Concession £266.00
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  11. Intermediate handbuilding
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 19 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Josie Warshaw
    Explore your personal creative ideas in clay, increase your making and decorating skills. Use a range of hand building techniques to develop your practical skills and expand your knowledge of ceramic materials.
    Full fee £599.00 Senior fee £479.00 Concession £389.00
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  12. Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00
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  13. ESOL and making podcasts: pronunciation, presentation, expression (level 1-2)
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 11 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Do you want to improve your pronunciation, learn more about how you sound when you speak English and develop your speaking? A podcast is a digital recording, which can be used in a very practical way to help develop your English. On this course, you will discover how to make and edit a podcast to record yourself as well as what to say and how to say it. You will be able to practise speaking on your own and interviewing others as well as learn how to prepare what to say and how to say it. Podcasting is a fantastic way of improving your pronunciation, your vocabulary, your spoken accuracy, and your fluency.



    You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).



    Please note you will need to download the free Audacity software and have a headset with mic to do this course.



    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 £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £65.00
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  14. Beginners' jewellery III
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 31 May 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rebecca Ilett
    Beginners 3 is the perfect continuation for those who have some metal jewellery making experience and would like to expand on their basic metal working skills by learning wax carving and casting. Wax carving lends itself very well to creating organic and fluid forms that can’t be made with sheet and wire. There will be set projects as well as the opportunity to experiment and develop your own designs.
    Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00
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