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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. Meditation for pain relief and wellbeing
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 17 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sally Page
    Whether you experience long term physical or acute pain, unpleasant body symptoms or simply want to understand the pain better or improve your health and wellbeing, this course offers the possibilities available to you. It will also guide you to the direct experience of peace, a relaxed body and improved functioning as well as providing you with the know how to make the choice.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £55.00
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  2. Full fee £289.00 Senior fee £289.00 Concession £202.00
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  3. Jazz vocal samba and bossa nova
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 24 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Clare Foster
    For vocalists with a sound technique and experience of singing jazz standards who have an interest in Brazilian music.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00
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  4. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  5. Climate Justice: Creating a more equal world
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 24 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Tariq Hassan
    The unfettered exploitation of natural resources by the Global North has led to an environmental catastrophe faced most severely and immediately by the Global South. Climate justice aims to deal with the inherent unfairness in the approaches to mitigate climate change and to help Global South adapt to its impacts,.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  6. Satan and the Devil: a cultural eye view through text, image and tradition
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 24 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ann Jeffers
    The figure of Satan/devil has pervaded many centuries of the cultural imagination of the Western world. The course will examine the literary and iconographic sources for this enduring phenomena and will ask why ideas about the devil have continued to both frighten and fascinate and why its long-lasting association with sexuality and deceit continues to make it an attractive theme in contemporary culture.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  7. From Goths to Mongols: A Horde-able History
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 24 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Vanessa King
    Discover who were the barbarians in the Ancient and Medieval World. How did the Chinese and the West interact with ‘the other’? Were the Vikings simply ‘long-haired tourists who occasionally roughed up the natives’ (Wallace-Hadrill 1975)?
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
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  8. Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
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  9. Photography for beginners
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 27 Sep 2025 (and 17 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sara Leigh Lewis
    Always wondered what half the buttons on your camera actually do? Discover how to use them properly and produce impressive photographs, even as a complete beginner. Gain useful technical knowledge and get expert creative guidance in easy-to-understand language. An ideal first step before enrolling on our intermediate courses.
    Full fee £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £253.00
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  10. Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00
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  11. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  12. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00
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  13. Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £71.00
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  14. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  15. Artefacts with Biblical references at the British Museum: an introduction
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 31 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ann Jeffers

    Includes a visit to the British Museum. Discover objects related to the Bible and the questions they evoke about the world in which the ancient Israelites lived and wrote their stories. Spend the afternoon having a close look at the British Museum collection.

    Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00
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