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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 £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00
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  2. Using your voice for audio books and talking newspapers
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Thorpe
    Would you like to narrate audio books? Are you interested in community work such as talking newspapers for the blind? Explore vocal skills and techniques required in these areas and identify what style works for you. This course will be delivered in the college.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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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 £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  5. 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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  6. Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00
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  7. 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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  8. Full fee £549.00 Senior fee £439.00 Concession £357.00
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  9. A Very British History of Migration
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Siobhan McGuirk
    Taking a critical historical approach, this course with Dr. McGuirk charts how migration has shaped British politics, law, culture and society – and helped transform popular ideas about what it means to be British today.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  10. Terrific Tudors: Act Three: Social life
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Vanessa King
    Explore the everyday life of men and women during the closing years of the Tudors as revealed in the works of local historians and other contemporary material.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  12. Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00
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  14. Russian beginners: module 3
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Altannavch Murray
    Improve your elementary Russian on this communicative course. The emphasis is on speaking and listening, and you will gain a basic grounding in Russian grammar.Suitable if you have completed beginners: module 2 or equivalent.
    Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00
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