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From AI to writing about music, we are regularly expanding our offering and adding more courses for you to choose from. Don't forget to check back to see what's new at City Lit.
Whether you are looking to take up a new hobby, pick up a new skill or learn more about your area of interest, we have the course for you.
Featured Courses
- Gua Sha Facial massage: Taster Workshop
Course start date: Tue 23 Jun 2026 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Elena De AntoniFacial gua sha is a traditional Chinese skincare technique that involves gently gliding a smooth, flat tool (often made of jade or rose quartz) over the face in specific patterns to promote circulation, reduce puffiness, and encourage
lymphatic drainage.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Tai Chi Wu style: beginners Course start date: Wed 24 Jun 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Neville CoteThis ten week course provides an introduction to Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan as practiced by the Wu family, from its origins in the Forbidden City of Ching dynasty China to this day. It will enable you to build the foundations of what is for some a lifetime of practice and begin to experience the many benefits that this practice brings.
Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Creative writing: finding flowCourse start date: Sat 27 Jun 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sharmila ChauhanDiscover a holistic, whole-body approach to writing that will help deepen your connection to your creativity.
Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Mobile Hot and Cold Stone Therapy: a CPD workshopCourse start date: Sat 27 Jun 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Mark WoollardThis course is specifically aimed at the mobile therapist wishing to offer clients a hot and cold stone massage, without the need to carry a massive traditional hot stone heater around with you!
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Plump and Glow facial: taster workshopCourse start date: Tue 30 Jun 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Mark WoollardInterested in anti-ageing facials but don’t know where to begin? Why not try this general introduction? Learn about your skin type, the benefits of facial massage as well as basic facial techniques to use on yourself and your friends and family!Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Introduction to AI for UX DesignCourse start date: Sat 4 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Mazy BurnsExplore how AI is transforming UX design. Learn how AI tools support user research, speed up analysis and streamline design workflows, with hands‑on practice and essential guidance on the risks, limitations and ethical use of AI in UX.
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00 - Neurosis on FilmCourse start date: Sat 4 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Mary WildNeurosis may have disappeared from psychiatry, but in cinema, it thrives. This course explores how film portrays anxious, obsessive, and self-sabotaging characters grappling with repression and existential doubt. Through Freud’s psychoanalytic lens, we’ll explore some of cinema’s most fascinating neurotics.
Mary Wild is a film lecturer and podcaster with an academic background in psychoanalytic theory. Her research interests include cinematic representation of the unconscious, surrealism, mental illness, feminine subjectivity, the horror genre, and auteur studies.
Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Writing opinion Course start date: Sat 4 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Erica BuistLearn how to approach writing a column, whether for a newspaper, magazine or your own platform.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Alexander Technique for instrumentalistsCourse start date: Thu 9 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Shelagh SutherlandThis brand new Summer School workshop is designed specifically for instrumentalists who wish to improve their technique, reduce tension, and enhance their overall performance.
Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £69.00 - Practical harmony for pianistsCourse start date: Tue 14 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lewis KestertonThis four-week 'crash course' introduces pianists to the practical elements of tonal harmony. You will explore the fundamentals of chords, harmonic progression and cadential patterns with the aim of building practical skills that make learning new repertoire more efficient, secure, and musically informed.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £90.00 - Great albums: Kind of Blue Course start date: Tue 14 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Albi GravenerDiscover everything you have always wanted to know about this extraordinary recording, one of the most critically acclaimed but also commercially successful in the history of jazz.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Contemporary piano workshopCourse start date: Wed 15 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lewis Kesterton, Maya-Leigh RosenwasserThis four-week Summer School workshop will introduce you to the vibrant world of contemporary piano music (20th Century onwards). From extended techniques and minimalism to graphic scores and prepared piano, this course aims to demystify contemporary repertoire and open up a whole new dimension in your pianism!
Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £125.00 - Music history bookclub: Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer Course start date: Fri 17 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Edward BreenThe music history book club meets towards the end of each term to discuss novels and biographies with musical themes and references relevant to the music history programme.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Stage combat: unarmed Course start date: Sun 19 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sean CroftExplore unarmed combat and develop a selection of moves to combine in to a choreographed sequence!
A well-executed fight scene can make stage combat look easy but, much like dancing, it must be intricately choreographed and extensively rehearsed, to provide that authentic feel while remaining safe. Suitable for everyone.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £48.00 - Composition techniques: intensive workshopCourse start date: Wed 22 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Trish ShawThis intensive workshop is on writing and arranging for voices with no instrumental accompaniment. Learn techniques for composing your own music, arranging existing tunes, creating vocal and choral textures, and setting English text.
Suitable for students with knowledge of music theory to at least grade/level 6 standard.
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £111.00
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