New Courses
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
102 courses available
- Working with trauma (CPD)
This CPD course is designed for mental health practitioners who have a foundational understanding of trauma and want to focus on basic practical skills for supporting individuals affected by trauma. This practical day focuses on applying understanding in real-life situations. The emphasis is on safety, stabilisation and professional boundaries.
Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Thu 29 Apr 2027Myriam FerreiraFull fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 - Working with Therapeutic Writing Advanced
According to Robert Frost ‘A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.’ Poetry therapy is the intentional use of poetry and literature to support healing, self-awareness, and emotional growth. This experiential course deepens your understanding of therapeutic writing and equips you to integrate it into your personal practice or professional work. It builds on the teachings and learnings of the introductory course. Its overall aim is to support participants begin to create a framework to facilitate courses and workshops with various populations.
Whether you're a writer, therapist, educator, or healthcare provider, you'll gain practical tools to help others improve their wellbeing through the written word.Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Sun 9 May 2027Charmaine PollardFull fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 - Working with two chairsLearn how to use this technique derived from Gestalt therapy to help your clients explore inner conflicts and let go of haunting issues from the past. Experience the power of this two chair technique by trying it out for yourself.
Keeley Street
Mon 17 May 2027Dennis CarneyFull fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 
Writing about musicLearn how to write journalistically about music, from reviews to interviews, in this intensive one-day course.Keeley Street
Sat 22 May 2027Liam KonemannFull fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00- Stage combat: unarmedExplore 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.Keeley Street
Sun 30 May 2027Sean CroftFull fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £55.00 - AutoCAD 3D for Mac: introduction
AutoCAD is an essential part of the work process for engineers, designers, architects and visualisers. This course will teach you to create 2D and 3D technical drawings on a Mac in one of the leading CAD design programmes.
Keeley Street
Wed 2 Jun 2027Nicholas WilliamsonFull fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Writing eco-fiction
Are you a writer who's passionate about the environment? This one-day course will teach you how to weave environmental themes and positive climate solutions into your work, while writing entertaining, high-quality fiction.
Online
Sat 5 Jun 2027Laura BaggaleyFull fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00 - Business skills for start-ups
Business Skills for Start‑Ups course is a newly launched course at City Lit. The course outline is currently in development, and additional details will be made available in due course. Please check back for updates.
Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tue 15 Jun 2027Yana LapitskayaFull fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Writing opinion
Learn how to approach writing opinion pieces, whether for a newspaper, magazine or your own platform.
Keeley Street
Sat 3 Jul 2027Erica BuistFull fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00 - Music history bookclub: Midsummer Nights
The music history book club meets towards the end of each term to discuss novels and biography with musical themes and references relevant to the music history programme. This term’s book is a collection of short stories which celebrate Glyndebourne opera.
Online
Fri 9 Jul 2027Edward BreenFull fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Great musicians: Hollywood's secret singers
Discover the extraordinary vocal artists who shaped Hollywood musicals from behind the scenes.
Keeley Street
Tue 13 Jul 2027Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00 - Pottery afternoon
Experience and explore all the making techniques in ceramics: coiling, slab-building, press moulds and throwing on the wheel with tutor guidance and demonstration. Also covering surface decoration techniques and basic glazing.
Full fee £649.00 Senior fee £519.00 Concession £422.00
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