- French 4: Return to French (Advanced)Course start date: Mon 7 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
If your advanced French is a bit rusty and you wish you could reactivate your passive knowledge, this is the right course for you. This course will help you access your dormant French and bring it back to life. After attending this course you should be able join a level 4 or 5 course.
Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - German beginners intensive: module 1Course start date: Tue 8 Jul 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anna RiolandGet ready for a new language experience on this intensive course for complete beginners. Choose either an in-person course in Covent Garden or live online sessions.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Return to French (elementary)
Course start date: Tue 8 Jul 2025 (and 6 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Valerie JézéquelCome and join this lively interactive course to refresh your elementary French. After attending this course you will be able join a level 2 course in September.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Lunchtime lecture: Louise Bourgeois, the abject and the eroticCourse start date: Wed 9 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayAn introduction to the art of Louise Bourgeois, its feminism, both erotic and abject. We explore Bourgeois as a sculptor, printmaker and performance artist, looking at how she was influenced by psychology and biography.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £7.00 - Spanish beginners: tasterCourse start date: Wed 9 Jul 2025 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Adriana Itriago GavidiaGet a flavour of a new language and its basic sentence structure. Learn some useful phrases and some pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Japanese beginners: module 3 Course start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Chikako NakagawaContinue learning to speak Japanese on this course for near beginners. The emphasis is on developing your listening and speaking skills. Suitable if you have completed beginners module 2 or 6 months recently
.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00 - The art of Chinese gardens: nature and philosophyCourse start date: Wed 16 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
In early modern China, gardens were more than places of retreat, they functioned as major social, cultural and economic sites. In our time of ecological crisis, gardens play a crucial role in mitigating pollution. This course will examine how the intersections of art, architecture, philosophy and sensory experience of Chinese gardens show continuity and change from the early modern period to the present day.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Ear trainingCourse start date: Wed 16 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Della RhodesEnhance your aural awareness of the mechanics of music and improve your recognition of, and response to, music in practice. Sing intervals, scales and harmonies on this short practical course.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - French 2 lower: tasterCourse start date: Mon 21 Jul 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Valerie JézéquelCome and discover what an elementary French class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied French for 2 years recently or have done some French some time ago.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Tai Chi Chuan: Beginners Course start date: Tue 13 May 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Carla DraytonLearn the Yang-style Tai Chi form. This flowing movement sequence contains the basic movements of Tai Chi which will help you to develop and practice smooth movement, good alignment and improved balance. Develop good personal practice that will enable you to fully realise the benefits of this absorbing Taoist art.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00 - Creative writing: a taster Course start date: Tue 9 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Give creative writing a try in this fun and supportive one-off taster session. Ideal if you want to unlock your imagination and express yourself, but need a bit of encouragement to get started.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £10.00 - German advanced taster Course start date: Wed 10 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Tatjana PisarskiCome and enjoy this taster of advanced German.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Writing creative non-fiction: a taster Course start date: Wed 10 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Julie GartonHave you had experiences that will move, delight or entertain readers? This taster session in creative non-fiction explores approaches to capturing your most poignant moments and crafting them into inspiring pieces of literature.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Ways into screenwriting Course start date: Wed 7 May 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nico MensingaLearn to write for the screen on this practical, introductory course. Writing exercises, presentations and screenings will teach you key skills, and you’ll begin to produce work and an outline for a full-length project.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £120.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: improvers module 1Course start date: Mon 15 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicola HicksDevelop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have a basic understanding of lipreading consonant and vowel theory, can finger spell and have also either completed beginners modules 1, 2 and 3 or have completed a year’s lipreading classes in the past and want to re-join a course.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £155.00 Concession £120.00
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