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  1. Drawing: ink and wash techniques
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 11 Nov 2024 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Adam Hennessey
    The immediacy and versatility of ink and wash is perfect for those sketching on location, for designers and for students interested in watercolour techniques. Take the opportunity to explore the basic techniques of this exciting process.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
  2. Gentle movement for healthy living
    Course start date:  Wed 8 Jan 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Eveltos Pagdades
    Do you want to live a healthier life and you are not sure where to start? You will learn and practise a variety of exercises to improve your fitness, flexibility, balance and general health. This course is fun and inclusive, whatever your level of fitness.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00
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  3. Get Fit for 2025
    Course start date:  Fri 10 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Caroline Ings-Chambers
    This total body conditioning course aims to boost your stamina, shape your body and energise your fitness levels, whilst working to music.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00
  4. Latin American literary classics
    Course start date:  Fri 17 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Richard Niland
    From Mexico to Patagonia, Latin America has produced some of the most spellbinding literature of the modern age. From dictatorship and death to national identity and the natural world, join us as we investigate the cultural heritage of the continent through some of its best writers.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
  5. Fitness Pilate
    Course start date:  Fri 17 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Fitness Pilates is a fresh approach to classic Pilates that works with all those 600 muscles in the human body. Try it, get stronger and leaner!
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00
  6. Borderlines of madness in 19th century fiction
    Course start date:  Fri 31 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sarah Wise
    We will explore various themes related to insanity and altered states of consciousness by examining a number of 19th-century works of fiction. Novelists and poets often had the greatest insights into the workings of the mind, and many Victorian psychiatrists cited works of fiction in their case studies. Among the authors we will analyse are Charlotte Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Gogol, Herman Melville and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  7. Painting: oil techniques and mediums
    Course start date:  Fri 7 Mar 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Henry Gibbons Guy
    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
  8. Psychology of attachment
    Course start date:  Fri 2 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Adrian Scott
    Romantic and professional relationships: discover your style of attachment and learn how it can influence you in love and work relationships.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00
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  9. Ways of reading: aspects of narrative theory
    Course start date:  Fri 16 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Jenny Stevens
    What do we mean by ‘literary fiction’? What expectations do we bring to the novels we read? Do we really ‘escape’ when we enter fictional worlds? These are just some of the questions addressed in a course which focuses on the analysis of prose fiction. Reading texts as short as one-sentence ‘flash fiction’ to complete short stories, it engages with writing from a wide range of periods and authors, paying close attention to narrative techniques and their effects.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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