- Introduction to printmaking techniquesCourse start date: Wed 2 Jul 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This fast-paced course reveals some of the processes used to make fine art prints. You will try both relief and intaglio printmaking methods. This course is for beginners and those with limited experience who want to discover how printmaking techniques actually work. An ideal way to start printmaking.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Cultureplex Ciné-Club: The Films of David CronenbergCourse start date: Tue 16 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katie GossOver six weeks, this Ciné Club will dive into the singular, unsettling world of David Cronenberg - one of modern cinema’s most provocative and visionary directors.
We will explore Cronenberg’s evolution from early body horror classics to his later psychological thrillers, questioning what his work reveals about human nature and our ever-evolving relationship with the body, technology and culture.
Each session will feature a screening of a key film from his filmography, followed by an in-depth discussion examining its central themes, cinematic techniques, cultural and cinematic impact. From the merging of flesh and technoscientific apparatus, to the themes of obsession and transgression, we will see how Cronenberg’s cinema helps us explore the complexities and obscurities of modern life.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00 - Cultureplex Ciné-Club: women directors and their wonderlandsCourse start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katie GossCome and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club: Women directors and their Wonderlands, where you will have the opportunity to view and discuss the work of innovative female filmmakers whose work generates dazzling visions of alternative modes of living and spectatorship. A development from our existing Cultureplex Ciné-Club courses and taking its cue from the famous Parisian Ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, this incarnation of the film club will allow for the viewing of a different film each week, followed by detailed discussion and debate. The film will be introduced, and placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00 - British art: 1700-1850Course start date: Mon 6 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Thomas BalfeIn the period 1700–1850, figures such as William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough and J. M. W. Turner emerged as leading figures in a newly ascendent British art tradition. This course explores British art of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century through key themes, including celebrity, satire, exploration, science, and social and industrial revolution.
Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Collage and mixed media: experimental approachesCourse start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ruth FranklinCollage is an exciting, accessible and creative medium. Experiment with a rich variety of materials and found images to make vibrant work experimenting with surface, form, colour and pattern, inspired by artists who make effective use of this way of working.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Woodblock and lino printmaking: experimental approachesCourse start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Learn how to create multicolour or monochrome relief prints. You'll be encouraged to work from your own source imagery (sketches, magazine cuttings, photos etc) as an inspirational lead-in to producing relief prints to take home.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Calligraphy: modern copperplate variationsCourse start date: Wed 14 Jan 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Veiko KespersaksLearn how to write elegant stylish letterforms using a flexible pointed nib with ink. Once you’ve learnt how to write a basic alphabet, we’ll begin breaking the rules of traditional calligraphy to find a style that is all your own. The course is suitable for beginners as well as improvers.
Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Woodblock and lino printmaking workshopCourse start date: Fri 16 Jan 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Learn how to create multicolour or monochrome relief prints. You'll be encouraged to work from your own source imagery (sketches, magazine cuttings, photos etc) as an inspirational lead-in to producing relief prints to take home.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Illustrating narrativesCourse start date: Thu 5 Mar 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ciara FloodOn this course you will explore practical methods of storyboarding and the ability to take a narrative and translate it into a sequence of images. This skill is essential for children’s book illustrators, graphic novelists, animators and film makers.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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