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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £65.00
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  5. Embodying Culture: An Introduction
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Katie Goss
    This Culture course will give you an opportunity to explore the variety of ways that embodiment has been thought and theorised. Across six weeks we will cover a variety of influential approaches to embodied life in the twentieth and twenty-first century, including biopolitics, psychoanalysis, posthumanism, affect theory, science and technology studies, feminism and queer theory.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  6. Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £87.00 Concession £76.00
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  7. The art of negotiating
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gavin Illsley
    Negotiation is a communication skill essential in solving problems and reaching your goals. Learn to prepare well and to feel confident using logical and emotional tools to achieve great outcomes. The course will be taught in the college.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £90.00
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  8. Chi Kung five elements: moving from the centre: all levels
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Heike Clarke
    Would you like to add some stillness to your existing chi kung practice?



    In this weekly course we will follow the support cycle of the five elements earth, metal, water, wood and fire. With a focus on earth and metal. We will slow down and connect to stillness, become more grounded, centred and relaxed, get a better energy flow and become more aware of ourselves, others and our surroundings. We will also do some standing and sitting meditation.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £139.00
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  9. Tai Chi Wu style beginners
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Neville Cote
    This 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 £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00
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  10. Tales from everywhere: international fictions from the 20th century
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Aamer Hussein
    A selection of novels from 1960 to 1980, including Heinrich Boll's powerful psychological fiction, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum; two works of speculative fiction, Marlen Haushofer's The Wall and Kay Dick's They; Latifa Zayyat's bildungsroman, The Open Door; and Mariama Ba's powerful exploration of mourning, So Long a Letter.
    Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
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  11. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00
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  12. Storytelling for business and pleasure 2
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ariella Eshed
    Exploring ways of telling stories with language, physicality, gesture and rhythm, solo and in groups. Telling brief stories has also become a strong component within the world of Business, so we shall examine the way ‘story’ can be used in talks, presentations, lectures, and more informal settings. This course will be delivered in the college and end with a presentation to an invited audience.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £160.00
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  13. A history of global capitalism
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Vina Theodorakopoulou
    Want to understand the history of global capitalism? Join Vina Theodorakopoulou to learn about the historical transitions towards what we know as capitalism today – evolution of capital, the role of the state, labour, competition, race, and innovation-automation.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  14. ITEC Level 2 Award in Providing Facial Skincare (adults 21+)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Stacey Shim
    Are you looking to gain a qualification that will enable you to provide Facial Skincare treatments, either as an add-on to your current therapist practise, or as a stand-alone offering? Our Level 2 Award in Facial Skincare will give you a recognised qualification that will allow you to provide and develop bespoke Luxury Facial Skincare treatments to your client base, both within a salon setting and as a mobile therapist.
    Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £449.00 Concession £449.00
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  15. Floor barre: general level
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Dilek Taptik
    Floor-Barre is a wonderful conditioning programme for everyone, regardless of age and ability. Work through all the important muscle groups while safely supporting the body on the floor. All levels welcome.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £90.00
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