- The Twelve Caesars, Emperors of RomeCourse start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael DuiganDiscover the extraordinary lives of the first rulers of Imperial Rome. Ancient historians have given us vivid accounts of the sometimes amusing, often scandalous, but always fascinating events in their lives. Can we distinguish between 'fact’ and vicious propaganda? A visit to the British Museum is included.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - The beginnings of Impressionism: Millet and the Barbizon SchoolCourse start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberWho said the Impressionists were the first to paint ‘en plein air’? Get lost in wood and green and light and shade in the large forest of Fontainebleau near Paris and learn about a group of 19th-century painters who influenced the Impressionists in the art of painting landscape outside.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Poetry Reading GroupCourse start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sophie OxenhamThis Poetry Reading Group explores a wide range of poetry across different themes and periods, in a supportive and friendly group. Each week we will read and discuss a selection of 2-4 poems, focusing on a different theme each session. The tutor will select poetry from different poets, forms and periods, introducing you to a broad range of poetic voices and perspectives. Poetry is for everyone - come and join us!
Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - An introduction to art historyCourse start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Thomas BalfeArt history is much more than decoding secrets and symbols. It is about critical thinking and empathy, understanding how an artwork reflects an artist’s interpretation of their world, and what it says to you about our world now. This course is designed to build your confidence in understanding visual art of the Western tradition. It is designed for both the absolute beginner and those with some existing art historical knowledge.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £168.00 - The Healing Power of Dionysian celebrationsCourse start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Maria ContosNietzsche in his book ‘The death of tragedy’ claims that by not experiencing Dionysian festivals in the modern world, we have lost the capacity to truly affirm life.
This session is part of the 2024 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £19.00 - Celebrate through singing Welsh songsCourse start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Clare WhiteheadEnergise yourself singing and connecting with others in the Welsh language. You do not need to speak Welsh.
This session is part of the 2024 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £19.00 - Working with adults who stammer: a course for speech and language therapists
Course start date: Mon 13 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman, Vivien Grant-JonesDesigned for speech and language therapists, this four-day interactive workshop will cover assessment and selection, stammering modification, interiorised stammering, cluttering, acquired stammering and an introduction to mindfulness. Opportunity to practise teaching techniques to clients included.
Note: this course runs on these days: October 13-15; and a final follow-up day on March 30..Full fee £599.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £599.00 - Understanding the Digital World Course start date: Wed 15 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Marc CohenThis is a new course and we are currently preparing the course outline.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - ITEC Level 2 Award in providing Facial Skincare (adults 21+) Course start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Stacey ShimAre 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 - Jazz today Course start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Albi GravenerAn exploration of jazz music as we find it today and as it has developed over the past forty years.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00 - Exploring Kant: the theory of knowledgeCourse start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gabriel Olumide ApataWhat do we know? How do we know it? What are the limits of knowledge? Join this course to explore the area of Kant’s philosophy which focuses on his theory of knowledge.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Indigenous Australian art: an introduction Course start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Arjmand AzizIndigenous Australian art has, in recent years, been increasingly exhibited and discussed in Britain. Yet little is known about the history and development of this art movement and the oeuvres of the artists responsible for its creation. This introductory course will provide a history of how Indigenous Australian artists have changed and challenged the course of national and international art fields in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Welsh singing Christmas carolsCourse start date: Wed 3 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Clare WhiteheadLove singing at Christmas? Join this workshop to learn and sing Welsh Christmas carols.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £19.00 - Italian film nightCourse start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Francesco BucciolWith proceeds going to the City Lit Student Bursary, the Italian Film Night is a chance to round out the term with a fun movie night in the college. The film will be presented by Francesco Bucciol, head of the Classics department and our Italian GCSE and A Level tutor. Francesco will also lead a discussion after the film.
For this term's Italian film night, we will be showing and discussing excerpts from a classic (perhaps THE classic) Italian film, La Dolce Vita.Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00 - Symphonies in productionCourse start date: Wed 14 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pauline GreeneStudy symphonies coming up in the 2026–27 season, we will discuss their composition, context and style, and then hear a selection ofmusical examples. NB Break week: 30 May 2027.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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