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All our courses here at City Lit are taught by expert tutors such as published authors, academics, practising artists, and experienced professionals. Our friendly, supportive, and inspiring tutors are here to boost your confidence and motivate you at every step. We always ensure that your journey with us is enjoyable, positive, and thought-provoking.
We offer online courses and in-person courses. Our interactive online courses are taught live and in small groups. Read our guide to online learning for more information. In-person courses are delivered at our modern college campus in London near Covent Garden.
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- Global arts of Africa
Course start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Thomas BalfeThis course introduces major forms of African art in their regional and global contexts. It studies classical traditions of carving, metal casting, architecture and textile arts as well as twentieth-century and contemporary developments, including the work of photographers and conceptual artists.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Sexuality, Colonialism and Law: is there a dark side to gay rights?Course start date: Tue 22 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Joshua HeppleNearly seventy countries still criminalise gay sex. Why is this? This course will attend to this question by examining the links between sexuality, colonialism and postcolonial gay rights.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Still life in the history of art: opulence and fragility Course start date: Tue 5 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth EyresStill-life paintings usually represent ordinary things, often small and arranged on an indoor surface, without human presence. Long regarded in western art as the lowliest subject or “genre”, one that only required technical skill rather than imagination, still lifes are now considered some of the most charming and best loved paintings and can contain intriguing meanings that repay close study.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Get Fit for 2025Course start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Caroline Ings-ChambersThis 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 - Gentle Yoga Course start date: Thu 26 Sep 2024 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Madlyn Ray-JonesStretch, relax and feel good! This course is suitable for those who wish to enjoy the benefits of yoga at a gentle pace. Alternatives are offered if a student finds any particular postures (asanas) uncomfortable.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £139.00 - Pilates Barre: Mixed LevelCourse start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Caroline Ings-ChambersPilates Barre brings a dynamic standing element to the regular core muscle work of Pilates. Pilates sequences at the barre improve upright posture, build core strength, strengthen and shape the muscles of the hips and legs, and develop co-ordination skills.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00 - Light weights for everyday strengthCourse start date: Mon 23 Sep 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Madlyn Ray-JonesImprove your strength and muscle tone so everyday activities including carrying heavy shopping, walking and climbing stairs become easier. Enjoy this light weights class to music with a gentle warm up and cool down stretch.Enjoy this light weights class with a gentle warm up and cool down stretch.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00 - Women in art 1800-1900 Course start date: Tue 14 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth EyresDuring the 19th century female painters and sculptors gained greater prominence, although a career in art was still challenging for women artists. In this course we examine their work and how such progress was achieved. - Use your voice assertivelyCourse start date: Mon 23 Sep 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lloyd WyldeDo you want to sound more confident, grounded, self-assured and assertive? Improve your vocal skills through a series of exercises that will support you to become more vocally confident, expressive and dynamic without appearing arrogant. This course will be delivered in the college.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00 - Imposters, Fakes and Hoaxes in FictionCourse start date: Tue 21 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate WilkinsonWhy assume a false identity? What could be the risks and rewards of pretending to be someone else? And what can fictions about ‘faking it’ tell us about ourselves, what we believe, and why? This literature course takes a deep dive into remarkable stories of impersonation and identity: psychiatric intrigue in Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Case Study; Patricia Highsmith’s classic thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley; a New York art controversy in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World; and a notorious Victorian trial in Zadie Smith’s The Fraud.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - First Poets of the Modern City: Baudelaire, Whitman, Laforgue, EliotCourse start date: Tue 28 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laurie SmithWe explore how Baudelaire, Whitman, Laforgue and Eliot were the first poets to express in detail both the exciting
opportunities and the emotional and spiritual damage of life in the modern city. We will look in particular how Baudelaire’s poems and Laforgue’s translations of Whitman into French influenced Eliot’s early poetry, culminating in The Waste Land (1922).Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Masterpieces of World LiteratureCourse start date: Tue 28 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rebecca JonesCome and join us for a fascinating introduction to texts often considered ‘masterpieces’ of world literature, as we read texts from across centuries, languages and national borders, both within and beyond the English-speaking world. Reading major authors such as Miguel de Cervantes, Chinua Achebe, Toni Morrison and Arundhati Roy, amongst others, you’ll leave the course with a new appreciation and understanding of the world’s rich literary heritage in all its diversity and complexity.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Women in art: 1900-1960 Course start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth EyresOn this course we shall explore and examine the considerable, and significant, contributions of women painters and sculptors to the avant-garde art world during the first half of the 20th century. - From the 1880s to the 1930s: how the new East End was born Course start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Tutors: David RosenbergIn an area branded 'the hell of poverty', libraries, theatres, art galleries and social housing were established. Workers went on strike and activists campaigned for better lives. Discover this history by taking actual, guided walks through six tumultuous decades of change. The first session is in the classroom at Keeley Street but all other sessions are guided walks. Full details of the meeting places for each walk will be given at the 1st session. 6 guided walks with 2 Zoom sessions.
This course will be delivered online and in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Masterworks of 19th Century French and Russian literatureCourse start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Richard NilandThis class explores classic texts of 19th century French and Russian literature, discussing literary style, themes, and contexts as a way of developing and sharing responses to celebrated European writing. Among the French writers examined will be Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert and Rimbaud, with our Russians including Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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