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  1. Film studies taster
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 30 Nov 2024 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    Learn how to evaluate and discuss films while enjoying a working example of a City Lit Film Studies class. In this class we will view and explore clips from a number of films, including popular remakes, enabling us to consider and compare themes and techniques from differing filmmaking countries. There will be a chance to review – in brief – film courses at City Lit (January - March 2025).
    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00
  2. Christmas crooning
    Course start date:  Mon 9 Dec 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Richard Hartley Wilson
    Don your sparkly jumpers and get into the Christmas spirit as you sing along to some Christmas classics!
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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  3. Christmas carols sing-along
    Course start date:  Thu 12 Dec 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Siobhan Blake
    Transport yourself into a joyous frame of mind and festive spirit as you sing through some of the most beautiful settings of medieval carols. Explore harmonic textures, musical interpretations, get technical tips for tricky corners and enjoy singing these wonderful pieces with others!
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
  4. Improve your speaking voice: taster
    Course start date:  Thu 30 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Giles Abbott
    A taster class to introduce you to how you can improve the quality of your voice and standard of speech through relaxation, breath technique and articulation. This taster class will take place in one of our studios.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
  5. The influence of Greek on the English language
    Course start date:  Fri 7 Feb 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Maria Contos
    Did you know that the Oxford companion to the English language states that more than 150,000 words of English are derived from Greek, which is considered to have the richest vocabulary in the world?







    Join this lively classroom based in the heart of London workshop where you will be introduced to how Ancient Greek influenced the vocabulary of the English language.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
  6. Great works: Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges
    Course start date:  Wed 2 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Trish Shaw
    The fantastical opera L'Enfant et les sortileges, by Maurice Ravel, was first performed in March 1925 at the Monte Carlo Opera. Come and explore this delightful work, with plot and libretto by the novelist Collete, and its magical characters and even more magical music.
    Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00
  7. Great composers: Puccini
    Course start date:  Thu 3 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Pauline Greene
    Everyone knows at least one Puccini tune, even if they’ve never seen a Puccini opera. Football fans, for example, can sing ‘Nessun dorma’, and there are plenty more where we know the tune even if we can’t sing all the words or know which opera it comes from. What is it about this composer that made him so famous in his own time and in ours? In this centenary year of his death we look at his operas, his bohemian lifestyle, and his reputation. Is he a ‘great’ composer? How can we decide?
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00
  8. Great works: Bizet's Carmen
    Course start date:  Thu 10 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Pauline Greene
    Bizet’s Carmen is one of the most performed operas world-wide. We know it as a thrilling drama involving love, betrayal and death, focused on a charismatic character who brings about her own destruction at the hands of the man who loves her. Bizet never saw the popular version of his opera and died thinking it was a flop. We explore the story behind its composition and how it became a super-hit.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00
  9. Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites
    Course start date:  Wed 25 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    Explore the work of Van Eyck in relation to Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelites more generally; consider how this 15th century painter influenced artists some 300 years later.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
  10. Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00
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