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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. From the 1880s to the 1930s: how the new East End was born
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Rosenberg
    In 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. Please note: no class/break week 27 May 2025. 6 guided walks with 2 Zoom sessions.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  2. Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  3. Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00
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  4. Printmaking studio: focus on colour
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Kath Castillo
    A course for intermediate and experienced printmakers wanting to build on previous experience and experiment with process to consolidate and hone technical skills. The focus is on colour application, advanced intaglio processes, realising personal projects and the production of high quality prints.
    Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00
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  5. Homes, houses and art in Europe: 1900-1960
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    Knock on the door of artists’ houses and studios from 1900-1960 to experience exciting and visually dazzling spaces created over the course of their careers. At a time when artists were beginning to forge their own brave new visual worlds, this course considers what the homes might tell us about the artists and how they wanted their homes to be seen. This is the second part of a series on Homes and Houses; it can also be taken without having done the previous course.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  6. Cult TV: David Lynch's Twin Peaks
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    When it hit UK TV screens in October 1990, David Lynch’s Twin Peaks was more than just another US television series, it was as one critic describes it, ‘a seismic event in popular culture’ (Tobias 2020). In an era when TV aired live it was a must-see series with fevered pre-episode speculation and critical post-broadcast discussion characterising viewers’ engagement with this cult phenomenon. The mystery over who killed Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) preoccupied TV viewers across the autumn and winter of 1990. For me it was the first live series that I watched from start to finish.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00
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  7. Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
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  8. First Novels Revisited: Amis, McEwan, Barnes, Ishiguro
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Lewis Ward
    Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro are household names of contemporary British fiction. But how did their careers begin in the 1970s and 1980s? And how do their early efforts stand up today?
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00
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  9. Dance 60+
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Francis Angol
    Join our weekly dance and movement classes to improve mobility, posture, balance and coordination. Our aim is to inspire older men and women to get creative with dance and movement.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £125.00
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  10. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £65.00
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  11. Hell, Heaven and Purgatory in the Middle Ages
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    Why were images to do with the afterlife so prevalent in the Middle Ages? Come, face your eternal destinies and look at images such as the Last Judgement, skeletons, filthy flesh, worms, ghosts and Hell mouths.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  12. Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00
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  13. Contemporary dance: beginners
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Orley Quick
    This Contemporary dance class is a dynamic and fun experience based on the principles of Release-technique and some playful explorations. Simple movement phrases and tasks are built upon to develop greater awareness of the body in space and in relation to others. Floor, centre and travelling exercises lead to efficiency of movement, rhythmical and free-flowing dance sequences.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £139.00
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  14. Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00
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  15. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00
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