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Whether you’re interested in a one-off talk or taster class, a short course over a few weeks, or a year-long programme. You'll find a course to suit your schedule and goals.

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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 £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00
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  3. Screen printing in a day
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 6 Jul 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Adam Hogarth
    In this fun, 1-day workshop you will be taught how to print and register a two colour screenprint using monoprint, colour blends and pre-made photographic screens. You will be taught some basic screen making process and insight into making digital artwork. This will set you up for longer and more advanced screenprinting classes.
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  4. Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00
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  5. Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £111.00
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  6. Chair-based exercise for everyday health
    Course start date:  Wed 24 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Cathy Norris

    Fun chair based (optional) exercise to help with everyday health. Designed for those who want to keep moving, but don’t want floor-based exercise.  Gently improving your fitness, whilst making you feel energised and rejuvenated.

    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £119.00
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  7. Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00
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  8. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  9. Exploring Kant: the theory of knowledge
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gabriel Olumide Apata
    What 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
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  11. Nordic modernism: 1880-1925
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Caroline Levisse

    Discover the bold beauty of Nordic art from 1880 to 1925—from luminous coastal scenes to vivid abstraction. This 5-week course explores key artists like Gallen-Kallela, Munch, Hjertén, Schjerfbeck, GAN, and Iceland’s Þorláksson, tracing a journey through modernism, from Impressionism and Symbolism to regional variations on Cubism and Fauvism.

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  13. Hell, Heaven and Purgatory in Medieval Art
    Course start date:  Wed 4 Mar 2026

    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 £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  14. Speak Shakespeare monologues and scenes: comedies
    Course start date:  Wed 22 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Vernon Thompson

    Do you enjoy speaking Shakespeare or would you like to enjoy it? Whether you are preparing a Shakespearean monologue for audition or simply have an interest in their structure, rhythm and poetry, this course enables you to work on and speak monologues from the Comedies with confidence as well as rehearse duologues/ scene work from As You Like It and All's Well That Ends Well specifically. The course is held at the college, and includes a trip to the Box Office Studio in Shoreditch, site of the original Theatre where the Lord Chamberlain's Men performed.

     

     

    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £118.00
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