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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. Get together and read
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Claire Allen
    Enjoy talking with other people about the things you have read? Want to share great stories, poems and drama? Come along and join the conversation. The group is led by a shared reading practitioner trained by The Reader Organisation.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £75.00
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  2. Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £55.00
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  3. Ubuntu, communitarianism and personhood: key concepts in African philosophy
    Course start date:  Wed 7 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ovett Nwosimiri
    This course is an introduction to the key concepts in African philosophy. We will analyse the various positions and contestations regarding the nature, and trends in African philosophy, debate on communitarianism and personhood, and ubuntu.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  4. Speak Shakespeare monologues and scenes: comedies
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Wed 7 May 2025

    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 A Midsummer's Night Dream and Much Ado About Nothing 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 £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  5. Play-reading
    Course start date:  Wed 7 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Simon Bowen
    Come together with others to explore the work of different playwrights, share the spoken word and gain insight into different plays. These fun and friendly sessions are for people who would like to read and discuss plays under the guidance of a theatre professional. Working in a supportive atmosphere you will read out loud and discuss the main themes of a range of both contemporary and classic texts.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  6. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00
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  7. Art in Britain since 2000: where are we now?
    Course start date:  Fri 9 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Chantal Condron
    Discover how exciting, new UK-based artists use both experimental and traditional approaches to art to address issues of identity, history and personal experience.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  8. A Very British History of Migration
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Siobhan McGuirk
    Taking a critical historical approach, this course with Dr. McGuirk charts how migration has shaped British politics, law, culture and society – and helped transform popular ideas about what it means to be British today.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  9. Thinking through philosophy: a guide
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Christopher Horner

    What is morality and what is it based on? Is the mind a ghost in the machine?  What can I really know? This is a beginner’s introduction to how philosophy tackles questions like these and many others.

    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00
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  10. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £90.00
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  11. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00
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  12. Improve your speaking voice
    Course start date:  Thu 15 May 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Lloyd Wylde
    Come and improve your vocal skills through voice production and speech exercises. Learn about self presentation, develop spontaneity and gain greater confidence in your communication skills. This is a practical course based in the college.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00
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  13. Printmaking in Europe 1400-1920: from Dürer to Munch
    Course start date:  Tue 10 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Caroline Rae

    During the course we will learn about the materials and techniques of printmaking including woodcut, etching, engraving and aquatint, and engage with prints by some of the most innovative printmakers of the era (Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya and Munch). We will consider prints in relation to several key themes including religion, colonialism, nationhood, and artistic practice, authorship and expression.

    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  14. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  15. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00
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