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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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- Reflexology: taster workshopCourse start date: Mon 7 Oct 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Janet WhiteheadExperience the relaxing benefits of hand and foot reflexology and learn how to relieve stress. Please wear comfortable clothing.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Celebrating and reflecting on the film remakeCourse start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul SuttonFilm remakes often get a bad press, but there is frequently more to them than meets the eye. Whether a remake of an older classic, as in the case of Gus van Sant’s reworking of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, for example, or the Hollywood remake of a cherished European film, these types of film reveal a set of complex cultural, national, industrial and perhaps even psychological connections. Join us to celebrate and to reflect on the film remake as we explore what makes a remake and we critically analyse some filmic examples.
This session is part of the 2024 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - Printmaking studio: focus on colour
Course start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kath CastilloA 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 - Fra Filippo Lippi and Fra Angelico – the two monastic painters Course start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberJoin us for a close reading of the works of Fra Filippo Lippi and Fra Angelico, two of 15th century Italy's most influential artists. We study their techniques, their subject matter and how they communicated narratives in painting. Explore all the wonderful tactile visual details they added to the works.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Argonautica: reading group (in translation) Course start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nikoletta ManiotiA reading group focusing on the Argonautica by the Greek poet Apollonius of Rhodes (in English translation).
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Shiatsu: taster workshopCourse start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Fernando CaboShiatsu is a Japanese healing art, deeply rooted in the philosophy and practices of traditional Chinese medicine. This therapeutic form of body work involves applying pressure to the body using a practitioner’s thumbs, palms, elbows, knees and feet. Discover the basics of how to give this relaxing and therapeutic pressure point massage.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Life drawing after work Course start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Joe RichardsonA fun, relaxed and shorter life drawing class better suited for people coming straight from work. You will be able to work from a variety of life models, in a range of materials and with a variety of poses. You will be working from the unclothed model, both male and female.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00 - Colour therapy: taster workshopCourse start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Janet WhiteheadCurious about colour and its uses in healing? Explore colour as living phenomenon and begin to expand your awareness and practice of this unique form of energy healing.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Woodblock and lino printmaking workshop Course start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gareth BerwynLearn how to create multicolour or monochrome relief prints. You'll be encouraged to work from your own source imagery (sketches, magazine cuttings, photos etc) as an inspirational lead-in to producing relief prints to take home.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Art history taster Course start date: Mon 14 Oct 2024 (and 10 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayCurious about art history? Join us for this taster session where we explore different ways into visual art and its histories from the ancient to the contemporary.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - The varied styles of the Italian Renaissance: through the lens of Pontormo and Masaccio Course start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberAn in-depth online discussion about two artists that represent to different styles of the Italian Renaissance, but who may have more in common than we think.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Global arts of Africa Course start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024
Location 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 - Reiki: taster workshopCourse start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Oge OkohReiki means 'universal energy'. Learn the basic philosophy this gentle system of healing, according to the tradition of Dr Usui.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Tuesday talks: Lubaina Himid – longing and belonging Course start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Chantal CondronThis Tuesday afternoon art history course spotlights the work of artist Lubaina Himid, one of Britain's most thought provoking artists.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Strikes in the 21st century: relevant or a thing of the past?Course start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Caglar EzikogluExplore the role and impact of strikes in contemporary society and analyse whether they remain relevant or have become obsolete in the 21st century.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £119.00
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