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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. Painting: oil techniques and mediums
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sisetta Zappone
    Oil paint is a medium with a long historical tradition, capable of heavy impasto effects and delicate transparent colour films. Working practically, in the studio, this course will expand your understanding of approaches to building a variety of surfaces in your paint working with mediums and expanding your use of texture and glazing This course is for all levels – both beginners and more experienced painters.
    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 £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  4. Full fee £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £207.00
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  5. Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  6. Introduction to children's book illustration
    Course start date:  Thu 5 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Dee Shulman
    Our Introductory courses provide a perfect way-in to a creative field.







    The Children’s Book industry is thriving, largely due to rising literacy levels, and a growing awareness of the importance of early childhood education. As a result, Children’s Book creators are in demand.



    Our tutors will teach you the many and various skills you’ll need to illustrate books for children - from drawing and painting (analogue and digital), to sequencing and pacing visual narratives.



    You'll learn about the children’s publishing sector; gaining a sense of the different genres and markets for children's books, and where your illustration style might fit.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00
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  7. Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00
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  8. 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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  9. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00
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  10. Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  11. Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00
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  12. Still life in the history of art: opulence and fragility
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Elizabeth Eyres
    Still-life paintings usually represent ordinary things, often small and arranged on an indoor surface, without human presence. Long regarded in western art as the lowliest subject or “genre”, one that only required technical skill rather than imagination, still lifes are now considered some of the most charming and best loved paintings and can contain intriguing meanings that repay close study.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  13. 20th to 21st Century War Poetry: British and International
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Stephen Winfield
    Explore the astonishing range of poetic responses to a hundred years of warfare, acts of witnessing, endurance, defiance and condemnation by writers across the globe: Sassoon and Wilfred Owen in Britain, Brecht, Milosz, Celan, Akhmatova and Stepanova in Europe and Russia, Darwish and Zhadan in the Middle East and Ukraine, and many others. How do they describe the indescribable? High art or doggerel, what does it matter once the bombs start to fall?
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  14. Shakespeare: King Lear and The Tempest
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sophie Oxenham
    Join us to explore two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, his tragedy King Lear, and his late ‘romance’, The Tempest. We’ll consider the connections – and differences - between these works, thinking about Shakespeare’s use of genre and language, the historical contexts, changing critical perspectives, and aspects of the plays in performance.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  15. Collage and mixed media: 3D approaches
    Course start date:  Thu 13 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ruth Franklin
    An exciting short, experimental course taking an adventure in collage to make 3D constructions from paper, amalgamating found materials and images to make exciting new sculptural forms.
    Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00
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