- Life drawing after work
Course start date: Wed 9 Jul 2025 (and 6 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
A 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 - The beginnings of Impressionism: Millet and the Barbizon School Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberWho said the Impressionists were the first to paint ‘en plein air’? Get lost in wood and green and light and shade in the large forest of Fontainebleau near Paris and learn about a group of 19th-century painters who influenced the Impressionists in the art of painting landscape outside.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Angela Carter: ‘A Different Kind of Human Being’ Course start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Fiona McCullochThis course will introduce and discuss the fiction of renowned author, Angela Carter, specifically focusing upon one novel and one short story. Carter wanted her writing to ‘demythologise the fictions that regulate our lives’, to explore how society narrates us into being and holds us there. In doing so, she offers us a chance to read and, ultimately, release ourselves through her work, as we come to understand the relationship between fiction and reality. For Carter, both of these – fiction and reality – are two sides of the same coin.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Communicating effectively at workCourse start date: Wed 16 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jonathan MulquinHow skilfully do you manage the impression you give with the words you use and the statements you make? Develop your speaking and meeting skills in the workplace in this intensive summer course which takes place in the college.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00 - ‘Stranger’ Things: Muriel Spark’s Shapeshifting Course start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Fiona McCullochThis course will introduce and discuss two novels by eminent author, Muriel Spark- Memento Mori (1959) and The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960). Her writing wilfully upends notions of conformity and acts as a disrupter to accepted conventions. Instead, ‘Spark beckons us to encounter the stranger’ (Marilyn Reizbaum). Playfully disrupting passive readers and stretching comfort zones, Spark’s work provides a space to access unaccustomed outlooks that make us rethink our relationship with ourselves, others, and the world. Instead of unconsciously going with the flow, she awakens us to life’s stranger things.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Economic paradigms: are there alternatives to capitalism?Course start date: Wed 19 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Caglar EzikogluExplore diverse economic theories beyond capitalism in economic paradigms with regards to the alternatives of capitalism and broaden your understanding of global economic systems.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Introduction to the Wallace Collection Course start date: Wed 19 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Julie BarlowEach week, we'll explore a different aspect of the Wallace Collection looking at its fine and decorative art objects, including paintings, furniture, porcelain and even arms and armour.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - 'Wild Places': Katherine Mansfield's imaginative worldsCourse start date: Wed 11 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Fiona McCullochThis course will introduce and discuss a selection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield’s approach to art is to embrace hidden depths, to seek untamed and unhindered aspects lurking in the shadows, writing with a wild surmise in an attempt to find new literary vistas. Similarly, describing herself as ‘an alien’, we will consider her self-asserted feeling of strangeness as an outsider, and how this might manifest itself in her fictional work.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Manual lymphatic drainage: detox for face and neck Course start date: Wed 11 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Janet WhiteheadWould you like to learn how to give a detox facial massage? Based on the lymphatic system, this technique is designed to eliminate toxins and improve the skin's appearance by boosting the immune system.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £189.00 - ‘Looking Straight at the World’: Pat Barker’s Fictional VisionCourse start date: Wed 11 Mar 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Fiona McCullochThis course will introduce and discuss the fiction of distinguished British author, Pat Barker, delving into her first two novels as a means of considering her premise that ‘looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer’. Hailing from the Northeast of England, Barker unflinchingly depicts situations and characters that pull no punches as she looks the world straight in the eye. In doing so, she offers readers who wish to accompany her, at times, a mirror reflecting what polite society’s gaze often evades.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Reflexology: an introduction Course start date: Wed 18 Mar 2026
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 and bring a bath towel.Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £87.00 Concession £76.00 - London Churches Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberCome and join us in an offsite class visiting churches in London that you might not know are there. On this course we visit less well-known churches, but which are rich in history, art and heritage. There are monuments, statues, paintings and plaques to look at. We will look at both the exteriors and interiors of these churches and get to know their architectural styles and treasures within.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - From Free Cinema to Woodfall Films: A British RevolutionCourse start date: Wed 22 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: John WischmeyerAs the 1960s beckoned, a new mood swept through Britain and then around the world. With anger growing at an out-of-touch establishment, the era was reflected on screen by Woodfall Films, founded in 1958 on the back of the phenomenally successful Royal Court Theatre production of “Look Back Anger”. Writer John Osborn, director Tony Richardson and producer Harry Saltzman formed Woodfall Films Co., making an incendiary brand of social realist films. In A Taste of Honey or Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (both by Tony Richardson in 1961/62) and This Sporting Life (1963 Lindsay Anderson), working-class life was suddenly in the spotlight with an unheard of honesty. The same risk-taking spirit led the company to find a new generation of actors such as Albert Finney, Rita Tushingham, Richard Harris and Tom Courtenay. Films like Tom Jones (1963 Tony Richardson) then expanded Woodfall in an irreverent and colourful direction that led to ‘swinging London’ films —further securing Woodfall’s extraordinary chapter in the history of British film. From 1958 to 1984 Woodfall produced twenty award-winning, often genre-defining films. They are all here.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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