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  1. Breathe to the Sense of Oneness
    Course start date:  Wed 27 Nov 2024

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Sarah Scott
    Learn how breathing practices can alter the state of mind and expand perspective towards a refreshed sense of wellbeing.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00
  2. Continuing Yoga for Deaf people: mixed levels
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 27 Nov 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sarah Scott
    Discover enhanced energy - as you find space in your body to breathe and move a little more freely and with more awareness. This course will help to deepen your connection to yoga, and your inner strength and stamina for this wild world. The seasons and the moon will be taken into account as we explore breathing practices (pranayama) and mudras to steady and calm the mind. Previous experience of yoga is helpful.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00
  3. Italian film night
    Course start date:  Wed 11 Dec 2024

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Francesco Bucciol
    With proceeds going to the City Lit Student Bursary, the Italian Film Night is a chance to round out the term with a fun movie night in the college. The film will be presented by Francesco Bucciol, head of the Classics department and our Italian GCSE and A Level tutor. Francesco will also lead a discussion after the film.







    For this term's Italian film night, we will be showing and discussing excerpts from a classic (perhaps THE classic) Italian film, La Dolce Vita.
    Full fee £9.00 Senior fee £9.00 Concession £9.00
  4. Lunchtime lecture: Art on the Silk Road
    Course start date:  Wed 8 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Sarah Jaffray
    An introduction to the Silk Road and the eclectic art it produced. We explore how cultural connections transformed visual cultures from China to Byzantium.



    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 £7.00
  5. Indigenous Australian art at the British Museum
    Course start date:  Wed 22 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Arjmand Aziz
    The British Museum holds a significant collection of contemporary Indigenous Australian art across several media including paintings, glass and fibre sculpture and works on bark (amongst others). This object-based course provides an introductory examination of the rich diversity of works on display in the collection as well as providing critical frameworks for analysing how the objects are presented and interpreted in a museum context.
    Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £31.00 Concession £25.00
  6. Lunchtime lecture: Eric Ravilious – networks of art & design
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Mar 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Julia Musgrave
    In this lunchtime lecture we explore the art of Eric Ravilious and the artworld in which he operated. We look at how his career developed with the helped of William Rothenstein and Paul Nash, and meet some of his friends and inspirations including Tirzah Garwood and Edward Bawden.



    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 £7.00
  7. Great works: Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges
    Course start date:  Wed 2 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Trish Shaw
    The fantastical opera L'Enfant et les sortileges, by Maurice Ravel, was first performed in March 1925 at the Monte Carlo Opera. Come and explore this delightful work, with plot and libretto by the novelist Collete, and its magical characters and even more magical music.
    Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00
  8. Lunchtime lecture: Lee Miller's surrealist eye
    Course start date:  Wed 2 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Sarah Jaffray
    Explore the photography of Lee Miller, emphasising its relationship to the surrealist movement. Understand why Miller was affiliated with the movement and how it impacted her art and photojournalism.



    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 £7.00
  9. Great works: Smetana's Ma Vlast
    Course start date:  Wed 9 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Katy Hamilton
    Among the numerous operas, piano pieces, choral and chamber works composed by Bedrich Smetana, surely the best known is his depiction of the river Vltava from his cycle of symphonic poems, Má Vlast. This session explores the origins of Smetana’s six-movement cycle composed across several years, the stories that he conjures in such vivid orchestral colours, and its meaning for Czech national identity in the later nineteenth century.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00
  10. Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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