- City Lit gift vouchers - the perfect gift
Looking for that perfect present? Treat someone to the gift of learning with a course at City Lit. Available from £10, our gift vouchers can be used to book a place on any of our courses, from London walks and food tasting to museum visits, poetry and much more. Simply purchase your voucher and the recipient can choose from thousands of courses, at a time which suits them.Full fee £10.00 - French 3 upper: taster Course start date: Tue 9 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Yolande Mallet De ChaunyCome and discover what an upper intermediate French class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied French for 4-5 years recently or have done an A-level some time ago.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Make a willow basket in two evenings Course start date: Tue 9 Dec 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: John PageMake a small bread or fruit basket over two evening sessions. Suitable for beginners as an introduction to traditional willow basketry techniques, or for those with some experience wanting to refresh their skills.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Welsh film nightCourse start date: Tue 9 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rhianwen DanielJoin us in the Cultureplex to round off the term with a classic Anglo-Welsh film — a relaxed evening of culture and cinema.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Scottish Gaelic pronunciation workshop: mouth musicCourse start date: Tue 9 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael HillDiscover the rhythm of Scots Gaelic on this lively workshop on puirt à beul—a fun, musical way to master pronunciation and explore Celtic culture!
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Italian tasterCourse start date: Tue 9 Dec 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Maria FontanaGet a flavour of this beautiful language and begin to discover how it works. Learn some useful phrases and pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners and a chance to decide if learning Italian is something you might like to take further.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - German intermediate x mas specialCourse start date: Tue 9 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Barbara PölletCome to this one off German intermediate x mas special in the heart of London.Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00 - Orchestra workshop Course start date: Tue 9 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Robert Puzey, Trish ShawA fun, intensive workshop for players of orchestral instruments of Grade 6 level upwards, with good music reading skills. Please click the 'Start interview' button, follow the login instructions, and the Music Department will contact you.
Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £97.00 - Art in medieval Sahara: Mansa Musa, the golden king of ancient MaliCourse start date: Tue 9 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anita ChowdryThis session explores the art of Mansa Musa, the celebrated ruler of the 14th century gold-producing Empire of Mali in the Western Sahara and Sahel. This provides a way into further study of the Precolonial African Kingdoms.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Brazilian Portuguese film matineeCourse start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
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The Brazilian Portuguese Film Matinee is a chance to find out more about Brazilian cinema in the college. The film will be presented by one of our wonderful Brazilian Portuguese tutors and there will be a discussion afterwards.
The film we will be watching is the critically-acclaimed Aquarius, a 2016 co-production of Brazil and France, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and starring Sônia Braga;
Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Music analysis for listeners: Messiah Part I Course start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pauline GreeneHandel’s Messiah, composed in1741, is a stalwart work for concert programmers everywhere at Christmas and Easter. We look at Part I, from the beginning to the duet and chorus ‘His yoke is easy’, briefly putting the work in context and examining its forms and overall structure. We will then analyse a passage of recitative, an aria, and a chorus, in order to show how the composer created his effects and how effective this was for audiences then and now. *This course includes a 60 minute break.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - German beginners: module 1 Course start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anna RiolandChoose either an in-person course in the heart of London or live online sessions.This course aims to enable students to begin to communicate with some fluency in a range of everyday situations.The emphasis is on the practical use of German and the development of your speaking and listening skills. Based on chapters 1-4 of Willkommen (Hodder Arnold).
Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Spanish DELE B2 tasterCourse start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Montserrat TrujilloAre you looking into taking an Exam course in Spanish but want to try it before you commit?
Get a taste of what it would be like to prepare for the 'Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera B2'. The course will explain how the actual Preparation to the DELE B2 will work and will offer snippets of activities that will be carried out during the course.
Please note that you should have studied Spanish for about five years or have an equivalent level.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Lunchtime lecture: William Blake, a life of innocence and experience Course start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayExplore the art of William Blake from a political perspective, looking at his social and cultural context as a working-class artist working in a rapidly changing world.
Full fee £14.00 Senior fee £11.00 Concession £9.00 - Italian film nightCourse start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Francesco BucciolWith 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 (in Italian) about the film, but there is no obligation for you to speak Italian if you don't wish to.
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 £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00
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