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Unheard Voices Scholarship
City Lit’s Malorie Blackman Scholarships for 'Unheard Voices' provide three annual awards to fund one year’s study within the Creative Writing department at City Lit. Learn more >
- Women behind the lens: 1920-2020Course start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chantal CondronExplore the work of six influential female photographers across a century of practice from 1920. Featuring Claude Cahun, Lee Miller, Dora Maar, Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, and Zanele Muholi, this course examines how each artist challenged convention, documented social realities, redefined the creative act of photography and the experience of being behind the lens.
Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Italian 3: cinque settimane, un libroCourse start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ottavia CastellinaImprove your knowledge of Italian through on this short literature course which will give you an opportunity to learn new vocabulary and practise your grammar by being exposed to authentic Italian texts. Each term learners will look at a new text and use it as a base to improve not only their reading skills but also their speaking, grammar and vocabulary.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Welsh 4/5: learning through translationCourse start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jack Pulman-SlaterImprove your understanding of the differences between English and Welsh on this practical, online translation course for Level 4/5 learners of Welsh.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Introduction to string quartetsCourse start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pauline GreeneString quartets developed new musical forms and ensured success for many composers, whilst allowing an intimate conversation with their audiences. We trace the quartets of the masters from Haydn and Mozart to Shostakovich and beyond.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00 - Oil painting: focus on light and shadeCourse start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lindsay PickettThis oil painting course takes inspiration from the moody and luminous imagery of classic Film Noir such as ‘The Third Man’. Explore composition, tonal contrast and light transitions, using a range of different oil techniques to create visually dramatic paintings.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Woodblock and lino printmaking workshopCourse start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Learn 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 £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Digital skills for business: creating professional-looking and impacting documents in Word and Excel (intermediate)Course start date: Sun 9 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Do you need to present well-organised complex documents at work that are easy to read and follow? Are you responsible for compiling reports or other long documents? On this course, you will develop all the skills you need to use Microsoft Word to create data rich documents which meet professional standards. You will learn time-saving techniques and become skilled in using outlines, templates, consistent formatting, headers, footers, tables, images as well as controlling text flow. You will also work on integrating Excel data into your Word document as well as using mail merge to distribute your documents. These are vital skills across a range of jobs that will not only save you time but also reduce the frustrations often associated with use of Word.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £80.00 - Explore: GIF making for illustrationCourse start date: Sun 9 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sophie WolfsonThis one-day course is an introduction to creating animated gifs using hand-drawn illustrated images.
Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
- Business administration with digital skills: how to be organised, efficient and customer-focused using Outlook and OneNote (intermediate)Course start date: Mon 10 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Does the amount of data coming into your inbox and folders threaten to overwhelm you? Do you need to develop a system for managing information, tasks and meetings? MS Outlook and OneNote can be part of this system but for many people they feel part of the problem rather than the solution. This course will enable them to work for you not the other way round. You will focus on how to think about problems, solve them and what you are trying to achieve. You will work on developing an email routine that allows you to concentrate on tasks at hand and not be distracted by incoming messages. You will focus on how to create a folder system on Outlook and process using quick steps, rules, categories and colour-coding so you can keep a trace of emails, tasks and appointments. You will learn simple and efficient ways to schedule your work and use notes and task and the flagging system to keep track of your priorities. In addition you will focus on how you can integrate OneNote and Outlook to save you time.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £80.00 - French 5: Barbara: une chanteuse, une chanson, une vieCourse start date: Tue 11 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pierre PorcheronVenez découvrir et écouter une grande dame de la chanson française. Quand Barbara chante, sa voix, ses émotions et sa poésie ne peuvent vous laisser indifférent. La nouvelle génération lui rend sans cesse hommage en reprenant son répertoire! - Spanish 3/4: Spanish accents explained - AndalucíaCourse start date: Wed 12 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elisabet RodriguezHow do you cope with different Spanish accents? Do you find some easier to understand than others? This series of short courses will help you understand the specificities and intricacies of a variety of Spanish and South American accents, so you can spot their speakers more easily and understand them better to keep the conversation going.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - The Cold War: Talk & WalkCourse start date: Wed 12 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us on a romp through post-War London tracing the way in which the Cold War played out on the streets, on the page and on the screen. This 1-day workshop will be structured as a morning talk and an afternoon walk after the lunch break.
Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - Collage and mixed media: 3D approachesCourse start date: Thu 13 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ruth FranklinAn 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 - Product and still life photographyCourse start date: Thu 13 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Neil WhiteThis hands-on, studio-based course is designed for photographers looking to enhance their skills in product and still life photography. You will explore lighting, composition and styling techniques to create visually compelling and professional-quality images.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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