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- Queering characterisation: writing LGBTQIA+ characters
Course start date: Sat 21 Jun 2025Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Char HeatherJoin this interactive one-day course which brings together essential elements of characterisation and its relation to plot through the lens of queer writing. You will delve into elements of craft in characterisation while referring back to examples and questions of LGBTQIA+ representation and histories in literature.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Demystifying PoetryCourse start date: Sat 21 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Whether you are new to poetry or an experienced reader of verse, this course will enable and enhance your enjoyment by exploring the techniques that poetry uses to affect our response and create meaning. Exploring rhythm and rhyme, voice, mood, imagery, language and allusions, we will focus on a diverse range of poetic examples to examine how this powerful form of literature works to create emotion and connection with the reader.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - International Monetary Fund (IMF): Friend or Foe?Course start date: Sat 21 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tariq HassanAfter more than 75 years since the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world’s lender of last resort, made its first loan, the effects of its policies in general and lending practices in particular remain contested.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00 - Study day: The Dada revolution from Duchamp to Hannah HöchCourse start date: Sat 21 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SandersThis course will explore the Dada movement, focusing on Duchamp and Höch as key examples, considering such issues as social and political context, theoretical interests, material experimentation, and artistic influences.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Spanish 3: one season, one painting: verano Course start date: Sat 21 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
En estos talleres dedicados a las cuatro estaciones vamos a activar nuestros sentidos: vista, oido, olfato y gusto. Ven a practicar tu español mientras intercambiamos las sugestiones, impresiones y sentimientos que nos evoca una musica, un color o una pintura.
Ideal for students who have done 3 or 4 years of Spanish, and are looking to practise more talking and listening skills, as well as develop their knowledge of art.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £19.00 - VTCT level 3 Award in Crystal therapy Course start date: Sun 22 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Oge OkohCrystals are much more than just pretty stones; they have been used for their healing properties and as protective amulets and talismans in many different cultures around the world for centuries. Learn how to practice crystal therapy to a professional level on this exciting course.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £449.00 Concession £449.00 - Managing stress and increasing emotional resilience Course start date: Sun 22 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Ameena RahmanDevelop your skills and confidence to deal with difficult and challenging situations by understanding stress and building your emotional resilience. - Textiles: embroidery and embellishment Course start date: Sun 22 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Renata MinoldoAn introduction to the world of embroidery and embellishment. Explore a concept of your choice through experimentation with embroidery and embellishment techniques using hand and machine methods.Full fee £289.00 Senior fee £231.00 Concession £188.00 - Travel writing workshop Course start date: Mon 23 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Susan GrossmanMake travelling pay. Learn how to get a commission, finance a trip and put your adventures into words, led by practical exercises and expert industry guidance. - Gua Sha Facial massage: Taster WorkshopCourse start date: Tue 24 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Elena De AntoniFacial gua sha is a traditional Chinese skincare technique that involves gently gliding a smooth, flat tool (often made of jade or rose quartz) over the face in specific patterns to promote circulation, reduce puffiness, and encourage
lymphatic drainage.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - Arts of Imperial ChinaCourse start date: Tue 24 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Meitao QuExplore the arts of imperial China spanning across 13 dynasties and 2000 years. Study how painting, sculpture, and architecture were deeply shaped by its richly diverse culture, philosophy, and religion. - Women artists of the Renaissance: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia FontanaCourse start date: Tue 24 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
An introduction to the life, art and career of Italian Renaissance artists Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana. We’ll explore notions of artistic identity and the distinct challenges faced by woman artists in a male-dominated art world.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Shiatsu: taster workshop Course start date: Tue 24 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Fernando CaboShiatsu is a Japanese healing art, deeply rooted in the philosophy and practices of traditional Chinese medicine. This therapeutic form of body work involves applying pressure to the body using a practitioner’s thumbs, palms, elbows, knees and feet. Discover the basics of how to give this relaxing and therapeutic pressure point massage.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - Further village London Course start date: Wed 25 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Hazel BakerJoin us for 4 guided walks around London's former villages - Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Southwark and Hampstead. Why did these areas grow up as villages and how did they become swallowed up by the city of London? - Van Eyck and the Pre-RaphaelitesCourse start date: Wed 25 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberExplore the work of Van Eyck in relation to Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelites more generally; consider how this 15th century painter influenced artists some 300 years later.
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