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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 >
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- Storytelling for business and pleasure 1Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ariella EshedAll cultures respect the world of Story. The ability to tell Stories, in a variety of settings, is a skill that has seen a strong resurgence both in the workplace and in contemporary performance. Gain greater confidence in your communication skills and apply this to your wider experience. This course will be delivered in the college.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £132.00 - The Twelve Caesars, Emperors of RomeCourse start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael DuiganDiscover the extraordinary lives of the first rulers of Imperial Rome. Ancient historians have given us vivid accounts of the sometimes amusing, often scandalous, but always fascinating events in their lives. Can we distinguish between 'fact’ and vicious propaganda? A visit to the British Museum is included.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Writing and photography: text and image workshop
Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Christina Dunhill, Shirley ReadWhether you are a photographer or a writer, this short course will give you ideas for combining words and images to discover new approaches and create new work.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - German advanced: Konversation und GrammatikCourse start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Barbara PölletPractise your German in the heart of London. This is an advanced fortnightly in person German course.
Dieser Kurs bietet von allem etwas: Lesetexte zu aktuellen Themen,Videoausschnitte, Deutschland heute, andere deutschsprachige Länder, Diskussion, und etwas Grammatik zur Auffrischung!Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - German advanced: small group conversation Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vera MessariusDieser Kurs bietet von allem etwas: Lesetexte zu aktuellen Themen sowie aus der modernen Literatur, Videoausschnitte, Deutschland heute, andere deutschsprachige Länder und Diskussion. Grammatik nur nach Bedarf! This course is at C2 level.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Medieval and Renaissance art at the V&ACourse start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Andreas PetzoldExplore the one of the finest and most diverse collections of medieval and Renaissance art and material culture in the world at the V&A Museum.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - The beginnings of Impressionism: Millet and the Barbizon SchoolCourse 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 - Poetry Reading GroupCourse start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sophie OxenhamThis Poetry Reading Group explores a wide range of poetry across different themes and periods, in a supportive and friendly group. Each week we will read and discuss a selection of 2-4 poems, focusing on a different theme each session. The tutor will select poetry from different poets, forms and periods, introducing you to a broad range of poetic voices and perspectives. Poetry is for everyone - come and join us!
Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - British Modernism: Bloomsbury, Hampstead, St IvesCourse start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Julie BarlowModernism was a global movement in society and culture during the early decades of the twentieth century. Artists, designers and architects used new imagery, materials and techniques to create work they felt better reflected the realities and hopes of modern societies. This course explores the arrival and impact of Modernism in Britain and places it within a broader European context.
Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Medieval Latin: module 1Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Mary RuskinImprove your fluency in reading Medieval Latin by translating original literary, religious, historical, and philosophical passages. Knowledge of classical Latin grammar is required.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00 - Italian 4/5: cultura e attualita' Course start date: Thu 8 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Roberto MinardiAttraverso attività basate su articoli, servizi di programmi, interviste ecc., questa classe ti offre la possibilità di dibattere e approfondire argomenti riguardanti l’attualità italiana e la cultura del Paese in generale. Praticherai e perfezionerai diversi punti grammaticali e accrescerai il tuo vocabolario. Adatto a chi frequenta un corso al livello 4 o 5 oppure a chi ha una conoscenza equivalente della lingua.
Attenzione: le lezioni si svolgeranno a settimane alterne.
Please note that this course takes place on alternate weeks.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - New Testament Greek 5: module 1Course start date: Thu 2 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sean GabbGain fluency in reading New Testament Greek by translating various texts, and improve your knowledge of Koine Greek.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Colour in medieval artCourse start date: Thu 2 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andreas PetzoldColour is an all pervasive and fundamental aspect of medieval art, but one that is largely neglected in art historical studies.This course looks at some of the main themes relating to colour such as symbolism, materials, theory and key developments.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Shakespeare's Women: Hamlet, Macbeth and As You Like ItCourse start date: Thu 2 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sophie OxenhamThis Literature course will look at three of Shakespeare’s female characters: Rosalind (As You Like It), Ophelia (Hamlet) and Lady Macbeth (Macbeth). We will consider their wit, madness and ambition, exploring Shakespeare’s language, the historical context, and the plays in performance.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00 - 1960s LondonCourse start date: Thu 2 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Explore the dynamic history of London in the 1960s. From pop culture to politics, immigration to education we will look at the changing face of the capital through a decade of transformation.
Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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