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- An introduction to Japanese anime: history, genres and authorsCourse start date: Sat 22 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cristina MassaccesiWhat is anime? What are the artistic and narrative features that make these films so instantly recognizable? This one-day film course will provide an overview of the history of Japanese animation cinema, its inextricable links with manga and its multi-faceted and varied productions that range from children’s films to genres such as cyberpunk and yaoi. During the course, we will watch and discuss clips from a variety of production companies and directors, such as Miyazaki Hayao, Mushi Pro and Kon Satoshi.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Realism and Genre: British Cinema in the 1960sCourse start date: Sat 22 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeyDuring the 1960s British cinema re-established itself as a leading producer of films, including realist dramas such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), and action and adventure fantasies with the highly popular James Bond films. This course explores these developments through a range of critical approaches and considers the way in which they contributed to a revitalised British cinema.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Explore: Gel plate printing
Course start date: Sun 23 Nov 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
This one-day course is an introduction to Gel Plate Printing and will explore various techniques to mark-making and image creation. You will learn how this print technique can be used within your own Illustration and Graphic Design projects.
Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Explore: Gel plate printingCourse start date: Sun 23 Nov 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This one-day course is an introduction to Gel Plate Printing and will explore various techniques to mark-making and image creation. You will learn how this print technique can be used within your own Illustration and Graphic Design projects.
Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Instagram for business: advanced Course start date: Tue 25 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Amber Raney-KincadeThis is a follow-on course from 'Instagram for business’ and ‘Instagram intermediate’ which is designed to expand your skills in using Instagram for business even further. - Reiki: taster workshop Course start date: Tue 25 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Oge OkohReiki means 'universal energy'. Learn the basic philosophy this gentle system of healing, according to the tradition of Dr Usui.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Japanese through OrigamiCourse start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rie Tsuruta-BarrattCome and learn origami, the Japanese art of folding paper into a sculpture without using glue or scissors.
Origami allows you to create your own piece of art anytime, anywhere even in a busy schedule. Ideal if you want to create personalised cards for Christmas.
This is a relaxing Saturday morning course, so time to be hands on! The instructions will be given in Japanese and English.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £19.00 - Letizia Battaglia: Life, love and deathCourse start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ottavia CastellinaTo coincide with the Lucrezia Battaglia exhibition currently running at the Photographers' Gallery in London, this seminar will introduce you to the life and work of the noted Italian photographer Lucrezia Battaglia.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Study day: Rothko, Pollock and Abstract ExpressionismCourse start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SandersExplore the Abstract Expressionist movement, focusing on Pollock and Rothko as its key examples, considering
issues such as the movement’s social and political context, artistic influences, and stylistic progress.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Masters of cinema: Wes AndersonCourse start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Graham Rinaldi“I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach but in fact, this is what I like to do. It’s sort of like my handwriting as a movie director.” Explore the signature style and adventurous cinema of Wes Anderson from coming of age films through stop motion animation to comedy dramas.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Non-elite women in Ancient EgyptCourse start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rosalind JanssenFamed Victorian novelist and travel writer, skilled artist, intrepid and renowned Egyptologist. No wonder that London born Amelia Blanford Edwards (1831-1892) was dubbed the ‘Queen of Egyptology’ by her American fans. Our concentration is on her legacy to London, and we end our day by visiting one of her enduring foundations in the capital: UCL’s Petrie Museum.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Borderlines of Madness in 20th century FictionCourse start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sarah WiseWe will explore various themes related to ‘insanity’ and altered states of consciousness by examining a number of 19th-century works of fiction. Novelists and poets often had the greatest insights into the workings of the mind, and many Victorian psychiatrists cited works of fiction in their case studies. Among the authors we will cover are Charlotte Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Gogol, Herman Melville and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Welsh pronunciation workshopCourse start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jack Pulman-SlaterUnderstand how to produce the sounds of Welsh with increased accuracy, confidence and intelligibility on this practical and popular online course.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - The music of Brazil: from samba through bossa novaCourse start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Claudia CerbinoDiscover the rich cultural and geographical diversity which have influenced Brazilian popular music and learn about the wide variety of Brazil's musical styles both past and present.In English with some Portuguese.Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00 - Introduction to diamondsCourse start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Judith Crowe, Derek JhinnooGypsy setting, often called flush setting is a technique to set a small round and brilliant cut faceted stone on a metal surface. On this course you will be introduced to the principles and applications of this versatile technique, including making your own bespoke setting tools.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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