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- Scottish Gaelic post intermediate: module 1Course start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Morag TraynorPractice and improve your intermediate Gaelic in this lively online course, focusing on speaking and listening skills as well as Gaelic culture, poetry and music. Suitable if you have studied Gaelic for 2 to 3 years.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00 - Writing fantasy storiesCourse start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Victoria M. AdamsBuild fantastical worlds, fill them with compelling characters and learn how to structure innovative plotlines in this perfect introduction for those with a passion for fantasy.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £130.00 - Yoga for Deaf people: mixed levelsCourse start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sarah ScottDiscover enhanced energy - as you find space in your body to breathe and move a little more freely and with more awareness. This course will help to deepen your yoga, your inner strength and stamina for this wild world. We will draw on breathing practices (pranayama) and mudras to steady and calm the mind. - Modern Greek 3 lower module 1Course start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Florendia YiannoullouContinue building on your Greek language skills on this supportive and lively course. In-person and online classes available.
Suitable if you have completed Modern Greek 2 upper or equivalent (i.e. have studied Greek for 3 years recently).Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £239.00 - Swedish 3 upper: module 1Course start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Lisa StridContinue to develop your intermediate Swedish on this course, with a focus on improving your speaking and listening skills. Suitable if you have studied Swedish for at least 3 years.
For continuing students: this course is the continuation of Swedish 3, module 3 (2024/2025) with Lisa Strid.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00 - Russian 3 upper: module 1Course start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Altannavch MurrayFurther develop your listening and speaking skills and gain an insight into aspects of Russian culture.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00 - French 3 lower: module 1Course start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Daniel FernandezContinue improving your lower intermediate French on this online communicative course. The emphasis will be on developing your speaking and listening skills and on acquiring a greater understanding of French grammar and fluency.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00 - Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00
- Cultureplex Ciné-Club: women directors and their wonderlandsCourse start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katie GossCome and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club: Women directors and their Wonderlands, where you will have the opportunity to view and discuss the work of innovative female filmmakers whose work generates dazzling visions of alternative modes of living and spectatorship. A development from our existing Cultureplex Ciné-Club courses and taking its cue from the famous Parisian Ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, this incarnation of the film club will allow for the viewing of a different film each week, followed by detailed discussion and debate. The film will be introduced, and placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00 - Arabic 3 lower: module 1Course start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Taïssir K MahmoudFull fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £239.00 - Norwegian 3 lower: module 1Course start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Eva MorkesetA fun course for learners who have studied for 3 years recently and wish to continue learning.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00 - Illustration into printmakingCourse start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course is a playful, explorative and creative introduction into the collaborative world of illustration and printmaking.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Level 3 certificate in BSLCourse start date: Wed 25 Sep 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pat ParkeIdeal if you have passed level 2 in BSL and are ready to develop the knowledge and skills you need to achieve the level 3 qualification, accredited by Signature.Full fee £1,579.00 Senior fee £1,579.00 Concession £1,579.00 - Modern Greek 4: module 1Course start date: Wed 24 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Florendia YiannoullouFor advanced learners of Modern Greek. Suitable if you have studied Modern Greek for 4-5 years or equivalent.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £239.00
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