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- The City Lit 7-day intensive course for adults who stammer
Course start date: Mon 14 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Learn strategies to help you speak more easily, work on becoming less sensitive and worried about stammering (also known as stuttering), reduce avoidance strategies and work towards saying what you want to say when you want to say it. This intensive course will enable you to make maximum progress in minimum time and will give you a solid foundation to continue to make positive changes following the course. It runs on these dates: Mon-Fri July 14-18, plus two follow-up dates in September, dates tbc. We will also provide videoconferencing (Zoom) group support sessions dates tbc.
Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £195.00 Concession £56.00 - Chinese beginners: module 3Course start date: Tue 15 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Zhonghan LinContinue Chinese Mandarin in the heart of London on this lively classroom-based course. You should have completed Chinese beginners: module 2 or equivalent (about 30hrs hours of learning).Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00 - Russian beginners: the Cyrillic alphabetCourse start date: Tue 15 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Marina De YongThis fascinating workshop offers complete beginners the opportunity to discover the characters of the Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Feldenkrais: awareness through movement Course start date: Tue 15 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Charlotte SeirbergLearn how to reduce tension and move with more ease, and notice improvements in your mobility, posture, breathing, balance, coordination and quality of life.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Aesop's fables: an introductionCourse start date: Tue 15 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Maria ContosAesop’s fables have been used through history to clarify important issues within society. Investigate their perseverance through history and why they continue to be relevant today.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - Taste of JapanCourse start date: Tue 15 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chikako NakagawaFrom street food to monks' food, come and explore the richness of regional Japanese cuisine across the seasons in this exciting workshop.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Tap intensive (beginners)Course start date: Tue 15 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Benjamin BaileyIf you are new to tap then this is the place to start. An intensive course suitable for students of all ages with good general fitness. Tap shoes are essential.
Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Contemporary willow basketry Course start date: Wed 16 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Christiane GunziExperiment with unconventional willow baskets and structures, within a traditional context.This course guides you through new textures and forms using a variety of techniques from Europe and beyond. - Pinhole photography Course start date: Wed 16 Jul 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Photography Studio
Tutors: Scott PerryDiscover exciting experimental ways of producing photographic images without a camera - build your own pinhole camera, create blue-tinted prints with sunlight, and make prints from objects like the artist Man Ray.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £169.00 - Try it out: mosaics Course start date: Wed 16 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vanessa BensonThis course is an opportunity to try doing some mosaics and get a feel for this popular craft. - Global Literatures: Han Kang & Elif ShafakCourse start date: Wed 16 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lizzy AttreeJoin us for an exploration of the ways we experience global literatures of our time. Inter-generational memory is the focus of two prize-winning novels, The Vegetarian (2007) by Han Kang and The Island of Missing Trees (2021) by Elif Shafak. Unearthing the painful truths of history in the context of culturally/politically divided Korea and Cyprus, the authors deal delicately, and brutally, with love, the environment, patriarchy, resistance and the metamorphosis of the female body.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - The labours of Hercules and TheseusCourse start date: Wed 16 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Maria ContosDiscover the legendary labours of two of Greek mythology’s greatest heroes: Hercules and Theseus. Learn about the psychological and philosophical themes embedded in their myths and explore why these heroes continue to captivate audiences across cultures and generations.
Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - DSLR for video: shoot and edit in 3 days Course start date: Wed 16 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David KlineThink quality video production needs a whole film crew? Think again! Discover how you can easily shoot and edit professional-level video on your own digital SLR camera; get expert guidance on the whole process and find out why DSLRs have become the camera of choice for many broadcast professionals.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £229.00 - Drumming: introductionCourse start date: Thu 17 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Mark HuggettFor beginners to learn the practical skills required to play drum kit in contemporary music, including stick technique, four-way coordination, listening and music reading. You will play acoustic and practice kits in class.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - The Patsy Rodenburg approach to voiceCourse start date: Thu 17 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lloyd WyldeA brief look at the great Patsy Rodenburg's celebrated work in an intensive voice and speech workshop spread over two sessions.
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