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- Japanese beginners: intensiveCourse start date: Mon 14 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Kiyomi UntenLearn Japanese with an emphasis on practical use and the development of your listening and speaking skills on this intensive course. You can also learn to read and write Japanese characters.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Mindfulness and Meditation: De-Stress and Rejuvenate
Course start date: Mon 14 Jul 2025Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sally PageLearn how to de-stress, rejuvenate and cultivate calm using a variety of Mindfulness and Meditation techniques. From understanding why we get stressed, to applying this understanding in everyday real life situations. Releasing stress to cultivate an experience of calm, a positive state of mind, and significantly reduce stress levels and tension held in the body.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - City Lit Pro: Adobe Photoshop intensiveCourse start date: Mon 14 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Christine RobertsonCity Lit Pro courses are tailored for accelerated learning for busy people who need to learn key skills for the workplace. On this practical course you will develop your skills in Adobe Photoshop, with a focus on learning to input, create, manipulate and enhance images and photographs for use in print and on the Web. - Japanese beginners: module 3 Course start date: Thu 25 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Chikako NakagawaContinue learning to speak Japanese on this course for near beginners. The emphasis is on developing your listening and speaking skills. Suitable if you have completed beginners module 2 or 6 months recently
.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00 - Arabic beginners: revision courseCourse start date: Mon 14 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nora Allali-CarlingConsolidate your elementary knowledge of Arabic in this online lively course.. Suitable if you have studied Arabic for a year or have an equivalent level. Based on the tutor’s own materials.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Discover DutchCourse start date: Mon 14 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Francine van den BergGet a flavour of a new language and its basic sentence structure. Learn some useful phrases and some pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners. - From the Habsburgs to the EU: The History of Italy’s North-EastCourse start date: Tue 15 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Francesco BucciolThe cities of Trieste and Gorizia, on today's Italian North-Eastern border, had a very complicated history in the 19th and 20th century. In this session you will discover the key historical events that marked these lands. From the divisions caused by the two world wars to the choice of Gorizia/Nova Gorica as EU's Capital of Culture 2025.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - 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 - Chinese beginners: module 3Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Zhonghan LinContinue learning Mandarin Chinese on this lively live online course. You should have completed Chinese beginners: module 2 or equivalent (about 30hrs hours of learning).Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - 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 - Late Victorian Soho: From Sex and Shopping to Police & Radical PoliticsCourse start date: Tue 15 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Sarah WiseThe West End was a heady mix of glamorous shopping emporia, political refugees from Europe, street-based and brothel-based prostitution, and the general public just enjoying a day or evening ‘Up West’. Join Dr. Sarah Wise to learn more on this 2 hour guided walk of Soho.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Spanish beginners module 1+2: revisionCourse start date: Tue 15 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Analía ToloneRevise and consolidate your speaking and listening skills, as well as your grammar and the topics studied in Spanish beginners: modules 1 & 2. Suitable if you have completed 'Spanish beginners: module 2' or have an equivalent knowledge of the language (2 terms of study).Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00 - 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
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