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- Ways into playwriting
Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicole AcquahExplore the fundamental techniques of writing for the stage in this introductory course. Get to grips with dialogue, character, story and structure, and start work on your own play.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £120.00 - French 2 lower: module 3 Course start date: Thu 25 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Daniel FernandezContinue improving your elementary French in this lively interactive course. The course is suitable if you have completed a French 2 lower: module 2 course or have an equivalent level.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00 - Global History Friday Late: From Feudal Isolation to a Modern Nation-State: an introduction to Japan’s Meiji Restoration period (1868 – 1889)Course start date: Fri 26 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Dale Mineshima-LoweJoin Dr. Dale Mineshima-Lowe for a brief introductory history of Japan’s Meiji Restoration period (1868-1889) - an important turning point that helped to shape modern Japan.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Nutrition to improve mood, energy and mental healthCourse start date: Fri 26 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ellie HollyEating for a happy mind: how food can influence your mood and energy levels, which foods will enhance brain function, energy levels and positive thought and which will do the opposite! - Modern art: movements 1850-1900 Course start date: Fri 26 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayExplore art and culture in the late 19th century Europe, focussing on the major developments in modern art including the Pre-Raphaelites, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, and their relationship to wider cultural contexts.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00 - Friday lates: the art of satire - Brueghel and Hogarth Course start date: Fri 26 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayWhy laugh in a time turmoil? Explore how artists Pieter Brueghel the Elder and William Hogarth reflected on the hypocrisy of their times with scathing satire. Reflect on how studying historic comedy might shift our perspectives on the value of humour, past and present.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Developing your creative writing Course start date: Fri 26 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Christina DunhillThis supportive intermediate course for writers with some experience will provide inspiration, technical guidance and feedback on your work, as well as helping you to sustain your writing practice. You will be working with other aspiring writers and benefit from the support and encouragement that working with a group over a whole term can bring.
This course supports several kinds of creative writing, including prose fiction, poetry, reflective writing and memoir, whether they are finished pieces or works-in-progress.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £130.00 - Introduction to chamber musicCourse start date: Fri 26 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pauline GreeneWhat is chamber music, and how is it different from a Symphony or an opera? What sort of musicians would play chamber music and which periods of music history does it come? - English pronunciation: stage 2Course start date: Fri 26 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: David John GwillimThe aim of the course is to further improve your ability to communicate confidently and clearly in spoken English. Designed for people who have completed ‘English Pronunciation: stage 1’ although new students with sufficient skills can join. Develop confidence and clarity, explore diphthongs and triphthongs, inflection and the rhythms of Standard English. This term the course will be taught online.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £195.00 - The foreign invention of British art Course start date: Fri 26 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Leslie PrimoTrace the importance of foreigners to the British art scene from the Tudor period to the Baroque. How did artists like Holbein, Dobson, van Somer and van Dyck influence the British School?Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00 - Deaf history: one-day courseCourse start date: Sat 27 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Peter BrownA brief introduction to the history of Deaf people in Britain and the development of British Sign Language. This fascinating course is taught in BSL, with a BSL-English interpreter available.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Reading for writers: the short story (a fortnightly course) Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Annabel BanksThe best way to write good short stories is to read a lot of good ones first. Dive into the best of short fiction, explore point-of-view, character and pacing, and begin to apply the lessons learnt to your own writing in this fortnightly course.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00 - Nineteenth century French fictionCourse start date: Mon 29 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Megan BeechPassion, marriage, crime, class, and murder: these are just some of the key issues at play in the three exhilarating French novels we will discuss in this online course. Focusing on George Sand’s Indiana (1832), Balzac’s Père Goriot (1835) and Zola’s Thérèse Raquin (1868), we’ll explore French literary style and the influence of serialisation on sensation fiction and these author’s depictions of social class, romance, and realism.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 - Ancient Greek 3: module 3Course start date: Wed 7 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Hugo CookSuitable if you have completed Ancient Greek 3: module 2 or have an equivalent knowledge. Further your knowledge of grammatical structures and vocabulary so that you can read more complex Ancient Greek prose.
Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00 - Sanskrit reading circleCourse start date: Tue 6 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vaughan PilikianThis is a course in the Sanskrit language based around the reading of Sanskrit texts unadapted.
Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00
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