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- Radio and podcast presenting: advanced (online)Course start date: Mon 2 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Allis MossThis is an opportunity to take your love of radio to the next level. The course supports you with a tutor-editor to craft a pre-recorded radio programme or extended feature on a subject of your choice, mixing interview clips, music and sound effects into your own production. This course will be delivered online and is supported by a media technician.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £125.00 - Hindi 5: advanced practice
Course start date: Mon 2 Jun 2025Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Roopam AggarwalLearn Hindi on this lively online course.
Develop and improve your knowledge – with a special focus on spoken Hindi using a wide range of topics that occur in everyday situations as well as in mass media. Suitable if you have completed Hindi 5 or equivalent (around 5 years of Hindi).Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00 - Return to Spanish (upper intermediate)Course start date: Mon 2 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Cristina CasadoIf you have learned Spanish in the past, but it has been a while, then come and join this lively course to refresh your upper intermediate Spanish. You will review, revise and practice in a course that is tailored to your needs. After attending this course, you will be able join a level 3 lower or 3 upper course in September.
Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - Hungarian beginners holiday kitCourse start date: Mon 2 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Eva PallaghyMake the most of your holidays in Hungary with one of our short intensive courses. This Holiday Kit will provide you with all the language you need to communicate in the most common holiday situations & have a friendly chat with the locals!
Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - Ways into Islamic art Course start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anita ChowdryAn introductory course providing an overview of the development of the visual language of Islamic cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - London photography: River Thames Course start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Michael HardingExplore and discover London through photography walks around locations rich in photographic potential.
The walks revolve around photographing views along the River Thames, from the Aldwych area eastwards to the City, from London Bridge to the Southbank and from Westminster to the newly developed Nine Elms area. Bring your own camera and comfortable walking shoes as you capture places, spaces, objects and people.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00 - Seminal films of the 1960sCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Mick McAloonThe 1960s saw the emergence of multiple “new waves” of international filmmakers and cinema movements. It wasn’t only the French directors of the “nouvelle vague” – Godard, Truffaut et al - but filmmakers from Britain (Lindsay Anderson), Italy (Pasolini), Africa (Sembène), America (Cassavetes), Poland, India, and Japan, all of whom seized on cheaper, lighter equipment to make vital and vibrant films, and whose subjects were compelling as well as contemporary.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Spanish beginners: module 1ACourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Amaia IbargüenLearn to speak Spanish on this short course for complete beginners. You will be able to continue by joining Spanish beginners: module 1B if you want more than just an introduction.
Please do not buy the book until after the first session, as if you transfer to another level you might use a different book.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - Looking for the Golden Fleece: Jason and the ArgonautsCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Maria ContosCome and explore the journey of the Argonauts and discover Jason.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - How to get an agent Course start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Neil ArkseyThis workshop, designed for authors who have finished their manuscript, offers practical advice on finding and approaching a literary agent.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Spanish 4/5: Spanish accents explained - ChileCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pilar Villanueva MartinezHow do you cope with different Spanish accents? Do you find some easier to understand than others? This series of short courses will help you understand the specificities and intricacies of a variety of Spanish and South American accents, so you can spot their speakers more easily and understand them better to keep the conversation going.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - Land Acknowledgement and Racial Justice: Approaches from Different Settler SocietiesCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Olivia DurandLearn about the origins and purpose of land acknowledgements in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. Examine their role in racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and whether they create real change or remain symbolic gestures.
Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00 - Art and critical theory: feminism and post-colonialismCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Irina ChkhaidzeExplore the role of critical theory within the field of art history, and learn new ways of thinking about art by focusing on feminism, post-colonial theory and the notion of the death of the author. - Refresh revise stammering therapy Course start date: Wed 4 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vivien Grant-JonesIn a supportive group you will work on desensitisation and practise your stammering management strategies. Become more confident by learning how to problem solve and extend your comfort zone.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £20.00 - Beginners BSL Course start date: Wed 4 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Alesia ParshutsinaAre you interested in learning BSL? Join us to learn some basic vocabulary and grammar and decide if you want to progress to the level 1 qualification.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £90.00
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