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- Introduction to jewellery makingCourse start date: Mon 21 Jul 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Linda ConnellyDiscover metal jewellery making techniques to create a piece of jewellery. You will be introduced to the basic processes of forging, texturing, soldering and cutting out shapes in metal. You will learn how to create a ring to the correct finger size.Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £303.00 Concession £246.00 - Return to French (lower intermediate)Course start date: Mon 21 Jul 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Silvana AvramRevise and consolidate your speaking and listening skills, as well as your grammar. Suitable if you have completed completed 2-3 years of study in the past.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Drawing and mindfulness: morning meditationCourse start date: Mon 2 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Helen BurgessJoin us and set up your day in a tranquil, reflective way with our 5 day Drawing and mindfulness: morning meditation course. As daily life is full of uncertainty and with our attention getting pulled in many directions why not take some personal time to reset and focus combining meditation with some simple drawing exercises. You will be guiding your mind to settle and to look with care at the world around us and our inner experience. Whether you want to do something nourishing before you go to work or are setting up for a day of creative activity, the practices of drawing and mindfulness will bring a positive start to each morning, helping you begin the days with fresh eyes and mind. Suitable for all levels. - The City Lit 7-day intensive course for adults who stammerCourse start date: Fri 3 Oct 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 days (Fri-Sat): Oct 3-4; Oct 17-18; Oct 31 - Nov 1; Nov 14. We will also provide two video-conferencing (Zoom) group support sessions during the course, dates tbc.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £195.00 Concession £56.00 - Introduction to ceramicsCourse start date: Mon 4 Aug 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Trish SpenceGain a basic understanding of hand-building,coiling, slabbing and decoration techniques. Explore your creative ideas whilst learning the exciting possibilities of working with clay. Enjoy a taster experience of throwing on the wheel in the final session.Full fee £539.00 Senior fee £431.00 Concession £350.00 - Classical actingCourse start date: Mon 21 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laura BaggaleyBroaden your skills and discover the freedom to act with classical text in a safe and fun environment, playing with a range of texts from Ibsen to Oscar Wilde. Gain the confidence to tackle different styles of language and performance through practical exercises and scene work. - Intensive throwing weekCourse start date: Mon 21 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Matt SherrattDevelop your skills on the wheel. You will have your own wheel and the opportunity to use a variety of types of clay. The course is for experienced throwers and is ideal if you wish to develop your practice further. Intermediate level, throwing skills required. - Calligraphy: Spencerian scriptsCourse start date: Mon 21 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Veiko KespersaksLearn how to use a pointed pen for writing in copperplate hand. Spencerian script developed from the English Cursive and stands out for its delicately shaded lowercase and prominent capitals. With very intense shadows, obtained with a pointed pen, it is famous for its fine lines, hand-made quality and romantic overtones. Suitable for both beginners and improvers, left and right handers. - Italian beginners: module 3 intensiveCourse start date: Mon 21 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Evi CampetellaItalian beginners: module 3 intensive is a one-week course that will cover the same material as a standard Italian beginners: module 3 course, but it will do so more quickly for those of you who wish to start second-year Italian in the new academic year.
Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
- Introduction to clothes makingCourse start date: Mon 21 Jul 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Silvia SacrestanoLearn how to make your own clothes. This beginner's course will teach you how to use the sewing machine, as well as basic sewing techniques and processes. Start by sampling, then construct a simple garment.Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £303.00 Concession £246.00 - English pronunciation: stage 1 (intensive)Course start date: Mon 21 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David John GwillimImprove your pronunciation of standard English on this intensive course, running each day in the same week, which includes detailed study of vowel and consonant sounds. This course is for speakers of other languages who are fluent in English. Some homework required.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £160.00 - Actor summer school: beginnersCourse start date: Mon 21 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sean Croft, Juliet PragueThis is a five day intensive encounter with the acting process. Designed for beginners to explore the fundamentals in a safe and supportive enviroment. Also suitable for those with some prior experience wanting to refresh and focus their skills. - Italian beginners intensive: a summer journeyCourse start date: Mon 21 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
If you're interested in learning Italian and want to get a quick intensive introduction to the language, perhaps before a visit this year, this course will introduce to you the basics. You'll also get some cultural insight from the course tutor on interesting places to visit and different aspects of Italian culture and history.
Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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