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All our courses here at City Lit are taught by expert tutors such as published authors, academics, practising artists, and experienced professionals. Our friendly, supportive, and inspiring tutors are here to boost your confidence and motivate you at every step. We always ensure that your journey with us is enjoyable, positive, and thought-provoking.
We offer online courses and in-person courses. Our interactive online courses are taught live and in small groups. Read our guide to online learning for more information. In-person courses are delivered at our modern college campus in London near Covent Garden.
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- Clothes making II
Course start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Silvia SacrestanoPractice working with a jersey / stretch fabric & sew a comfortable & wearable top from a pattern which can be adapted into a dress. Learn how to cut, sew and work neatly. Suitable for those with some sewing experience.Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00 - Piano/keyboards 1E Course start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ana Claudia MagalhaesThis is the second year of our beginners piano programme and repertoire will be of a pre-grade 1 standard. Improve your eye/hand coordination, your reading and finger technique. - Violin and viola 3CCourse start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Hristo DunevIf you have been learning violin/viola for two to three years (playing at grade 2-3 standard), take the next step to learn vibrato, positions above 1st, and improved bow control.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00 - Counselling: an introductionCourse start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024 (and 15 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephen PhillipsEnhance your personal skills, learn more about yourself and take your first step in counselling training on this primarily experiential course, underpinned by the 3 main theoretical approaches in counselling.
We have courses running daytimes, evenings and weekends. Whatever your schedule, you can find a course that works for you!Full fee £329.00 Senior fee £329.00 Concession £214.00 - Chinese 3 lower: module 3Course start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Fei WangDevelop your fluency on this course taught in Chinese, with the emphasis on speaking and listening. Suitable if you have studied Chinese (Mandarin) for 3-4 years or have a fairly good command of the language. Develop your fluency in this course taught in Chinese (Mandarin), with the emphasis on speaking and listening. Suitable if you have completed 'Chinese 3 lower: module 2', or studied Chinese for about three years, know about 500 Chinese characters and have a fairly good command of the language.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Exploring European cinemaCourse start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeyThis class introduces you to a range of themes and issues in European cinema, including art cinema, national cinema, movements, 'moments' and new waves, authorship, popular cinema and genre, along with key developments in European film history from the silent era to the present day, key films, directors and the canon of European cinema, and a range of critical accounts of European cinema.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Sketching at the museum: Tate ModernCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Steve WrightExploring the pleasure and challenge of sketchbooks; learn and improve your drawing skills and 'ways of seeing' and understanding, working from an exciting range of artworks in Tate modern.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Fashion and editorial photographyCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Photography Studio
Tutors: Ed GregoryThis course will help you to develop your skills in editorial fashion photography.
The course is project driven and will take you from the creation of a basic story board through to a photo shoot. By the end of the course you will understand the workflow, the tools and thinking / planning required to run a successful shoot for yourself. The course also provides advice on getting material published.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Makers not muses: Claude Cahun, Eileen Agar and Isabel Rawsthorne Course start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Chantal CondronExplore the work of three radical artists whose work and practice defied convention in modern art from the 1920s to 1960s. Discover how each artist challenged and transcended society’s expectations of being a ‘muse’ by living freely and making art in a variety of media, from painting and sculpture to collage, photography and performance.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Piano/keyboards 5CCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David FrankelFor pianists with around four years' experience. Improve your finger technique, coordination, phrasing, music
reading, and your confidence.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Introduction to pattern cutting III
Course start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SelormeyThis is a chance to work on your own project of your own choice creating a pattern of a garment you have designed or, a style you have always wanted to recreate from your favored garment.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Jazz piano 1Course start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David FrankelIf you have pop piano training or equivalent classical keyboard harmony skill, come and tackle the easier end of the jazz piano repertoire. The focus is on jazz harmony and voicing, interpretation of a lead sheet and good timing. You'll need to play piano at grade 5 or above.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £132.00 - The merry monarch: Charles II & the Restoration eraCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ellen CarpenterJoin us for a six-week course to explore politics, society, religion and culture during the Stuart Restoration era, with reference to the reign of the ‘Merry Monarch’ Charles II (1660 – 1685) and the succession crisis that followed his death in 1685.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - An introduction to paradoxCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Oliver JosiahA paradox is an apparently absurd conclusion derived from seemingly uncontroversial premises through supposedly valid reasoning. This course will introduce you to six major philosophical paradoxes and some of the attempts to solve them.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - Irish history and identity 5: American and European Influences in the Modern EraCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Colm HickeyAlthough inextricably linked to Britain, Ireland’s history, identity, and nationhood has equally been shaped by its relationship with Europe. This course traces Ireland’s the influence of European and American
politics.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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