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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Recorders: return to playing
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Layil Barr
    If you already know the fingering for C to G (or F to C), can read music and play in tune and time, this course will develop your technique and musicianship further. Please bring your own instrument(s). The class is for all recorder types (descant, treble, tenor and bass). Break week 27th October 2025.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £153.00
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  2. Early music ensemble
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Layil Barr
    An ensemble for musicians interested in learning the skills of playing consort music in different instrumental combinations (broken consort). It will be a journey exploring the variety of sound combinations in 17th century repertoire. To apply for the ensemble please click the pink 'Start your interview' button and someone from the music department will be in touch. Break week: 27th Oct 2025.
    Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £209.00
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  3. Ukulele 2
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Jake Rodrigues
    If you have been playing ukulele for some months, come and learn new songs and tricks, picking and split strokes, and apply these to popular and vintage tunes. Enjoy learning and playing in a group. Classes will include singing along! no class on 3rd November.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £153.00
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  4. Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £153.00
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  5. Sing musical theatre: ensemble
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 17 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Katherine Strohmaier
    Learn to sing and perform ensemble numbers from popular Broadway and West End shows, from standard classics to modern musicals. Gain confidence performing as a group, and enjoy singing solo within an ensemble.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £195.00
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  6. Pentatonics and beyond: improvising in popular music
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 18 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Harrison
    Study how to improvise in popular music. These practical sessions are for players of any instrument. Get to grips with improvisation in this exploration of common scales and approaches to improv in pop, rock, blues, folk and jazz. We’ll look at blues scales, pentatonics, extension notes and more to help you get the most out of your improvisation.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £153.00
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  7. Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £299.00 Concession £209.00
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  8. In the footsteps of London's rebels
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Rosenberg
    Explore London's places of protest and discover the stories of radicals, agitators and campaigners who fought for social justice, equal rights and better lives for all from the 1830s to the 1930s.



    The first session will be in the classroom at Keeley Street followed by 11 guided walks.
    Full fee £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £207.00
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  9. The Great (European) Powers and the Ottoman Empire: the Eastern Question, 1768-1914
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sebastien Ardouin
    The decline of the Ottoman Empire shaped the relations with and between the Great Powers, giving birth to new



    countries and spheres of influence, the legacy of which is still felt to this day.
    Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00
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  10. Remodelling Europe after the First World War: the fate of the vanquished
    Course start date:  Wed 10 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sebastien Ardouin
    The defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria in 1918 had profound territorial, political and economic consequences on the future of these countries, some of which are still felt today.
    Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00
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  11. Europe in the 1920s: between democracy and authoritarianism
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 11 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Sebastien Ardouin
    Throughout the 1920s, Europe struggled with political and economic (re)construction and stabilisation. If some progress was made in part of the continent, wartime promises of a better and democratic Europe were shattered by the Great Depression.
    Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £309.00 Concession £201.00
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  12. String ensemble
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Robert Puzey
    Come and play string repertoire in a friendly group, and develop your confidence in ensemble playing. Suitable for those who have been playing violin, viola, cello or double bass for at least two years, playing at Grade 3 standard or above. To apply for the ensemble please click the pink 'Start your interview' button and someone from the music department will be in touch. Break week 21 Oct 2025.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £153.00
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  13. Violin and viola 3A
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Robert Puzey
    This course is for players who 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. This course continues with Violin and viola 3B next term. Break week 20th October 2025.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £153.00
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  14. The Smashing Saxons: 600-1066
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Vanessa King
    Why did Offa build his dyke? Were the Vikings just ‘long-haired tourists who occasionally roughed up the natives’? Was Alfred really that great? These questions and more will be answered as we study the rise and fall of pre-Conquest England.
    Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00
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  15. Singing 1
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Siobhan Blake
    Start singing and explore your voice in this fun, confidence-building course. These classes will introduce you to healthy use of your singing voice and basic musicianship through a selection of songs from a variety of genres. Break weeks: 2 May & 30 May 2023.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £181.00
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