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The biggest choice of adult education short courses in London and online.

Looking for a course? City Lit has you covered. We have lots of courses, guided walks, expert talks, and events — more than any other college in London.

Whether you’re interested in a one-off talk or taster class, a short course over a few weeks, or a year-long programme. You'll find a course to suit your schedule and goals.

We offer online courses as well as hybrid and blended learning, and in-person courses in London.

 

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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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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. Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
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  7. Acting: scenes to performance
    Course start date:  Thu 18 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Laura Baggaley
    Practise and develop your acting skills by rehearsing in depth scenes from contemporary plays or a whole short play. These will be performed in the college's John Lyons Theatre to an invited audience at the end of the course. This course is suitable for students who have completed a broad range of our acting courses at beginners and improvers level or who have gained suitable experience elsewhere.
    Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £303.00 Concession £265.00
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  9. Writing about music
    Course start date:  Thu 25 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edward Breen, Katy Hamilton
    Experience the enjoyment of writing about music. Share your musical opinions in several formats and be inspired to develop your own longer-term writing project. Break week: 30 Oct 2025.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  10. Cultureplex ciné-club (Autumn)
    Course start date:  Thu 25 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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  11. Life painting: expressionist approaches
    Course start date:  Thu 13 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Amanda Walker
    Explore imaginative, dynamic approaches to painting the figure using a variety of approaches: be inspired by new ways of seeing and access innovative ways of approaching your life painting.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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  13. Exploring Bach's cantatas
    Course start date:  Thu 15 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edward Breen
    Experience the enjoyment of Bach’s church cantatas through study of selected examples and exploration of both music and biography. Break week : 19 Feb 2026.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  14. Life drawing: experimental approaches
    Course start date:  Thu 29 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Steve Wright
    Learn or develop life drawing skills and approaches to painting the nude figure. Including use of tone and colour selection, composition and paint handling to develop solidity, atmosphere and expression. Some experience of drawing is recommended.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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  15. Madrigals: a brief history
    Course start date:  Thu 23 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edward Breen
    Dive into the charismatic world of madrigals and discover a world of nuance and reflection. Break week: 28 May 2026.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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