- In conversation with Simon Poulter
Course start date: Thu 29 May 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as artist and curator Simon Poulter speaks about his present focus - a series of paintings and online works documenting the ‘New Normal’. Recent work has included three large scale commissions working with Mutiny, as part of the University of East Anglia’s Future and Formprogramme. Mutiny is about to undertake a large scale commission in 2022/23 for Hull City Council, developing a digital platform and new work for the Old Town.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - Learning to use your iPhone Course start date: Thu 25 Sep 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Is your iPhone confusing you? Are you unsure how to make the most of its many features? This short course will help you understand your phone, troubleshoot problems and use some of its most popular features and apps. By the end of the course you will be confident you can use or find out how to use the key features of your phone.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £25.00 - Russia and Ukraine: The memory politics of conflictCourse start date: Thu 12 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Olivia DurandThe ongoing Russian occupation of Ukraine and the Ukrainian fight for its people, land and sovereignty is not only fought on the battlefield. Join us to explore how history and memory politics is also at central
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Learning to use your smartphone (Android)Course start date: Wed 18 Jun 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Does your smartphone confuse you? Are you unsure how to make the most of its many features? Understanding and navigating your way round a smartphone is now as important as being able to use a regular computer. This short course will help you understand your Android smartphone, troubleshoot problems and use some of the most popular apps. By the end of the course you will be confident you can use or find out how to use the key features of your phone.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £15.00 - Rhetoric and Refugees: Deconstructing migrant otherness in politics, pop culture and the pressCourse start date: Thu 19 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Siobhan McGuirkCasting a critical eye over popular depictions of people on the move, this course explores how categories of difference, deservingness and otherness are constructed and circulated – before considering possible alternative narratives.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Indian Head massage: taster workshop Course start date: Thu 26 Jun 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Janet WhiteheadDiscover the ancient practice of Indian Head Massage. You will learn the basics of how to give and receive this highly therapeutic and relaxing form of massage.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - French 2 upper: tasterCourse start date: Thu 24 Jul 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Valerie JézéquelCome and discover what a lower intermediate French class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied French for 2-3 years recently or have done a GCSE some time ago.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - French beginners: taster Course start date: Thu 24 Jul 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Valerie JézéquelGet a flavour of French and its basic sentence structure. Learn some useful phrases and some pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners and those who might like to take it further.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - German for opera lovers (intermediate and advanced) Course start date: Wed 2 Jul 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katja ParmarThis is an intermediate to advanced German language course for lovers of German operas. Choose either an in-person course in the heart of London or live online sessions.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Master drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt: experiment and expressionCourse start date: Thu 3 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Explore the significant role of drawing in shaping art and how artists have used different drawing techniques for creative expression.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Scrivi una poesia in italianoCourse start date: Thu 10 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Roberto MinardiUn modo per liberare la propria creatività ed entrare nel lavoro di un poeta. Vedremo in maniera semplice quali sono i versi più tradizionali della metrica italiana e come si strutturano. Faremo degli esercizi di scrittura per cogliere meglio la musicalità della lingua e per gustare il piacere di usare l’italiano in maniera creativa.Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00 - Visualising Paris Noire: modernism and diasporic expression in 20th century artCourse start date: Thu 10 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
Explore how African, Caribbean and diasporic artists in 20th-century Paris used visual art and modernist aesthetics to express identity, resist colonial narratives, and engage with the political and cultural ideas of the Négritude and Pan-Africanist movements.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Jazz piano: introductionCourse start date: Thu 24 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Della RhodesMeet the jazz idiom as you explore time feels and harmonic progressions at your piano. For pianists at grade 5 and above, with some knowledge of chord structures (triads and 7ths), this session in our pianos room will give food for thought and practice.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Great composers: Louise Farrenc Course start date: Thu 24 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Trish ShawDiscover the musical life and work of Louise Farrenc (1804–1875), the celebrated French pianist, composer, teacher and scholar. Learn about her delightful chamber music, her important piano etudes, and her impact on French music and culture in the 19th century.Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00 - Japanese calligraphy: Shodo / peace and harmonyCourse start date: Thu 31 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chikako NakagawaCome and experience the calming effect of writing Japanese with a brush on a large scale. Shodo is an aesthetic and artistic calligraphy skill used to write the Japanese language. You need to have basic knowledge of the Japanese writing system.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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