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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. Sing jazz 1
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 20 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Emzee Haywoode
    Learn some standard repertoire and jazz protocols. Explore style, develop good timing and phrasing, breath control, and extend your vocal range. Not suitable for beginner singers but ideal for singers who are new to the jazz idiom.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £195.00
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  2. English pronunciation: stage 2
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 17 Jan 2026 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David John Gwillim
    Designed for people who have completed ‘English Pronunciation: stage 1’ although new students with sufficient skills can join. Develop confidence and clarity, explore diphthongs and triphthongs, inflection and the rhythms of Standard English. This term the course will be delivered in the college.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £195.00
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  3. English pronunciation: stage 1
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 27 Sep 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David John Gwillim
    Are you a non-native fluent speaker who wants to improve your pronunciation of English and to speak the language more clearly and confidently? Work on clear formation of vowel and consonant sounds including the English neutral vowel and the distinction between voiced and unvoiced sounds. This term the course will be taught in the college.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £195.00
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  4. Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £168.00
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  5. Sing jazz 3
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 3 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Laura Zakian
    A performance class for singers who have completed Sing jazz 1 and 2. Develop and maintain your vocal technique, jazz and blues style, presentation of repertoire, and learn relevant musicianship.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £181.00
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  6. Introduction to beaded jewellery
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 17 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Beverley Sell
    Explore traditional and contemporary beaded jewellery techniques such as stringing and knotting and learn about which beaded jewellery materials and tools to use to create a professional finish.



    You will take inspiration from current fashion accessories seen on the catwalk to create your own beaded jewellery and a striking final piece.
    Full fee £329.00 Senior fee £263.00 Concession £214.00
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  7. Full fee £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £207.00
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  8. Introduction to machine learning
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 11 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)

    Tutors:  Kathryn Coldham
    One of the great advances in technology is that machines can learn without humans teaching them explicit rules – e.g. letting machines train on samples of speech allows Siri to recognise your commands. Machine learning is a large part of artificial intelligence, and a mystery to most of us. This practical course teaches you how to program learning algorithms in Python. We will cover fundamentals of classification, natural language processing, financial predictions and much more. You will learn elements of data mining, how to choose a learning algorithm, and how to tweak parameters of the algorithm. We will briefly cover the theory behind the algorithms, so some maths knowledge is useful, but not required. To enrol, you must have experience with Python or a similar programming language, e.g. have taken City Lit’s Introduction to Python or Introduction to R programming course.
    Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00
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  9. Full fee £289.00 Senior fee £231.00 Concession £188.00
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  10. Data Analytics with Python: intermediate
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 28 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Muhammad Khan

    Enhance your Python data analytics skills with advanced techniques in data manipulation, visualization, and statistical analysis. Ideal for those with basic Python knowledge seeking to tackle real-world business problems effectively.

    Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
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  11. Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £175.00
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  12. Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00
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  13. Drumming 1B
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 20 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Chivers
    For graduates of drumming 1A and drum students with equivalent (10-12 lessons) experience. We will play and analyse classic grooves, and work to improve our co-ordinated independence in application of rudiments to the drum kit.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £259.00
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  14. Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £259.00
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  15. Drumming 2A
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 20 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Mark Huggett
    Welcome to the second year of drum class: work to improve your coordinated independence and application of rudiments to the kit. Includes reading drum notation. Break week: 1st November.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £259.00
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