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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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If you can't decide which subject to study, why not try some of our short taster courses?
- Bookbinding weekend: notebooks and folders
Course start date: Sat 27 Jul 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ina BaumeisterLearn to make single sheet folded books, a simple multi-section sewn book and a folded slipcase. This weekend course is an opportunity to make an exciting range of notebooks and folders and learn some useful bookbinding techniques. Suitable for beginners.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £159.00 - Stop motion animation weekendCourse start date: Sat 27 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie GriffithsAre you ready to develop your own stop motion animation project? Whether it’s experimental or narrative, to be shown in a gallery, on social media or in film festivals, this course offers you the expert guidance to help you realise your own individual animation project.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £169.00 - What the poem wants: drafting and editing workshop Course start date: Mon 29 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Christina DunhillWrite fast and edit fast in this poem-blitzing workshop. Learn to step back, look at your poem and think about the different directions it might take. Practise ruthlessness as well as care in the poem’s service. - Design your own garden intensiveCourse start date: Mon 29 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alison WorsterTransform your garden and explore design and plant selection techniques tailored to your space. Discover how to improve your garden with professional, practical garden design solutions and tips to maximise the potential of your site.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Abdominal-sacral massage: a CPD workshopCourse start date: Tue 30 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Diane CooperAbdominal-sacral massage improves the efficiency of digestive and reproductive organs, nourishing and energising the core of our being, the subtle body. It is a unique area that can be a dynamic region for transformation.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £199.00 - Portrait painting: summer school intensiveCourse start date: Thu 1 Aug 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Desmond HaughtonDevelop a portrait from life: a structured course to build skills towards making a convincing portrait where the model keeps the same pose over 2 sessions to enable a sustained piece of work.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Massage: workshop
Course start date: Sat 3 Aug 2024 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Monica ClarkeGain an insight into how massage can alleviate stress and promote relaxation and healing through touch. Learn the basic techniques and how you can perform this therapy on family and friends. Suitable for those at an interest level or wishing to progress to accredited ITEC courses.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £179.00 - Life painting weekend: expressionist approachesCourse start date: Sat 3 Aug 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Desmond HaughtonExplore and develop a personal expressive response to life drawing and painting using a variety of techniques working from the life model. Explore mark-making, rich colour and dramatic contrast to explore and experiment with expressive and dynamic drawing and painting techniques, in response to examples of Expressionist artists styles and approaches.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Create a short film in a weekendCourse start date: Sat 3 Aug 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lyndon IvesLearn how to script, storyboard, shoot, edit and export a short film in this fun and fast paced introduction to film making.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Sketchup Pro: fast trackCourse start date: Mon 5 Aug 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicholas WilliamsonLearn to visualise and model interior spaces and 3D forms on this fast track course. Skills in this user friendly and affordable software is invaluable for Interior designers, Garden designers and Set designers who wish to improve their presentations. The software works on both PC or Mac.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Drawing: charcoal techniquesCourse start date: Tue 10 Sep 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Explore the creative possibilities that this fragile medium affords. Learn and develop the components of drawing with charcoal’s subtle yet dynamic lines. This is a course for beginners. No experience is necessary.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Etching workshopCourse start date: Tue 10 Sep 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kath CastilloAn exciting introduction to the basic processes and principles of etching. Using zinc plate, create beautiful images with line, texture and tone, and experiment with printing your image in both monochrome and colour.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Painting: oil techniques and mediumsCourse start date: Thu 12 Sep 2024 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Oil paint is a medium with a long historical tradition, capable of heavy impasto effects and delicate transparent colour films. Working practically, in the studio, this course will expand your understanding of approaches to building a variety of surfaces in your paint working with mediums and expanding your use of texture and glazing This course is for all levels – both beginners and more experienced painters.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - VTCT (ITEC) Level 2 Award in Provide Thermal Auricular TherapyCourse start date: Mon 16 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Blurb: This is popular qualification course for beginners and therapists alike, that offers many benefits. It is a wonderfully relaxing treatment and excellent to use with family and friends or for any therapist to train and add to their existing repertoire. Thermo-auricular Therapy, also known as Hopi Ear Candling, is a completely natural therapy developed by Native American Hopi Indians of Northern Arizona. This now popular therapy is known for its physical benefits in treating ear and sinus problems as well as other conditions. The skills you will learn on this course includes a soothing face and neck lymphatic drainage massage.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £179.00 - Try it out: BlenderCourse start date: Tue 17 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at 3D animation this short intensive taster course will get you up and running with the basics of how to work with the free, powerful 3D Software application Blender, and put you on the path to creating your own polished CG Graphics and Animation.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £179.00
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