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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.

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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 £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  3. Full fee £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £207.00
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  5. Excel: advanced
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 24 Jun 2025 (and 5 other dates)

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

    Tutors:  Aurica Jalba
    Learn advanced features of Excel: linking, advanced sorting, filtering, advanced formulae, scenarios, data validation and audit spreadsheet, pivot tables and macros to create and work with complex spreadsheets. This course is suitable for anyone who is involved in Data Analysis using Excel.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  6. Photography for beginners
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025 (and 17 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Photography Studio

    Tutors:  Sara Leigh Lewis
    Always wondered what half the buttons on your camera actually do? Discover how to use them properly and produce impressive photographs, even as a complete beginner. Gain useful technical knowledge and get expert creative guidance in easy-to-understand language. An ideal first step before enrolling on our intermediate courses.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00
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  7. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00
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  8. Italian 3 Conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Silvana Vistola
    This skills-based course is for intermediate learners of Italian and is intended to improve your Italian speaking skills in everyday situations. We will be looking at both formal and informal scenarios, and the aim is to help you to feel more comfortable speaking Italian in order to improve your fluency.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  9. Return to Spanish (upper intermediate)
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Cristina Casado

    If you have learned Spanish in the past, but it has been a while, then come and join this lively course to refresh your upper intermediate Spanish. You will review, revise and practice in a course that is tailored to your needs. After attending this course, you will be able join a level 3 lower or 3 upper course in September.

    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  10. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  11. Spanish 5: creative writing in Spanish
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Matias Godoy Ronderos
    En este curso interactivo, tendrás la oportunidad de usar el español para escribir microcuentos, y de tener como guía a un profesor que también es autor y traductor publicado. A lo largo de las 5 sesiones, aprenderás como desarrollar una historia corta usando alugnas técnicas empleadas por los escritores para producir una historia interesante y atractiva.







    Este curso es para hispanohablantes y estudiantes que han estudiado español a nivel avanzado (si has estudiado español al menos durante 6 años).







    This course will be delivered in Spanish.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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  12. Performance anxiety workshop for singers
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Katherine Strohmaier
    A workshop designed to help singers overcome barriers to performing thorugh a series of reflective and practical exercises. Learn how to manage your Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) and be on your way to becoming a more confident and assured performer!
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £90.00
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  13. Radical Black Feminism
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    This course explores radical black feminism through changing expressions of Black women’s radical practices of self-liberation and resistance to slavery, racial capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy and their intersecting systems of oppression.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  14. Seminal films of the 1960s
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Mick McAloon
    The 1960s saw the emergence of multiple “new waves” of international filmmakers and cinema movements. It wasn’t only the French directors of the “nouvelle vague” – Godard, Truffaut et al - but filmmakers from Britain (Lindsay Anderson), Italy (Pasolini), Africa (Sembène), America (Cassavetes), Poland, India, and Japan, all of whom seized on cheaper, lighter equipment to make vital and vibrant films, and whose subjects were compelling as well as contemporary.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00
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  15. Spanish beginners: module 1A
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Amaia Ibargüen
    Learn to speak Spanish on this short course for complete beginners. You will be able to continue by joining Spanish beginners: module 1B if you want more than just an introduction.

    Please do not buy the book until after the first session, as if you transfer to another level you might use a different book.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00
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