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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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- Train the TrainerCourse start date: Sat 1 Jun 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Trevor England'Train the Trainer' is a practical weekend course designed to help you gain ideas for effective facilitation and managing groups. It is suitable if you are thinking of becoming a trainer and want to gain confidence in planning and facilitating the training, or if you are an experienced trainer and want to refresh your practice. You will leave with some tools and techniques that will ensure your training is engaging and productive for your learners. On day 2 you will have the opportunity to deliver a short micro-training or interactive presentation. You are required to attend both days of this course.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £129.00 - The poem as quest: writing narrative poetry
Course start date: Sat 1 Jun 2024Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ellen CranitchFrom ballads to myths, learn the techniques and styles needed to write narrative poetry.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - Printmaking weekend: Collagraph techniquesCourse start date: Sat 1 Jun 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rosey PrinceMake and print a collagraph exploiting texture and colour using readily available and simple materials with a low environmental impact. The handmade matrix is deceptively simple to construct, the printed results often richer and more detailed than expected when run through the press. All welcome.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Portrait painting: two session pose Course start date: Sat 22 Mar 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Luke JonesDevelop 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 £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Mixed-media printmakingCourse start date: Sat 22 Jun 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje BlokThis course introduces you to new ways of combining printmaking with creative thinking by using multiple printmaking techniques and processes, layering them to produce compositions that can be made into artworks to take away with you.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Character voice for animation, stage and screen (intensive)Course start date: Sat 20 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sarah EnglishCharacter voices aren’t just for cartoons. Learn the tools and techniques you need to create new and unique character voices or to accurately imitate a historical or contemporary voice for animation, stage and screen. This course will be delivered in the media studio.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £111.00 - Narration for podcast and documentary (intensive)Course start date: Sat 6 Jul 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David SpencerA fun and intensive workshop all about the incredible world of narration. This enormous and lucrative area of the voiceover world includes podcasts, e-learning, documentaries, audio books, medical/technical narration, explainer videos and more. You’ll learn how to deliver great reads from the inside out. It’s not just about the sound of your voice!Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 - Poetry and nature workshop at Keats House, Hampstead Course start date: Sat 20 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keats House
Tutors: Eleanor PennyA two-day writing workshop on poetry and nature, set in the former residence of the Romantic poet, John Keats, as well as nearby Hampstead Heath.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - How to write a poetry manifesto
Course start date: Sat 27 Jul 2024Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ellen CranitchPoets have long been drawn to answer the fundamental question of poetry's purpose. They have answered them most fully in manifestos - explosive declarations of artistic aims.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £35.00 - Landscape painting: summer school intensiveCourse start date: Sat 27 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Luke JonesHave you always wanted to draw landscapes in a sketchbook?
On this course, you’ll learn basic techniques for landscape studies, in two different locations near to the City Lit.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £119.00 - Mokulito: summer school intensiveCourse start date: Sat 27 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje BlokSummer school intensive two weekends in Mokulito printmaking, or wood lithography. This fascinating print process uses plywood as a printing matrix to draw on with inks, sharpies and lithographic crayons and create images that will print as small editions.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - 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 - 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 - Textiles: polychromatic printingCourse start date: Sat 10 Aug 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Renata MinoldoExperiment with polychromatic print onto fabric and paper, exploring the creative potential of Procion dyes and silk screen printing. Processes include mark making, hand painting, resists, stencils and layering. Develop personal designs, textile samples and artwork.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00
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