- French 3 upper: an insider's guide to FranceCourse start date: Sat 13 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Silvana AvramEmbark on a cultural journey through Lyon, Nice and Marseille and discover what makes each city unique. This compact, dynamic workshop is full of practical tips and essential vocabulary to help you prepare for your next trip. From history and culture to gastronomy, hidden gems, short itineraries and insider advice—this course gives you everything you need to enrich your visit.
You will gain an engaging overview of three of France’s major cities and learn useful language, cultural insights and local facts to make your stay in France even more memorable.
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Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - Enhance your impact and presenceCourse start date: Sat 13 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie LunnDiscover how to enhance your vocal and physical impact and presence in many situations and become aware of habits that may hold you back, on this intensive weekend course.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £97.00 - Managing files on Apple maciOS and iCloud
Course start date: Sat 13 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael HardingEver wonder how to get to grips with your iPhone, iPad and iCloud file storage? This course is intended for beginners to experienced users who need to set up and tidy their iCloud storage.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Burlesque Course start date: Sat 13 Dec 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gwendoline LamourBurlesque is an empowering and expressive performance art. Learn the basics of burlesque movement and dance in this glamorous and fun one day workshop. We will explore the posture, deportment, style and elegance of showgirl movement.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £55.00 - Christmas at the cinema Course start date: Sat 13 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: John WischmeyerCarefully-curated Christmas cornucopia overflows with seasonal films, from new entry The Holdovers (2023 Alexander Payne) to Home Alone (1990 Chris Columbus/John Hughes). This is a celebration of the genre of the Christmas film packed with clips and hidden gems: Scrooge (1951 Brian Desmond Hurst) remixed as a film noir, Lindsay Anderson’s Every Day Except Christmas (1957), his film about the old Covent Garden market later seen in My Fair Lady (1964) or Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972) just before it closed down. Full of delights, discussions and a grown man dressed as an Elf (2003).Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Swedish grammar workshop: word orderCourse start date: Sat 13 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jack Pulman-SlaterAre you learning Swedish and find yourself confused by word order? Where exactly should you put INTE in a sentence? Which words trigger a change in word order? We'll answer these questions and more on this supportive and structured online workshop.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - History of ideas: the invention of Christmas Course start date: Sat 13 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Angela PlattBeginning around the middle of the 19th century, a ‘new Christmas’ came into the fore; a reinvented Christmas, if you will. Why did this Christmas shift as it did – to produce the modern celebration many people still enjoy today? In this course, the stories of those groups and individuals who impacted this ‘reinvention of Christmas’ will be shared.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00 - Neurodivergence as a fact of society: a brief introductionCourse start date: Sun 14 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vina TheodorakopoulouBritish society is diverse, and not only in terms of faiths, ethnic backgrounds and other mostly visible differences. Neurodiversity is also a central aspect. Join us on this non-accredited course for a brief introduction to neurodiversity in society and discover how to engage with and support neurodivergent strengths.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Christmas crooning Course start date: Mon 15 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Richard Hartley WilsonDon your sparkly jumpers and get into the Christmas spirit as you sing along to some Christmas classics!Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Ferdinand Ries: Beethoven's studentCourse start date: Mon 15 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Ferdinand Ries (1784 –1838) was friend, pupil and secretary to Ludwig van Beethoven and a prolific composer in his own right. Find out more about his life and works on this special short course.
Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Hindi through Bollywood singingCourse start date: Tue 16 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Roopam AggarwalLearn to speak Hindi and develop your listening and speaking skills in this communicative class which emphasizes the practical use of the language via singing. Suitable for complete beginners.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Studying Film: A TasterCourse start date: Sat 3 Jan 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Paul SuttonThis taster of forthcoming film courses at City Lit in 2026 offers you the chance to think about which ones to take while also providing an opportunity to explore some of the key areas in film studies more generally.
Learn how to evaluate and discuss films while enjoying a working example of a City Lit film studies class.
We will view clips from a wide variety of films, exploring themes and technique in British, European and modern American cinema. There will be a chance to review term two film courses at City Lit (January - July 2026).Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - BSL level 2 Course start date: Mon 5 Jan 2026 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Susan WhalleyHave you passed your BSL level 1 and are you ready for a level 2 course? Build your skills and knowledge and achieve a level 2 qualification, accredited by Signature.Full fee £889.00 Senior fee £751.00 Concession £681.00 - Clay sculpture: life and portrait Course start date: Mon 5 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Valerie MerloFollow in the footsteps of Michelangelo and Rodin and learn how to capture the human figure, both physically and emotionally, on this fascinating practical sculpting course. You will work from a life model to develop your own clay sculpture of the human form.Full fee £599.00 Senior fee £479.00 Concession £389.00 - Spanish 5 tasterCourse start date: Mon 5 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Diego IudicissaCome and discover what an advanced Spanish class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied Spanish for about 5-6 years recently.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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