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Create, debate, design, imagine, perform Spring courses April to June 2018 Where London learns... www.citylit.ac.uk For Londoners... If you’re looking for inspiration, City Lit is the place to be this spring. Explore a huge range of courses in the daytime, evening and at weekends. What will you choose? Huge choice every year Great value for money With 1000s of courses each With courses at a range year in the daytime, evening of prices, City Lit offers and at weekends, from great value. Senior and one-off sessions to year-long concessionary fees are programmes – finding the available for many classes. time should prove easier Purpose-built facilities than deciding what to do... Visit our café – The Lunch Visit www.citylit.ac.uk Room – as well as our Student for more course ideas and Centre and Library, a one the quickest way to book. stop shop for all services, with seats for quieter study Learn in the centre as well as group study. of London Choose a course after work Find out more at: or come into Covent Garden www.citylit.ac.uk/cafe and make a day, evening and www.citylit.ac.uk/ or even a weekend of it – studentcentrelibrary no other college can rival the choice we offer, or provide such a unique central London experience. 1 Head to citylit.ac.uk for course descriptions For and much more... Picking up our course guide is a great way to browse the range of courses on offer this term, and to find a day and time that suit you. If you like the sound of Londoners... a course, just enter the code or Book today title at www.citylit.ac.uk to read a full description. Enrol online at any If you’re looking for inspiration, time on our mobile and You can also: tablet friendly website: – check for up-to-the-minute www.citylit.ac.uk availability City Lit is the place to be this spring. Or – add yourself to a waiting Call us on 020 7831 7831 list if a course is full so that Explore a huge range of courses Pop in and book in person you are alerted if a place Fill in and post the form at the becomes available back of this guide – sign up for new course alerts in the daytime, evening and at facebook.com/citylit for a particular subject area twitter.com/citylit – find out more about our weekends. What will you choose? instagram.com/citylit upcoming events. Sign up for City Lit email updates : www.citylit.ac.uk/subscribe Get new courses, offers and upcoming events sent straight to your inbox 2 City Lit course guide April–June 2018 Learn to play a new instrument, write your own memoir, brush up your photography skills and much more. Take your pick from some of our new spring courses... New arrivals Art and design Business, technology Deaf education Drawing and the art of and digital skills Facebook, Instagram and mindfulness, page 24 Twitter – for Deaf people, Data science with Python, page 65 Printmaking club, page 34 page 47 Becoming confident on your Social media content strategy, Focus on: Lucian Freud – Mac – for Deaf people, page 65 paint as flesh, page 20 page 42 BSL intensive fingerspelling Introduction to user experience practice, page 67 and interface (UX/UI), page 47 Classical languages Drama, dance and and civilisations speech Directing theatre: weekend Letters from antiquity, page 53 intensive, page 72 Ancient Greek drama: a reading Burlesque: create a signature group in translation, page 53 performance, page 75 Sanskrit Vedic chanting, page 56 Public speaking: intensive, page 77 3 Massage and Science and nature complementary Guest lecture: evolutionary therapies biology: the origins of life in hydro-thermal vents, page 141 ITEC level 3 diploma in reflexology: fast-track, page 120 Sex lives of the great apes, page 141 Food and drink Theta meditation, page 119 Physics of life, page 141 Cider, the apple of Britain’s eye, Introduction to trigger point page 85 therapy for practitioners, Introduction to olive oil, page 85 page 120 Summer wines, page 85 Wellbeing Feldenkrais: an introduction, Music page 154 Humanities and Music theory: advanced topics, Restorative yoga and page 125 mindfulness meditation, social sciences page 151 Ableton taster, page 126 Contemporary British Assertiveness stage 2, page 154 playwriting and theatre, Folk music of the British Isles, page 91 page 129 Music in Emperor Joseph II’s Vienna, page 88 Cult movies, page 87 Languages Spanish: a journey for beginners in spring, page 113 Photography and Writing Icelandic: an introduction, Writing for fashion, page 160 page 106 moving image Edit like an expert, page 159 Dalida: une chanteuse, une Photographing gardens around chanson, une vie, page 104 London, page 138 Writing for video games, City Lit Pro: Adobe After page 157 Effects intensive, page 139 Model puppet workshop, page 139 4 City Lit course guide April–June 2018 Make the most of the city’s vibrant cultural scene with our round-up of exhibitions, plays, music, festivals and more… What’s on in Lon don this spring 2018 London Marathon Sunday 22 April 2018 Join thousands of runners and spectators on the streets of London for the Virgin Money London Marathon 2018. Every year, almost 40,000 people run the streets of London - with many thousands more cheering them on. London Coffee Orla Kiely: Festival A Life in Pattern 12-15 April 2018 Fashion and Textile This festival celebrates London’s Museum bustling coffee scene. It features over 250 artisan coffee and 25 May – 23 September 2018 gourmet food stalls, tastings and Orla Kiely is one of the UK demonstrations from world-class and Ireland’s most successful baristas, interactive workshops, designers. Her stylised graphic street food, coffee-based patterns are innovative, influential cocktails, live music, DJs and art and instantly recognisable. exhibitions in the Old Truman This exhibition features over Brewery, Brick Lane. 150 patterns and products as well as collaborations with photographers, film directors and architects – a must-see opportunity for everyone interested in the changing look of the 21st century environment. AW16 homeware shoot © Orla Kiely © The London Coffee Festival 1 5 What’s on in Lon don this spring Ian Cheng London Craft Week Serpentine Gallery 9-13 May 2018 6 March – 28 May 2018 London Craft Week is an annual event that showcases exceptional Ian Cheng explores the nature craftsmanship through a journey of mutation and the capacity of of discovery featuring hidden humans to relate to change in this workshops and unknown makers new exhibition at the Serpentine alongside celebrated masters, Gallery. Drawing on principles of famous studios, galleries and video game design, improvisation Albert Hall © BBC shops. This event is spread across and cognitive science, Cheng has the capital’s iconic buildings and developed ‘live simulations’: living influential institutions including Film Music Gala virtual ecosystems that begin the V&A, RADA, The House of with basic programmed properties Royal Albert Hall Lords and Mayfair stores, as well but are left to self-evolve without as tucked-away workshops. Sunday 22 April 2018 authorial intent or end. Step inside the Royal Albert Hall for a mesmerising concert by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Shape of light: Orchestra, showcasing Hollywood 100 years of blockbuster soundtracks in a spectacular film music celebration, photography perfect for movie fans of all ages. and abstract art Highlights include; Back to the Future, Star Trek, Game of Thrones Tate Modern and many more. 2 May – 14 October 2018 This is the first major exhibition to explore the relationship between Nine Night photography and abstract art, spanning the century from the National Theatre 1910s to the present day. It 21 April – 26 May 2018 brings to life the innovation and originality of photographers over Natasha Gordon’s debut play this period, and shows how they is a warm comedy about the responded and contributed to the traditional Jamaican Nine Night development of abstraction. Wake - a touching and funny exploration of the rituals of family. Roy Alexander Weise directs a cast including Olivier-nominated Cecilia Noble. © the Serpentine Gallery 6 City Lit course guide April–June 2018 A journey through food writing with Sumayya Usmani Sumayya Usmani, © Joanna Yee 7 Sumayya Usmani is a And is it true you took a Finally, any exciting plans former student on the bit of a risk at the time going forward? food writing course at to pursue your dream? I’ve written another book and I City Lit. At that time, I quit my job have two more proposals in my Today, she is an acclaimed food because I thought, “Right, this mind, so I’m definitely going writer, and has released two is what I really need to do, and to continue writing! I also have cookbooks - ‘Summers Under I need to be really focused on loads of stuff I want to do in the Tamarind Tree’, which won this.” So that was my turning Scotland, and will definitely the 2017 Gourmand Cookbook point. It was just about taking a continue on the radio. Award for first cookbook, and giant leap into the abyss. I’m also writing a column in ‘Mountain Berries and Desert What’s the best thing the Sunday Herald, which was Spice’, which was shortlisted for about Pakistani cuisine? quite daunting at first, until I the Food & Travel Awards, and realised it’s a great opportunity was voted a cookbook of the All cultures borrow from to improve as a writer because year in publications including different places. I define of the weekly deadline. So that’s The Guardian, Independent and Pakistani food as a confluence me for the time being.