'Hail, Great Patroness': Celebrating St Cecilia in Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Dr Bryan White - Senior Lecturer in the School of Music and Director of the Clothworkers Consort of Leeds Tickets £8 including reception drinks and nibbles(Reception: 6.00pm, Lecture: 6.30pm) Booking available from the events organiser
Saturday 14 September 6.30pm for 7.00pm University House. The Guest of Honour will be Sir Alan Langlands, Vice-Chancellor of the University. The dinner will be followed by a fund-raising auction. Booking details can be found HERE (Printable PDF file) and we would encourage you to book as soon as possible (before August 30 2019) as...
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery Tuesday 13 August 18:00 – 20:00 Exhibition Preview: Join us to celebrate the opening of the FUAM Graduate Art Prize Exhibition 2019. Prize giving Wednesday 16 October 17:30 – 18:30 Details of the Art Gallery’s and the Treasures Gallery’s programmes are to be found at http://library.leeds.ac.uk.
School of Music Judy Tarling, whom many Friends will know as the leader of the Leeds Baroque Orchestra has an interest in the interconnection between art, music, poetry and landscape gardening in the 17th and 18th centuries.Her talk will demonstrate the common ground shared by the arts. Fittingly, in this year marking the bicentenary of...
Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery The FUAM Graduate Art Prize is now in its sixth year, rewarding the artistic excellence of graduating Leeds Fine Art and Design students. The exhibition of the work of the finalists opened on 14 August in the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, attended by many FUAM members. The winner has...
FUAM's AGM and annual social event - a buffet supper and talk by Mary Gavagan “Curating as a career”. Members and guests welcome.
FUAM is pleased to be supporting a performance of J S Bach’s The art of fugue by Professor Daniel Herscovitch, senior lecturer in piano at the University of Sydney, Professor Herscovitch is visiting the University to participate in a Research Colloquium the previous day on The Art of Fugue. Please do come along as this...
Supper and a Musical Entertainment
FUAM members are invited to a Free preview talk prior to the opening of the exhibition exploring the career of the York-based sculptor and Gregory Fellow. The exhibition will include sculpture, maquettes and drawings that show the development of his practice. Read More
Sheppard Room, Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery, Parkinson Court Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis, Collections Manager, Rare Books and Maps, will share with us some of the musical treasures from the University’s Special Collections including items on or by Mendelssohn, Wagner, Mozart and others. Refreshments are available at the Parkinson café which closes at 4pm. There is no...