Events

An exhibition showcasing highlights from the University Library Cookery Collection. Opens 1st September 2017

FUAM Graduate Art Prize Exhibition - Friends Preview.

Annual General Meeting Wednesday 14 June 2017 at 5.30pm | School of Music followed at 6.30 pm by the AGM Social Event Buffet supper and talk by Dr George Kennaway Tickets: £22-50 to be booked by 7th July “Art as Music/Music as Art: some attempts at representing one in the other” As well as being...

Turner on the Ure 2016 The Bruce Arms, West Tanfield HG4 5JQ As part of a celebration to mark the visit to West Tanfield, Masham and Hackfall Woods by the great British artist JMW Turner in August 1816 FUAM members are invited to join Professor David Hill for a lecture on Turner followed by afternoon...

Tuesday 7 June 2016 at 5.30pm Leeds University School of Music  Annual General Meeting followed at 6.30 pm by the AGM Social Event Buffet supper and talk by Dr Mark Westgarth - “10 observations on the contemporary art market” Dr Mark Westgarth is a lecturer in art history and museum studies in the School of...

The 2016 FUAM Annual Lecture - School of Music Song, sonata, symphony: Schubert’s instrumental music vis à vis his songs Brian Newbould Cost: £7 to include drinks and nibbles The 2016 FUAM Annual Lecture  will be given by Emeritus Professor Brian Newbould, composer and expert on Schubert, some of whose fragmentary works he has completed....

Friday 8 January 2016: Save the date for the FUAM Twelfth Night recital and buffet supper. Our first FUAM event of the new year will be a Twelfth Night entertainment and supper. The Poet and the Spy is a feast of poems, both spoken and sung, by Shakespeare and the greatly under-valued Sir Fulke Greville...

Tuesday 24 November at 5.30pm                                                               Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery Viewing of the etchings by Lynette Yiadom Boakye                                Cost (to include pre-talk drinks and nibbles): £7.00 With the support of the Contemporary Art Society the Gallery is acquiring a set of etchings by the young artist Lynette Yiadom Boakye. Curator Layla Bloom will talk about...

Tuesday 20 October 2015 at 5.30pm                                                   Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery                                                      Maurice de Sausmarez 1915-1969: a centenary exhibition  Free talk for FUAM members prior to the opening of the exhibition. (FUAM still has about 200/300 CDs for sale. There will be a tombola that evening, when you can buy a numbered ticket for £1 and...

Wednesday 7 October Joint visit to Auckland Castle and the Bowes Museum We have been able to join forces with the Leeds Art Fund to lay on this previously mooted day-long visit by coach. Auckland Castle, the seat of the Bishop of Durham, is home to a magnificent set of paintings by Zurburán of Jacob...