Wednesday 16 September 2015 at 5.30pm Campus art walk Professor Ann Sumner, Public Art Project Officer, will talk about the public art on campus, followed by a walk around some of the major pieces, including the new Simon Fujiwara piece outside the Laidlaw Library. We will end with drinks in the School of Music bar....
The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery - pre-exhibition talk Members of FUAM are invited to join Layla Bloom and the artists whose work has been shortlisted for the FUAM Graduate Art Prize 'in conversation'. Drinks will be served in the Parkinson Court from 5:00pm.
At the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery There will be a private view of material relating to the new sculpture by Simon Fujiwara, outside the Laidlaw Library, which is being 'unveiled' on 11th June.
Hear about the art and music FUAM has been supporting. And about FUAM's financial health. The meeting will be followed by a talk, "Confessions of a Record Collector" by emeritus professor Gordon Leedale, the guiding spirit for many years of the WUN record sales and, more recently, of the book and record sales at the...
Venue: School of Music A showing of the film "More Love than Money: Ronnie Duncan at Weston" followed by a panel discussion with Ronnie Duncan himself, Ben Read and Layla Bloom. Afternoon tea will be provided. Admission: £7.50
George Morland (1763-1804) was a painter, who was hugely popular in his lifetime for his paintings of scenes involving smugglers, gypsies, pedlars soldiers, animals (he was famous for his paintings of pigs) and 'ordinary' people. Despite a dissolute lifestyle, he produced a vast quantity of work, much of which became well known through engravings. This...
The 2015 Annual Lecture will be given by David Alexander, Honorary Keeper of British Prints at the Fitzwilliam museum, University of Cambridge. He has studied British printmaking for many years. He has organised many exhibitions, including 'Affecting Moments: Prints of British Literature made in the Age of Romantic Sensibility', which toured Britain in the 1990s,...
A performance of Schubert's song cycle will be given in the Clothworker's Centenary Concert Hall at 7.30pm. There will be a pre-concert talk, at 6.30pm, for members of FUAM (and their guests), by Paul Reid, until recently President of the Schubert Institute, UK. This concert is supported by funds from the Jillian Rennie bequest and...
An entertainment in the Foyer of the Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall by Ad Hoc Baroque featuring music from the time of Samuel Pepys. It is believed the famous diarist will make a personal appearance. The evening will conclude with a buffet supper.