When the Coronavirus struck and everyone was asked to do their bit by staying at home, our Accredited Lecturers and Societies had to rethink how they engage with members. Many have responded to the challenge brilliantly, embracing a host of new technologies and platforms enabling them to reach out to people around the world.
Many of our Accredited Lecturers have made online content available to The Arts Society - such as podcasts, lectures, Q&A sessions and quizzes. Cultural organisations are also thinking up new ways for us to access their content, including virtual tours and exhibitions, live performances and online experiences.
We will be adding links to these below. Please feel free to contribute.
Highgate School's annual Kyffin Williams’ lecture will be held on the1st February at 7pm. 'Kyffin and Colour' will be delivered by Deri Tomos, Emeritus Professor at Bangor University. For further information please click here
The Furniture History Society are offering a free lecture this Sunday the 2nd November by Dr Francesca Vanke- 'A rich stone table inlaid: the Paston collection and the rediscovery of the pietre dure table-top'. For further information please click here
Spot Accredited Lecturer Dr Tony Lidington in David Walliams's Who Do You Think You Are? available on the BBCiPlayer.
The Bath Literary and Scientific Institute's Jane Austen week is on now! See here for more details including a lecture by Accredited Lecturer Karin Fernald on 3 October at 7.30pm.
Accredited Lecturer Francesca Cartier Brickell will be talking to the curator of the Hillwood Museum, Estate and Gardens, Wlifried Zeisler, about the connections between the Cartiers and Hillwood's former owner, Marjorie Merriweather Post, at 5pm on 2 October. Register for free.
Accredited Lecturer Francesca Cartier Brickell was in conversation with the Maharani of Baroda, Radhikaraje Gaekwad about The Cartiers and the Maharajas. Click here to watch the replay.
Spot our Accredited Lecturers taking part in Great Paintings of the World with Andrew Marr from Saturdays at 8.15pm on Channel 5 from 6th June. Episodes will be:
Mona Lisa
Sunflowers
Fighting Temeraire
Weeping Woman
Waterlilies
Hay Wain
Rokeby Venus
Night Watch
Ophelia
Birth of Venus
Accredited Lecturer Caroline Walker's book about her great uncle, the architect, letterer, painter and graphic artist, MacDonald Gill: Charting a Life was published yesterday.
Please contact katherine@theartssociety.org if you'd like more details.
Accredited Lecturer, and chairman of The Arts Society Jersey, Dr Peter Le Rossignol has a short talk about silver and its connection with tea, travel and domestic use now available on YouTube and one about Chinese porcelain and jade here.
Accredited Lecturer, and curator of The Fan Museum, Jacob Moss has been busy writing an A-Z of fans on Instagram and creating a virtual version of the museum's Street Fans project.
Accredited Lecturer Guy de la Bédoyère has spent the lockdown recreating - in drawings and paintings - some of the Wren churches which have been lost over time. See his video on YouTube. Some Lost Churches of Sir Christopher Wren - paintings from the Covid-19 Era
Accredited Lecturer Aliki Braine will be in conversation with arts journalist Romina Provenzi for OVADA at 11am on Tuesday 26 May. Info here.
Accredited Lecturer Tasha Marks will be taking over the Instagram page for Open Space this weekend (23rd and 24th May), presenting It's Still Life, But Not As We Know It, exploring the familiarity of food through old and new interpretations- view here
Accredited Lecturer John Vigar has produced YouTube videos about ecclesiastical history - view here.
Sadlers Well's Digital Stage with full length performances and workshops.
Performances from Kings Place via their KPlayer.
Full length dance shows from The Place.
Concerts and an educational programme from London Sinfonietta.
Accredited Lecturer David Rosier gave a lecture to the Meridian Society on Chinese Imperial Costume: Ultimate Power Dressing which is available to view here.
Accredited Lecturer Suzanne Fagence Cooper reflects on John Ruskin as artist, thinker, polemicist and environmental campaigner by delving into his travels, love of Turner and his fated relationship with Effie Gray in this talk for The Watts Gallery.
House of Life Lecture Online: To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters To watch the talk, please visit this page from 12pm on Thursday 7 May or subscribe to the Gallery's YouTube channel.
HENI Talks featuring three of our Accredited Lecturers, Alexandra Epps, Adam Busiakiewicz and Marie-Anne Mancio
Baumgartner Restoration videos of oil painting conservation
A virtual tour of Waddesdon
Accredited Lecturer Martin Lloyd's lecture for Gresham College, Fighting the Forger – the secrets of your passport, is available to view on YouTube here.
BBC2 Saturday 2 May, 10.30pm Lee Miller - A Life on the Front Line
Accredited Lecturer Antony Penrose (Lee Miller's son) has several videos available on YouTube. Here is one, Surrealist Lee Miller, recorded at the Hepworth Wakefield.
Accredited Lecturer Ann Benson gave two lectures for the Society of Antiquaries of London, about how garden historians research garden history and Troy House. View on YouTube here and here.
Accredited Lecturer Lydia Bauman runs regular mini lectures for her Meetup group and information can be found here.
Accredited Lecturer Andrew Spira looks at historical Christian objects and artefacts in a short video. Watch on Vimeo here.
Accredited Lecturer James Russell has a podcast series looking at artists such as Ravilious and Bawden. Listen on Soundcloud here.
Accredited Lecturer Chris Aslan Alexander’s Cotton Pickers & Cosmonauts lecture (filmed before the lockdown!) can be viewed on YouTube here.
Accredited Lecturer Sian Walters is giving live, free art lectures each Monday morning at 9.30am on her Facebook page (you don’t need a Facebook account to watch).
Live lectures will be on the main page every Monday at 9.30am here.
Accredited Lecturer Stella Grace Lyons will be giving a topical live streamed talk on Friday 1 May at 11am and will be donating all proceeds to charity Age UK.
The Art of Isolation: Edward Hopper’s Masterpieces
The talk will last around 30 minutes and costs £7.50. Register for the talk here.
Art Fund’s Meet Me At The Museum podcast
ArtUK’s Art Matters podcast & Artworks
Atlas Obscura
BBC Culture
Google Lots of arts and culture articles, films etc.. Virtual tours
The Guardian’s Round up of lots of performances to watch online & How art can help in an emergency
Libraries online Borrow e-books and audiobooks for free from your local library or direct from the website
London Symphony Orchestra’s programme of full-length concerts twice a week, artist interviews, playlists and activities
Noel Fielding’s Online Art Gallery for Children
Metropolitan Opera, New York Streaming shows
National Theatre Productions
Open Arts Objects Short films about objects, from The Open University
Join an online choir
The Show Must Go Online Weekly live streaming reenactments of Shakespeare’s play
The Guardian’s guide to Virtual Tour of Museums
Travel and Leisure’s guide to Virtual Tours of Museums
The best books to read this Spring from The Arts Society magazine
The Arts Society Fylde has compiled an ever growing list of free online access to art lectures, virtual tours of galleries and gardens, music, dance drama and more. It's on our website at http://fyldedfas.org.uk/news/latest-news/arts-while-isolating/
BBC Archive
British Film Institute Free to explore
British Library Sounds Archive
British Museum Blog & Podcasts
British Pathé Blog
Dulwich Picture Gallery Blog
Gresham College Videoed lectures
London Transport Museum Explore the collection
National Gallery Podcasts & YouTube channel
National Geographic Podcast
Natural History Museum Articles
National Portrait Gallery Blog
National Trust Podcasts
Rijksmuseum Explore the collection
Royal Academy Videos & Podcasts & Exhibitions online
Royal Collection Explore the collection
Smithsonian Institute
Tate Podcasts
Victoria & Albert Museum Blog