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.