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Welcome to the RSA Fellows Arts & Music Group's website (v.5.11; all rights reserved). Please see the RSA and FAMG disclaimer. Check out FAMG events, stuff, and members -- we add new stuff regularly!
NEW PROJECT! net radio interviews with interesting RSA and other folk. A work in progress -- stay tuned!
What does FAMG do? The Group is a focusing and networking tool, and a showcase-scrapbook, for RSA Fellows genuinely interested / active in arts and or music. We intend to evolve into a specialist arts+music type of facebook / myspace. Everything is free, this site has no advertising or sponsorship, you don't need to register to access it, and we never part with our membership list to anyone for any reason. Old school!
Joining and getting on our email list is free, easy, quick and the thing to do right now: just email us. We'll email you back an acknowledgment and you're done.
Tell us about it: Use the messageboard immediately to network, post jobs ads, post events, etc. Email us about your messageboard message and we'll e-alert all FAMG members telling them to look at it. Email us event notifications and stuff like reviews, articles, recipes, reports, stories, poems, artwork, music recordings -- whatever! We'll promptly post all of it on this site and e-alert members. We have no space constraints or editorial prejudices, and are always after interesting content.
JOBS FORUM! Why not use the messageboard, postings, email alerts etc. to post work wanted and work offered? Perfect for freelance artists, musicians, arty administrators and organisers and other liberated types to advertise their services. Equally congenial if you want to find / commission such types.
FAMG is YOUR non-discriminatory, open, free, informal networking and showcase-scrapbook resource. Our range and curiosity are as eclectic as the tastes of our active members. We are not an events promoter or a consensus-seeking talking shop. FAMG has no committee, especially one pontificating on what is best for you. Do exactly what YOU want! It's YOUR group! FAMG's success depends SOLELY on members themselves being proactive enough to do their own thing, however modest. We provide a promotion platform and networking tools. You do the rest, whatever it is. FAMG will support you completely in your arts / music activities and will post them on this website and promote them to everyone on our email list. FAMG is intended to develop into a zesty interactive network of original creative people who actually DO something.
Members should be out there reviewing plays, exhibitions and concerts; leading field trips to interesting arts and music events; attending life classes at local art schools; giving talks on their favourite artists or composers; signing up for architecture courses, producing music and art (send us a photo of your watercolour of a pretty tree in autumn colours); organising painting trips to picturesque spots; performing music, organising concerts and gallery showings, etc. etc. FAMG has occasional networking parties. Why not suggest, and help us organise, a themed one!
We cooperate with other RSA fringe groups (we have a partnership with the RSA's London Region, the RSA Book Group 1, and RSA Fellows' Voices), and want to hook up with all kinds of other people and groups. We are really pleased to have a nice relationship with Gresham College.
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Check out our REVIEWS:-
• Derek Smith on the ESO Winds (posted April 13, 08)
• Andrew Aarons on The Camden Town Group and Peter Doig, two Tate Britain exhibitions (posted April 13, 08)
• Andrew Aarons on Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth at the Tate Modern (posted Oct 25, 07)
• Richard J. Astor on the Royal Opera House's July 20, 07 performance of Cosi fan tutte (posted July 21, 07)
• Jacqueline Crofton on the Royal Academy's Rodin Exhibition (posted Sept 25, 06)
• Andrew Aarons on the V&A's Leonardo Exhibition (posted Sept 14, 06).
ANNUAL MEDAL: FAMG proposes to award an Annual Medal to the FAMG member (if any) who has made the most innovative, original, imaginative contribution in the preceding year to advancing the harmonious coexistence of arts with music. Email us your nominations.
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FAMG MEMBERS Here are some FAMG members. To get listed here, just email us your bio and we'll post it!
Andrew Aarons (painter)
Alastair Aberdare (authority on Berlioz; violin manqué)
Barbara Anderson (Gresham College)
Christy Avraam (conceptual artist)
Jennie Ball (Buxton Opera, Peak Music Society)
Clive Barda (photography of musicians)
Ken Bennett-Hunter (opera and theatre administation)
Dafydd Bullock (composer, conductor)
Lalita Carlton-Jones (arts project manager)
Benjamin Chan (Bigyellowband, piano, organ, performance entrepreneur)
Gilly French and Jeremy Gray (artistic directors, Bampton Classical Opera)
Graeme Harper (creative writer, professor, director)
Hannah Horovitz (concert promoter)
Emma Hutchinson (Music House for Children)
Adrian Levine (violin)
James Lowe (conductor)
Madeleine Mitchell (violin)
Jonathan Newell (organ, music education)
Adele Paxton (opera singer)
Chithra Ramakrishnan (Indian classical music and dance)
Nicolette Shaw (cello, viola, orchestral entrepreneur)
Derek Smith (composer; conductor; arranger; brass; cello; music publisher)
Terry Trickett (clarinet)
Akiko Yanagisawa (Japan music promotion)
More bios to come!
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