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Weekly DJ parties held on the terrace of a popular beachside bar have returned to mark the start of summer.
Every weekend, Express presents a selection of exhibitions, performances, workshops, events and other historic, creative and delicious content to help islanders get their weekly dose of culture.
Here's this week's offering...
Weekly live music event 'Splash Sundays' have returned to the Watersplash in St Ouen.
Featuring local DJs, the gig will take place on the bar's terrace every sunny Sunday until October.
Local rock band Perchard's Wall will be performing a two-and-a-half-hour set tonight at the Blue Note Bar to celebrate the release of their new EP 'The Tea Pea'.
Doors open at 19:00 on Friday 26 April, and tickets are £5 at the door.
For more information, click HERE.
The Harbour Gallery's latest exhibition is set to open today, featuring photography and paintings focusing on underwater life and oceans by artist Simon 'The Frogman' Heron.
Describing himself as having had a camera “stuck to my face for most of my life”, Simon’s early subjects were surfing and the sea birds of Jersey, mostly taken with his dad’s old Voigtländer camera.
He said: “My parents, realising I’d never be a quantum physicist, encouraged my creative path studying fine art under the tutelage of Fredric Sands RI at De La Salle College.”
Simon subsequently won the Société Jersiaise’s Barreau Art Scholarship, and went on to study graphic design and illustration at Southampton Solent University.
Since then, his work has appeared nationally and internationally, from the Sunday Times to the National Geographic.
Simon's 'Sea + Sky' exhibition will be officially opened at 18:45 on Friday 26 April and continue until Sunday 19 May.
Textile artist Naomi Renouf will host a Spring-themed workshop at the Harbour Gallery this weekend.
Participants can create a tree to hang on a wall using branches and wool.
The workshop costs £36, including materials and refreshments, and will take place from 13:30-16:30 on Sunday 28 April.
To attend, RSVP to partintheframe@yahoo.co.uk.
Islanders can get their broken household items fixed for free by the Jersey Repair Café at St Mary Youth and Community Centre this Saturday.
Items can include clothing and fabrics, electronics, bicycles and e-bikes, toys and gadgets, computers and tech, ornaments and sometimes small furniture.
The event will also feature live music and refreshments.
For more information, click HERE.
ROJO nightclub will host a drag quiz event tonight with London Drag Queen Piage Three and BBC Radio Jersey presenter Darcy Kelly.
Prizes include a £75 bar tab.
The organisers said: "Get ready to werk it as we delve into categories on pop culture, Drag Race, and other fabulous topics.
"It’s going to be a camp-tastic night you won’t want to miss!"
Steven Brinberg is set to pay homage to the legendary Barbra Streisand with his tribute act 'Simply Barbra' at the Jersey Arts Centre this Saturday.
With over a quarter of a century of worldwide performances under his belt, Mr Brinberg sings with a wide range of voices, offering an array of impressions from Cher and Maggie Smith to Margaret Thatcher.
Not only has he received rave reviews for his portrayal of Barbra Streisand, he has also had the opportunity to perform with Streisand's musical director Marvin Hamlisch at concert tours.
Tickets are available from artscentre.je.
Three artists whose work is linked by the theme of wellbeing are sharing an exhibition space at the Grève de Lecq Barracks this weekend.
The format offers Kelly Eastwood, Kirstie Fulton and Sam Greenwood the chance to showcase their work and discuss it with visitors.
At first sight, the combination of surreal illustrations, collage and apparently spontaneous creation might seem to have little in common, but the exhibition’s title 'Embrace' points to a shared preoccupation with the capacity of art to connect with ideas of wellbeing.
Freelance artist and illustrator Kelly, who tutors creative sessions in the community, describes her style as contemporary surrealism and explains that she enjoys merging the real with the obscure.
“My body of work aims to capture the therapeutic impact of art making, using automatism as a vehicle to delve into the subconscious,” she said. “This aligns with my current study to become a therapeutic art practitioner with Kairos Arts, and as part of the learning, there is an emphasis on self-discovery via the arts.”
Kirstie is a collage artist with an MA in graphic design and a BA in textile design. She is passionate about the environment and her work for the pop-up will feature illustrations of animals.
“Inspired by nature, I collage illustrations, starting out with Jersey wildlife and now featuring creatures from all around the globe," she said.
“Animal collages are my passion and I am excited to showcase my newest work. I hope to inspire people to get creative by what they see in their environment,”
Meanwhile, the third artist, Sam, weaves layers to create striking pieces which are open to any interpretation.
He said: “I have fallen into art as a process of quieting my thoughts, where the world can be a busy bustle and senses can be fried.
“I can always pore hours away, swirling loops and lines without having to think about my next move.
"It helps me unpack my day, and leave behind snaps of the feelings I was having at that time."
The ArtHouse Jersey pop-up takes place at the Grève de Lecq Barracks on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 April between 10:00 and 17:00.
Artist and critical heritage researcher Kaajal Modi will discuss their practice through the lens of three collaborative projects in kitchens, landscapes and waterways on Tuesday 30 April.
The first of these is 'Kitchen Cultures', a project that explored food sustainability in collaboration with the Global Majority of diaspora women in the kitchen through practices of fermentation and preservation.
The second is 'Songs of the Water', a collaborative audio project that uses embodied bio-acoustic sensing with Global Majority migrant communities in Leicester, Bristol and Leeds as a non-invasive technique to explore waterway biodiversity.
The third is 'Native Tongues', an artistic research collaboration with Dana Olărescu's Abundant Futures.
This project explores interrelationships of land, language and food biodiversity, bringing together older Jèrriais speakers and migrant children who are learning the language to discuss vernacular ways of caring for soil.
Each of these projects uses different senses to explore the idea of biodiversity as something that we are part of – inviting participants to relate to ecology differently and to reflect on what we inherit from the past and the responsibility this creates for the future.
The talk will be held on Tuesday 30 April from 18:00 to 19:00 at ArtHouse Jersey's Capital House in St Helier.
Free tickets available via Eventbrite.
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