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A local writer, performer and magician is bringing more than clever tricks to the Jersey Arts Centre next week with his new one-man-show which asks, ‘What would happen if a magician found himself marooned on an island inhabited by a real-life witch?’
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Richard Pedley is gearing up to perform his one-man-show ‘The Shipwrecked Magician’ at the Arts Centre on Saturday 22 July at 14:00 and 19:00, a show which asks: ‘What would happen if a magician found himself marooned on an island inhabited by a real-life witch?’
Inspired by the Greek myth of Odysseus, who unwittingly found himself on the island of Aiaia, the home of sorceress Circe, Richard’s latest show grapples with how far you can rely on your senses, performing on a desert island, and how to deal a sorceress who may not be so keen on modern day company...
Blending comedy and illusion, this show puts an exciting twist on the normal power dynamics of magic shows; rather than the performer always being in control, in this show the audience will often see more of what’s going on than he will.
Tickets are available via the Arts Centre Box Office by calling 01534 700444 or online.
This weekend is your last chance to see ArtsCentreTheatre's production of George Orwell’s classic novel; a frightening vision of a dystopian future world that has inspired innumerable adaptations for the screen, stage and radio – and has inspired and influenced countless more programmes and productions since its publication in 1948.
Winston Smith is a middle grade worker at the Ministry of Truth chaffing against the rule of Big Brother, the omniscient leader of the State of Oceania. But…when love is a crime, when dissent is punishable by death, when simply having a disloyal thought can lead to your arrest and torture in the infamous Room 101…what hope is there for freedom?
The final two performances will be taking place at the Jersey Arts Centre tonight (14 July) and tomorrow (Saturday 15 July) at 19:00.
Tickets can be purchased online.
Town's annual street party, the Fête de St. Helier, is set to return this weekend with a new family fun zone and family stage added to the usual entertainment programme of fair rides, stalls, food, drink and live music.
This year's event will also see the addition of a new history trail alongside the traditional pilgrimage to Elizabeth Castle.
The Fête de St. Helier will take place across Parade Gardens, the Cenotaph, York Street, Charing Cross, Broad Street, Library Place and the Royal Square on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 July.
One of Jersey’s leading contemporary artists, Kay Le Seelleur Ara aka ‘Mrs Magnitude', will display her work at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House from Wednesday 19 July until 20 August 2023 in 'Mrs Magnitude’s Emporium'.
Kay Le Seelleur Ara regularly posts her work on Instagram and has gained a diverse and growing audience of followers from around the world, ranging from fans in the Australian outback to world-class New York painters and critics.
Her work can be explored via her three Instagram handles; @kay_leseelleur, @kays_telly_doodles and @mrs_magnitude.
The exhibition will feature hundreds of original works of art, paintings and drawings that Kay has made since a life changing moment in 2019, and promises to be a fun and wild journey into the brilliantly inventive, sharp humour and gender politics of Kay's extraordinary body of work.
This show will present the work of two recently graduated artists on Sunday 19 and Sunday 20 August at Greve De Lecq Barracks Studios.
Shan O'Donnell studied BA Documentary Photography at USW Cardiff. Shan's practice is informed by photographs, text, audio, moving stills and archival research.
Nicolle Sheppard is a multimedia practitioner. The pieces that she will be presenting examine flexibility, scale and adaptability.
A selection of iconic English cartoonist Heath Robinson’s watercolours which were not exhibited during the artist’s lifetime are on display in Jersey.
The combination of facility with the medium and his distinctive vision means that although these pictures are mostly different from his commercial work, they are immediately recognisable as his.
These paintings will be shown at Jersey Arts Centre’s Berni Gallery until 15 July 2023.
You can find out more information HERE.
'ArtHouse Jersey Pop Up' is a series of pop up art exhibitions featuring local artists. The project invites people to 'pop up' to the Greve de Lecq Barracks to enjoy the work of artists. It also offers them the chance to get a better insight into the artists work.
This exhibition, taking place on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 July, will involve four artists working in different mediums, exploring the local environment.
Anita Rive paints local scenes and historical sites on Jersey granite, while Deborah Brown creates pictures using sea glass and shells combined with watercolours or acrylics.
Emma Faull is an ornithological artist specialising in endangered species and she will exhibit paintings of Jersey wildlife, and Stephanie Rondel is an art teacher and landscape painter who has been exploring reflections between land and sky.
Artists Susanne Kudielka and Esther Rose Parkes Heinrichs will be running two lullaby-writing workshops on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 July at Grève de Lecq Barracks.
These sessions are open to anyone wishing to write a lullaby and no previous writing or musical experience is necessary.
The Lullaby Project is an initiative that hopes to create a diverse portrait of Jersey's lullabies by capturing the many much-loved bedtime songs that are sung around Island homes.
The workshops will look at the traditional lullaby song form and explore different ways of writing a lullaby for a special person using prompts, objects and musical instruments to support the creative process.
The aim is to leave the five-hour workshop with a completed lullaby at the end of the workshop and participants will receive an audio recording after the session.
Attendees are asked to bring a minimum of one meaningful object to the workshop; everything else will be provided.
Suggested ticket price, including lunch, is between £5-10.
Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
The St. Lawrence Minstrels Choir will be performing a selection of music from the 50s and 60s this weekend.
The concert is in aid of Sanctuary Trust and The Salvation Army, and will take place in Coronation Park on Saturday 15 July from 14:00-16:00.
Saturday Art School, a free extra-curricular course available to secondary school students across the island, will return this October in six week blocks on Saturday mornings.
The sessions are relaxed and sociable giving the opportunity for young people from different schools to come together, make new friends and form a new community.
The activities planned incorporate both individual and collaborative tasks to encourage new ways of working.
Each session starts with an informal breakfast and provides opportunities to socialise throughout.
Young people interested in applying for a place on the course are encouraged to reach out to their school art teacher who will be able to support with the application paperwork and advise on future course dates.
Robert Allen has been making and exhibiting art for over 20 years in Jersey, the UK and Italy.
He studied sculpture and drawing at Falmouth College of Art in Cornwall, and this is where he discovered the abstract expressionist artists of St Ives such as Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. He has always loved the combination of their abstract visual language that had roots in the landscapes and seascapes around them.
During university, he also studied in Milan where he had a very different urban environment and stimuli to react against with his work. The thought and art-making processes that he learnt in both these places are the foundation of how he works today.
The use of his immediate landscape as inspiration for my work has been a constantly evolving subject. His aim is to create artwork that describes not just the physical aspects of a place but the sensation of being there.
You can view some of Robert's work at the Link Gallery, Jersey Museum from until 29 July 2023.
There is also the opportunity to meet the artist and see more of his work at Le Hocq Tower, St Clement Coast Road on Saturday 22 and Saturday 29 July, from 12:00-18:00 both days.
Next month, Capital House will play host to an ambitious multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring the work of acclaimed UK, international and Jersey-based artists that explores the concept of 'home' in the 21st century.
The exhibition also sees ArtHouse Jersey extending far beyond its gallery walls, with intriguing, playful and participatory artworks around the island.
We may all yearn for a home, but this can be changed with political, social and economic realities. Histories and territorial borders fracture and shift, rules change, ecological and climate changes and mass migration can all impact on the intimate and incredibly fragile idea of what we call home.
Curated by Rosalind Davis and Laura Hudson, 'No Place Like Home' brings both existing and newly commissioned works by artists including Rachel Ara, George Bolster, Sasha Bowles, Justin Hibbs, Ana Cvorovic, Peter Liversidge, Lindsay Rutter, Will Romeril and Lisa Traxier.
This timely, island-wide show invites you to rethink our encounter with 'Home' on a subtle and cosmic journey across Jersey and beyond.
It will take place on Tuesday 5 September – Sunday 15 October.
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