Category: Arts & Culture
Arts Sunday returns to St Peter Port
The Guernsey Arts Commission is set for another busy year in 2013 and one of the highlights will be the third Arts Sunday on St Peter Port Seafront on Sunday 9th June. Last year’s Arts Sunday showcased a range of arts from performance and music to painting; poetry and literature. This year it will be [...]
Exploring the lives of people affected by or living with HIV through photography and word
‘Living Positive’, exhibition in the greenhouse gallery, closes its exciting and challenging run on Sunday 16th June. The original ‘Living Positive’ project was developed in partnership with a Manchester HIV charity in 2009. Lottie Barnes, Community Arts Development Manager, facilitated a series of photographic workshops; participants were given disposable cameras where Lottie’s role was to [...]
Guernsey Choral and Orchestral Society join forces with Biberach Choristers
THE Guernsey Choral and Orchestral Society is joining forces with Biberach ensemble, EvangelischeKantoreiBiberach, to sing Verdi’s highly acclaimed Requiem at St James on Saturday 10 May 2013. It is hoped that the concert, primarily organised to coincide with the celebrations of the bicentenary of Verdi’s birth, will also help forge further friendships with the people [...]
Outdoor cinema will return
OUTDOOR cinema will once again return to the island thanks to Sure. Sure Big Screen, which last year entertained more than 4,000 islanders, will be showing three films a day from Friday 23rd August until Saturday 31st August. Sure has also agreed to cover the costs of bringing giant screens to the island for Liberation [...]
Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society in unique French adaptation!
On Saturday 11 May at 3pm, a special performance of ‘Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society’ is set to thrill audiences in a unique Candie Gardens open-air enactment! The French adaptation, supported by the Guernsey Arts Commission, has been created by Le Theatre Balivernes and is free and open to all. With the renowned [...]
Budding Guernsey DJs get their chance to shine on new Fusion radio
Fusion Nightclub is looking for any promising local DJs to practice their skills on Fusion Live – a new internet radio station for Guernsey. Fusion Live launched earlier this month and broadcasts a mix of live shows by the club’s resident DJs and special guest DJs from the UK and automated playlists. The live shows [...]
Butterfield sponsors young musicians’ annual concert
MORE than 100 young musicians performed to a packed audience for the Guernsey Music Centre Winter Concert at St James, sponsored by Butterfield Bank. The annual concert, which features the Guernsey Music Centre’s Youth Orchestra, Youth Choir and Concert Wind Band, took place on Saturday 2 February. The Youth Orchestra began the concert with an [...]
New exhibition from the Guernsey Arts Commission
A discovery of Past Photographs taken by Gruts’ photographers at the greenhouse Co-Curator Liesja Grut. In this fascinating exhibition at the greenhouse there’s a chance to trigger some memories and see some amazing images of Guernsey in days gone by! The exhibition includes images of the Fermain boat, the Herm & Jethou boat the Martha [...]
Local dancers set to learn from The Royal Ballet School
Aspiring local ballet dancers will have an opportunity to take part in a master class led by The Royal Ballet School’s Outreach Programme next month at the Princess Royal Centre for Performing Arts. The Programme, which is returning to Guernsey thanks to sponsorship from Hayley de Putron, is now in its fifth year and will [...]
Students enjoy unique Deutsche Bank art competition prize experiences
Four students from Guernsey and Jersey who won an art competition earlier this year have all recently returned from once-in-a-lifetime prize experiences at the Saatchi Gallery in London and the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum in Berlin. The unique prizes for the ‘Deutsche Bank Community Art Works’ competition, part of Deutsche Bank’s 40th Anniversary celebrations in the [...]
