Claire Grove has worked as a senior drama producer and director for BBC radio and television since 1992. She directed Sir Ian McKellen in Walter Now, Simon Russell Beale in Tom Jones for Radio 4 and Kwame Kwei Armah in To Sir with Love. She won two Sony Gold Awards for a Woman in Waiting by Thembi Mtshali and a Matter of Sex by Nick Stafford.

Known for her successful and award-winning 1998 play Frozen, Bryony Lavery has seen over sixty of her plays staged. In addition to her work in theatre, she has also written for television and radio. She has written books including the biography Tallulah Bankhead and The Woman Writer’s Handbook, and taught playwriting at Birmingham University. Together, they will be reading all the entries and will choose the five winning writers. Literary producer, dramaturg and playwright, Jack Bradley, will then work individually with the five writers on their pieces prior to production.

This year’s Spearpoint New Plays Project, organised by the Jersey Arts Trust, with support from Spearpoint and Jersey Arts Centre, follows a slightly different format to years past. Instead of producing one-act plays of 20 minutes in length, this year they are searching for complete full-length plays, with the intention of co-producing one in a full professional production. So if you have aspirations to have your work developed, professionally produced and performed outside of the Island then this is your chance.

Jersey Arts Trust will be offering an intense week of development for the five selected plays. The selected plays will be developed through workshops, rehearsed readings and professional dramaturgy. Once these scripts are at their very best they will be presented to professional theatre companies to be considered for production. Through the generous support of Spearpoint, Jersey Arts Trust will be in the position to co-produce one play with a professional theatre company.

Writers should submit their full-length plays, as many as they like on whatever topic, but should bear in mind:

• All plays need to be at least 1 hour in length.
• Huge casts and the requirement for a large production budget can be prohibitive for some theatre companies.
• The closing date for submissions is 4pm on Monday 18 June.
• Whilst it is the intention of the Jersey Arts Trust to co-produce one of the plays, it can only honour this commitment if there is sufficient interest in at least one of the final pieces from a respectable theatre company.

Application forms to accompany the play submissions can be downloaded here: SNPP ENTRY FORM. To enter, simply send your play and entry form to the Jersey Arts Trust either through the post or as an attachment in an e-mail to: newplays@arts.je

Actors who wish to be involved, should email: newplays@arts.je to express their interest in taking part, including a note on their age (an age bracket will suffice!) and any experience they have to date.

The Jersey Arts Trust extends its thanks to the project sponsors, Spearpoint, whose support has enabled this exciting opportunity for Islanders.

The Diamond Jubilee Committee has launched the hunt to commission an artist to record the celebration of Her Majesty’s 60-year reign on Sunday 3rd June, one of the highlights of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Jersey is sending two boats – the historic lifeboat ‘Howard D’ and the ‘Norman Le Brocq’ – to join the flotilla of around 1,000 which will accompany Her Majesty The Queen’s converted river cruiser in a pageant which celebrates a centuries-old royal association with the Thames.

There is no stipulation regarding the kind of work to be created so any creative artist can apply for the commission. Artists have to make a written proposal to a panel chaired by the Bailiff, Mr. Michael Birt, setting out how they would approach the commission. The panel will choose the entry which best captures the excitement of the event, taking into account the practicality of producing the work.

Mr. Birt explained that the Jubilee Committee wished to mark the occasion with a permanent reminder of the excitement of the occasion. “Jersey has a very special association with the Crown and it is hard to imagine participating in a more colourful Royal celebration. This unique occasion warrants the skills of a creative individual to bring it to life for those not themselves present,” he said.

The successful artist will be flown to London and at high water on Sunday 3rd June will be given a place on one of the Jersey boats taking part with around a thousand others in a spectacle of unrivalled splendour.

Following completion of the work by mid-July, the Diamond Jubilee Committee will show the work to the Jersey public, whether by finding an appropriate space to hang it in the case of a physical work, or by otherwise bringing it to public attention.

Application forms and further information is available on line at -

www.gov.je/JubileeArtProject

Madagascar, the oldest island in the world and twice the size of Britain, is the enchanting home to unique people and nature, including the lemur. This exhibition is a series of paintings by artist Matt Falle, based on his sketches whilst travelling the island.

A percentage of every sale will be donated to Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust’s vital conservation work in Madagascar.

In association with Durrell.

Topics could explore a range of subjects including but not limited to:

• Royal visits to Jersey
• Jersey’s special relationship with the Crown
• The Royal Family
• The Diamond Jubilee celebrations
• 60 years of Her Majesty’s reign

Entry is open to all and people are free to enter as many poems as they like.

The competition will be judged in three age categories:

7-11 years, 12-18 years; and above 18 years.

The winning poem from each category will be read, as part of the official celebrations, at the Diamond Jubilee Gala Concert at Fort Regent on Monday 4 June. This concert will also be streamed live to a big screen at Les Jardins de la Mer.

First prize in each category will be a Kindle reader. Second prize: book tokens (£50) for two runners-up in each category.

The schools to which the winners belong, in the student categories, will receive book tokens to the value of £250.The competition will be shortlisted by the Jersey Arts Trust and judged by a panel of three judges: the Bailiff, Michael Birt (Chairman), the Constable of St. Helier, Mr. Simon Crowcroft and Lieutenant-Bailiff Jurat Jill Clapham.

The closing date for entries is Wednesday 23rd May 2012 and the winners will be announced before the end of May.

Diamond Jubilee Poetry Competition Entry Form

This year the Spearpoint New Plays Project is looking for full length plays to be submitted by 18^th June with five being selected for development with the chance of being professionally produced in the UK (download your entry form here SNPP ENTRY FORM)

Claire Grove has worked with the Jersey Arts Trust on a number of occasions in the past and was the main judge for last year’s project. She says she is thrilled to be working again in Jersey: ‘It is always such a pleasure to work with Jersey’s talented writers and actors and I am particularly excited to be doing it as part of this fantastic project. Hats off to Spearpoint and the Jersey Arts Trust for providing this amazing opportunity.’

Claire will be accompanied by acclaimed actor of stage and screen Tracy Wiles, who will be offering a workshop for budding actors alongside Clair’s work with the writers. Tracy has a huge list of screen and theatre credits and has provided the voice for radio, film and computer animation.

The workshop has been arranged after the Jersey Arts Trust was forced to cancel a workshop with Dennis Kelly and Tessa Walker in February due to the fog.

Director of the Jersey Arts Trust, Tom Dingle, said:  ‘It was a great shame that Dennis and Tessa were unable to make it to the Island due to the fog but every cloud has a sliver lining and we are delighted that Claire and Tracy will now be working with our writers and actors in what promises to be a fantastic workshop. We are so grateful to Spearpoint for enabling this brilliant opportunity.’

The workshop is open to people of all ages and abilities but places are limited so people should book soon! Places can be reserved by e-mailing newplays@arts.je

Claire will also be offering people one-to-one mentoring on Monday 23^rd April between 11.30am and 8pm. People can book places by e-mailing newplays@arts.je and should submit a piece of work in advance. If actors would like to meet Claire they should prepare one audition speech for her to watch. These sessions are 30 minutes long and £10 each.

The Spearpoint New Plays Project Workshop takes place at the Jersey Arts Centre on Sunday 22^nd April 10am – 5pm. Places are £30 (£18 Students) and available from the Jersey Arts Trust.

 To book your place e-mail newplays@arts.je

We need your details!

Jersey has no shortage of amazing artists in numerous fields.

The challenge is making it easy for artists to promote themselves to the public and meet each other.

We are in the midst of transforming our website into a one-stop shop for all things art in Jersey and, as part of that development,

we will soon be launching an online directory for Jersey artists, makers,  musicians, singers and groups.

If you would like your details included and openly published online, could you please forward the following to info@arts.je as soon as possible due to website updating.

• Name
• Address
• Contact telephone number
• Contact email
• Website
• Type of artist (and genre, if applicable)
•   Brief description of either what you do or what the     group you are Representing do (no more than 50 words)
• 1 jpg image – no bigger than 1MB in size (discs can be dropped in to St James if easier)

Once we receive your information, we will be in touch to give you a sneak

preview of your listing before launch.

Hope to hear from you!

The Gallery in Guernsey are looking to sell products made by other Channel Islanders.  The Gallery is a lovely arts and crafts place in the old quarter of Guernsey in Mill Street and they do a range of exhibitions and workshops. Contact Alice Carre at: alicecarre@cwgsy.net for more info.  This is the Gallery’s website address: http://thegallery.prosite.com/

Click the links below to download the application form and everything you need to know.

Application Form Open Studios 2012-6

Syllabus for Junior Handwriting and Schools Art & Craft are available through the schools.

Final registration date is Wednesday 8^th February at the Town Hall St Helier and at the following times.
 Needlework and Textile Art. 10 – 12.30 pm. and 2 – 4.30 pm. 
Photography 5 – 7.30 pm
. Handwriting 3.30 – 6.30 pm. 
Adult Art & Craft and Youth Art & Craft, by post to:
 Mrs Judy Gardener, Granite Spring, Beauport Estate, La Route des Genests, St. Brelade, JE3 8DG.

The exhibition will be open to the public from Thursday 15^th – Sunday 18^th March 2012,  10 am – 6 pm, closing on Sunday at 4 pm.
 Entrance Fee; Adult:  £2.50, Senior Citizens £2.   There is no charge for children or students in full-time education.
 Visitors to the exhibition will be able to take part by voting for the Visitors Choice Award.

We have some lecture opportunities and workshops on presentation skills to help.

Artists Lunchtime Lecture Series - A series of 10 lectures by local artists on their artistic practices
Date: Every Thursday from 3rd May – 5th July 2012
Time: 12.10-12.30
Venue: Jersey Arts Centre, Wyndham Hettich Room
There are 10 lunchtime lecture places available for artists to present their work to fellow artists and the general public. The intention is to showcase artists’ practices for marketing and/or networking purposes. Each lecture will last 20 minutes and take place 12:10- 12.30 in the Wyndham Hettich Room,  Jersey Arts Centre every Thursday from the 3rd May-5th July.  The artist will be expected to present their work for approx 15 minutes allowing time for questions and answers at the end. Artists interested in taking part in the lecture can also attend the ‘Presentation Skills’ workshops prior to their lectures, please see details below.

Presentation Skills for Artists Workshop
Date:  Monday 5th, Monday 12^th March 2012
Time: 6.00-9.00
Venue: Jersey Arts Trust, St James Vicarage
Places available: 10
Fee: £30
These 3hr workshops on ‘Presentation Skills for artists’ will be taught by Terry Arthur, who has vast experience in teaching adults presentation and public speaking skills. During the workshops you will explore display tools and presentation styles, approaches and methods suited to presenting your practice. As a result of the course you will be able to present your work in a confident, coherent fashion in a personalise format and style.

Places will be reserved by paying a £30 fee by cheque made payable to the Jersey Arts Trust.

Pre-workshop get together with Terry Arthur
Date: Monday 16th January
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Jersey Arts Trust Offices, St James Vicarage
If you are interested in the presentation skills workshop please come along to this ‘pre workshop get together’ to discuss with Terry your needs. It will be on Monday 16th January at 6.30pm at St James Vicarage, please email raewyn@arts.je to book your place.  

Matt Fackrell, James Bailey and Leigh Thorne’s CAN’T, Kal Bonner’s UNDER A VEST and Ian Godden and Adam Perchard’s THE GREENGROCER’S APOSTROPHE are all in the Lo-Budget Mayhem programme at the Opening Night at the ICA on Friday 6^th January.

Todd MacDonald’s INERTIA is in the Landscapes programme at the ICA on Sunday 8^th January.

Rebecca Coley’s HARD TO SAY is in the Youth of Today programme at the BFI Southbank on Saturday 14^th January

More details on the films…
CAN’T     Dir. Matt Fackrell, James Bailey and Leigh Thorne   17 mins
Three Filmmakers from Jersey travel to Cannes with two films, looking to make it big in the cut-throat world of international cinema.

THE GREENGROCER’S APOSTROPHE   Dir. Ian Godden and Adam Perchard      5 mins
Follow two post-apocalyptic industrial shamans as they muster an army from the detritus of the London streets; see two greengrocers eaten alive; rap along with the apostrophe posse; dance the dance of the righteously punctuated.

UNDER A VEST   Dir. Kal Bonner       5 mins
As darkness falls across the city, and the law fights for anyone who can afford it, one man with a secret, almost but not quite, as dark as the darkness that falls across the city, is about to confront his nemesis – the truth.

INERTIA         Dir. Todd MacDonald       12 mins
Alan longs to forget the things that have lead him to identity crisis but, in order to do so, he must confront them.  The pitfalls of such a task could lead anywhere.

HARD TO SAY      Dir. Rebecca Coley      18 mins
Two teenage girls find out they are pregnant on the same day at school.  This is their journey to decide what to do.

The festival runs from the 6^th to 15^th January.  Further details can be found at www.shortfilms.org.uk

These should be of a Christmas, seasonal nature and can be in any medium - including photographs – and the charity is looking for local scenes as well as more traditional images. They ask the artist to donate their picture ‘royalty free’ (although they can have it back when Jersey Hospice Care have finished producing the cards).

Please send your designs to Clarkson House, Mont Cochon, St Helier JE2 3JB or fundraising@jerseyhospicecare.com by the end of January. If you would like more information, please call Fundraising on 510349 or email lynsey@jerseyhospicecare.com.

In 2011, Highlands student Christine Hamilton spent a week with internationally renowned sculptor Stephen Cox, having secured the first scholarship which builds on Dandara’s involvement in the lanning and Environment Department’s Percentage for Art initiative.

In April tjis year, the successful artist will gain valuable professional experience, shadowing the president of the Royal Academy of Art and Professor of Drawing, Christopher Le Brun, one of England’s best known contemporary artists.  His work ‘Wing’ has been commissioned by Dandara for the Castle Quay development.

For more information please vsist Dandara’s Percentage for Art website www.dandarajerseyart.co.je

The tutor would run their Monday afternoon sessions. This is a paid post (term time) and they are keen to get the right candidate in place as soon as possible.

Please mail jersey.mencap@jerseymail.co.uk if interested. 

Come To Where I’m From, a nationwide theatre initiative that asks writers if home really is where the heart is, is coming to Jersey.

It’s run by Paines Plough, a touring theatre company specialising in commissioning and producing new plays. 61 playwrights from across the UK have so far returned to their hometowns to write plays about the places that shaped them. 

At 14 theatres, from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays were performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. Now it’s Jersey’s turn.

From Monday 28^th November, five local writers (Ben Evans, Leon Fleming, Martha MacDonald, Hannah Patterson and Colin Scott) will be mentored by five professional writers (Robin French, James Graham, Stacey Gregg, Matt Hartley and Sam Holcroft) for a week. Their task will be to write a 10-minute piece about Jersey. James Grieve and George Perrin, Paines Plough’s artistic directors, will also be on hand to assist and provide one-to-one guidance.

From Monday, the 10 writers and two Artistic Directors will be holed up in the idyllic Eulah Country House Hotel for five days of intensive writing, mentoring and read throughs with local actors.

On Saturday 3rd December, James, George and a number of the writers will be running a workshop and Q&A session. It’s open to all at a cost of £10 and is being held in the new Studio Space at the Jersey Opera House, starting at 2pm.

The week will culminate in each writer performing their 10-minute piece, a nerve wracking challenge for those who are normally found firmly behind the scenes.  The performances will also take place in the new Studio Space in Jersey Opera House, at 8pm Saturday 3^rd December. Tickets are available to all from the Jersey Opera House Box Office at a cost of £5.

The whole project is kindly sponsored by Spearpoint and supported by Eulah Country House Hotel. The ‘Come To Where I’m From’ performances are supported by the Jersey Opera House.

Title: Dreams & Meditations, An Art Exhibition by Charlene Hickey

Location: The Ommaroo Hotel, Havre des Pas

Description: Gather in the seafront sunroom for a glass of wine and a few nibbles and take a wonder into the grand reception, through to the cosy lounge and down to the bar, where Charlene’s art will be hanging in various spaces, so you can explore the hotel while you browse the paintings!

The bar will be open and there will also be live music including ‘The Flower Singer’.

Date: 2011-12-01
Start Time: 17:00
End Time: 19:00

Jersey has no shortage of amazing artists in numerous fields, the challenge is making it easy for artists to promote themselves to the public and meet each other.

We are transforming our website into a one-stop shop for all things art in Jersey and as part of that development, we will soon be launching an online directory for Jersey artists, makers, actors, musicians, singers and groups.

If you would like your details included and openly published online, could you please forward the following to info@arts.je

Name
Address
Contact telephone number
Contact email
Type of artist (and genre if applicable)
Brief description of either what you do or what the group do (no more than 50 words)
1 jpg images – no bigger than 1MB in size (discs can be dropped in to St James if easier)

We will be in touch to give you heads up before we launch, so you’ll get a sneak preview too. Hope to hear from you!

Local artist Peter Carnegie is exhibiting a selection of artwork from a 50-year career spent chronicling Jersey’s seascapes and landscapes on canvas.  His work will be at the White Space Gallery, Jersey Pottery, Gorey between 19^th – 31^st October and is a tribute to Jersey’s coastal scenery from the perspective of a yachtsman as well as an artist.

Peter, who trained at the Ruskin School of Drawing at Oxford and Brighton College of Art, is exhibiting for the first time in 16 years. As well as featuring Jersey’s coast and maritime history, this exhibition includes paintings inspired by voyages around the coast of Brittany and the Mediterranean, and is a combination of more recent works with those from an earlier period.

He commented “All my work is linked by a common commitment to the objective study of nature. Stylistically, my painting has changed over the decades but the inspiration remains the same – the sea and its tides, the beauty of the natural landscape and the changing weather and seasons.”

The exhibition runs between 9.30 and 5.30 pm daily from Tuesday 19^th to Monday 31^st of October at the White Space Gallery, Jersey Potteries. Sunday opening is from 10am – 4pm.

This week sees the fourth annual Inter-school Poetry Slam competition, where Year 9 students take each other on with weapons of pens, paper and artistic words!

Farrago Poetry are back in the island to host the event which kicks off with in-school workshops before two selected teams from each school go through to the final slam, with one team being crowned the 2011 Inter-School Champions.

Title: A Desperate Journey
Location: Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre

Start Date: 2011-11-14
End Date: 2011-11-26

Title: No Man’s Land
Location: Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre

Start Date: 2011-11-28
End Date: 2011-12-10

- emotional form – structure mood -

Paul invites you to the private view of his new paintings & the launch of his 2nd book on 15th October, 11am – 2pm.

The exhibition will run from 15th October to 13th November at the Link Gallery, Jersey Museum, The Weighbridge, St Helier.

If you are in Paris this month, look out for this exhibition.

Local artist Rychel Therin has been selected for DANS CETTE MAISON: Exposition Evènement de Créations Contemporaines running 3rd to 9th October.

Title: Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Patrick Malacarnet

Location: Greve de Lecq Barracks

Start Date: 2011/09/30
End Date: 2011/10/10

So that was Branchage 2011. Four fun filled days with films that covered more topics than you can image, not to mention the music and the parties and much, much more.

What was your highlight? Organisers would love to hear from you. Leave a comment below and we’ll pass it on…

Photographer and cinematographer Herbert Ponting’s offical record of Captain Scott’s legendary expedition to the South Pole was recently restored by the BFI National Archive.

It was 100 years ago that the British Antarctic Expedition led by Captain Scott set out on its ill-fated race to the South Pole on board the Terra Nova. Ponting filmed almost every aspect of the expedition. The scientific work, life in camp, the local wildlife including the characterful Adelie penguins, and recorded preparations for the assault on the Pole giving a real sense of the challenges faced. Those things he was unable to film, he boldly recreated back home.

As part of the restoration the BFI also commissioned contemporary composer Simon Fisher Turner to write a new score, which will be performed live at this screening.

Sunday, 7.30pm, Jersey Opera House, £12.

At Sea/At Land/At Last is a utopian view on the personal histories of Jersey.

Fritz Stolberg, London based artist and filmaker will be re-arranging personal home-cinema films from different eras, that people of Jersey have contributed, into a multi-projection live film event.

The event takes the home-movies out of the privacy of the living room into the public realm to create a communal experience, where personal histories are shared and viewed in a new context. A selection of films will be turned into a kaleidoscopic visual experience, dissolving the borders between different times, places and events on the Island.

Sunday, 5pm, St Helier Town Hall, £5.

Contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch sadly died in 2009, just a veteran German director Wim Wenders was about to undertake this epic study of her famous Tanztheater Wuppertal, which she founded in 1972.

Wenders’ film isn’t a documentary as such, but more of a unique immersive experience originally conceived for 3D technology. Showcasing many of Bausch’s most famous pieces, the extraordinarily moving dances take place both in the theatre auditorium space and outside the theatre in locations around Wuppertal, including on and around the town’s famous monorail system. The film defies convention, much like virtuoso Bausch did throughout her career. We also get to hear the thoughts and memories of various Tanztheater dancers, discussing their experiences of working with Bausch, as well as archive footage of Bausch herself at work.

The screening is preceded by a live dance performance, The Fifteen Eyes of Azomamma.

Saturday, 5.30pm, Jersey Opera House, £7.

At a Sydney girls’ school, music director Karen Carey prepares her young students for an annual concert at the Sydney Opera House.

Believing in the transformative power of great music, Carey insists upon a classical repertoire, sets a dauntingly high standard and requires the participation of every girl in the school. With a soundtrack featuring Bruch, Brahams, Vaughan Williams adn Verdi, one cannot fail to be moved by these young women as they work towards one of the most important nights of their young lives.

We welcome the film’s lead violinist, Emily Sun (pictured), to attend and perform, accompanied by Christopher George (Jersey Academy of Music) on piano following the screening.

Saturday, 2pm, Jersey Opera House, £7

In partnership with Gallery Magazine, Branchage preset a line up of internationally flavoured live acts and DJs, performing music from around the world.

Three rooms of action feature folktronica pioneer CAPITOL K performing  the Far Eastern sounds of his ‘Nomad Junk’ LP and his new Cumbian experiments, whilst local electronica collective BUBBLEBRAIN perform African and Afro-Caribbean music with a Western twist. London-based DJ and Santigold-cohort MARTELO headlines this show. Celebrating a successful year in which he has been twice invited to open for Jay-Z, he comes armed with a DJ set of world music/electro/hip-hop mash ups.

Meanwhile Guernsey DJs Limey Banton and MC Deemas J host the reggae room with their sound system Old Time New Time Sounds, plus DJ Oneofakind, while The Quietus DJs present The Departure Lounge, a chilled-out room of music from across the globe. PLUS Cameroonia troubadour MUNTU VALDO, a virtuoso bluesman who has toured with Damon Albarn’s Africa Express and the legendary Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Friday, 9pm, The Havana Club, £10

Harpist and songwriter Serafina Steer and animator Sam Steer join forces for a performance inspired by Kenneth Anger’s RABBIT’s MOON (1950).

In their bizarre and astounding new animation, POSTMAN’S FAMILIAR, the Steer brother and sister team have re-interpreted the archetypal characters of Anger’s avant-garde clown fantasy. Anger’s original soundtrack features mainly doo-wop pop juxtaposed against his surreal, classical silent take on ‘commedia dell’arte’. Serafina Steer (Stolen Recordings) creates a live sonic interpretation of this mythical story, using the new sound of ‘psychedelic harp’.

The live event will be supported by a selection of animations, from classics to more recent masterpieces, and a selection of Steer’s previous short collaborations.

With a pre-sceening performance by Nicky Mesch & Narelle O’Connor.

Friday, 8pm, at Ebenezer Church, £7

To sign up for an audition or for more information about the film please contact Sue Du Feu on suedufeu@googlemail.com

Auditions – Tuesday 27 Sept, 6.15pm, Jersey Arts Trust

Bijou: a short film

Producer – Sue du Feu

Production Company – Fortress Island Films

Dates of project – interiors – 15/16 and poss. 22/23 October, Exteriors – mid to late May 2012, probably 2 weekends.

There is no payment but you will be well fed! Filming will be at weekends only.

Synopsis – Jersey, June 1940 – A dilemma for Blanche and John – to stay or go? The British government are withdrawing protection from the German threat across the Channel, but offering to take Islanders to the UK if they want to go. Blanche is scared of the threat of invasion and wants to go but not without the light of her life – Bijou, their dog. Their struggles and the consequences on animals of the mass evacuation is the theme of the film.

Characters Blanche – late 40/50s – country woman, wife of John, timorous, kind, unkempt, works alongside John in the fields, childless, besotted with her dog, Bijou. Is terrified that the German’s will invade so wants to leave the island.

John – late 40/50s – farmer, poor, scruffy, well meaning, loves his wife and Bijou. Works hard with the animals and on the land for very little return. Does not want to leave the island and feels guilty but is prepared to go for Blanche’s sake.

Mary – late 30/40s – sister of Blanche, wife of Philip, mother of Annette (10) and Jacqueline (11), Mary loves her sister and John but is dominated by Philip – she will not cross him. She is elegant, married up and house-proud – a homemaker. Torn between wanting to take the children to safety in the UK and loyalty to Philip.

Philip – 40/50s – assistant bank manager, snob, looks down on almost everyone, expects and gets obedience from his wife, daughters are a bit more feisty, but he can still squash them. Secretly despises his bother and sister-in-law because they are poor and in his view, country bumpkins. Fiercely loyal, he wouldn’t dream of leaving the island, prefers to stay and fight.

Please look at the 2 extracts from the film, which are the audition pieces. We will have a camera available for the auditions. If you are a stage actor please remember that film is more intimate and movements, expressions are smaller than for the stage.

Bijou script extracts

Title: Spice – ‘Treasures & Trade’

Location: Jersey Accommodation & Activity Centre, La Rue De Pouclee et Des Quatre Chemins, St Martin

Start Date: 2011/09/30
Start Time: 17:00

End Date: 2011/10/02
End Time: 17:00

With the creative industries forming an increasingly large share of the economy, new ways of thinking are necessary. Artists and Makers need to understand the importance of the economic sphere so they can guarantee success in the marketplace.

On the back of March’s very successful workshops, Trudie Stephenson is returning for a series of Autumn sessions. Each of these two hour workshops will be held at the Jersey Arts Centre. There are 15 places and the places will be confirmed with the £30 course fee. Subjects covered are (scroll down for dates and more details)…

SETTING UP AND LAUNCHING AN EXHIBITION
CREATING ACTIVITY AND INCOME STREAMS FOR DESIGNER MAKERS
CREATING ACTIVITY AND INCOME STREAMS FOR ARTISTS
FUNDING AND SPONSORSHIP
HOW TO SELL YOURSELF
UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT AND IP
MARKETING AND PR STRATEGIES
THE ART OF COMMISSIONING

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Thursday 24th November

CREATING ACTIVITY AND INCOME STREAMS FOR ARTISTS

This workshop highlights how to create different income streams and how to survive in the commercial art world. There is an enormous difference between being able to talk about your work well and just being pushy or opportunistic. Being able to convey artistic or intellectual information and question it, forms part of the mechanics of becoming an artist, but the other part is doing the right thing, at the right time and in the right place, as well as meeting the right people. As an artist you will need to know your market and your worth and how to turn your talent into commercial opportunities.

Areas Covered:

• The ability to talk about your work.
• The ability to engage in professional relationships within the arts.
• A basic understanding of how the art industry works – know what you are operating within.
• Range  of  opportunities available
• Sources of information
• Identifying aims and objectives.
• Creating a workable and realistic schedule of activity.
• Creating different income streams and activities spread over a workable timeframe
• Structuring activity to satisfy aims and objectives
• Future planning  both strategic and financial

Thursday 24th November
FUNDING AND SPONSORSHIP

This workshop is an introduction to funding and sponsorship opportunities. It will cover how to structure successful funding/sponsorship bids and it will show you how to manage the process from start to end.

Areas Covered:

• Identifying funding organisations
• Structuring successful funding bids
• Assessing your capacity
• Managing the process from start to end

Friday 25^th November
HOW TO SELL YOURSELF

So if you manage to get that opportunity, that contact you wanted or that meeting with the gallery you admire…. How are you going to close the deal? This workshop covers making presentations, knowing your own potential, long term relationship building, how to go the extra mile, the importance of research. Talent is never enough.  It’s about first impressions, research, pitching, presentation, knowing your market and your own potential. It’s about networking and long term relationship building.

Areas Covered:

• The Importance of Selling
• Unique Selling Points/Knowing Your Own Potential
• Sales guidance/rules
• Presentations
• Follow-Through
• Strategic Planning/Being a self-marketer

Friday 25^th November
UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT AND IP

This seminar will help you to understand copyright and IP, how to use it, protect it and earn from it. The law sets parameters for who owns copyright, how long the protection lasts, and how to buy, sell and license copyright works.

Knowing the basics about how copyright functions is essential. Copyright provides protection for anyone creating work, enabling them to control use of the work, be credited with creating it, and earn from it.

IP rights are the most valuable assets in business transactions including capital raising, secured finance, and mergers and acquisitions – whether you create IP or use IP created by others, or both – you need to understand your rights and responsibilities in order to maximise your chances of success.

Thursday 8^th December
MARKETING AND PR STRATEGIES

Many artists are daunted by the thought of public relations. PR is generally recognised as a vital part of the success of any endeavour or business venture and is a vital vehicle in attracting buyers and positive reviews to you and your work. This seminar will show you how to market yourself and your work and how to implement and use PR strategies to your advantage.

• How to produce a artist/designer statement, biography and CV
• How to write a press release
• How to find press contacts and how to approach the press
• How to document your work in different formats and the best way to send out to interested parties.
• Time management and press deadlines

Thursday 8^th December
THE ART OF COMMISSIONING

This seminar looks at the areas to be considered when artists and designer –makers break into the commissioning market.

• Who commissions work and how do you find them?
• An introduction to the breadth of commissioning opportunities and the range of vehicles used to make people aware of them.
• Thinking about single piece commissions, wholesale and distribution initiatives, licensing and royalty agreements.
• How to get a contract and what customers expect from a tender or pitch.
• The five golden rules
• Managing and delivering your commission
• Copyright, IP and protecting yourself and your work.
• Using your commission as a springboard for further work

Title: Fox Judge’s Exhibition – Sophie Tarbuck

Location: Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre

Description: Sophie Tarbuck examines the crossovers between modern art, architecture and design.

Start Date: 2011-09-19
End Date: 2011-10-01

Get to the Box Office at Liberty Wharf for your Branchage Film Festival tickets.

Discover four days of film, music and live soundtracks hidden in every corner of Jersey.

Branchage Film Festival returns 22 – 25 Sept, bringing a shipload of cinematic booty to the island of Jersey.  The screenings, live soundtracks, parties and performances take place in strange and wonderful venues across the island’s parishes and coastlines, from a hidden chapel to the opulent Opera House, from a surfboard factory to churches and even a castle.

Highlights include Rob da Bank’s live alternative soundtrack to the original King Kong, Serafina and Sam Steer’s re-interpration of Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon, Variable 4 open-air sound installation at the coastal Elizabeth Castle, Branchage Globale party featuring Martelo and Capitol K, improv comedy from Jeff Leach and Mark Dolan, Simon Fisher Turner and The Elysian Quartet performing live to The Great White Silence.  Plus the best new independent cinema, some treats from the archive and 8 programmes of international short films.

Title: Branchage Film Festival

Location: Around the Island!

Link out: Click here

Start Date: 2011-09-22
End Date: 2011-09-25

Title: ‘Reef’ Exhibition by Virginia Colback

Location: Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre

Description: In the summer of 2009, Jersey artist Virginia Colback found herself stranded by bad weather on the Ecréhous reef, where she spent the enforced exile sketching and painting. The experience intensified her fascination with the Island’s marine and coastal environment.

A sailor as well as an artist, Virginia aspires in her new work to celebrate an age-old relationship in a new way.

Start Date: 2011-09-05
End Date: 2011-09-17

Rent is £170 per month – call Bianca Padidar on 07797 844636 or Lisa MacDonald on 07797 747755 for more information.



An opportunity has come up for Jersey Oak to take possession of a medium sized shop which has space and permission for retail, workshop and showroom space. It is located on the edge of town (between Kensington Place and Peoples Park).

It is in a great location with private parking for four or five cars and lots of passing traffic. There are four small workshop spaces within the unit (approx 400 sq feet in total), which would be suitable for small designer makers and artists alike. These workshops could be let singularly or shared etc.

There is also a part of the showroom which is easily dividable from the main showroom and is over 400 sq feet with lots of light – this could suit lots of different types of artists etc, again as a shared area or a single let, such as a photographer with space for studio and showroom/display area. The remainder of the showroom will be to sell/display products from. The whole area will be re-decorated, with toilet ad coffee making facilities.

Simon Bellwood of Jersey Oak would interested in making contact with individuals or groups who would be interested in either renting a space or to sell their products from on a commission/sale or return basis. If you are interested then please either call Simon for an informal chat or email him with your interests/questions.

The property is available for immediate possession and therefore have to move quickly as there has been a lot of interest from other parties considering its location versus the rental costs which are extremely reasonable given that this has potential for both making and selling within the same unit – something which rarely becomes available in Jersey.

Simon Bellwood
+44 (0) 7797 888782
Jersey Oak
www.jerseyoak.com
info@jerseyoak.com

Title: Beyond the Surface – A collection by Bianca Padidar

Location: Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre

Description: A collection of contemporary textile art pieces and wearable art jewellery.

‘Distilling Nature’s Cycle of Life Into Art’

Start Date: 2011-08-22
End Date: 2011-09-03

Title: Pudding – A Performance by Robert J Anderson
Location: The Former Church, Aquila Road, St Helier
Description: Friday 12th & Saturday 13th August at 9pm

Tickets available from the Jersey Arts Centre Box Office – 700444
Start Date: 2011-08-12
Start Time: 21:00
End Date: 2011-08-13
End Time: 22:15

And so the time has arrived. Spearpoint New Plays Project Week is upon us. We’re very excited!

The process started with a casting workshop where the 15 actors read for different roles before the directors ‘negotiated’ on who would fill them.

Then on Sunday the fun began – with just 7 days to learn lines, rehearse and stage their plays. The heat is on for Saturday’s Gala Performance!

This seminar is aimed at artists who are interested in or have some experience of undertaking public art commissions.

It gives an overview of current practice, an understanding of the skills required, and the issues to be considered when applying for and working on commissions.

The workshops sessions will help you understand the opportunities out there and how to find them.  A resource pack will also be provided.

At the end of the day you should have a:

• Better understanding of how and why public art projects happen
• Better understanding of how artists are selected and projects are managed
• Better understanding of the Jersey context
• Better understanding of how to approach a brief
• Better understanding of how to respond

As preparation for the course we strongly advise you to visit www.publicartonline.org.uk – which was founded by Maggie Bolt when she was Director of Public Art South West.  It is a comprehensive public art resource which covers all the areas (and more!) that you will be hearing about during the day.

If you are interested in attending the course please email Raewyn@arts.je

We are delighted to announce that, having received 35 entries into this year’s Spearpoint New Plays Project, four plays have been selected for the project.

This year’s selected writers are:
Ben Evans with A New Breed, an abstract piece that creates its own world and language.
Hannah Patterson with Aid, which is set in Africa and looks at inter-family relationships.
Leon Fleming with Dinner at Pharaoh’s Table, which is set in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities during the recent uprising in Cairo.
And Martha MacDonald, who at 14 is our youngest ever entrant and selected author, with Broken Record (Repeat to Fade), which looks at longing and unrequited love.

Ben has been writing for a number of years, his first play Heads Above Water having been performed in 1998. Since his early performed pieces, he has been experimenting with and reworking his writing style. He credits last year’s New Plays Project with giving him the focus to present plays to a wider audience again.

Hannah works as a playwright, screenwriter, documentary producer and arts journalist. She has had several short one-act plays produced (The Union, The Pleasance, Hampstead Theatre) and her first full-length play MUCH premiered at The Cock Tavern in 2010. She was recently invited to participate in the Edinburgh Film Festival Talent Lab with feature script Resistance.

Leon is originally from the UK, but while being on Jersey he has been fortunate enough to have his play “The Boy Next Door” aired on BBC Radio Jersey and to be selected for the New Plays Project 2010 with his play “Birdsong”. Previously, his play “Monkeys in Toy Town” was produced by New Mercury Theatre, Birmingham.

Martha is a new young writer who grew up in Jersey. Through various local groups such as the youtheatre, she has been involved in the production and performance of a wide range of devised and scripted pieces. She has a passion for writing and contemporary literature. Despite being only 14 years old, Martha has had her work published in various anthologies and magazines throughout the UK.

The plays will be produced in just one week in July by a team of actors led by four professional directors who have been recruited from London. The Jersey Arts Trust is pleased to announce this year’s directors are:

Natalie Ibu is a freelance Theatre Director, Producer, Dramaturg, Script Reader, Workshop Leader and Youth Theatre Director. In 2010/11, she was the inaugural Associate Director (Warehouse) for HighTide Festival Productions. In July 2009, she completed a year’s residency at the Royal Court as their Trainee Director. Since graduating with a First Class Honours degree in 2004, she has completed residencies with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court, Citizens’ Theatre, Contact and New Perspectives. She has been awarded bursaries from ITV Directors Scheme, the Federation of Scottish Theatre, Scottish Arts Council and Arts Council East Midlands. Awards include Time Warner Ignite 2, IdeasTap Innovator’s Award and the Lilian Baylis Award for Theatrical Excellence. As Director, credits include readings and productions at Theatre503, The Gate, Latitude, HighTide, BAC, Oran Mor, Traverse, Royal Court, ATC at the Young Vic, OVNV at The Old Vic, Waterloo East and The Vineyard Theatre in New York, Royal Lyceum Youth Theatre at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Citizens Young Co. at the Citizens’, G12, The Arches, Contact and TWP at Nottingham Playhouse.

Andy Brunskill has a first class degree in Drama and Physical Theatre. He was a Trainee Director at the Orange Tree Theatre. Director credits include: Curious (Riverside Studios); Black Chiffon, Hippolytus, A Yorkshire Tragedy (White Bear Theatre); Defined by Design (Waterloo East Theatre, Old Vic/TimeWarner); She (Southwark Playhouse); Open Yarmouth (Etcetera Theatre); Raiders Road, With Fumes of Human Roast (Hampstead Theatre Start Night); Feeding the Birds (Old Vic New Voices: 24 Hour Plays); Sing To Me Through Open Windows (Orange Tree Theatre). Assistant Director Credits include: Government Inspector (Young Vic/Warwick Arts Centre); Dark But Full of Diamonds, Marmalade (24 Hour Plays: Celebrity Gala); Factors Unforeseen, Greenwash, Private View, Protest, Mountain Hotel, Leaving (Orange Tree Theatre).

Rachel Grunwald is a freelance director with extensive experience in new writing. Recent work includes Childsplay, an outdoor historical journey through children’s play, and the UK premiere of the musical Pins and Needles (Time Out’s ‘Hit of The Year on the Fringe 2010’). Rachel directed world premieres of Blood and Gifts by JT Rogers and Wood for the Fire by Lee Blessing for the Tricycle Theatre’s Oliver Award-nominated production, The Great Game: Afghanistan, in London and on tour in the USA including a command performance for Pentagon staff. Further credits include A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner (RADA), several new promenade and immersive shows for award-winning company SPID, new writing for companies including HighTide, and several shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Rachel trained at RADA and the National Theatre Studio, and has worked as an Assistant Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Kate Budgen completed an MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck College in 2007 and has been Associate Director at Shropshire based Pentabus Theatre since 2008. Recent directing credits include May Fair, (Latitude Festival), Tales of the Country (National Tour) Miriam Gonzalez Durantez (Theatre 503) and Bedbound (Lion and Unicorn). She has worked as an Assistant Director for The Gate Theatre, The Almeida, The Opera Group, Pentabus Theatre and most recently for Opera North. She completed the National Theatre Studio Director Course in May 2010 and she is a Creative Associate at the Bush Theatre. She came runner up in the 2010 JMK Director Award with The Hairy Ape, which will be produced in Spring 2012.

Tom Dingle, Jersey Arts Trust Co-ordinator said: ‘It is very exciting to have our writers and directors in place for this year’s project. We really couldn’t have hoped for a higher calibre of artists and as always have been astounded by the superb quality of all of the work submitted. We can’t wait until the production week!”

The plays go into production on Saturday 23rd July when the teams will be given just one week’s rehearsal and a budget of £100 each. The project culminates in a gala performance at Jersey Arts Centre at 8pm on Saturday 30th July. Tickets are available from the Jersey Arts Centre Box Office (Tel: 700444).

The Spearpoint New Plays Project is sponsored by Spearpoint and is run by the Jersey Arts Trust in association with the Jersey Arts Centre and with support from Old Vic New Voices.

Key dates…
Saturday 23rd to 30th July – Production Week
Saturday 30th July at 8pm – Gala Performance

Title: Providence Street – A selection of photographs by Tom Killick
Location: Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre
Description: Sponsored by the Jersey Arts Trust, The Partnership & Spike Productions
Start Date: 2011-07-11
End Date: 2011-07-30

In association with Jersey Arts Trust and the Channel Islands Filmmakers Network.

Date: SATURDAY 2ND JULY
Location: Jersey International Business School, 12/13 Caledonia Place, The Weighbridge, St Helier, Jersey

2pm – 3.30pm: ONE-TO-ONE FEEDBACK SESSIONS Two award-winning short filmmakers will be giving feedback on your WORK AND FILMMAKING SKILLS in private one-to-one sessions.

Ben Blaine: Ben is an experienced and award-winning filmmaker and producer who has worked on all budgets, ranging from Film4’s Cinema Extreme scheme to low budget DIY films. Ben and his brother Chris (Charlie Productions) are in development on their first feature film.

Michael Pearce: Michael’s latest short film ‘Rite’ was nominated for a BAFTA in 2011. A graduate of the National Film & Television School, Michael is originally from Jersey and won the top prize at the Branchage Film Festival in 2008.

NB. Sessions must be booked in advance. Please email Rebecca on becca@branchagefestival.com with information about your film and remember to bring it along on the day.

4pm – 5pm: SCREENING AND Q&A SESSION

Ben Blaine and Michael Pearce will lead a screening session for the group, showing some of their work and taking questions about their directorial decisions, techniques and the production process.

5pm – 6.30pm: PRODUCTION WORKSHOP

Learn the practical nuts and bolts to make a film. This session will cover basic budgeting, locations, actor/ contributor consent forms, music clearance and an outline of who does what in a film production team.

6.30pm – 7.30pm: DRINKS AND NETWORKING

Informal networking to help build up filmmaking teams.

£5 entry (includes a free drink) to be paid on the door Arrive at 3:45pm, or earlier if you have booked in a feedback session

Please call Branchage on 020 7739 1074 for more information or to book in, or email becca@branchagefestival.com

Following the series of Professional Development Workshops with Trudie Stephenson in March, we would like to offer a one-to-one mentoring sessions with Trudie.

Trudie has more than 20 years experience in the art world and is a respected name in the business. She has directed major international exhibitions and held the position of Managing Director at County Hall Gallery, London and was instrumental in developing the museum collection specialising in the works of Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.

The sessions will run on the 21st and 22nd July. There are only 5 places left and cost £20 for an hour intensive tutoring. Places will be given on a first come first served basis, with artists who have attended previous Jersey Arts Trust workshops having first refusal.

To register your interest please mail raewyn@arts.je

Summary of the past and current work of Trudie Stephenson

Trudie Stephenson has more than 20 years experience in the art world. She has directed major international exhibitions such as Marilyn Monroe – Life of a Legend, the biggest ever exhibition devoted to the screen icon Marilyn Monroe – consisting of over 250 works by artists such Andy Warhol, Allen Jones and Henri Cartier-Bresson ECT. She also brought the FIFA 100 to Mori Art Centre in Tokyo – a unique exhibition of photographs that brought football and art together for the very first time. This exhibition was launched at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Trudie also held the position of Managing Director at County Hall Gallery, London and was instrumental in exhibiting, touring and selling the works of Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso worldwide.  Trudie mentors young artists and helps them to find galleries and to generate sales. She was instrumental in the re launch of the career of Keith Coventry in 2006 and has helped many artists to gain entry into the international art market. . Trudie currently mentors at University of the Arts.

A number of artists are in one space for Open Studios 2011. One co-operative is Janine Ross and Susan McGarry who can be found in St Lawrence.

Janine Ross uses oils and mixed media. Her work explores perceptions of people’s appearances.

Susan McGarry’s aims in painting are to express her journey through the many different places she have lived and her love of the country, sea and architecture. She plays with the imagery in a spontaneous way, which allows her to develop ideas around the work rather than the work itself being specifically about a place or building.

Their studio will be open…
Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th June – 10am to 4pm

Address…
At Genee Cottage, La Rue de la Hauteur, St. Lawrence, JE3 1FY

From Millbrook, straight up to Carrefour Selous, sharp right along Rue Parquethee, left at crossroads, second house on right.

Perry’s Guide page 19F 4/5

Parking available at the rear of the property.

Kerry-Jane specialises in prints, lino cuts & etchings. She is interested in storytelling and so her images often include anthropomorphic characters.

Her new studio is at Mont Neron and tea, coffee and cake will be on offer to intrepid visitors willing to venture into the wilds of rural St Helier!

Opening times:
25th & 26th June 10-4

Address:
The Press House Studio, Stirling Castle Farm,
Mont Neron,
St Helier,
JE2 4JB

Beverley began making textiles at a very early age. She has gone on to develop her own home furnishings range which she now sells throughout the Island and the UK. Her coastal themed textile art pieces are also proving to be highly sought after.

Lately she has gained much national press attention including making the front cover of ‘Country Homes & Interiors’.

You can find her studio area on the first floor of  The Harbour Gallery. Her dispkay area will br open Saturday and Sunday between 10-4, with textile picture demonstrations between 10-1 on Saturday. Or find out more about Beverley and her work at www.beverleyspeck.co.uk

Jason’s work is centred on the figure, exploring both portraiture and narrative painting.

His studio address is…

‘Healthspark’
5-7 Chandis House
Great Union Road
St Helier
JE2 3YA

At the bottom of Great Union Road, next door to ‘Motorama’ motorbike garage.

Opening times: Sat 18th & 25th 10-5

‘I want to make honest, simple textiles that make people feel better’. Sasha Gibb

Sasha works with 100% pure British wool.  Her sources are British wool blankets from late 19^th and 20^th century. She only uses old and vintage natural fibres – wool, hemp, cotton and linen, which are laundered and dyed by hand. All pieces are one-offs and designed to be useful – baby blankets, adult blankets, cushions, bags, egg cosies.

Directions – traveling on Trinity Hill to town from Trinity church, house immediately before the garage on the right. Red windows.

Open 10.00 – 2.00 18th and 19th. Telephone booking advisable.

‘Sasha Gibb would like to build the world a home, and furnish it with love… it’s all about comfort and few can resist.’ Selvedge Magazine

Lisa MacDonald uses paint and stitch to create a textiles product called MollyMac. Check her work out at www.lisa-macdonald.com

To get to the studio: driving from St John pass St Mary’s school on the right and, although the main road bends round to the right, continue on the smaller road straight on. Although the road twists and turns when you come to a T junction turn left and continue down this road until you see a car park ahead. The workshop is on the left.

Open both weekends Saturday and Sunday from 10am-4pm.

Pippa primarily works in cold-cast bronze, producing one-off commissions and small-run limited edition collectables using a combination of found-object life casts and direct modelling in wax or clay.

Her background in jewellery design and manufacture, and later in Zoology is reflected in the inspiration for and techniques used to produce her work.  Pippa also takes commissions for fine-art quality life-castings of infants and children.

She can be found at Shell House, La Folie, St Helier, JE2 3NB along with a number of other artists.

Directions:
Directly behind the old La Folie pub on the harbour, St Helier

Opening times:
10-4, 18th and 19th, 25th and 26th June.

Contact number:
07797 855003

Nanette is a toymaker living and working in Jersey. All her toys begin life as quirky drawings and grow to become carefully handmade characters, each with their own personality!

Nanette’s toys make a very special gift that is unique, locally handmade and genuinely Jersey. You’ll find her at the Harbour Gallery in St Aubin. Nanette’s space is on the first floor at the top of the stairs.

She’ll be available to chat about her work from 11am – 4pm on the weekends of 18th-19th and 25th-26th June.

A visit to Ian’s studio on rocks at Corbiere is an experience in itself. His work is wayward, colourful and uplifting… landscape, still life and buildings in watercolour, very thick oil paint, constructions, limited edition prints and greetings cards. There’s definitely lots to see!

And cream teas will be available on the terrace with stunning views from 3 – 4.30 pm. He’ll open 18th, 19th, 25th & 26th June, 10 am – 5 pm each day.

Song of the Sea
Mont de Grouet
Corbiere
St Brelade
JE3 8HL

Phone: 485168 or 07797832847

Directions: 200 yards down the hill on the main road from Corbiere Lighthouse car park. 2nd property on the left (sea side), down the steps with a turquoise coloured handrail.

Park on the main road or at Corbiere Lighthouse car park.

900 shows in 4 years and counting…

Stuart went full time in 2006 quitting the day job and buying a van. His self managed schedule seems to have many wondering how he does it, but Stuart believes his motivation comes from creative freedom, friends and the people he meets whilst doing what he does.

3 tours in Japan, New Zealand and Australia, as well as numerous months on the road in the UK have helped carve a living and hone the live show. And Stuart now has 3 albums under his belt (2 of which have sold out and had to be re-pressed, which makes him feel ‘all fluffy and smug’). Sometimes people find it hard to categorise his music, but if pushed Stuart would say he’s a psychedelic folk singer/songwriter.

Born in the north of Manchester, James moved to Jersey 6 years ago. Over the past year he started song-writing whilst singing with local big-band Inside Job. Working closely with other singer/songwriters for the past few years has inspired him to do the same.

Classically trained on piano at the Blackburn School of Music, but stopped not wanting to conform to grades. James also trained with Singing Coach Jon Christos of Chethams School of Music at 16.

James is currently working for La Motte Street Youth Center’s ‘Gig School’ as a singing mentor.

Frankie’s beautifully self-penned lyrics and melodies combined with effortless skill on her guitar are the perfect soundtrack to a soulful summer. An acoustic diva on the stage and in the comfort of her own home, her cheeky smile alone will win you over.

Boys and girls, Frankie and her guitar have arrived. Don’t be surprised if she steals your heart, as well as your attention.

There are many wonderful planets in our solar system. The stars come out every night as proof of the overwhelming power of the universe.

But….The Flower Singer (Michele Horwood) puts it to you…what about the beautiful and vast universe that lies inside each and every one of us?

Through her ”musical meditations”, Michele expresses her own universe and encourages you all to have a look at your own. What lies under your skin? What world is inside you?  For her, it’s revelling in what it is to be human. The beautiful, the dark, the sad, the funny.

Title: Collected Memories, Collecting Dust – an exhibition by Rychel Therin
Location: Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre
Description: An exhibition of lived experiences
Preview: Monday 6th June, 17:30 – 19:00
Artist in Conversation: at preview & Sat 25th June 12:00-14:00

Sponsored by Jersey Arts Trust
Start Date: 2011-06-06
End Date: 2011-06-25

Title:

Tickets £12 from Jersey Arts Centre
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2011-05-21

Title: The Tide Tables – An intriguing new play about midlife
Location: Jersey Arts Centre
Description: By Christine Watkins.
With haunting new music by Sianed Jones
& sparkling a capella songs by Mary Keith
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2011-05-27

David is giving a lunchtime lecture as part of the Agapanthus Lyrical mini-festival. Join him at The Up & Down Bar, Queen St on Friday 27th May at 1pm – entry is free!

Read on to learn more about David…

David Quantick is a writer, broadcaster and critic specialising in comedy and music. He has written on, or appeared in, many influential television and radio shows, from The Day Today and The Fast Show, to the banned animation PopeTown and the equally controversial Brass Eye.

He began writing for the music publication NME and, with Steven Wells, he contributed to many of the humorous, snippet sections in the paper. He gained a reputation for incisive and witty observations on popular culture and music. Alongside rock journalism he was also submitting gags and sketches to British comedy shows such as Spitting Image.

Quantick built his profile steadily and his name began to appear more and more often in print, radio and television. In 1992 Armando Ianucci asked him to join the writing team for the radio comedy On The Hour after which he made the natural progression to the television follow up The Day Today (1994). Both shows were highly acclaimed within the industry, winning awards and marshalling a loyal fan base.
 
At this stage Quantick was still submitting copy to the NME, only giving up in 1995 after an unusually long association with the paper. Around this time he was appearing regularly on Collins and Maconie’s Hit Parade (BBC Radio 1 1994 to1997), waxing critical about music’s stars. This developed into his own named slot in the format: Quantick’s World.

His relationship with Maconie continued in parallel on the weekly show, The Treament on BBC Radio 5 – an hour long satirical news round-up.

In 1995 Carlton Television broadcast a set of 6 pilot television shows, one of which was Now What?. The series was not picked up for development but Quantick found a writing partner through these proceedings in Jane Bussman. The two went on to write and perform Bussman & Quantick Kingsize (1998), a series of sketches and monologues.

Quantick rejoined the Chris Morris/Armando Ianucci axis to write for Brass Eye in 1997. The show caused huge controversy as Morris often does, and though Quantick’s association with him on Jam (2000) was less explosive, the Brass Eye Paedophile Special was so controversial that Government ministers initially condemned the programme (without having seen it).

 Throughout this period he contributed to less provocative fare such as Smack The Pony (1999-2001), Harry Enfield’s Brand Spanking New Show and could be heard on BBC Radio 4′s 99p Challenge.

But most importantly Quantick and Bussman were making history.

In 2000 they created the world’s first Internet sitcom Junkies about three heroin addicts. Quantick also claimed it as the first docusitcom (documentary/sitcom), though some argue a competing claim is made by The Osbournes. It starred long time Morris collaborator Peter Baynham, with Sally Phillips (Smack The Pony) and Peter Serafinowcz (Look Around You). It is still available for download. The project grew out of the writing pair’s frustration with the commissioning process. The average sitcom, they said, cost 200,000 pounds to make and finding funds is too difficult. So they secured the services of cast and crew on a voluntary basis and made a show for less than 4,000 pounds. The site received over a million visits in the first eight months.

 In 2001 Quantick collaborated with Collins and Maconie again on Lloyd Cole Knew My Father, a live show where the three recounted humorous tales of working as rock journalists. Part of the conceit was that, far from being a tale of sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, stories centred on the deflating aspects of the job: the boredom, missing assignments, the idiosyncracies of fan letters. Quantick missed one performance at Edinburgh’s Pleasance Theatre when he went for a walk up a large hill – Arthur’s Seat – and had to be rescued by firemen. 

A performance was later broadcast on BBC Radio 2 as a six episode serial.

Around this time there was an explosion of nostalgic list shows on British television themed around decades past: I love The 1980s and I Love The 1990s etc. Quantick was in his element (as was Maconie) scraping the pith from cultural icons and ephemera.

 Quantick enjoyed immense success with the publication of 2004′s Grumpy Old Men, which spent three months in the Sunday Times best seller list, and a sequel is imminent.

 He continues to write.

Agapanthus Lyrical is a new mini-festival to celebrate the art of creative writing through song and the spoken word.

Both local and International performers have been invited to share their work in beautiful settings and also learn from one another in workshops. The ethos of the project is collaboration and sharing within a relaxed and encouraging atmosphere.

THE PROGRAMME…

Friday 27^th May
1pm – 2pm…  Lunchtime Lecture and Q&A with David Quantick
Upstairs at The Up and Down Bar on Queen’s Street
Free of charge
David Quantick is a writer, broadcaster and critic specialising in comedy and music. He has written for and appeared in many influential television and radio shows, from The Day Today and The Fast Show, to the banned animation PopeTown and the equally controversial Brass Eye.

Enjoy a pint whilst listening to David recount his experiences within his field. There will also be the opportunity to ask questions at the end.  The event is free but we just ask for a donation in the bucket to help future Jersey Arts Trust events.

David will also be offering one-to-one feedback for writers during the day on Saturday. Sessions are just £10 each so for more information or to book a place please contact the Jersey Arts Trust on 617521 or mail info@arts.je

Saturday 28^th May
10am – 1pm…  Songwriting and Poetry Workshops
The Elms (National Trust), St. Mary
£15 per space
We are offering two workshops led by our visiting artists on the art of writing songs and poetry. Poets and songwriters will be split into their respective disciplines for the workshop but will be invited to come together for lunch.

The workshop is suitable for writers of all levels so both complete beginners and seasoned veterans are welcome.  Spaces are £15 and limited in number – to book a place on either workshop contact the Jersey Arts Trust on 617521 or info@arts.je

1pm…  Picnic Lunch
The Orchard at The Elms
Free of charge
Open to both the participants of the workshop and to anyone else who would like to come. Bring your own food, a blanket and a plastic bag for rubbish!

8pm… Dusk Concert
Liberty Wharf
Tickets: £9 Adults; £6 Students (available from Jersey Arts Centre Box Office, Tel: 700444)
Set in the atmospheric surroundings of Liberty Wharf a selection of local singer-songwriters and poets have been invited to perform along with our visiting artists Bjorn Segerberg, Annika Fehling, Esther Parkes and Chuma Nwokolo.

The emphasis is on new work so the Jersey Arts Trust is delighted to be introducing new local artists for their debut performance along with more seasoned performers such as Jersey Bob, Michele Horwood (The Flower Singer) and Linda Rose Parkes.

Sunday 29^th May

4.45am…  Dawn Concert
St. Catherine’s Breakwater
Free of charge
Come and see the sun rising in the East with the most stunning backdrop whilst listening to a selection of acoustic music and poetry from local and guest performers.

Free and open to all, bring a blanket and warm clothing to see the day in. Refreshments will be available to buy in the café after.

Monday 30^th May

1pm… Songs and Poetry
Bean Around The World
Free of charge
What better way to end the Bank Holiday weekend than to enjoy a cup of coffee whilst listening to new music and poetry? A selection of the weekend’s performers will be playing at Bean Around the World during Monday lunchtime.

Tom Dingle, Jersey Arts Trust Co-ordinator, commented…
“We are very excited to be launching this new initiative that celebrates the art of lyric writing through song and poetry. With a combination of local performers (some of whom will be making their debut) and invited guests, it’s sure to be a great weekend of music and sharing in stunning environments. It will be a very relaxed atmosphere so we encourage all to come along to hear and enjoy a diverse range of styles and influences.”

Many of the exhibitors are active participants in Adult Education classes through Highlands College.  Highlands tutor and Jersey artist Gabrielle Radiguet has curated the exhibition and wants it to draw attention to the value of art in maintaining a sense of health and well being.

Highlands College is instrumental in providing a wide variety of inspiring courses to suit all ages.  Sally Coffin, one of the exhibitors, said: “Highlands College adult art courses at the Philip Mourant Centre have opened up for me a source of heightened perception and quickening anticipation capable of revitalizing old age.”

Sylvia Rose Lee said: “Appreciation and love of art has enriched my life in a variety of ways, not least the friendships of painters and tutors.  Art has become even more important to me in this latter part of my life.”

Adult Education Programme Manager, Laura Goldstein, was delighted when Gabrielle approached her with the concept for the exhibition.  “We have 524 students over retirement age and 48 who are 80 or older.  It is an inspiration to see this generation still engaged in learning, still hungry for knowledge and keen to improve their skills.  This exhibition is living proof of the need for and importance of lifelong learning, whatever form it may take, to keep people healthy and involved.”

The show takes place at the Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre, with a preview on Tuesday 10 May from 5.30pm – 7.30pm and runs until Saturday 21 May.  The exhibition coincides with Age Awareness week in the UK and has been supported by the Jersey Arts Trust.

Title: The Spirit of Age
Location: The Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre
Start Date: 2011-05-10
Start Time: 17:30
End Date: 2011-05-21

New Plays Project 2011 from Fortress Island Films on Vimeo.

Title: Open Spaces by Graham Tovey
Location: Link Gallery, Jersey Museum
Description: Open Spaces, recent paintings by Graham Tovey, previews today, 10-2 at the Link Gallery, Jersey Museum. Continues until 21st May.
Start Date: 2011-04-09
Start Time: 10:00
End Date: 2011-05-21
End Time: 17:00

Archisle aims to promote contemporary photography through an ongoing programme of exhibitions, educational initiatives and commissions.

To mark the launch of the project, photographers are invited to submit a portfolio of three photographs responding to the theme of ‘islandness’.

Entry forms can be collected from the Societe’s offices in Pier Road and should be returned by 30th September. 1st prize is £500, 2nd prize is £200, 3rd is £100 and there is a junior prize of £200.

Workshops are also being held, to learn about the history of photography, contemporary practice and to discuss your work with our photographers.

Workshop 1 – Saturday 30th April & Saturday 7th May

Workshop 2 – Saturday 2nd July & Saturday 9th July

Workshop 3 – Saturday 16th July & Saturday 23rd July

For further information please contact archisle@societe-jersiaise.org or call 758314.

In the latest of our series of profiles of Jersey based artists, we chat with Theresa Robinson.

Theresa is a ceramic artist who is constantly evolving and pushing herself. She says ‘after 18 years and thousands of pots in to my career, I feel like I’m only just beginning’…

Name: THERESA ROBINSON

How would you describe your work? I produce an eclectic range of hand thrown ceramics from utilitarian-ware to large sculptural installations and one-off fine art pieces.

What are you working on at the minute? I’ve been working on a lithographic process of transferring photographic images onto thrown forms. It has taken me several months to perfect the technique but the end result is very exciting and is having a profound influence on the body of work I produce. I am working on the finishing details including layering images, colouring, tinting and adding script. As this work develops, I find myself moving further and further away from work which has a purely functional purpose to making work that becomes as a blank canvas for me to work on.

What inspires you? Everything! It’s impossible to narrow down to one or two things. I think all of life, past and present, get filtered through my work from memories of the big kitchen table at my grandma’s farm in Missouri when I was a child, to a conversation yesterday with the gas man – it’s all there in my head and ultimately in my work.

What are you artistically most proud of? I am most proud of the fact that I’ve made a living from my work for more than 18 years now in spite of numerous obstacles. I’ve exhibited in the UK and the USA and have pots in private collections all over the world. Everyday, somewhere in the world, someone is using and living with my work and that’s my reward.

Where can your work be seen? My own studio – but not for much longer (see below) – an Open Studio Sale commences 15 April!

What’s next? Any plans? After nearly thirty years, we are in the process of leaving Jersey to return to the USA.  I am closing my studio down and packing up our lives to start again on the other side of the world.  I believe such a dramatic move will no doubt impact on my work in ways I can’t predict so, as they say, watch this space…

Theresa’s studio is 7 Belvedere Terrace, La Route de St Aubin, St Helier and she can be contacted on 722429.

A great opportunity has arisen for artists studios in a central location based at the Harbour, South Pier, St Helier.

If you’re an artist looking for a studio then please get in touch. The space can accommodate up to nine artists and will be charged at £75 per calendar month.

Please read our following criteria for selection:

Criteria for selection:

Artists will be selected for studio space if they can demonstrate the following:

●      Commitment to their professional practice

●      Engagement with current contemporary practice

●      Ambition to progress and develop their practice within a critical framework.

●      Willingness to participate in public events, including the annual open studio event, and occasional studio visits.

●      Keen to promote the organisations activities and to acknowledge their part in the organisation where appropriate.

●      Willingness to be part of an artists community & contribute to the day to day running of the studios

●      Commitment to actively use the studio space on a weekly basis.

●      Ability to meet required commitments, including rota jobs.

●      Studio rental fee must be paid by direct debit and on time.

Apply now:

Interested in a space? Then apply now. The space is available now and so we can start filling them. Please email karen@arts.je by 20th April, with a short statement (no longer than 300 words) about your practice, how you would use the space and a few images of your work. Include details of ways in which you would be interested in getting involved.

A Variety Concert including songs from Les Miserables, Tarzan, Billy Elliot, Rent & many more…

All proceeds will be donated to Cancer Research Jersey & Huntington’s Disease Association.

Uneekyou is a new personalized greetings card company which features designs from the unique collections held by Jersey Heritage, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and Jersey Tourism as well as work from local and UK artists and photographers, recent graduates and local design students.

The exhibition, which focuses on the local collections, includes a selection of images ranging from classic tourism posters to unique card designs and from iconic Jersey landscapes to wildlife photography.

They will be displayed in various different formats – posters, cards, canvases and banners as well as photobooks and calendars – to showcase the designs and merchandise available through www.uneek2you.com

The company is keen to promote local talent and would welcome approaches from artists interested in using the site to market their own designs as well as from special interest and community groups looking for a cost effective way of promoting themselves via a range of personalised products.

Every item purchased during the exhibition or from www.uneek2you.com helps support local artists, photographers and design students and raises money for charities such as Durrell and Jersey Heritage.

Entry: Free
When: 30th March to 11th April - every day from 10.30am to 5.30pm
Where: The Harbour Gallery, Le Boulevard, St Aubin, St Brelade
Website: www.uneek2you.com

The Jersey Arts Trust was lucky enough to be chosen as a giver for World Book Night. We have 48 copies of Life of Pi to give away but with a twist.

Firstly, you have to find them. They are randomly dotted about the Island, so if you spot one, grab it.

But then we ask you to let the copy go on a journey! The idea is to pass it on once you’ve read it, just fill in some details on the inside cover first (if you want to). We just ask the last person on the list to return the book to  us. It then can tell us where it’s been & we can send it on a new journey!

Well keep track of any feedback on our blog at www.arts.je. Or if anyone would like to tell us what they thought of the book or give us the story of where you’ve taken your copy, mail info@arts.je.

Eyes peeled…

Open Studios 2011 celebrates the wealth of talented artists and makers producing work in Jersey.

Kindly supported by HSBC Private Bank, the event asks artists to open their studio doors on Friday 17th until Sunday 26th June 2011 for visitors to learn about their artwork and buy directly from them.

An exhibition of one piece of each participating artist’s work will take place at the same time at Weighbridge Place, St Helier.  This allows Islanders get a taste of artists’ work and identify the studios they wish to visit. The deadline for artists applications has now passed.

Those wishing to visit the studios or exhibition…watch this space! More details will be coming soon.

The Spearpoint New Plays Project 2011, where four locally written one-act plays will be produced and performed in just one week under the guidance of four professional directors.

Organised by the Jersey Arts Trust, with support from Old Vic New Voices and the Jersey Arts Centre… the project follows the same successful format as last year. Island writers have now submitted their one-act plays. We are currently in the process of shortlisting them, with the top 10 to be sent to the UK for a professional guest judge to select the final four. She will then work individually with the four winning writers on their pieces prior to production.

Four guest directors sourced through Old Vic New Voices, along with a selection of Jersey’s leading actors, will rehearse and produce the plays ahead of a celebratory gala performance at the Jersey Arts Centre on Saturday 30^th July.  The production team will have just one week to rehearse the plays prior to the performance.

Actors…
should email newplays@arts.je to express their interest in taking part, including a note on their age (an age bracket will suffice!) and any experience they have to date.

Spearpoint…
The Jersey Arts Trust extends its thanks to the project sponsors, Spearpoint, whose support has enabled this exciting opportunity for Islanders.

Tom Dingle, Jersey Arts Trust Co-ordinator commented…
‘We’re delighted to be in the position to run the project again this year and incredibly grateful to Spearpoint for making it possible. The work produced last year was superb and I think that those of us who were involved are still buzzing from the production week. It is a great opportunity for writers and actors of all ranges to develop their skills and seek the advice from some of the most promising playwrights and directors in the country.’

Key dates…
Monday 21^st February – Submissions for plays open
Saturday 19^th March – Writing and acting workshops, led by Paines Plough
Tuesday 3^rd May – Closing deadline for submissions
Sunday 5^th June – Editing workshop, for four selected writers
Saturday 23^rd to 30^th July – Production Week
Saturday 30^th July at 8pm – Gala Performance

We were blown away by the event, not only the amazing work but also use of the space was so impressive. Organised by Louise Evans and Joanna Brown, and supported by the Jersey Arts Trust, it showcased more than 120 pieces by more than 30 local artists.

We’d love it to become a regular calendar date – but what do you think? Let us know your feedback by clicking the comments tab above. We’d love to hear from you.

To kick off, we have a quick chat with the lovely Clare Ormsby.  This week is your last chance to see Clare’s amazing exhibition, Perception, at the Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre – it’s highly recommended, don’t miss it!

Name: CLARE ORMSBY

How would you describe your work? Abstract expressions of emotions and ideas I can’t (and probably shouldn’t!) articulate verbally – or any other way. Intense in colour and detail, and a bit strange – but hopefully in a good way.

What are you working on at the minute? I’m having a day off! But then I’m doing my part in a painting which is a collaboration with the talented and lovely Karen Le Roy Harris.

What inspires you? Anything which makes me think or see things in a new way.

What are you artistically most proud of? That my work is original and still evolving, or rather mutating.

What’s next? 11th and 12th Feb I am one of many artists taking part in the ‘Paperhouse’ project – organised by Jo Brown and Louise Evans – we are taking over St Brelade’s College for the weekend.  And after that….I have many ideas, it’s just a question of which to pursue.

Advice will be given on marketing and PR, selling and pricing. It will also be a great opportunity for artists to meet and exchange ideas.

To sign up or find out more, mail paul@arts.je

Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2011-02-18
End Time: 17:00

http://www.surreyopenstudios.org.uk/artists/members.php?mem_id=1

She has turned mundane or discarded items in to colourful artworks of intricate beauty.  Go and have a look – it runs till 12th February and entry is free

This is a great opportunity to come together, show your films and network with like-minded people. We’ll provide information on projects going into production, screenings, job and collaborative opportunities, and training initiatives.

But you don’t need to be an active filmmaker; we’d like to meet everyone – from scriptwriters to actors to those who just want to be involved.

Our first meeting is Thursday 3^rd February in the Maria Ritchie Room at the Jersey Arts Centre. It will start at 7:30pm and followed by drinks and a networking session.

To let us know you will be there, or for more information, mail film@arts.je

Pah we say! How about this as an idea for Snow Hill steps and something to put a smile on your face?

Click below for a short video clip – go on, you know you want to!

Whether the inside info from an exhibition, to behind the scenes of one of our productions or profiles and interviews with local artists, the Jersey Arts Trust blog will share it all…and more!

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Enjoy!