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This week's Art Fix offers a selection of events for all ages and tastes.
For music lovers, there's a classic concert, a heavy metal night, and a dance festival to choose from, whilst those who love the outdoors could have a Picnic in the Park or watch an outdoor comedy performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet...
Each week, Express presents a selection of online and offline exhibitions, performances, workshops, events and other historic, creative and delicious content to help people get their weekly dose of culture.
Here's this week's offering...
Bubblebrain Records presents an all-new metal night for the Channel Islands at the Watersplash on Friday 29th July from 9pm until 2am.
There will be live performances from The Dust and Masticated from Jersey, alongside Guernsey's Apothis.
The organisers describe the event as the This "biggest metal night the Channel Islands has seen in a long time" with "the islands' very own clash of the titans featuring heavy hitters from both Jersey and Guernsey".
Tickets can be bought via Eventbrite.
Jersey has a strong history in the creative arts, but many people do not know how to pursue a career in the field. Creative Conversations is a series of talks that aims to inform people how they can do so.
The first event will be on Monday 1 August, at Jersey Library from 5:30pm to 6:30pm, when ArtHouse Jersey's Carrie Cooper will be speaking with opera singer Emilia Lacy, blues harmonicist Giles Robson, and painter Jason Butler on the topic of defining professional art.
Each week a different panel will provide information on such topics such as professional standards, vocational training, funding, management, marketing, and production. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions and contribute comments, about what it means to be an artist in Jersey’s cultural landscape.
Creative Conversations is part of Creative Spaces, a programme of free events taking place in beautiful, historic, unusual, overlooked, or quirky spaces in Jersey. The full schedule of events can be found on gov.je/CreativeSpaces.
The Jersey National Park’s Picnic in the Park is back throughout the month of August. Locals and tourists are being invited to discover the natural beauty of the Jersey National Park and enjoy a taste of authentic, local produce with some al fresco, blanket-based foodie fun.
You can create your own picnic with local produce or choose from one of the event’s 14 Picnic in the Park partners who have created some delicious picnic menus showcasing the best of their cuisine and local produce. There are loads of options including charcuterie platters, gourmet sandwiches, grazing boxes, afternoon teas, local beverages and lots more.
Menus are now available to browse online at: JerseyNationalPark.com/PicnicInThePark.
All the options are available to order online via Jersey National Park's website, meaning the only thing left to do is to choose the picture-perfect picnic spot.
Jersey Arts Centre are welcoming Oddsocks Productions back to Coronation Park from 1 August - 10 August for nine performances of Shakespeare's Hamlet as "you've never seen it before!"
The play is filled with "lots of laughs, music, and memorable moments" and is suitable for all aged 7+.
You can head to the Jersey Art Centre website to find out more or book tickets.
Ramparts, JSPCA and Kartoon Faktory have teamed up to smarten up the cattery at the JSPCA to make the space more appealing for staff and visitors.
The JSPCA wanted the internal doors to be uniquely designed and painted with the wings are named after former residents, Splash, Honey, Star, Phoebe, Sassy, and Bo.
Oli Nightingale, Kartoon Faktory’s resident artist said: "Ramparts have been such a supportive partner to work with, and I'd like to thank their paint sponsor Robbialac and CIN Paints Jersey, for giving me everything I need to do the job. As an artist, I'm thrilled that Kartoon Faktory’s unique style will be appreciated on a daily basis - I just hope the cats approve!”
Jersey Heritage's Wild Play days will be returning to Hamptonne throughout the first week of August, Monday to Friday from 11am-3pm.
These days are "perfect for connecting with each other and experiencing nature through crafts, skill learning and free play".
All sessions are led and supported by naturalist Stephen Le Quesne. No booking is required.
Activities will vary daily but themes will include dens and ropes, wood and whittling, the art of colour, natural crafts and the living world (insects).
You can find out more about this and the rest of Jersey Heritage's 'Summer of Fun' activities on their website.
The two-day electronic dance festival returns this weekend with an apocalyptic theme and immersive psychedelic decor.
The weekend festival is taking place this year in an all-new venue -- Fort Regent's East Ditch.
The event will feature two main stages, Neon City and the Temple of Boom, providing a mixture of house and drum-and-bass music.
You can find out more on the event's Facebook page.
JSO returns with Hilary Davan Wetton conducting this concert of well-loved pieces, featuring soloist Gerard Le Feuvre performing Elgar's Cello Concerto.
The concert will take place on Saturday 6 August at 7.30pm at Les Quennevais School.
The programme includes:
There will also be a special ‘Discovery Concert’ earlier in the day, in which the conductor will lead the audience through some of the evening concert’s repertoire, offering sign posts to crucial moments and special orchestral effects which might be missed on a first hearing.
He will show how the composer has put the music together and how the various themes interlock with each other. This process is intended to deepen understanding of the music and help the audience to greater enjoyment of it.
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison will be commemorated with six stamps and a miniature sheetlet to be issued by Jersey Post on Tuesday 2 August.
Illustrated by Beatrice Garcia, the stamps celebrate these two prolific inventors and some of their greatest inventions: the telephone, the electric light bulb, the phonograph, the metal detector, the kinetograph motion picture camera and twisted pair cabling.
2022 marks 175 years since the birth of both Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison and 100 years since the death of Bell.
Jersey Post’s Scientific Achievements stamps will be available to buy from all branches of Jersey Post or can be ordered online.
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