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With Jersey's Pride Weekend fast approaching, there are many events which explore various aspects of the LGBTQ+ community this week.
People can get into the spirit of Pride at a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a photographic exhibition exploring Amsterdam’s first Drag King House, or a walk focussing on the remarkable lives of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
Every weekend, Express presents a selection of exhibitions, performances, workshops, events and other historic, creative and delicious content to help islanders get their weekly dose of culture.
Here's this week's offering...
Opening on Jersey’s Pride Weekend, this photographic exhibition presents us with an inside look at Amsterdam’s first Drag King House -- The House of Løstbois. Born out of a drag king academy set up by drag educator and mother ‘Taka Taka’ and artist‘ Father Julius’ in March 2019. The House of Løstbois began as a creative exploration of gender, and became so much more; a community, a support system, a family, a source of joy reaching far beyond pride.
'Kin' is a series of photographs made by Jersey-born documentary photographer Stacey Yates-aka ‘The Bill Please’ and is the beginning of a broader project giving a personal insight into the development of this queer world. In sharing these photos, Bill provides us with glimpses of intimate and personal moments with his drag siblings while simultaneously exploring his own gender identity. ‘Kin’ is used in reference to the term ‘chosen family’.
'The Bill Please' said: “Exploring gender through drag has been an incredibly rich, expansive and creative experience for me. I’ve felt a great sense of belonging in finding a creative queer community in Amsterdam, one that perhaps I didn’t know I was missing. Being able to photograph the development of our drag house at such a pivotal time in queer history has and is an honour and a privilege and I’m delighted that Art House Jersey has supported me in bringing this work and story home to Jersey.”
'Kin' photographic exhibition runs from Friday 9 September to Sunday 22 September 2022 from 10am - 5pm each day at ArtHouse Jersey's Greve de Lecq Barracks. No booking necessary.
Online tickets can be bought via Eventbrite.
Part of the HISTORY NOW series, this walk focuses on the remarkable lives of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe (also known by their artist names of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore) moved to Jersey from France in 1937 when they were both in their mid-40s. They were no doubt looking for a quiet life, but they could not know that 3 years later, the island would be under a Nazi occupation.
This tour will pay tribute to their remarkable lives, their work and their resistance activities, for which they were ultimately imprisoned, in 1944.
Attendees are invited to meet in front of St Brelade's Church on Thursday 8 September, under the lychgate, for a 6pm start. If you are coming by public transport, use the no. 14 bus from St Helier.
Tickets are £5 and can be purchased via Eventbrite.
On Sunday 4 September, St Ouen's Parish Church will be holding their Summer Fun Event from 10:00 - midday.
The event will include face painting, an ice cream van, arts and crafts, puppets, bouncy castles and more!
The cost is £3 per family on the door, but you can pre-book your space for free via Eventbrite.
Join historian, Peter Le Rossignol, on a cultural journey across Europe to find out where the Brits used to holiday in the 18th century, what they used to get up to and which exotic goods they brought back home.
Overseas travel in the Georgian era was not for the faint-hearted. With ‘foreign food’ to endure, pot-holed roads and the only transport consisting of a horse drawn carriage traveling at around 15 miles per day or a sedan chair to carry you over the Alps, it’s a wonder that any young noblemen ever reached their destination! But for those who were daring enough to endure the journey the rewards were bountiful - young British aristocrats had freedom, fun, sun and souvenirs.
Mr. Le Rossignol's lecture will take place at the Georgian House at 16 New Street on Thursday 8 September from 18:30 - 19:30.
Non-member tickets are £12 and can be purchased via Eventbrite. Ticket price includes a welcome drink.
Born in Jersey, dramatic mezzo-soprano Georgia Mae Bishop is a recent winner of the inaugural Mastersingers Wagner Competition, is an Opera Prelude Young Artist, and an emerging artist at Dolora Zajick’s ‘Institute of Young Dramatic Voices’.
She is performing her concert 'The Sea in Opera and Song' back on home soil at the St Helier Town Hall on Saturday 3 September from 19:00 - 20:30.
Ashley Beauchamp will accompany Georgia. The duo met whilst students at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, before studying together on the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Together they have performed in many recitals and concerts, including in a masterclass on German song with Brigitte Fassbaender at the Wigmore Hall, excepts of which were later played on BBC radio 3.
Tickets are free but can be reserved via Eventbrite.
The National Trust for Jersey’s 'Walking Through Autumn Festival' is taking place from Wednesday 7th to Sunday 11th September 2022.
Twenty-five walks cover all corners of the beautiful Island of Jersey and various National Trust sites and includes themed walks such as botany, forest bathing, military history, wildlife and town trails.
Please click here to see the programme of walks. Tickets can be booked at: www.nationaltrust.je/events.
This meditation session consists of a transformative journey of deep relaxation and healing, bathing every cell of the body in the therapeutic sound and vibration of the Gong to balance and align your personal energy to that of the cosmos. The Gong acoustically elevates you, creating a deep, spontaneous meditative state that restores harmony and vitality to the mind, body and soul. The pure, penetrating sound waves of the Gong promise to leave you feeling tuned, refreshed and connected with your intuitive personal power.
Attendees are invited to wear warm comfortable clothes, bring a mat or two for extra padding, a cushion, plenty of blankets to keep warm and some water.
The event will be held at the St Ouen's Parish Hall on Thursday 8 September at 19:30. Tickets can be booked via Eventbrite.
Creative Conversations at the Jersey Public Library is a series of mediated discussions with local creative professionals that aims to shed a little light on the subject.
Each week, a different panel of creative discuss topics such as professional standards, vocational training, funding, management, marketing, and production. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions and contribute comments, with the goal of initiating an open and continuing dialogue about what it means to be an artist in Jersey's current cultural landscape.
This week's conversation will take place on Monday 5 September at the Library, from 5:30pm - 6:30pm. The event is free but you can register via Eventbrite.
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.
There are just two weeks to go until the ‘handing in’ date of this year's Fox Open Art Competition which is now in its 40th year.
Over this time, the competition has featured local artists such as Jason Butler, Ian Rolls and Kevin Pallot.
The entry forms for the competition are now available, and can be picked up from Jersey Arts Centre, or downloaded and printed online.
This year’s prizes total £2000 and will be awarded to Jersey-based artists who, in the opinion of the judge, have produced the most original work of art. This year’s prizes are £1,000 for the overall winner, £500 for the winner of the Jock Russell Award for 12-18 years and five highly commended prizes of £100 each.
The competition is open to artists who are resident in the Bailiwick of Jersey and who are aged 12 and over. Entrants may submit up to two works that have not previously been shown at Jersey Arts Centre’ and it costs just £5. If you’re a student, then you only have to pay £1 to enter your piece(s)!
The handing in dates for entry into the Fox Competition are Thursday 15 and Friday 16 September, from midday to 19:00.
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