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This week, there's an opportunity for islanders to write a their own lullaby for a project to create a portrait of bedtime songs sung in island homes... or if you'd rather have the music brought to you, the critically-acclaimed Jazz Emu is performing his stand-up musical spectacular...
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 musically themed offering...
Artists Susanne Kudielka and Esther Rose Parkes Heinrichs will be running two lullaby-writing workshops on Monday 24 April. These sessions are open to anyone wishing to write a lullaby and no previous writing or musical experience is necessary.
The Lullaby Project is an initiative that hopes to create a diverse portrait of Jersey's lullabies by capturing the many much-loved bedtime songs that are sung around Island homes.
The workshops will look at the traditional lullaby song form and explore different ways of writing a lullaby for a special person using prompts, objects and musical instruments to support the creative process. The aim is to leave with a completed lullaby at the end of the workshop and participants will receive an audio recording after the session.
Attendees are asked to bring a minimum of one meaningful object to the workshop; everything else will be provided.
There are two time slots for the workshop on Monday: 10:00-12:30 or 14:00-16:30.
Tickets cost £5 plus booking fee, and are available via Eventbrite.
Direct from a sell-out, critically acclaimed run in London's West End, global sensation Jazz Emu brings his stand-up musical spectacular to Jersey Arts Centre.
Jazz Emu's videos and songs have garnered over 50 million streams online, and his musical character comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022 was included on The Telegraph's 'Top Shows To See At The Edinburgh Fringe' and the British Comedy Guide's 'Best Reviewed Shows At The Edinburgh Fringe'.
Since 2019, he has been building a cult following with songs and sketches from his awkwardly‐smooth comedy character Jazz Emu, resulting in plays on BBC RADIO 1 and multiple performances on BBC RADIO 4's THE NOW SHOW.
Jazz Emu will be performing at the Jersey Arts Centre on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 April at 20:00. Tickets are available online.
The Land and Us, or 'La Tèrre et Nous', is a community project about reconnection to the land through journeys, collective making and experiences.
Participants are invited to a day's workshop with award winning textile artist Alice Burnhope to create embroidered/applique artworks from waste fabrics which are inspired by Jersey's landscape and nature, with the goal of creating a wearable tactile installation piece illustrating the map of Jersey.
Workshop attendees are invited to bring visual imagery and physical references from nature of their favourite parts of Jersey to inform their artworks.
The workshop will include mark making and drawing from the surrounding nature at Greve de Lecq. The rest of the workshop will compose of utilising the drawings to create beautiful compositions which will be translated into thread and fabrics to tactile artworks, through a skill-sharing workshop lead by Alice.
The artworks created will form part of an exhibition with ArtHouse Jersey in April 2024.
Free tickets for the workshop are available via Eventbrite. There will be teas/coffees and snacks provided and a lunch break with some food provided.
Fish & Films is a short-films festival taking place in Granville in Normandy, and aims to showcasing the creativity of British and Norman filmmakers.
Being the link between the two, Channel Islanders are being invited to take part in this festival.
The association organising the festival is looking for films:
All genres of films are allowed, including fiction, animation, documentary or experimental.
Entrants have until 30 June 2023 to submit their films on the FilmFest platform: www.filmfestplatform.com or filmfreeway.com.
This weekend is your last chance to explore Hidden Words at Jersey Zoo, with the exhibition coming to a close on Sunday 23 April.
This family-friendly exhibition lets adults and children explore the world of science for a day through interactive activities, ranging from UV hand washing to getting up close and personal with a giant tardigrade.
So far, more than 300 adults and children have already taken part in the slime making workshop!
Comprising of 120 works by 40 artists such as Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Banksy, ‘Mixtape’ pays homage to the monumental moments from the worlds of pop art, graffiti, street art and hip-hop and reflects upon the influence these artists have had on subsequent generations of fashion designers, DJs, filmmakers, photographers and artists.
Whether spray painting directly onto walls, social activism or political rebellion anti-establishment thinking and creativity was at the heart of one of the most influential cultural movements on the last half century.
Mixtape is a giant salon hang exhibition which in many ways provides the soundtrack of our lives and examines how these cultural narratives shifted the public's perception of underground art and culture leading to a global creative revolution in art, music and fashion.
The exhibition runs at Private and Public until Friday 18 May.
Linda Rose Parkes, a Jersey-born poet, passed away on the 4th of March 2022 and left behind an astonishing variety of written and visual work.
As Linda navigated her human experience and her identity as a woman, her work showcased the atmosphere engendered by emotions and her states of mind.
A retrospective exhibit of her work - a mix of poetry and paintings crafted over 50 years during Linda's lifetime - is on display at Jersey Arts Centre until 22 April.
'Then to Now' by Peter John Thomson (PJ) is the artist's first exhibition since he won the prestigious JJ Fox Open Art Competition last year.
PJ is a Jersey born-artist who specialises within the field of surface decoration and multidisciplinary art. His process of choice is silkscreen printmaking, with his creative skill set expanding to ceramics, fine art painting and textiles.
The exhibition is running until 30 April at The Merchants House, 20 Commercial Buildings (next to Normans). It is open daily 10:00-15:00, except on Sundays.
Photographic artist Ryan Skelton's new exhibition 'Cambion' has gone on display at Capital House.
The title 'Cambion' refers to the term for offspring of a fairy or demon who has impregnated a human.
Ryan has photographed himself and others nude in nature as if they were cambions having been born from both nature and human.
Shot on analogue film, this exhibition of around 40 works has been in the making for over five years.
The exhibition is running until Sunday 7 May.
The next in Société Jersiaise's ongoing series of Lunchtime Talks is taking place on 26 April, focusing on 'A corner of Trinity'.
The talks take place every Wednesday in the Members' Room at the historic organisation's Pier Road headquarters between 13:00 and 14:00 and are free to attend.
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