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Experience the arts in full spectrum this week, with an exciting and varied schedule of poetry workshops, art exhibitions, and Jazz, Blues and Heavy Metal concerts.
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...
Direct from a sell-out, critically acclaimed run in London's West End, global sensation Jazz Emu is bringing 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 this evening at the Jersey Arts Centre at 20:00. Tickets are available online.
This evening, the extraordinary piano virtuoso Dino Baptise returns to the Blue Note Bar after his two smash hit shows with Dana Gillespie last year.
A highly talented musician and a dynamic performer, Dino Baptiste has been praised for commanding a remarkable connection with his audience, while simultaneously maintaining the more serious element of jamming in his performances.
Dino's influences include Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles, and he has strong ties to Blues, Boogie Woogie, and Rock & Roll.
Dino Baptise perform tonight with blues musician and Jersey resident Giles Robson, as part of his ongoing series of International Blues, Rock and Roots nights. These unique shows have been specially created by Giles for the intimate and atmospheric venue of the Blue Note.
Tickets for the show can be purchased via Eventbrite.
Bubblebrain Records presents the third instalment of their metal event series this Saturday at the Watersplash.
There will be live performances from Claymore, Masticated, and The Dust.
The event is described as "the Channel Islands' wildest metal night" with "three of the loudest and bone-crunchingly heavy acts".
Tickets can be bought via Eventbrite.
It's your last chance to explore Peter John Thomson's (PJ) 'Then to Now' exhibition, which is coming to a close on Saturday 29 April.
'Then to Now' 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 held at The Merchants House, 20 Commercial Buildings (next to Normans). It is open daily 10:00-15:00, except on Sundays.
A new exhibition by Kay Pont entitled Coast to Coast opened this week in Jersey Art Centre's Berni Gallery.
Kay Pont's collection of landscapes was inspired by the the coastlines of Jersey and the Northwest of England, and features expansive seascapes alongside English dunes.
Many of the paintings are influenced by memories of the island, while others borrow from the imagination to evoke a sense of place and space.
Having launched on Tuesday 24 April, the exhibition will run until Saturday 20 May.
For more information please visit the Jersey Art Centre website.
There are only three days left until the deadline for ArtHouse Jersey's Development Grant.
ArtHouse Jersey provides financial assistance to local artists of all disciplines to create exciting new work. They also support the development of their creative process as they pursue a career in the arts.
The arts charity awarded grants for an exciting range of projects and development opportunities in the first funding round of 2023, including a dance photography project, historical fiction novel and an experimental craft workshop. So, if you have ambitious plans, they might be able to help you!
ArtHouse Jersey said: "We want to hear from Jersey artists about activities that will support them to develop their practice and create work that will entertain and inspire audiences both locally and internationally."
There are four rounds of funding each calendar year and the next deadline for applications is 1st May.
Additional information on how to apply can be found here.
Société Jersiaise has been holding weekly Lunchtime Talks to promote understanding about Jersey's history, culture, language and environment.
The final instalment of this series will take place on Wednesday 3 April and will focus on Jersey's Maritime Structures. Stuart Fell will offer an illustrated assessment of aspects of Jersey's ever-changing, man-made coastal edges, gleaned from Société's collection of maps, documents and illustrations.
The presentation will take place in the Members' Room at the historic organisation's Pier Road headquarters between 13:00 and 14:00 and is free to attend. Tea and coffee will also be provided.
For more information and to reserve a ticket, please visit Eventbrite.
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.
On Tuesday 2 May, American poet Traci O'Dea will be leading a poetry workshop.
Here, attendees will read ekphrastic poetry - poetry inspired by another artform - and then explore Ryan Skelton's 'Cambion' exhibition to find inspiration for writing their own poems.
Participants will craft their poems with feedback from the tutor and peers to develop their final pieces in a relaxed and supportive setting.
The following Friday 5 May, participants will be invited to a live poetry event where the poems created in the workshop will be read in a relaxed gathering with drinks.
Tickets for the workshop can be booked here, and free places for the poetry performances can be booked here.
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:
• shot in Normandy, France or in the United Kingdom or those made by filmmakers, actors or technicians who either live or were born in Normandy or the United Kingdom;
• completed after 1st January 2022 only;
• with a running time from 1 to 30 minutes maximum;
• with French subtitles (for English films) or English subtitles (for French 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.
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.
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