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If you're feeling festive already, the Christmas market and ice-staking rink are both now open – if not, then sample a Japanese-inspired environmental exhibition, a free clothes swap, or a photography showcase by female prisoners instead.
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...
A pop-up exhibition featuring Japanese-inspired illustrations exploring environmental questions will be held at the ArtHouse Jersey headquarters this weekend.
Artists Antiochus Omissi and Theo Jenner will be present to greet visitors and talk about their work.
Theo is a self-taught local illustrator who recently led the art and marketing teams for Jersey's Lunar New Year Festival.
Inspired by his time studying Asian Anthropology at university and his travels in Asia, Theo uses the techniques of 17th to 19th Century 'Ukiyoe' artists from Japan to illustrate Jersey landscapes.
'Ukiyoe' means 'pictures of the floating world', which captures his vision of depicting the tranquil and beautiful aspects of Jersey using vibrant colours and simple pen strokes.
Antiochus Omissi, alias The Pengolin, is a freelance illustrator and painter from Jersey who currently works in France.
The work he will be presenting in this pop-up exhibition is a study of eight themes related to Climate Change at a local and national level. He works in traditional media; primarily pencil, or pen and ink, and uses recycled paper whenever possible.
Antiochus' interest in environmental questions led to his first solo picture book, 'Giant In The Jungle' – a bilingual story about plastic pollution published last year in Cambodia.
The pop-up will take place at Greve de Lecq Barracks on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 November between 10:00 and 17:00 both days.
Potty Eco Pots' next 'Rag Trade' event will be held on this Saturday 25 November in St Clements, with islanders invited to bring along any unwanted clothes and items to be taken home by someone else for free.
Founder Kalina Le Marquand explained that there are "no rules" to the event, which has already attracted interest from over 800 people on social media.
"You can bring along clothes and not take any, or you can take clothes and not bring any with you!" she said.
"An absolutely huge amount of unwanted clothes are thrown into the waste stream every day. This is a way to reuse them."
After the success of the initial clothes-based rag trade, the event now also includes household items, plants, plant pots, food and toiletries.
The event will run from 11:00-15:00 this Saturday at Caldwell Hall next to St Clements Church.
An exhibition of photographs taken by female prisoners at HMP La Moye is opening for viewing at the Arts Centre.
It offers an insight into inmates’ daily lives – with images exploring themes of hope amid an overarching sense of confinement.
Fences, wires, and a muted colour palette are set against hopeful subjects, including a feminine sense of solidarity, flowers tended to by prisoners in the garden, and the “colourful” sky viewed by inmates who often gaze up into it.
Shared Light runs in the Arts Centre’s Berni Gallery until 6 December.
This weekend is your last chance to see the nature-inspired 'Believe in Magic' exhibition by local artists Kathy Rondel and Michele Snape.
Kathy said: “I am a collector of the small, seemingly insignificant things that others might overlook and with an ever growing collection of leaves, seeds, shells, stones and suchlike.”
Their showcase is inspired by the words of Ronald Dahl: “Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are aways hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
It will run daily between the 4 and 25 November, from 10:00 until 16:00, excluding Sundays, at The Merchants House.
Ice skaters can now visit the icerink at the Weighbridge, which will run until 18 February.
There will be up to 10 skate sessions per day Monday to Sunday, including special 'themed' sessions on Thursdays to Sundays.
Those looking for Christmas gifts can now visit the Genuine Jersey Christmas Markets, which will be held over three weekends in the Royal Square between 23 November and 10 December.
ArtHouse Jersey has launched an interactive, multi-media and multi-site exhibition that explores how people connect.
Entitled 'Skipton Big Ideas: Human Connections', it is spread across three venues where visitors will encounter sculptures, film, installations, interactive technology, theatre, filmed portraits and a laboratory. More information can be found HERE.
Over the past month, French artist Fred Martin immersed participants’ faces in a bath of clay to create an expressive cast that forms the 'Baptêmes de Terre' artwork that will be revealed on Saturday at Capital House.
Meanwhile, the interactive installation Totem continues at the Maritime Museum every day until 17 December.
The participatory performance experience, Etiquette, takes place at The Yard on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Free tickets can be booked via Eventbrite.
Islanders can also book tickets for the Capturing the Human Image talk which will be held on Saturday after it was postponed due to the storm.
Hosted by Aras Amiri, it will feature three artists from the Human Connections exhibition: Gina Czarnecki (Heirloom), Kit Monkman of KMA (People We Love), and Fred Martin (Baptêmes de Terre).
The talk will explore modern portraiture, art, spirituality and the role of science and technology in capturing the human image.
It will take place from 18:00 until 19:30 at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House. More information can be found HERE.
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