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This weekend, islanders can enjoy a fundraising evening of jazz and fine dining, attend a book signing by a famous crime author, or participate in a yoga workshop with a UK expert.
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...
Islanders are invited to attend an evening of music, food and wine on Saturday with a double Grammy winner to raise money for a music charity.
The event will feature jazz legends and is part of the International Liberation Music Festival, organised by Music in Action, which showcases international performers and includes 36 events over a period of ten days.
It will feature award-winning saxophonist Tim Garland performing jazz classics and aims to raise funds for Music in Action, a charity that aims to enrich lives through music and supports educational programmes for children.
The event will be held in the Sirocco room at The Royal Yacht Hotel on Saturday from 18:30 to 23:30.
Tickets are £200 per person and can be booked by emailing tickets@musicjersey.com.
Also part of Music in Action's International Liberation Music Festival is a production exploring the life and work of an iconic wartime insurgent will be performed tonight as part of an annual music festival.
The show, called ‘Claude Cahun: Reflections’ will take place at the Jersey Arts Centre on Friday 17 May.
Claude Cahun, whose real name was Lucie Renée Schwob, is celebrated for her surrealist and androgynous self-portraits.
She created groundbreaking art that challenged societal norms alongside her stepsister and partner, Marcel Moore (real name Suzanne Malherbe).
Blending the story of the lives of the couple before the Occupation with a musical soundscape by Boulanger, Gershwin and Joplin, the evening promises to capture the spirit of the time and the inner world of the French surrealists.
The production will see actress, writer and producer Flora MacAngus accompanied on stage by violinist Harriet Mackenzie, cellist Urska Horvat and pianist Anna Tilbrook and also incorporating an extract of a theatre-piece about the artists' lives and work.
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A best-selling author is holding a book launch and signing event this Saturday at the Santander Work Café.
The latest novel by Peter James was released earlier this month, titled 'They Thought I Was Dead'.
The event on Saturday includes two sessions: a talk at 15:30 followed by a book signing, and a second session at 16:30 dedicated solely to book signing.
The local crime author is known for his Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, which has been adapted into hit ITV drama 'Grace'.
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A London-based yoga teacher, writer and influencer will visit the island this weekend for a morning of growth, healing, and community.
Nadia Gilani will lead a workshop on Saturday which aims to highlight the transformative potential of yoga for people from all walks of life.
The event, organised by Lisa McCabe of OmShanti Yoga Living, will include a discussion about Nadia's personal challenges and her book called 'The Yoga Manifesto'.
The event is called 'It's not all Love and Light' to highlight the fact that Yoga isn't always about feeling zen and happy; it's about being able to utilise the benefits of practising to enhance the quality of life no matter background or life experience.
The event will be held at the Marquee at the Ommaroo Hotel on Saturday from 09:30 to 12:00.
For more information and to book tickets, click HERE.
Islanders are invited to explore an exhibition by a Jersey-based artist which aims to shed light on the way autism affects women.
Emilie Knight, an abstract-expressionist painter based in Jersey, is holding her first solo-exhibition, called Bloom, at the JARO Gallery in York Street.
Emilie, who was diagnosed with autism last year, hopes the exhibition will help to challenge misconceptions about autism and promote a culture of understanding and acceptance.
The exhibition, which is open between 10:00 and 15:00 from Tuesday to Saturday until the end of May, features colourful paintings which Emilie created exclusively with her hands, fingers and feet to forge “an intimate connection between artist and canvas”.
A former Hautlieu student will next week be sharing the stories of her home, her craft and her upbringing through three unique displays created by putting scalpel to paper.
Local artist Layla May Arthur will be displaying ‘A Paper Artist in Progress’ at ArtHouse Jersey's Capital House from Thursday 23 May.
Layla created the display in collaboration with Jersey-born composer Christina Orchard.
The exhibition aims to create an immersive sonic and aesthetic experience that leaves audiences fascinated with paper crafting techniques by merging paper artistry with music.
‘A Paper Artist in Progress’ features three large-scale paper-cutting installations handcrafted by Layla over the years using only glue and layers of paper.
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