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The Norman market has returned to Jersey with fromages and saucissons among the spring-time delicacies available for islanders to pick up over the bank holiday weekend.
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...
The Norman Market returned to the island this week with the usual array of stalls and French produce.
Islanders will be able to buy traditional French cheeses, cider, crêpes and wine as well as handmade products.
The market will be held in two separate locations – at the Weighbridge on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 May, then at the Royal Square from Saturday 25 to Monday 27 May.
It will be open from 09:00 to 18:00 each day. On Monday, the market will close at 16:00.
Islanders can watch the best of independent global and local cinema this weekend at an independent film festival.
This year's 13th Parish Film Festival, which began five years ago, is taking place at the Jersey Arts Centre from 23 to 26 May.
The event will showcase international short films, documentaries, and features of various genres, from thought-provoking to funny and thrilling, spanning a range of languages, themes, and cultural backgrounds.
While work from festivals such as Venice and Sundance gives the event a distinctly international feel, the festival also has an important local focus, giving filmmakers from Jersey the chance to make and showcase their own work.
One of the most innovative events of the festival will be when walls around St Helier are transformed into temporary cinema screens as Hamburg-based group A Wall is a Screen offers islanders the chance to spend an evening at a cinema that moves around town with its audience.
The grassroots festival will also feature a virtual reality experience, public interviews with figures from the film industry like Hollywood director John Schultz and Jersey filmmaker Rebecca Coley, and a showcase from a DIY filmmaking workshop.
You can find our full guide to the festival HERE.
A former Hautlieu student will this month be sharing the stories of her home, her craft and her upbringing through three unique displays created by putting scalpel to paper.
‘A Paper Artist in Progress’ by local artist Layla May Arthur is being showcased at ArtHouse Jersey's Capital House until the end of June.
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.
The exhibition will run until to Sunday 30 June from 10:30 to 18:00 at Capital House. For more information 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.
The artist, 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”.
Barry and Steve are an acoustic duo who have been playing on the live music scene for over 10 years.
They play a mix of old and new songs that aim to get everyone up dancing by the end of the evening.
The pair are set to host two gigs over the weekend: one on Friday at 20:00 at The Trafalger in St Aubin, and one on Saturday at 21:00 at The Mary Rose in town.
The Jersey Gilbert & Sullivan Society will be performing the Phantom of the Opera in Jersey at Les Quennevais School Concert Hall next week.
The performance will feature a 26-piece orchestra, dancers, and a choir.
There will be four evening performances starting at 19:30 from Tuesday 28 May to Saturday 1 June, as well as a matinee performance on Saturday at 14:30.
Tickets are available through the Jersey Opera House Box Office HERE.
A five-day gifting event will take place at NatWest International at Library Place next week.
Potty Eco Pots is inviting islanders to their 'Rag Trade' event, where people can 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.
"You can bring along clothes and not take any, or you can take clothes and not bring any with you!" she said.
The event will run from Monday 20 May to Friday 24 May from 10:00 to 16:30.
Promoter and DH Dean Leith is hosting a Spring Bank Holiday Sunday event at Havana Club on Halkett Street, featuring afro bass, reggaeton, Latino and R&B.
To mark Africa Awareness Week, Dean shared how he aims to bridge Caribbean and African cultures through music events in Jersey.
Pictured top: Florat Hautbois from Abon Coutainville Normandy Market in Liberation Square. (David Ferguson)
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