Artists unite to showcase their talents

Thursday 27 August 2015

Nine local artists have taken over Jersey Opera House this week and are preparing to showcase their talents this weekend.

Jersey Arts Trust says the audience can expect cutting edge new work that spans all artistic genres, with a combination of live music, dance, film, spoken word and moving image when they perform at the theatre on Saturday night.

Sam Falle, Todd MacDonald, Olivia Muscat, Jacqueline Mezec, Christian Foley, Rebecca Coley, Amber Hahn, Liz Shea and Jack Chown have all been working on the year-long Bedell Creative Arts Programme. 

Director of the Jersey Arts Trust Tom Dingle said: “Often the most gratifying ‘art’ to experience as an audience member is something where a number of people have brought their various skills and combined them into one collective piece.

“Movies, music videos, large inter-active gallery pieces, theatre, opera, television are all examples of outputs where a number of creative people have worked together on one final product. The key official word is collaboration.

“The Bedell Creative Arts Programme offers local artists from a variety of disciplines (music, dance, film, spoken word, visual art etc…) the opportunity to collaborate and work together on something that they would not be able to achieve working in isolation.” 

Alejandro Olarte, a mentor in music and composition, is one of the professional facilitators who has been working with them to help them realise their creative ambitions. He said: “There is now a potential creative energy before us that I am sure the artists will bring to reality in an amazing piece of artwork, as a performance and as a learning experience for us all.”

You can get tickets for Saturday night's Original Works Showcase from the Jersey Opera House Box Office here. The show starts at 8pm.

The Bedell Creative Arts Programme is a Jersey Arts Trust project working in partnership with Jersey Opera House. It is sponsored by Bedell and the One Foundation.