The locally produced horror-comedy Zombey, which was supported by the Guernsey Arts Commission via the Film, Poetry and Prose Sub-Committee, will be getting it’s premiere at the Princess Royal Centre for the Performing Arts on Wednesday 21st December 2012 as part of an evening of horror cinema called Silent Night – Zombey Night, organised by [...]
The Guernsey Arts Commission is very happy to announce the appointment of its new Community Arts Development Manager and Commissioner for Community Arts as Brett Klement and Teresa Stoakes. Brett has been working with the Guernsey Arts Commission as Community Arts Officer since April 2011 and the reclassification of his role to a managerial position [...]
In 2011 the Guernsey Arts Commission has provided funding to more than 30 different arts events and projects around the Bailiwick and we are now accepting applications for funding for events and projects in 2012. Each year we are given a grant for the Commerce & Employment and Culture & Leisure Departments of the States [...]
BAFTA nominated film director Avie Luthra is coming to Guernsey, and the Guernsey Arts Commission is offering places on a workshop hosted by this highly talented film maker. On Saturday 28th January Avie will lead a day-long workshop at Blanchelande College giving an insight into his work, from BBC television’s Canterbury Tales to full length [...]
The Guernsey Arts Commission and the Adult Disability Day Service have got together to help local people with disabilities and raise awareness of different cancers, cancer prevention and early diagnosis by decorating a Christmas Trees in an unusual way. The project has grown from our Community Arts Programme and its outreach to work with other [...]
Guernsey born artist Tina McCallan is bringing here Re-Creations project back to Guernsey thanks to funding from the Guernsey Arts Commission and in conjunction with our Community Arts Programme. The on going project is designed to “inject art into the backbone of Guernsey society by going directly into in the workplace and other environments where [...]
Post-Christmas, the latest exhibition in the greenhouse, is now open. The exhibition was organised in partnership with Guernsey Post and looks at a selection of the island’s festive stamp designs over the last 40 years. Dawn Gallienne, who is Head of Philatelic at Guernsey Post, was on hand at the opening of the exhibition on [...]
We would like to thank Bank Sarasin for their kind donation towards our ongoing Community Arts Programme. The programme aims to take the arts to those in the community who, through social or economic circumstance, do not have access them and show how the arts can enrich the lives of everyone in Guernsey. All donations [...]
On Tuesday 1st November Emma Weldon, one of the volunteers working on Re-State, our Community Arts Programme at Les Genats Estate, was awarded the The Jan Renouf Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to the community, sponsored by The Guernsey Press, at the Guernsey Youth Awards. Emma has been working on the project since the summer [...]
For our 2011 Christmas exhibition in the greenhouse we have teamed up with Guernsey Post to bring you four decades of Guernsey’s Christmas stamp designs in an exhibition called Post-Christmas, opening on Friday 18th November (with a private opening the previous evening). Every year since 1970 Guernsey Post has commissioned a series of stamps to [...]
