The Guernsey Arts Commission is set for another busy year in 2012 and one of the highlights will be the second Arts Sunday on St Peter Port Seafront on Sunday 17th June. In 2011 Arts Sunday showcased a range of arts from performance and music to painting and poetry and this year we want to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last week saw the first ever Guernsey Filmmakers Film Festival take place with a night of screenings and presentations of the organisations annual awards. New to them this year was an award supported by the Guernsey Arts Commission for a young filmmaker aged between 18 and 25. The film had to be an original production [...]
The Guernsey Arts Commission is marking National Schools Film Week 2011 with a competition to find Guernsey’s best young film critic. The competition is open to 4-19-year-olds in four different categories, with the top three in each category receiving book tokens of £10, £5 and £5 respectively, and the winning entries will be displayed in [...]
This weekend is your last chance to see the We’ve Got It Covered exhibition in the greenhouse! The exhibition, which was organised in conjunction with the first Guernsey Literary Festival and explores the dust jacket designs for internationally editions of The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, has been the most widely seen exhibition [...]
In September 2010 Tim Bowditch made a documentary film about Guernsey’s La Vallette Bathing Pools called ‘Firedive’ with support from the Guernsey Arts Commission. The film describes the island’s collective memory of the pools, focusing on the floodlit galas and ‘fire dives’ that once made the pools a central part of the local community. On [...]
Guernsey Filmmakers are launching an open competition with £100 prizes in four categories as part of their first ever film festival. One of the prizes, for filmmakers ages between 18 and 25, is being sponsored by the Guernsey Arts Commission. Any Guernsey resident making films in any format can enter the competition. The finished film [...]
The Guernsey Literary Festival is taking place at venues around the island. The programme is now available to pick up for free from the greenhouse in the Guernsey Information Centre and will be available on the Guernsey Arts Commission stand on Liberation Day, contains a map detailing all the venues, but if you want to [...]
Though applications for the current round of funding from the Guernsey Arts Commission closed on Tuesday, 3rd of May two more remain in 2011 with application deadlines of Tuesday 6th September and Tuesday 8th November. Funding is available for events or projects from across the arts spectrum, from festivals to community workshops spanning music to [...]
