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November 2011
Ten of the best

In the greenhouse:
Post-Christmas

You are invited to the opening of Post-Christmas in the greenhouse on Thursday 17th November from 5.30 to 7.00pm.

The exhibition will take a look through the past four decades of Guernsey and Alderney’s festive stamps including the two brand new sets for 2011.

The exhibition will feature the original artwork from which many of the stamps were created spanning media including paintings, drawings and photographs.

the greenhouse Guernsey Information Centre, North Esplanade, St Peter Port

Opening hours: Monday - Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 9am-1pm (From 28th November: Monday- Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 10am-12.30pm)
Free Admission
Annie Barrows, co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Dates announced for Guernsey Literary Festival

The 13th-16th September 2012 are the dates to mark in your diary for the second Guernsey Literary Festival.

Festival Director, Catriona Stares says: "The festival team is hard at work: we are getting responses from a fascinating variety of writers. There will be something for everyone, we're developing a marvellous variety of events."

One such event will be an exhibition celebrating the graphic novel at the greenhouse, our venue in the Guernsey Information Centre.

To find out more as it’s announced head to the Guernsey Literary Festival section of arts.gg

Annie Barrows (left), co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, was one of the headline speakers at the 2011 Guernsey Literary Festival. Photo by Dee Stonebridge.

Scriptwriting workshop

On Saturday 28th January the Film, Poetry and Prose Sub-Committee is holding a Scriptwriting Workshop lead by Avie Luthra.

Avie is the director and screenwriter of Lucky a South African film which was premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and has since been screened and praised at festivals around the world.

As well as the script writing workshop the day will culminate in a screening of Lucky that evening at the Princess Royal Centre for the Performing Arts.

Keep your eyes on the blog at arts.gg for more information on how to get involved.

Community Arts Programme continues to grow

Our programme to take the arts out to those in the community is continuing to develop.

In September, Heritage Group Ltd and Hiscox Insurance Company (Guernsey) Limited announced they had partnered with the Guernsey Arts Commission to support our programme at Les Genats Estate for the next three years.

We are also happy to announce the appointment of Brett Klement as Community Arts Development Manager and Teresa Stoakes as Community Arts Commissioner.

Find out more about our Community Arts Programme at arts.gg
Lydia Pugh works on a song with John McCarthy at the workshop day.

Lydia Pugh works on a song with John McCarthy at the workshop day.
Photo by Andrew Le Poidevin at Tallpictures.

See 10 brand new songs performed on our YouTube Channel!

On Sunday October 23rd the Music Sub-Committee staged a Songwriting Workshop day where local musicans had a chance to work with, and learn from, professional producer and songwriter Tim Bran and his local writing partners Jim Delbridge and Nick Windsor.

Over the course of the day 20 Guernsey musicians wrote 10 new songs of various styles.

You can hear the songs on our YouTube Channel or by visiting the blog at arts.gg

Add your events to our Arts Calendar

 Are you staging an arts event in Guernsey? Then why not add it to our online Calendar. Whether its an exhibition, a gig, a poetry reading, a concert or anything else arts related it can go on our Events Calendar. To find out how to add your event go arts.gg and click on "add your event" in the What's On box.
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