The stage is set and the funding almost in for the biggest celebration of song, music and dance Alderney has ever seen.
Alderney's inaugural Performing Arts Festival has won key backing from Guernsey Arts Commission - as well donations from £10 to £10,000 by local businesses, private sponsors and organisations - and is to transform the island into spectacle of sound and colour on the last May Bank Holiday weekend.
More than 25 acts from France, Alderney, Guernsey, Sark and further afield are booked in, with 160 performers and supporters arriving from the Continent from May 24th.
There's head-spinning variety of performances and workshops on offer. They range from classical piano and song recitals, to funk, hip hop and folk singing, to instrument making, photography and balloon sculpture, to circus skills and contemporary dance.
Tony Galliene, chairman of the Guernsey Arts Commission, compared its potential to that of the successful Sark Folk Festival.
"The Commission is keen to support arts festivals and initiatives, particularly of course in Guernsey, but also in the other Bailiwick islands where there is the potential for inter-island co-operation and benefit in terms of performers and audience, as well as the encouragement of attracting cultural tourists to the Bailiwick,' he said. 'We have certainly seen this with the Sark Folk Festival which we supported in its early days.
The Guernsey Bereavement Service has made three visits to Alderney over the past few months and would like to continue to help you. We are visiting the island again on
Tuesday, 23rd February 2024 and would invite anyone who feels they would like Bereavement Counselling to telephone the Bereavement Service Office on 257778 to make a time to meet one of our counsellors.
Thu 21st May 2026 Talk by Dr Philip de Jersey on the new dig at the White Gates site and to reveal some of the discoveries made., Island Hall, 18:00
Tue 21st July 2026 Free entry, retiring collection for ABO. Pete Ellis escaped office life in 2000 to take up a life in the outdoors. Soon becoming an International Mountain Leader, he led trekking holidays in the UK, Europe and further afield for the next 20 years. During this time, he also indulged his passion for climbing mountains, which included, in 2012, Mount Everest. This completed the Seven Continental Summits (the highest points of all seven continents), an achievement accomplished by a select group of about 400 people.
This talk is about the final, Everest, stage of The Seven Summits. The climb was from the north, through Tibet, the route originally visited by Mallory and Irvine in the 1920s. It will be a personal tale of the trip, illustrated with many photographs.
, Island Hall, 19:00
The Guernsey Bereavement Service has made three visits to Alderney over the past few months and would like to continue to help you. We are visiting the island again on
Tuesday, 23rd February 2024 and would invite anyone who feels they would like Bereavement Counselling to telephone the Bereavement Service Office on 257778 to make a time to meet one of our counsellors. 