Art & culture
Jersey Arts Centre
Jersey Arts Centre exists to foster the development and celebration of the arts island-wide and beyond. To enrich the quality of life for all residents and visitors. To encourage participation in the performing, visual and literary arts. To educate, inspire and to encourage debate.
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This is achieved by providing exciting, innovative, wide-ranging, challenging, professional and community arts in welcoming, high-quality and accessible environments. Home to theatrical performances, concerts and even film nights - check the website for the most up to date diary of events. The Jersey Arts Centre is located in the north east corner of St. Helier, just down from the Millennium Park.
We are open all year round.
- Indoor
- Family friendly
- Couples
- Wheelchair access
- Parking
- Accessible toilets
- Lift or stairlift
- Partial wheelchair access
- Partially suitable for visitors with limited mobility
- Suitable for visitors with limited mobility
Location
Jersey Arts Centre
Philips Street
Jersey
St. Helier
JE2 4SW
Offers and events
JFoW – Linda Calvey: The Game
Convicted murderer Linda Calvey combines her own experience of the criminal world – the glamour, the danger, the high of running with gangsters, hitmen and villains – with a supreme gift for character and storytelling in her second novel, The Game. While most authors write what they know, Calvey writes what she lived.
Sep 24 2022
JFoW – Dreena Collins
Pen Names, Pitfalls and Easter Eggs: Writing a Book Series: Local author Dreena Collins’ (aka Jane Harvey) debut won the Eyelands International Award for published novel of 2021. The second book in the series will be released in August, continuing to explore the tenants’ lives.
Sep 24 2022
JFoW – John Higgs: Love and Let Die
On 5 October 1962, Britain produced two unprecedented cultural phenomenon – Dr No, the first Bond film, and Love Me Do, the first Beatles record. John Higgs explores these two cultural touchstones and the world they exploded into, forever changing your understanding of the Beatles, James Bond films, and six decades of British culture.
Sep 24 2022
JFoW – Otto English: Fake History
Ten Great Lies And How They Shaped The World: Setting out to redress the balance, journalist and author Otto English takes ten great lies from history and shows how our present continues to be manipulated by the fabrications of the past. He looks at how so much of what we take to be historical fact is, in fact, fiction.
Sep 24 2022
JFoW – Emma Gannon: (Dis)connected
How to Stay Human in an Online World: We’re becoming increasingly aware of how the algorithm manipulates us and how we are the product being sold. But where do we go from here? Emma Gannon, host of the hit podcast Ctrl Alt Delete offers tangible tips for forging a healthier relationship with the internet and reconnecting with our real lives.
Sep 24 2022
JFoW – Iain Dale: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along
Political commentator, radio presenter and author, Iain Dale discusses his recent publications The Prime Ministers, The Presidents and Why Can’t We All Just Get Along: Shout Less, Listen More. When not debating current affairs on the popular podcast For The Many, Iain can be seen appearing as a commentator on Good Morning Britain.
Sep 24 2022
JFoW – Professor Mari Jones: Zoom Talk
Linguistic Detective Work in the Channel Islands: Several years ago, a box containing several hundred slips of paper was brought to the notice of the Professor of French Linguistics at Cambridge University. Close examination revealed that they were fieldnotes...
Sep 25 2022
JFoW – Doreen Cunningham: Soundings
Journeys in the Company of Whales – A Memoir: From the lagoons of Mexico to Arctic glaciers, grey whale mothers are swimming with their calves, enduring one of the longest mammalian migrations on the planet. Following them, Doreen Cunningham and her young son Max, are in pursuit of a wild hope: that their family of two can find a place to belong.
Sep 25 2022
Karen Forbes: Wellbeing Journal-Writing Workshop
Join local playwright, Karen Forbes, for a fun and interactive Creative Journaling workshop which will focus on ‘writing to express not impress‘ and includes an introduction to the practice of journal writing for well-being. This is a fantastic skill which allows us to explore our own feelings and emotions through spontaneous expressive writing.
Sep 24 2022
JFoW – Simon Clark: Firmament
Scientist Simon Clark offers a rare and insightful tour of the atmosphere that surrounds Earth. From the workings of its different layers to why carbon dioxide is special, Firmament helps us better understand the climate change debate whilst providing a glimpse of the future that is possible with this knowledge in hands.
Sep 24 2022
JFoW – Cathy Rentzenbrink: Memoir Writing Workshop
Have you got a story to tell? Perhaps you don’t know how or where to start, or you have questions about shape and structure. This stimulating, encouraging and friendly workshop will address all these questions and offer tools and techniques to help you turn your life events into a narrative.
Sep 25 2022
JFoW – Badlabecques: Jèrriais Singing Workshop
They say one of the best ways to learn a language is through song. Come and learn some songs in Jersey’s native tongue led by Kit Ashton of Jèrriais folk-pop band, Badlabecques. There’ll be classics like Vive la Compangnie and Man Bieau P’tit Jèrri (Beautiful Jersey), plus the chance to learn brand new songs. Mangnifique!
Sep 25 2022
JFoW – Luke Healy: The Con Artists
Frank only wanted three things this year – to perform stand-up comedy, go to therapy, and to keep his house plants alive. Then Giorgio got hit by a bus. A darkly comedic graphic novel about friendship, fraud and the stories we tell ourselves. Luke Healy’s previous work, Americana, was a Guardian Best Book of 2019.
Sep 24 2022
JFoW – Jem Calder: Reward System
Reward System is a set of ultra-contemporary and electrifying fresh fictions, of a generation on the cusp, meshed in Zooms and lockdowns, loneliness and love. “An exhilarating and beautiful book by an extraordinarily gifted writer. Reading these stories, I found myself thinking newly and differently about contemporary life” – Sally Rooney
Sep 25 2022
JFoW – Kate Hughes: Going Zero
Told with refreshing humility and humour, this is the inspiring story of an ordinary family who rebelled against the waste of a lifestyle wrapped in plastic. Packed with handy tips, it reveals much about what makes a fulfilling modern family – and how readers can empower themselves to preserve the climate, forests and seas.
Sep 25 2022
Jersey Festival of Words
This five-day literary event held on 21-25 September, promotes a love of the written and spoken word across our community in a variety of styles and settings, as well as welcoming internationally-renowned authors to our beautiful island.
Sep 21 2022 ‐ Sep 25 2022
