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Castle nights return

Picture supplied by Andrew Le Poidevin

GUERNSEYS popular summer live music event returns to

Castle Cornet on Friday, with a typically diverse line up of
performers.
The KPMG Castle Nights series kicks off at 6pm and all
events are free.
The evenings programme is:
Outer ward (Stage 1): 6pm Mick Le Huray, 6.45pm
GU10
Middle Ward (Stage 2): 6.45pm The Ukuladeez (pictured
above), 7.45pm The Cornettos (featuring Pete Frampton).
South battery (Stage 3), presented by the Guernsey
Arts Commission: 6.15pm Lisa Murfitt, 7pm Blue
Mountains, 7.50pm Jack Hayward.
Plus, wandering minstrel James Dumbleton will be roaming
the grounds to welcome all visitors.
There will be a bar, refreshments and an al fresco food
point and the caf will also be open for refreshments.
Further Castle Nights will take place on 22 and 29 July
and 5 August.

Pianists first solo recital

PIANIST Tom Hicks performs his first
solo recital at St James on Saturday
after his first year studying with Boris
Berman at Yale University School of
Music.
He is a masters candidate at the
institution in the US.
Tom will perform Mozarts Sonata
K282, Schuberts Drei Klavierstucke
D946 and Preludes Opus 28 by
Chopin.
u The concert starts at 8pm. Tickets are 15, 12,
or 8 restricted view, students free, available from
guernseytickets.gg and the box office on 711361.
Part of the BWCI Youth Promotions Series.

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The ultimate Bard guy

RALPH FIENNES is being
beamed lived from The Almeida
Theatre to the performing arts
centre on Thursday 21 July.
He takes the starring role as
Shakespeares most notorious
villain in the Almeidas Oliverwinning artistic director Rupert
Goolds production of Richard III.
Fellow star of stage and screen
Vanessa Redgrave plays Queen
Margaret.
The play is set in war-torn
England, reeling after years of
bitter conflict. King Edward is
ailing and as political unrest stirs Edwards brother Richard
vicious in war, reviled in peacetime lies in wait,
desperate to seize the throne.
The Bard examines the human desire for power through
Richards all-consuming desire for the crown in a society
torn apart by conflict. This searing new production turns
the microscope on the mythology of a monarch whose
plotting and scheming have woven their way into the
fabric of British history.
A great opportunity to see some of Britains finest stage
actors in one of Shakespeares finest works.
Following a run of previews at the Almeida Theatre, the
play carries an advisory certificate of 15 and as such is
unsuitable for audiences below that age.
u The screening starts at 7pm. Tickets are 18, 16
concessions, available from guernseytickets.gg and
the box office on 749999.

Wednesday 13 July 2016

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If you have a story to tell, get in touch

with Shaun Shackleton on 240210 or
email sshackleton@guernseypress.com

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N ANTHOLOGY
celebrating College
of Further Education
students literary skills
was launched on Thursday.
Following on for its
inaugural success last year, this is
the second such collection of work
and features pieces by 15 winners.
At last weeks evening launch event
the five category winners read their
pieces before the overall winner was
announced.
The college held five competitions
across the academic year, including a
101-word story, a paradelle poem and
a story inspired by a photograph, as
well as three different classes.
Winner of the Paradelle category
was Level 3 Performing Arts student
Gracie Corbin.
Basically we had bits of paper with
words on and we put them in that
order to make structure, the 17-yearold said. It can be very confusing to
explain. It has four verses and you
have to swap around the words.
The form was invented by the former
US Poet Laureate, Billy Collins,

explained English lecturer Phil

Emberton.
I think my background in performing
arts helped as the verses are like song
lyrics, Gracie added.
An online link that creates a plot
and characters to create a short
piece of fiction was used by Random
Storyline Generator category winner
Archie Lajoie, 17, who studied Level
2 Creative Arts at the Delancey
Campus.
Ive done stuff like this before but its
a challenge when the storyline is all
worked out for you, Archie said.
Catering student Liam Torode won
the Narrative from a Picture category,
with his story Shots For Everyone?
The concept was to produce a work of
fiction inspired by a photograph.
His story twists on the double
meaning of shots alcoholic drinks
and gunfire with a gritty narrative
told through the eyes of a murderous
anti-drinking sniper.

evel 2 Engineering student

Zachary Rault was the winner of
the 101-word Short Story category.
I remembered a night fishing trip I
had to Lihou, said the 18-year-old.
I thought, How can I make fishing
interesting? So I thought about
the darkness, the foreboding, how
mysterious the island is. But I didnt
want to give it away that I was fishing,

A View From the Bridge

TOMORROW the Young Vics magnetic, electrifying,
astonishingly bold production of A View From the Bridge
will be screened at the Princess Royal Centre for the
Performing Arts. The National Theatres Encore showing
offers a second chance to see Arthur Millers tragic
masterpiece, which confronts the American dream in a
dark and passionate tale.
In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes
his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when
one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover
that freedom comes at a price. Eddies jealous mistrust
exposes a deep, unspeakable secret one that drives him
to commit the ultimate betrayal.
This production won a trio of 2014 Olivier Awards
including best revival, Best Actor for Mark Strong and Best
Director for Ivo van Hove.
u The screening starts at 7pm. Tickets are 18,
or 16 for senior citizens and students under 19,
available from guernseytickets.gg and the box office
on 749999.

Wednesday 13 July 2016

so I called the story A Dance.

Health and Social care student
Chloe Torode won the Short Story
Continuation competition with her
piece called The Undercover Mission.
Its about a woman in MI6. It all just
came along to me quite easily, said
Chloe, how plans to work in childcare.
Ive done quite a bit of writing before
and a few of my pieces have appeared
in anthologies.
Giving their students the chance to
see their work in a finished product
is a big part of why the tutors run the
contest.
Its really good for them to have the
opportunity to see their stuff in print,
said English lecturer Jenn Long,
which they otherwise might not have
had.
And the design of the anthology itself
has been designed by creative student
Richard Burgess, with photographs
by Brad Smith, added Phil. So its a
bit more inclusive.
Local legal firm AO Hall were happy
to sponsor the competition again and
put up some great prizes.
The winner of each class has been
given a Kindle Fire thats 15 winners
and the overall winner wins an iPad
Air 2, with the runner up receiving an
iPad Mini 4, said Phil.
Zachary won the top prize and the
runner-up was Gracie. Zacharys piece
will now be enlarged and hung in the
reception area of AO Halls practice.

Looking at the
big picture

Anthology 2016 is available from

all College of Further Education
campuses, AO Hall and other
locations around the island. Liam
was unavailable for the interview and
photograph.

Below: Caius
Bearder used
images of
refugees in his
AS-Level work.
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Oliver Le Marquand with some of his portraits.

GCSE students joined AS and

A-Level pupils in showing their
work at the end of year art and
photography show at Elizabeth
College. Shaun Shackleton went
along to find out more

From left: College of FE English

lecturer Phil Emberton with
winners Zachary Rault, Chloe
Torode, Gracie Corbin and Archie
Lajoie and lecturer Jenn Long.
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Skiptons long hot summer of art

T
HE Skipton Arts Festival has lined
up a diverse summer programme
packed with exhibitions, workshops,
talks, art happenings and open studios.
The creativity begins with public
painting sessions on Saturday 30 and
Sunday 31 July. Held at Castle Cornet,
the artistic journey starts with painting
lengths of material that will be cut up
and made into banners for display at
12 historical sites throughout August.
The banners will be taken down after
being exposed to the summer weather
and remodelled into sculptural forms of
a dolmen, a castle tower and the fairy
ring. These will then be displayed back
at Castle Cornet.
From 1 to 27 August there will be a
Small Pictures Exhibition held at the
National Trust of Guernsey Folk and
Costume Museum in Saumarez Park. It
is the first show of its kind to be held in
the island and organisers hope it will
give all artists, including painters of
miniatures and silhouette makers, the
opportunity to demonstrate their skills.
Sula Gallery will be hosting the Wall of
Art Exhibition this year, which will run
from 6 to 26 August. This gives entrants
the chance to have their work displayed

Candie Museum is just one of the Skipton Art Festival venues.


(Picture by Adrian Miller, 15527508)

in an art gallery.
Another first for the festival is Art
Geocaching, which will take place
throughout August at the 12 sites
marked by the painted banners. This
will be a chance to meet and chat with
artists in their working environment
and perhaps see pieces being created.
The festival will also stage other
events, including a talk by the States
archaeology officer Dr Philip de Jersey
on the art of Celtic coins; a series of
free adult and childrens workshops

at Castle Cornet and Candie Museum,

from 16 July to 26 August; and the Open
Exhibition, showcasing the best of
local artists work, is at the greenhouse
gallery at Guernsey Museum until 17
July.
Summer just got a whole lot brighter.
u For full details on all events,
including entry forms and times, visit
The Guernsey Art Hub and Skipton
Art Festival Facebook pages or visit
gsyarthub.com and follow the links.

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Below: Matthew
Stockreiter, 17, with his
final AS-Level piece.
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Sammy Fowlers work

combines elements
of documentary
footage and street art.
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TRESS, the refugee crisis

and technology were just
three of the subjects covered
in the Elizabeth College
GCSE and A/S Level Art and
Photography show.
The subjects are as popular as ever
among the boys.
We have a big group in Year 12 AS
14, which is quite big for us, and
eight photography students too and
we also have filmmaking, said Adam
Stephens, head of the creative art
faculty.
He said that over the past few years
there has been more emphasis on
drawing.
The word drawing doesnt actually
appear in the assessment objective
of the exam specifications, it says
recording, but weve always done a
lot of drawing at the college.
Pencil drawing was a part of Oliver
Le Marquands AS work, including a
couple of self-portraits.
I experimented with different

mediums, said the 17-year-old. I

painted my girlfriend in watercolours.
It was quite difficult at first.
Then with the self-portraits I added
them in to portray stress the step up
to A Level has been quite stressful, he
admitted. Happily, he then added: My
girlfriend really likes her portraits.
I discovered the bleaker areas of
Guernsey and made comparisons to
the refugee crisis, said Caius Bearder.
I then put in figures and made them
deliberately ghostly to represent what
we see on the television and in the
papers, the negative side of the crisis.
Caius said that he preferred to work
in black and white.
I find it more dramatic. Colour can be
distracting.
Caius is interested in studying
jewellery-making, hopefully in
Glasgow, and has recently had work
experience at Catherine Best.
It was made by an old computer
from IT, explained Matthew
Stockreiter, 17, about his final AS

piece. I was fascinated by electrical

components, so texture is a big
thing in the work.
I also added a sprue from a modelmaking kit and covered it all in
black acrylic paint.
Matthew, who hopes to continue
his study of art at university,
doesnt have a title for the work.
Its an organised mess, he said.
The refugee crisis also informed
the GCSE work of 16-year-old
Sammy Fowler.
Its my images combined with
images of refugees, he said.
I printed photos out on a
photocopier and repeated them
four times, and then used spray
paint and created a wire effect to
represent a fence.
The results were a cross between
documentary footage and street
art.
Im going on to do AS and A2 art
and Id like to take the subject at
university.