LIVEMUSIC CLASSICAL JAZZ COMEDY SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 2019 NOVEMBER WHAT’S ONDECEMBER WORKSHOPS COMEDY 27 SEPTEMBER - 7.30PM NINA CONTI Life Drawing with Adam Stephens 08 NOVEMBER - 7.30PM COMEDY CLUB Duration: 2hrs Location: Dorey Room AT ST JAMES 06 DECEMBER - 7.30PM RICH HALL Saturday 10.30am-12.30pm & 1.30pm-3.30pm* In each 2 hour workshop you will be guided through a series of drawing exercises, with 6 NINA CONTI, with support act live models posing simultaneously. There will be a break during which you can chat with FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER - 7.30PM the other participants and to the models, look at each other’s drawings, exchange ideas and find out more about life drawing We are celebrating the diversity and skill of opportunities in Guernsey. All paper and our local artists with the first Community Art materials provided. Festival at St James, featuring free activities for all ages and skill levels, exhibitions, walk- Big Blooms with Bridget Spinney in sessions, talks and workshops with some of Duration: 5hrs Location: Dorey Room the island’s finest artists, all free of charge. Sunday 10.30am-12.30pm & 1.30pm-4pm* After a short stint as an actress in the Royal EXHIBITIONS Big Blooms will explore loose mark making Shakespeare Company Nina Conti became a and mixed media, working towards a finished ventriloquist and hasn’t looked back since. Exhibitions will be set up in the Whittaker Last year she won a British Comedy Award for Hall and include a showcase from Sarnia Arts picture by the end of the day. Please bring your own materials and, if you her appearances on Live at the Apollo. Other & Craft, as well as displays from Guernsey television credits include QI, Russell Howard’s Caring for Ex-Offenders and the Guernsey Arts wish, a packed lunch and an apron and/or wear old clothes. Good News, Sunday Night at the Palladium and Network. The John Bishop Show. A regular in Clare and Seascape Stitch with Jenny Mahy the Community – the long running BBC Radio HAVE A GO & GET CREATIVE 4 comedy, Nina has also turned her hand to Duration: 4 hrs Location: Whittaker Hall MIKE Chalk drawing and craft activities for Kids Saturday 10am - 4pm* documentary film-making, with her most RICH HALL with The Creation Station on the forecourt. recent exploit Clowning Around airing to great & WILMOT Create an individual piece of Textile Art with critical acclaim. Her directorial debut Her Community Mosaic with Iris & Dora in the FRIDAY 6 DECEMBER - 7.30PM tutor Jenny Mahy. “I love working with fabric Master’s Voice won her a BAFTA nomination Whittaker Hall. and threads using a wide variety of techniques. and a Grierson Award. Award-winning Rich Hall has won critical Creative Wellbeing Sessions for adults with My source of inspiration is my garden, birds acclaim across the Globe by performing Doors/Bar 6.30PM | Show: 7.30PM The Creation Station in the Walter Room. and the stretch of West Coast where I live.” to sell-out audiences each year at the Have a go at stitching in the Tapestry. The £22 £25 £17 (v restricted £10) Edinburgh Fringe, throughout sell-out UK Guernsey Tapestry will be open both days. Pinpoint Photography with Aaron Yeandle tours and at comedy festivals worldwide. Take advantage of the free entry, watch the Duration: 3hrs Location: Elizabeth College COMEDY CLUB His grouchy, deadpan style has established demonstrations and have a go yourself. Saturday & Sunday 11am* him as a master of absurdist irony and the FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER - 7.30PM king of rapid-fire wit. Pinhole photography is a unique and historic Rich is also well known for his tv and radio TALKS The Comedy Club takes place in the more way of making photographic images and work including regular appearances on intimate setting of the Dorey Room. A pub A number of talks are happening throughout learning how photography is all about ‘Stand Up For The Week’ (Channel 4), ‘QI’ style set up, mostly standing, with limited the day ranging from Art for Wellbeing to capturing light. The class will be using pinhole (BBC1/2), ‘Live At The Apollo’ (BBC1), ‘Have I seating and a mix of music and comedy, the Digital and Album Art. Speakers include local cameras to make simple pinhole images. Got News For You’ (BBC1) and ‘Never Mind Comedy Club should make for a more relaxed bands, illustrator and artist Mikal Dyas and They will then learn the processes behind The Buzzcocks’ (BBC2) to name a few. Mike atmosphere. We have a UK headline act more. Details to follow. exposure and development. All involved can Wilmot is a Canadian comedian known for supported by local comedy from Band Wagon, take home their image. his role in the film ‘It’s all gone Pete Tong’, and and music from some local favourites. Early *workshops are free, but participants who has also appeared in many TV shows, booking is essential. FRIDAY 13.09. 6PM need to register at stjames.gg including ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ (BBC2). LAUNCH YOU ARE GATE HOUSE GALLERY Doors/Bar 6.30PM | Show: 7.30PM PARTY FOLLOWED BY DRINKS AT ST JAMES Doors/Bar 6.30PM | Show: 7.30PM INVITED FROM 7PM | ENTRY FREE £10 £22 £25 £17 (v restricted £10) MORE INFO & REGISTRATION DETAILS AT STJAMES.GG Tickets T: 711361 www.stjames.gg 3 USA, the band are still a firm favourite for local 28 SEPTEMBER - 7.00PM WATERCOLOUR MATCHBOX 11 OCTOBER - 8.00PM - DAT BRASS gig goers. Sharing the evening are equally well- LIVE MUSIC known The Sacred Hearts, a popular live act 04 OCTOBER - 7.30PM DR MARTIN TAYLOR 12 OCTOBER - 7.30PM - THE RISK & from the 90s, with a psychedelic power pop AT 05 OCTOBER - 8.00PM RODNEY P W/ SKITZ & THE SACRED HEARTS sound. The band released four singles and two LPs in the ‘90s and caught the ear of John Peel, 18 OCTOBER - 8.00PM - SCOTT DR SYNTAX W/ PETE CANNON who played them several times on his radio ST JAMES LAVENE, MICHAEL CLARK & MORE show. A third band to complete the line-up tbc. Doors/Bar 7.30PM | age restriction 16+ ST JAMES PRESENTS... DAT BRASS WATERCOLOUR MATCHBOX FRIDAY 11 OCT £5 SATURDAY 28 SEPT - 7.00PM 8.00PM WaterColour Matchbox present a night of heavy Hailing from the rock with a twist. Bringing together the likes of streets of London award-winning and local composer Lydia Pugh, and raised by its punk- with a choral and orchestral ensemble, they jazz underbelly, Dat plan on bridging the gap between classical Brass, a high octane, instrumentation and modern heavy rock, in a ten-piece brass outfit way that has never been done before on the have been kicking off island. Doubling up as the launch date for their HIP HOP NIGHT WITH parties and festivals upcoming album ‘Pathways’, you can prepare RODNEY P. AND SKITZ & across the UK this for an evening of powerful riffs blended with DR SYNTAX WITH PETE CANNON summer. Anthemic precise orchestral arrangements written blend of horns, lyrical verse, pounding ST JAMES LOUNGE... 4 UK Acts SATURDAY 05 OCT - 8.00PM especially for the occasion. percussion and razor sharp scratch sounds, FROM PUNK BALLADS TO GUTTER St James presents a Hip Hop night of epic all help this energetic hip-hop outfit to keep POP - FRI 18 OCTOBER - 8.00PM Doors/Bar 7.00PM | open to all ages proportions, featuring legendary Rodney every performance fresh with lashings of Think velvet lounge with cabaret style seating £5 P, widely acknowledged as Godfather improvisation and leg-breaking drops. Thanks and table service for this night of varied music. of UK Rap, with Hip Hop Producer Skitz. to their sheer talent and onstage presence, Dat Also on the bill is Dr Syntax, already known to Come along and find your new favourite act! Brass have built a big reputation for themselves Songwriter Scott Lavene, who has in the past Guernsey audiences from his performances as one of the loudest get-downs around. with The Mouse Outfit at the Vale Earth Fair been compared to Ian Dury, Elvis Costello and “taking London by storm” – Evening Standard Father John Misty, just released his third album a few years ago. Performing with Dr Syntax Support band tbc is producer Pete Cannon, together the two ‘Broke’, and is regularly played on BBC 6Music. will bring their own brand of irreverent, often Doors/Bar 8PM | age restriction 16+ Scott’s witty, dry lyrics are accompanied by his unique style of story telling. comedic hip hop (with a touch of bass music £20 £18 and jungle for good measure). Support by Led by the rich baritone and Americana-tinged tones of Benjamin Woods, The Golden Dregs’ local outfit Asylum Seekas. ST JAMES PRESENTS... AN EVENING OF JAZZ WITH music is full of “lonesome soul and a sense of Doors/Bar 8PM | age restriction 18+ THE RISK & THE SACRED HEARTS DR MARTIN TAYLOR mournful vulnerability” that will stay with you SATURDAY 12 OCT - 7.30PM long after the night is over. WITH SUPPORT FROM BORDEAUX BLUE £20 £18 An evening of Songwriter Michael Clark is bringing his trans- FRIDAY 04 OCT - 7.30PM ‘classic’ Guernsey cendent folk to St James. With a debut EP on GRAMMY nominated musician Dr. Martin bands with local the horizon, Michael is already catching the Taylor, MBE, is a virtuoso guitarist, composer, legends The Risk, attention of the likes of Guy Garvey and Clash educator and musical innovator whom Acoustic and The Sacred Magazine, with his gentle guitar, shadowy Guitar magazine calls ‘THE Acoustic Guitarist of Hearts.