Guernsey Press Arts Podcast

By Guernsey Press

A monthly show exploring the full gamut of Guernsey's arts scene.

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October 17, 2023 GADOC's 'The Diary of Anne Frank', Guernsey Film Fest, painter Tony Parsons, and Guernsey Arts on cultural tourism
This month with Simon De La Rue, we hear from some of the cast and crew behind GADOC's 'The Diary of Anne Frank', which is being staged at the newly-refurbished Beau Sejour theatre this week, speak to Guernsey Film Festival organisers Lars Janssen and Charlotte Dawn Potter about this year's event — and its role in bringing the local filmmaking community together, check in on Guernsey Arts' Russ Fossey as cultural tourism comes to the fore, and find out how the process behind visiting artist Tony Parsons' work.
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33min
September 25, 2023 Renoir in Guernsey, 1883
Ahead of the opening of its landmark ‘Renoir in Guernsey, 1883’ exhibition later this week, Art for Guernsey founder David Ummels joins Simon De La Rue at the Guernsey Museum at Candie to talk about how it came together, what has been discovered in the process, and what it means for the island.
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26min
September 10, 2023 ‘Bet Your Bottom Dollar’, Vraicfest, and Guernsey Arts
On this month’s show with Simon De La Rue, Guernsey Press features reporter Shaun Shackleton speaks to first-time writer and director Brandon Ashplant about his new short film ‘Bet Your Bottom Dollar’ — which premieres locally this Friday, Tony Curr gets the lowdown on Vraicfest as the island’s leading tribute bands prepare to rock L’Eree Aerodrome on Saturday, and Russ Fossey and Louise Le Pelley from Guernsey Arts discuss the ways in which it wants to help fund its work in future.
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44min
August 26, 2023 Bonus: Vale Earth Fair, GADOC, MTG, and Guernsey Arts
Simon De La Rue brings you a bonus edition of the Guernsey Press Arts Podcast, featuring a look ahead to this weekend's Vale Earth Fair, a chat with some of the cast and crew behind GADOC's recent 'fringe' production and Music Theatre Guernsey's unusual staging of the musical 'The Last Five Years', plus Guernsey Arts' Russ Fossey explains another strand of its long-term strategy.
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37min
August 16, 2023 David Le Page, 'At Death We Part', and Oliver Bailey-Davies
This month, Simon De La Rue speaks to classical musician David Le Page, three of the crew behind new local film 'At Death We Part' — Daniel Hollingworth, Dave Hyett, and Kiya Ashton, and the director of the Princess Royal Centre for Performing Arts — Oliver Bailey-Davies.
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28min
July 24, 2023 A look back at Arts Sunday
Simon De La Rue speaks to some of the stallholders at last month's Arts Seafront Sunday, and hears from Guernsey Arts' Russ Fossey about another strand of its long-term plan.
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22min
June 14, 2023 Guernsey Filmworks' 'Underground', Brenda Munson interview, One Act Play Festival, and Guernsey Entertainment
This month Guernsey Filmworks' directors Lars Janssen and Charlotte Dawn Potter join Shaun Shackleton to talk about their debut feature-length production 'Undergound', a paranormal thriller set in the German Underground Hospital. Plus Simon De La Rue speaks to Lisa Burton and Jo Dowding about the latest exhibition at Candie featuring the work of local artist Brenda Munson, checks in on the recent One Act Play Festival, and hears all about a new booking agency set up by Guernsey musicians Kiya Ashton and Mike Meinke.
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52min
May 05, 2023 Lit Fest lift off, St James and the future of facilities, and the Priaulx Library podcast
This month with Simon De La Rue, Nick Le Messurier lifts the lid on the Guernsey Literary Festival, which has just got under way, we find out why the Priaulx Library has turned to podcasting with chief executive Steve Foote and Jim Delbridge, host of its Guernsey Life & Times podcast, and we discuss the future of local venues with Russ Fossey from Guernsey Arts and St James executive director Jon Bisson.
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38min
April 14, 2023 AFG's 'A Renaissance of Victor Hugo', sculptor Sophie Le Lievre, and a plan for public art
On this month's show with Simon De La Rue, we hear from Daniel Hosego, one of the visiting artists featuring in Art for Guernsey's 'A Renaissance of Victor Hugo' exhibition at its new Mansell Street home, sculptor Sophie Le Lievre on her recent show 'Portal', and Guernsey Arts' Russ Fossey and artist Chris Simcox about the future of public art in Guernsey. Plus we check in on GADOC's production of '9 to 5' and the OSA Pop Up Shop, where the 'Quirky Kiwi' Claire Fisher has been showing her Maori-inspired work.
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44min
March 22, 2023 David Ummels and Jock Pettitt on Art for Guernsey's new Mill Street home
Tony Curr speaks to Art for Guernsey founder David Ummels and director Jock Pettitt about the opening of its newly-renovated home in the island's Old Quarter; its journey so far, its plans for this year and beyond, and how they hope it can help them make an outsized impact on that part of town — and the wider community.

Stay tuned to this feed for conversations from across Guernsey's creative community, including our monthly magazine show at the start of each month and one-off interviews covering the full gamut of the island's artistic output.
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23min

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