Welcome to our Summer 2025 Season!

Jersey Arts Centre opened its doors over 42 years ago now and we have been active across the Island for over 55 years because we started out as the Jersey Arts Council in 1970!

As always, our programme is designed to appeal to all tastes and so we hope that there will be many performances, exhibitions and courses throughout the summer that you will be inspired to attend.

Oddsocks Productions and Music Managed return to Coronation Park between 28 July and 17 August. And Jersey Arts Centre’s youtheatre (Heavy Weather: 1 – 3 May), ACT (Murder at the Oriental Express: 25 – 28 June) and our Junior Drama Group (Show & Tell: 12 + 13 June) are all once again presenting great dramas this season, too…

Our playdays Children’s Festival opens with a revival of Jersey Arts Centre’s production of Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals (10-13 July) to mark the 100th Anniversary of Gerry’s birth. And our Honorary Patron, Tim Crouch, returns with his gloriously anarchic one-man show: I, Peaseblossom (21 + 22 July). We hope to see many of you at the myriad of performances throughout this two week festival in order to play, explore and discover.

We would once again like to thank you all for your unparalleled support and encouragement throughout these past 42+ years – the challenges have sometimes been great – but your commitment to the work at Jersey Arts Centre has been even greater!

We look forward to seeing you here at Phillips Street and out-and-about during the summer.

Take good care, stay safe and enjoy the experience ahead!

Daniel Austin | Director

[Image: Summer 2025 Brochure cover / COMPANY MANY: Sam the Sword]

 

DID YOU KNOW? that in 2024 Jersey Arts Centre delivered the following events, activities and experiences:

  • 277 ticketed performances with 36,746 attendances
  • playdays Children’s Festival: 67 events, 164 performers, 4,058 attendances / engagements
  • 14 exhibitions in the Berni Gallery
  • 12 exhibitions in the Bar Gallery
  • 27 public courses and workshops (88 sessions) with 252 participants
  • 9 workshops in 8 schools for World Book Day with 244 participants
  • 7 workshops in 7 schools for Liberation Day with 175 participants
  • 60 workshops at Mont à L’Abbé School with 30 participants weekly
  • 2 youtheatre productions: Electra + The Wardrobe
  • 2 ACT projects: Dracula + An Unholy Trinity
  • 1 Junior Drama project: The Twits
  • 3 Commissions: Hi-Viz by Dr Adam Perchard + My Friend Jung by Wayne Stewart + playful Exhibition
  • 5 Residencies: Sometime, Somewhere by Simon MacDonald + Annivèrsaithe by Ballet d’Jèrri + Don’t Worry, Be Happy by Frank Wurzinger and John Wright + Project #2 by Mezzanine Theatre + Sam the Sword by Company Many
  • Our 22nd consecutive year of assisting with the Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony
  • youtheatre readings at the Former Internees 79th Liberation Day Anniversary at the War Tunnels
  • 15 events at Coronation Park in August
  • The 11th Polish Film Festival
  • The 20th Human Rights Festival
  • The hosting of 8 Project Trident students
  • The sponsoring of the JAC Award for Excellence in Performing Arts at Highlands College
  • 5 of JAC’s community theatre companies ran throughout the year
  • 120 Arts in Health Care Trust concerts over 6 tours across 35 Island care settings
  • JAC Advent Calendar online in December
  • Our 9th Community Christmas Production: Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with 4,405 attendances over 19 ticketed performances with a BSL Interpreted Performance by Andrew Higgins
  • 23 workshops in 16 schools with 582 participants exploring the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory story

Online Participants:

  • Website Sessions: 317,907
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  • Unique Users: 103,835

Our thanks extend to everyone for their support, enthusiasm and social and cultural engagement…