St James Diary Apr/May/June 2020

ST JAMES GUERNSEY’S CULTURAL CENTRE WHAT’S ON MAR/APR/MAY/JUN DEC/JAN/FEB/MAR COMEDY LIVE MUSIC CLASSICAL SPEAKERS

COMEDY 24 APRIL - 7.30PM ANDREW MAXWELL AT ST JAMES & JUSTIN MOORHOUSE 12 JUNE - 7.30PM REGINALD D. HUNTER Friday 24 APRIL 7.30PM BIG COMEDY NIGHT OUT &Friday 24 APRIL 7.30PM WITH ANDREW MAXWELL JUSTIN MOORHOUSE Andrew Maxwell is out of the jungle and back of Phoenix Nights Live at The Manchester with his creature comforts. He has swapped Arena, which raised over £5 million for Comic creepy crawlies, rice and beans for Guinness, Relief; told fantastic tales about Australia and good grub and a posh hotel. He’s washed Manchester on Live At The Apollo; won The the ants out of his undies and is ready to do Champion of Champions on BBC 5Live’s Fighting what he does best; perform stand-up comedy Talk; and appeared as Dean the rival cricketing across the country. He’s the winner of The landlord on Coronation Street. All this as well as Time Out Award for Best Live comic, Chortle’s helming his own critically acclaimed podcast best live comedian, Best Irish Comedian and About 30 Minutes, No More Than 45. Channel 4’s King Of Comedy. As seen on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here His comedy has taken him around the world. (ITV1), Live At The Apollo (BBC One), Have I Got He has performed stand up comedy on News For You (BBC One), QI (BBC2), Celebrity television for The Comedy Store (Comedy Juice (ITV2), Mock The Week (BBC Two), Roast Central), One Night Stand (Dave) and was Battle (Comedy Central) and winner of Celebrity Michael McIntyre’s guest on his Blackpool leg Mastermind (BBC One). Andrew is also the of Comedy Roadshow. voice of MTV’s hit show Ex On The Beach, his BBC Radio 4 series Welcome To Wherever You Other TV/ Film credits include; Alan Davies: As Are has returned for a second series and he Yet Untitled, Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric, Max has been a guest host on The News Quiz. and Paddy’s Road To No-Where, Shameless, and he was a winner of Celebrity Mastermind. It’s been a busy 18 months for Justin Moorhouse, he brought back tiger-faced Justin has written and starred in two series of Young Kenny for the record-breaking run his own, a BBC Radio 4 sitcom Everyone Quite Likes Justin, and often pops up on The News Quiz on Radio 4, and TalkSPORT. TICKETS: £22 £25 £17 Doors/Bar 7.00PM | Show: 7.30PM St James Programme Mar/Apr/May/Jun 2020 2

BIG COMEDY NIGHT OUT WITH REGINALD D HUNTER & SUPPORT ACT Friday 12 June - 7.30PM Since his first UK comedy gig twenty- one years ago, Georgia-born Reginald D Hunter’s searingly honest observations both onstage and on TV and radio have garnered him a cross-generational fan base. During that time he has become one of the Comedy industry’s best-known performers for his distinctive take on the most diverse range of subjects. His work can be brutally honest and is often considered to be controversial, but it is always meticulously thought out, and he has never been afraid to face challenging issues head on even when the focus is on his own principles or beliefs. His TV appearances have included Never Mind The Buzzcocks, QI and Have I Got News For You? He also filmed two series of the BBC2’s hugely popular Reginald D Hunter’s Songs Of The South & Reginald D Hunter’s Songs of The Border, documenting Reginald’s epic road trip through 150 years of American popular song. Reginald regularly tours the UK and Ireland and he has been seen by audiences around the world from America to Australia. Doors/Bar 7.00PM | Show: 7.30PM £22 £25 £17 Tickets T: 711361 www.stjames.gg 3

ST JAMES LIVE MUSIC COMEDY CLUB AT ST JAMES 27 MARCH - 15 MAY They came from outer space. In the not too distant future, visitors from another dimension take over St James to present... Matt Reed Michael Fabbri Friday 27 March 7.30PM As cheeky as he is wonderfully brutal, Matt Reed is a welcome addition to any comedy night, entertaining the crowd while skilfully destroying any heckler that crosses his path. His affable style has won him fans across the country, playing with the crowd with a natural rapport found in few comics. Not for the faint- hearted, Matt dishes out all styles of material from the delightfully perverse to unique observations and audience interaction. £10 Doors/Bar 7.00PM | Show: 7.30PM Friday 15 May 7.30PM The Vale Earthlings’ Ball Michael Fabbri has been a stand up comedian Saturday 28 March - 7.00PM since 2003 and regularly performs at major comedy clubs throughout the UK and all Join the Vale Earth Fair Collective and their over the world. He has worked as a writer for Cosmic Friends as they treat you to an inter- Radio and TV and had his own stand up series stellar night of entertainment. Dyslexicon on BBC radio 4. He has an affable and electric style of comedy, with material that With a three-course meal (vegetarian of course) ranges from the cerebral to the smutty. from the far out James Ferguson of Cooked, entertainment from light-years away (well, £10 Doors/Bar 7.00PM | Show: 7.30PM France) with Tranzat and MC etraordinaire Grant Sharkey teleporting in, we promise The Comedy Club takes place in the more intimate, this will be nothing like any of the Space Balls pub-style setting of the Dorey Room and features you’ve come across before. support from local outfit Band Wagon and other local comedians. There is limited seating, so come Futuristic space theme fancy dress welcome! early to secure a seat. £30 4 St James Programme Mar/Apr/May/Jun 2020

28 MAR - 7.00PM THE VALE EARTHLINGS’ BALL 25 APR - 7.30PM THE UKULADEEZ | 16 MAY - 7.30PM PENELOPE ISLES St James presents... The Ukuladeez’ Cosmic Tea Party Saturday 25 April - 7.30PM Come and join The Ukuladeez for a stellar line-up of live music and cosmic cavorting. Out of this world fancy dress optional. Will we see Uranus? Meteor there! Kindly sponsored by Raven Russia £5 PENELOPE ISLES photo by Tom Girard BBC Introducing Channel Islands WITH SUPPORT FROM THE TARANTULIPS AND DOLMENS Sat 16 May - 7.30PM Hailing from the Isle of Man via Brighton, working with some of the best promoters Penelope Isles is the collaboration of brother in the UK (Bird On The Wire, Parallel Lines & and sister Jack and Lily Wolter. Melting Vinyl). As well as selling out shows both in Brighton and London, the band has opened The band mix waves of ambient delays and for The Magic Numbers, Lost Horizons, Walter fuzz guitar noise, sonic dynamics and melodic TV, Airwaves and British Sea Power. pop hooks entwined with girl-boy harmonies. Their self-produced home recordings portray Penelope Isles are currently recording their an honest lo-fi approach when capturing their debut LP at the Bella Union Studios in Brighton. own music. Their live set is hypnotic, captivating and moving, smeared with glistening psych, For fans of Deerhunter, Neil Young, Radiohead dreamlike chimes and potency that will transfix and The Magic Numbers. and satisfy. Support act are the brilliant The Tarantulips After self-producing/releasing their debut EP from Jersey, and Guernsey’s Dolmens. ‘Comfortably Swell’ in 2015, Penelope Isles have consistently toured the UK and Europe Kindly sponsored by Raven Russia off their own backs (Wavey Head Bookings) £10 | age restriction 16+ Tickets T: 711361 www.stjames.gg 5

LIVE MUSIC 30 MAY - 7.30PM FREESTYLERS & SCRATCH PERVERTS 13 JUNE - 7.30PM THE BAGHDADDIES FREESTYLERS & SCRATCH PERVERTS Saturday 30 May - 7.30PM B-Boys and B-Ladies, prepare yourselves for the legendary Freestylers and Scratch Perverts bringing breakbeats, big beats and more to St James. Freestylers who are known for their huge hits B-Boy stance, Ruffneck and Push up, shot to fame with their debut album ‘We Rock Hard’, and went on from there playing all the biggest music festivals and night clubs around the world. Scratch Perverts have achieved true pioneer status with their influence being felt around the world. Being born out of Soho record shops in the mid 90s, the team went on to win solo and team DMC world titles, and supporting the likes of Beastie Boys and The Sex Pistols. Support from the mighty DJ Four Q and DJ Dubblz. Kindly sponsored by Raven Russia £18 £20 | age restriction 16+ THE BAGHDADDIES WITH SUPPORT FROM THE COR DAMMIE LARS AND CLAMEUR DE HARO Saturday 13 June - 7.30PM Making a welcome return to St James, The Baghdaddies’ exuberant and rampant brand of world music is an exhilarating cocktail of Balkan melodies, ska and Latin grooves and sizzling brass played with furious energy Tickets oannd stahleaetrifcarl ohummo1uJr,anmaukainRgyth2e0m20as unforgettable on stage as they are when performing as wandering brass troubadours. They take themselves incredibly seriously, so you don’t have to…. Supported by local bands Cor Dammie Lars and Clameur du Haro. Kindly sponsored by Raven Russia £18 £20 | age restriction 16+ 6 St James Programme Mar/Apr/May/Jun 2020

D £5lootpsetnotEpsnoeteraredyla&lyd* o NKEY CON2.0 Guernsey's biggest gaming festival returns! 07 march from 10am (non PG Games after 6pm) Battle it out D NKEY all ages DARK16+ only (after 6pm) Super smash bros Rocket league mario kart fifa rocket league street fighter Come and have a go all the latest games awesome retro zone Pokemon TCG Magic The gathering lots of table top games take part in the cosplay comp Gaming for all 10am-6pm - cosplay at 5.30pm - non pg games after 6pm entry £5 (*does not including entry to tournaments) tickets & registration stjames.gg/donkeycon Guernsey Esports Association

CLASSICAL 01 MARCH - 1.30PM GUERNSEY EISTEDDFOD SOCIETY AT 15 MARCH - 3.30PM GUERNSEY SYMPHONIC WINDS ST JAMES 21 MARCH - 8.00PM GUERNSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 28 APRIL - 7.30PM ADAM DAVIES - PIANO 08 MAY - 7.30PM FESTIVA BIG 75TH CELEBRATION 06 JUNE - 7.30PM THE SLEEPY LAGOON ORCHESTRA Guernsey Eisteddfod Society Guernsey Symphony Orchestra ‘Major over Minor’ Sunday 1 March - 1.30PM - 10.00PM Saturday 21 March - 8.00PM A full afternoon and evening of sacred music competition, ranging from oratorio to gospel, all Guest Conductor: Simon Over forming part of the music festival. Programme Soloist: Martyn Jackson (violin) available on www.guernseyeisteddfod.com Tickets available on the door. Programme: Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Guernsey Symphonic Winds Op.64 Family Matinee Musical Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92 Sunday 15 March - 3.30PM The Guernsey Symphony Orchestra’s first A special treat for all the family, featuring many concert of the season features an exciting and of your favourite melodies that you love to vibrant programme under the guest baton hear again and again. Packed full of tunes from of Simon Over. Simon is Music Director of well-known Musicals and Films, this is a concert Southbank Sinfonia, which he co-founded in that is guaranteed to send you home singing 2002. Some of this orchestra’s alumni will be and dancing (even in the rain). Featured in the performing in the GSO for this concert. concert are melodies from the great works for the stage and cinema, including: West Side To begin this exciting programme, the GSO Story, Chicago, A Star is Born, Mary Poppins welcome British violinist Martyn Jackson to Returns, Jesus Christ Super Star, La La Land Guernsey to perform the violin concerto in E and much, much more. minor by Mendelssohn. Jackson has toured all over the world and has been described as £8 CHILDREN £4 £4 (£2 for children) a truly sensitive musician, a player of great intensity, impassioned playing and utterly compelling. To conclude the concert, the GSO will perform Beethoven’s seventh symphony composed between 1811 and 1812 while he was improving his health in the Bohemian spa town of Teplice. At the premiere of the symphony, Beethoven was noted as remarking that it was one of his best works, so it is a concert not to be missed! Kindly sponsored by Julius Baer Martyn Jackson, soloist with the GSO on 21.03. A £15 B £12.50 C £10 £6 half price 8 St James Programme Mar/Apr/May/Jun 2020

FESTIVA for Liberation Day The Big 75th Celebration Fanny Davies International Piano Friday 8 May - 7.30PM Series: Adam Davies Enne Bouanne Seraie - A good evening Tuesday 28 April - 7.30PM The Gala Proms with Festiva will enthuse Beethoven- Sonata in F Sharp major, Op.78 and encourage the audience to participate Liszt- Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171 in rousing WW1 and WW2 favourites and, of Scriabin- Sonata No.4 in F Sharp major, Op. 30 course, Jerusalem, Land of Hope and Glory, Chopin - Four Waltzes - Harrold - Crux and Rule Britannia. A very special event in Rachmaninov - Etudes – Tableaux, Op. 33 Guernsey’s resonant St James bedecked with bunting and flags for the occasion. Adam Davies’ playing has been described as ‘brilliantly creative’ and ‘magical’. In his Maestro Jeffery Howard BEM and his wife début solo recital in Guernsey, he presents Rachael on orchestral harp will be providing a richly varied programme that showcases their unique arrangements throughout this Romantic piano repertoire from Beethoven celebration, also featuring “Les Encores to Rachmaninov. Liszt’s Ballade, based on a Friendship Co.” and Guernsey farmer Tony Gothic horror story, is framed by two F Sharp Falla. Musicians Andrew Warren and Alan major sonatas: the charming and playful Boyle together with Roy Sarre and Jose Paine middle-period Sonata of Beethoven (2020 is promise a night to remember enhanced by the Beethoven’s 250th year) and Scriabin’s Fourth annual popular visit of the Chelsea Pensioners Sonata which is all about light, stars and the and Gurkhas. Please wear red, white and blue sun. A short work by Tom Harrold is framed and bring your flags, whistles, klaxons and in the second half by popular Chopin Waltzes rattles to celebrate. and Rachmaninov’s challenging and evocative Etudes-Tableaux. Adam will work with local Tickets available from St James or Sue Brehaut piano students in the free afternoon workshop. on 01481 263852. Kindly sponsored by Credit Suisse £12.50 CHILDREN £3.95 £10 U18 FREE Pre-show suppers available at the OGH The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra Saturday 6 June - 7.30PM presented by the University of Chichester Put on your flapper dresses and tuxedos and Tickets T: 711361 www.stjames.gg come along and dance to the Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra as they play the best of swing music from the 1920’s to the 1940’s. The music is still as fresh now as the day it was written, and will leave you tapping your toes with a smile on your face. Vintage costume and dancing encouraged. Bar available, seating will be in cabaret style with tables of 10 . £12.50 GROUPS (of 8 or more) £10 9

CLASSICAL 10 JUNE- 7.30PM HANAKO DICKINSON, VIOLA MUSIC 17 JUNE - 7.30PM ELISABETH BRAUSS, PIANO AT ST JAMES 19 JUNE - 7.30PM GMC SUMMER CONCERT 20 JUNE - 7.30PM GMC SUMMER CONCERT The BWCI Youth Promotions Series and the Hanako Dickinson and Carlo Grante St James Youth Promotions Trust present: Wednesday 10 June - 7.30PM He has performed all over Europe and America, appearing in such venues as the Vienna Hanako Dickinson - Viola Musikverein, the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall, the Lincoln Centre, London’s Carlo Grante - Piano Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Hall. He has appeared as soloist with major orchestras Brahms: Sonata for Viola and Piano in F Minor, including the Dresden Staatskapelle, London’s op.120 no. 1 Royal Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Their Brahms: Sonata for Viola and Piano in E flat programme is two of the major works for Major, op.120 no. 2 viola and piano, composed in 1894, originally for clarinet and piano; but adapted in 1895 Hanako started lessons with the Guernsey for viola and piano. These two sonatas have Music Service when she was 6 years old, and become central to the viola repertoire; Brahms then won a scholarship to Wells Cathedral demonstrating his mature compositional style School to study with Matthew Souter and in two contrasting masterpieces. Catherine Lord. She has performed with many orchestras in the UK and Europe, £12 £8 U18 FREE including the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, the BBC Youth Ensemble, and has been guest principal viola of numerous ensembles including Wells Virtuosi, Mainzer Virtuosi, Resonate Symphony Orchestra and the Casalmaggiore Festival Orchestra. Since 2018 Hanako has been studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Paul Silverthorne. She will be partnered by Carlo Grante, one of Italy’s foremost concert pianists. Hanako Dickinson, Viola (above) Carlo Grante, Piano (left) 10 St James Programme Mar/Apr/May/Jun 2020

Elisabeth Brauss Guernsey Music Centre Summer Concert Wednesday 17 June - 7.30PM Friday 19 June - 7.30PM Programme includes: The Guernsey Music Centre Summer Concert Scarlatti - Sonatas K492, K380, K386 and K56 showcases the hard work of Guernsey Ravel - Sonatine pour piano Op. 28 students with an evening of varied and Mendelssohn - Variationes sérieuses op. 54 entertaining music. Beethoven - Sonata Nr 7 D Major Op. 10, 3 Youth Wind Band – Conductor Dan Madden Prokofiev - Sonata Nr. 2 D Minor Op. 14 Youth Training Orchestra – Conductor Carmen Craven-Crew The pianist Elisabeth Brauss has been Intermediate and Girls’ Choirs – Conductor Rachel praised by Gramophone Magazine for “the Wright maturity and sophistication of her thoughtful From music from musicals including the King interpretations” which “would be the pride of and I and to a massed version of Beethoven’s any pianist twice her age”. Born in Hanover in Ode to Joy to celebrate the 250th anniversary 1995, Elisabeth is quickly establishing herself of his birth, this concert has something for as one of the most exciting and versatile every taste. musicians of her generation. She is currently a member of the BBC New Generation Artist £12 FGMC £8 +65 £6 £6 FREE scheme. In addition to winning first prize at the International Steinway Competition Guernsey Music Centre in Hamburg, and the international Grotrian Summer Concert Steinweg Piano Competition in Braunschweig, Elisabeth was awarded the Prätorius Saturday 20 June - 7.30PM Musikpreis in 2012. Further accolades include the main and audience awards at the TONALI The Guernsey Music Centre Summer Concert Grand Prix in Hamburg (2013) and first prize at showcases the hard work of Guernsey students the Kissinger Klavier Olymp (October 2016). The with a varied and entertaining programme. start of the 19/20 season saw Elisabeth make Guernsey Youth Orchestra – Conductor Tim Wright her BBC Proms in the Park debut in Belfast Concert Wind Band – Conductor Elizabeth Green with the Ulster Orchestra. Further highlights Youth Choir – Conductor Rachel Wright of the season include concerto appearances Join the Guernsey Music Centre for an evening with BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic of wind band, choral and orchestral music and Südwestdeutsche Kammersinfonie ranging from Tom Jones to John Williams. amongst others. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth the Youth Orchestra will Supported by the ‘Swallow 2018 Charitable Trust’ also be performing the 1st movement of his 5th Symphony. £12 £14 £8 U18 FREE £12 FGMC £8 +65 £6 £6 FREE Tickets T: 711361 www.stjames.gg 11

MORE EVENTS 07 MARCH - 10.00AM - DONKEYCON v2.0 AT ST JAMES 18 MARCH - 6.00PM - GUERNSEY OXFORD LECTURE 06 MAY - 7.45PM - PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER 21 MAY - 7.00PM - NICK BAKER The Guernsey Oxford Lecture Paul Mayhew-Archer Wednesday 18 March - 6.00PM Wednesday 6 May - 7.45PM “Very funny... Storming Utopia – More, Montaigne and and moving too.” Shakespeare in the Age of Brexit Diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2011, Paul The Brexit process has been accompanied by started doing stand-up about the illness at thoughts of what the best future for Britain Parkinson’s UK fundraisers and then took his would look like. This is just a recent case of first one man show Incurable Optimist to the how thoughts about Utopia, and its darker twin Edinburgh Fringe. Dystopia, impact our lives. In this lecture, Prof. In 2019, he took the show on a nationwide Wes Williams will explore creative responses tour to share the therapeutic power of to ancient and modern tensions between laughter and comedy in coping with serious identities, ideals and islands, focusing on the illness. Paul is an award-winning writer who history and continued relevance of the idea has written and edited for a number of well- of Utopia. Thomas More’s fantasy of an ideal known BBC programmes including The Vicar of island community, first published in 1516, has Dibley, Spitting Image, Miranda and Mrs Brown’s served as a blueprint for writers, philosophers, Boys. explorers, town planners and politicians from “Incurable Optimist” is an inspiring show about the Venice to Venezuela. Professor Williams is therapeutic power of comedy and laughter in coping professor of French literature at the University with serious illness from a man who is not contagious of Oxford and a Fellow in Modern Languages at but is well worth catching.” - Richard Curtis St Edmond Hall. He is currently the Knowledge Exchange Champion at The Oxford Research £17 +65 £15 U18 £15 Centre for the Humanities (“TORCH”). The evening is raising funds for Unreserved seating £14 FREE Parkinson’s UK - GSY branch. Supported by The Guernsey Literary Festival 29 April - 3 May This year’s Festival, the island’s eighth, attracts speakers from a wide range of disciplines, from literature to politics, from history to sport, from the environment to food, from biography to travel. As in past years, St James is delighted to host some of the events in the Whittaker Hall. For a full list of events happening at St James, please turn to page 14. Tickets for all Guernsey Literary Festival events are available only from guernseyliteraryfestival.com or 07781 143545 12 St James Programme Mar/Apr/May/Jun 2020

Nick Baker - The Tangled Hedge welcomes you for Pre-Show Dinners and Thursday 21 May - 7.00PM Post-Show Drinks The Tangled Hedge - Finding a new kind of aesthetic or learning to be a little less ‘tidy’ La Société’s Pollinator Project is delighted to bring Nick Baker to Guernsey. When it comes to presenting wildlife Nick Baker is the total package – an edgy, exciting TV presenter with incredible drive and passion. His experience encompasses expeditions to the wildest parts of the planet in search of weird, bizarre and incredible creatures. Nick is known as an engaging speaker and his passion for his subject shines through. Nick explores how we change the way we view and value nature and in turn learn to live with nature, lighten our touch and integrate new values into our lives. He’ll explore the benefits it can bring to individuals, society and biodiversity and practical ways to go about it. The talk will be illustrated with examples of some of the species that benefit and plenty of firsthand anecdotes and stories! £12.50 (Under12s £7.50) SOCIÉTÉ MEMBERS £8.50 (Under12s £5) Photograph by Juliette Mills Pre-show dinners, available between 6pm & 7pm, can Tickets T: 711361 www.stjames.gg be booked at the special price of £20 (2-courses), or £25 (3-courses). Simply call 738604 to book your table or to find out more. 13

GUERNSEY LITERARY FESTIVAL 2020 29.04. Wed 8.00PM An evening with Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate 30.04. Thurs 1.00PM Tom Rivett-Carnac: The Future we Choose 30.04. Thurs 7.30PM Christie Watson: The Language of Kindness 01.05. Fri 10.30AM Emily Grossman: Brain Fizzing Facts (closed school event) 01.05. Fri 6.00PM Dom Joly: The Hezbollah Hiking Club 01.05. Fri 7.30PM Cerys Matthews: Where the Wild Cooks Go 02.05. Sat 12.30PM Richard Dawkins: Outgrowing God 02.05. Sat 2.30PM Joanne Harris: The Strawberry Thief 02.05. Sat 6.00PM Daniel Geey: Done Deal 02.05. Sat 7.30PM Richard Dawkins: Outgrowing God 03.05. Sun 10.30AM Mr Dilly: You wouldn’t want to be an Egyptian Mummy 03.05. Sun 12.30PM Megan Rossi: Eat Yourself Healthy 03.05. Sun 2.30PM Giles Milton: D-Day: The Soldier’s Story 03.05. Sun 5.00PM John Nettles: The Ord Diaries 03.05. Sun 8.00PM Terry Waite CBE: Words and Music Please note that all tickets for Guernsey Literary Festival events are available only from guernseyliteraryfestival.com or the Guernsey Literary Festival box office on 07781143545. INFO Tickets Parking 14 Tickets can be bought by calling the Parking on the forecourt is very box office on 711 361, visiting St James limited, and is therefore available by during box office opening hours or prior arrangement only. online at stjames.gg. Membership Box Office St James has a membership scheme The box office is open from 9am-2pm for £25 p/a, which offers members on weekdays. Pre-Show Box Office benefits such as discounted tickets opens 45mins before the show. and priority ticket sales. Online Tickets The Diary Tickets can be bought online from our The St James diary is distibuted to ticketing partner Eventbrite. A small every household in the Bailiwick by booking fee is charged when Guernsey Post. All events are also booking online. advertised on social media, BBC Guernsey programmes and on posters Accessibility and leaflets that can be found around the island. St James has easy wheelchair access to the Hall and all levels of the Contact Dorey Centre. Disabled parking spaces require prior booking. A hearing loop T: 711360 is installed. E: [email protected]

Date Day Time Event FOSJ on sale 01.03. Sun 1.30PM Guernsey Eisteddfod Society N/A N/A MAR APR MAY JUNE 07.03. Sat all day DonkeyCon: Gaming and Cos Play now now 15.03. Sun 3.30PM Guernsey Symphonic Winds now now 18.03. Wed 6.00PM The Guernsey Oxford Lecture now now 21.03. Sat 8.00PM Guernsey Symphony Orchestra now now 27.03. Fri 7.30PM Comedy Club with Matt Reed now now 28.03. Sat 7.00PM Vale Earthlings’ Ball now now 24.04. Fri 7.30PM Big Comedy Night Out with now now 25.04. Sat 7.30PM Andrew Maxwell & Justin Moorhouse now now 28.04. Tue 7.30PM now now St James presents: The Ukuladeez Fanny Davies International Piano Series: Adam Davies 06.05. Wed 7.45PM Paul Mayhew-Archer: Incurable now 09.03. Optimist 08.05. Fri 7.30PM now 09.03. FESTIVA on Liberation Day now 09.03. 15.05. Fri 7.30PM now 09.03. 16.05. Sat 7.30PM Comedy Club with Michael Fabbri now now 21.05. Thurs 7.00PM Penelope Isles with The Tarantulips now 09.03. La Société presents Nick Baker 30.05. Sat 7.30PM Freestylers & Scratch Perverts 06.06. Sat 7.30PM The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra 09.03. 30.03. 10.06. Wed 7.30PM 09.03. 30.03. Hanako Dickinson and Carlo Grante 12.06. Fri 7.30PM 09.03. 30.03. Big Comedy Night Out with 13.06. Sat 7.30PM Reginald D. Hunter 09.03. 30.03. 17.06. Wed 7.30PM The Baghdaddies 09.03. 30.03. 19.06. Fri 7.30PM Elisabeth Brauss - Piano 09.03. 30.03. 20.06. Sat 7.30PM GMC Summer Concert 09.03. 30.03. GMC Summer Concert BOX OFFICE T: 711361 ONLINE: STJAMES.GG IN APP: ENJOY.GG A booking fee is charged by Eventbrite when booking online. Printed in Guernsey by Colour Monster delivering to our local community

TICKETS AVAILABLE “An exhilarating theatrical experience.” NOW The Upcoming FoSJ: £32 General: £35 EXPERIENCE SHAKESPEARE LIVE THIS SUMMER AS SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE TOURING COMPANY RETURNS TO GUERNSEY FOR A NEW SEASON OF PLAYS 15 JULY - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM 16 JULY - AS YOU LIKE IT 17 JULY - THE TEMPEST 18 JULY - AUDIENCE CHOICE More info and tickets on stjames.gg/globe