Alderney Performing Arts Festival saw the damp pavements of St Anne's sizzle on Saturday as a Samba band got the fiesta started.
The three day music, dance, drama and sculpture extravaganza saw around 30 acts and 150 performers sell out shows at 12 venues across the Island. After a slightly delayed start because of intermittent rain, the 17-strong Samba Burros, who had flown over from Guernsey for the festival, started their procession at the Island Hall and drummed their way up the High Street and down to the lower end of Victoria Street. The Samba Burros, founded at the Millennium, are a hot ticket over the next few weeks - they've also been booked for a World Cup party. The Island's Keep Fit Association's young dance troupes kept up the heat while later on in the afternoon bands like Jazz Accord, Radio Blockhaus, the Recks and the Crowman took to the street to put on free performances, as did Alderney's Island Band. The acts were many and varied, some ferried over by private pilots after the Auringy flights sold out. Ranging from top classical talent like Guernsey's Tom Hicks, and Angelique Lihou at Fort Quesnard to quirky four strong, fiddle, guitar and accordion group
The Guernsey Bereavement Service has made three visits to Alderney over the past few months and would like to continue to help you. We are visiting the island again on
Tuesday, 23rd February 2024 and would invite anyone who feels they would like Bereavement Counselling to telephone the Bereavement Service Office on 257778 to make a time to meet one of our counsellors.
Tue 21st July 2026 Free entry, retiring collection for ABO. Pete Ellis escaped office life in 2000 to take up a life in the outdoors. Soon becoming an International Mountain Leader, he led trekking holidays in the UK, Europe and further afield for the next 20 years. During this time, he also indulged his passion for climbing mountains, which included, in 2012, Mount Everest. This completed the Seven Continental Summits (the highest points of all seven continents), an achievement accomplished by a select group of about 400 people.
This talk is about the final, Everest, stage of The Seven Summits. The climb was from the north, through Tibet, the route originally visited by Mallory and Irvine in the 1920s. It will be a personal tale of the trip, illustrated with many photographs.
, Island Hall, 19:00
The Guernsey Bereavement Service has made three visits to Alderney over the past few months and would like to continue to help you. We are visiting the island again on
Tuesday, 23rd February 2024 and would invite anyone who feels they would like Bereavement Counselling to telephone the Bereavement Service Office on 257778 to make a time to meet one of our counsellors. 