at the heart of island life
Introduction at the heart of island life The morning boat is an exciting new programme of public art and community events in Jersey, bringing together local specialists and leading international artists to create unforgettable events for a large and varied audience. Projects aims to generate a meaningful discourse on real life practices that are central to the island’s economy, social fabric and way of life. Activities focus on industries that are often referred to as the foundations of the island economy – agriculture, finance and tourism – and their impact on people’s lives. For the next two years our programme looks at local food production. Farming may no longer be the largest sector of the island economy, but it is the oldest. Farming and fishing have been an integral part of island life for
hundreds of years, repeatedly reinventing themselves in response to market changes or political upheaval; from cider and sheep farming, to potatoes and dairy, oysters and lobsters. Working together with farmers, fishermen, seasonal workers, politicians, chefs, retailers and consumers, artists will develop exciting new work that responds to the locally grown, caught, gathered and reared food chain, bringing the community together to engage with the lives of individuals involved in local production and the complex interconnected issues that affect, or are affected, by their work. The following pages outline some of the ways you can support and engage with the programme, while a range of special offers and unique experiences are waiting for you and your colleagues. We look forward to welcoming you on board!
Welcoming the Seed Journey to Jersey, April 2017
Seed Journey part 2 Futurefarmers the first locally grown beer >???Sponsor in over 500 years, as brewers Barley is planted by a local farmer and malted by Patrick Dean of the Liberation Brewery. A series of public events will celebrate the new brew, including a Beer and Beancrock Festival. us to collect wild hops, or when >weJoin harvest and thresh the grain. Tour the Liberation Brewery as they create this historic ale.
a scarecrow workshop at >???Sponsor Trinity Primary School. Animated and living scarecrows will be designed and deployed, to protect the Colonel John Le Couteur heritage wheat being cultivated by Charles, Alon and John Le Maistre. your own scarecrow! Host a >???Create scarecrow making workshop with a local artist, or join the sessions at Trinity School. Take part in an artisan bread baking workshop, using flour that is produced on the field. workshops: 3500 >???Scarecrow production: 5000 >???Ale ???Beer > & Beancrock Festival: 8500
CLIMAVORE Cooking Sections sets >???CLIMAVORE seasons of food
out to envision production and consumption that react to climatic events and conservation challenges. The result is a diet that rehabilitates nature and reimagines agricultural production. CLIMAVORE is conservation that tastes good! Public events will take the form of dinners convening around a series of dishes that use bivalves and seaweeds, bringing together regional farmers, the public, governmental officials, chefs and scientists, to taste and discuss the
role these foods can gain in the local economy and diet, as a creative solution to marine management and the build up of sea lettuce. Department of the Environ>???Partners: ment, Jersey National Park, Seymour Oysters, local chefs, marine biologists and conservation groups. Take part in a sushi making work>shop, from collecting red laver seaweed, to pulping, pressing, drying and roasting nori sheets, before making and enjoying Genuine Jersey Sushi.
>???Funding required: 5500
The Global Milk Map Jonathan Trayte extraordinary ice cream parlor >???An and pop up research unit that journeys
The sharing of free ice cream will provide a large and varied audience the opportunity to consider and discuss the legacy of Jersey milk and its reputation throughout the world.
across the island to showcase and share a limited edition of far-flung flavours.
Jersey Dairy, Normans Ltd >andPartners: the Royal Jersey Agricultural and
In collaboration with local dairies, Jonathan Trayte will engineer ice cream that maps the sales of Jersey Milk to destinations around the world, such as Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan or Spain. Think black sesame and red bean, sake and cherry blossom, Seville marmalade and caramalised creams.
Horticultural Society. Invite The Global Milk Map to your >office on a hot summers day and give your colleagues the opportunity to enjoy some of the exciting flavours on offer.
> Funding required: 8000
The Jersey Genome Maria McKinney together with scientists and >???Working cattle breeders, Maria McKinney applies the intricate handcraft used to make corn dollies to create incredible sculptures made of semen straws, which are placed on the backs of bulls and cows to reveal a story of selection and optimisation. Maria’s internationally acclaimed work creates a bridge between cutting edge science and the wider public, to reflect on how the complex discipline of genomics is being applied to food production.
The result of Maria’s research will lead to a series of captivating sculptural works and images, a live event in St Helier and during the RJA&HS show and a range of public presentations, both in Jersey and beyond. Partners: Jersey Island Genetics, the >RJA&HS, the Jersey Cattle Society and local cattle farmers. Maria in her studio as she makes >herVisit sculptures and invite colleagues to take part in a workshop.
>???Funding required: 8000
Fairland collective / Grizedale Arts Fairland Collective and Grizedale >???The Arts will work with local residents to
The residency will be divided into four one week workshops that each explore a different material or resource. The final week explores the National Park as an exportable asset.
create a series of unique products that respond to local agricultural activity, export crops and the new National Park.
Genuine Jersey, Maison de >???Partners: Jersey, Jersey National Park.
Public presentations and a series of publications will mark and document each workshop, with a public meal concluding the residency. The working group will then continue developing their ideas, using the methodologies and skills that have been learnt.
a seat at the table for the dura>tionTakeof the project, collaborating with internationally acclaimed artists and designers. required: 12000 >???Funding ???Publications: 6000 >
Tick-Tock & the clock Harald van Breejen van Breejen’s work and the >???Harald situations he creates are humorous, memorable and intriguing, employing ‘conversation pieces’ to lubricate dialogue and reflection. In Jersey he proposes the use of a grandfather clock. This grandfather clock will travel with Harald onto boats and into barns, offices, packing sheds and fields. His encounters with local producers will explore how an individual’s thoughts, experiences and world views are affected by their working environment; being on land or on sea; the use of
machinery vs manual labour; working outdoors or inside. The residency ends with a presentation of these encounters and a limited edition publication. young people in Jersey as >???Support Harald leads a two day workshop on the creation and public implementation of conversation pieces. The Jersey Inshore Fisher>???Partners: mans Association, The Jersey Fishermans Association, Faulkner Fisheries, Jersey Farmers Union, Jersey Young Farmers Club.
>???Funding required: 5000
Alicja Rogalska Rogalska will work with the >???Alicja seasonal Polish workforce in Jersey, to explore issues of labour migration and intercultural exchange within the agriculture and aquaculture sectors. As an arts programme that aims to create work at the heart of the local community, The Morning Boat believes that it is important to recognise this often overlooked demographic as part of the social fabric and current economic viability of the island, to reflect on the way they are perceived, their work, social dynamics, challenges, concerns, thoughts and ideas.
Alicja Rogalska is an award winning artist who has developed work for respected institutions throughout the world. Alicja’s practice is both deeply poetic and decisively political, creating space for a variety of voices to be heard and to coexist, whilst collectively searching for emancipatory ideas for the future. Alicja grew up on a small farm in North-East Poland. Partners: The Polish Cultural >???Project Center, Polonici, aquaculture farmers, The Jersey Royal Company, local seasonal workers.
>???Funding required: 4000
The Knot / Noeud Trevor Pitt
tional lobster pot is an intricate construction of knotted rope and yarn.
knot is one the foundations of >???The the way we physically construct our
Trevor Pitt would be led by a curiosity towards the historical, social and physical role of knots in Jersey life – in language, culture, fishing and sailing.
environment. It is particular important to fishing and sailing. The first mention of fishing in the Channel Islands appears in 1195 and for centuries, locally caught fish and shellfish were a mainstay of the local economy. Knots were the basis for knitting the jumpers that fishermen wore to protect them against the elements and to create the famous ‘Jersey’ fabric that was exported from the middle ages to France and beyond, while the tradi-
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???Partners: Jersey Heritage, The Jersey Inshore Fishermans Association, The Jersey Fishermans Association. Invite colleagues to a knitting and >knotting workshop.
>???Funding required: 5000
The FORMER FARMHOUSE ROWAN O’NEILL number of active farms in Jersey >???The has fallen from over 1000 to under 100 in a relatively short space of time. Many former farmhouses have been redeveloped and sold as expensive real estate. Rowan will discuss this demographic, cultural and economic shift with inhabitants of former dairy farmhouses and dairy farmers that choose to sell their farm. This research will lead to the formation of a community choir and a public performance.
>???Funding required: 6000
I was bought up on a dairy farm in West Wales. Unusually for the area in which we lived the cattle we farmed were Jerseys. In 1989 we were forced to sell the family farm due to the external pressures of milk quotas. I was 12 at the time. My Mum found work at a local theatre and I swapped my ambitions to join the young farmers club to joining a thriving youth theatre. I never got to follow in my father’s footsteps and become a Jersey farmer and though I have continued to forge a career in art and performance, these days I notice that I am drawn to the dwelling places that exist at the end of lanes that remind me of the environment in which I was raised, where bread was baked, contractors fed and milk separated. And yet at the end of these farm lanes now you are as likely to find some kind of retreat centre, an artisan workshop or luxury b&b as a working family farm.
The Japanese Knotweed Orchestra
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???Japanese Knotweed is an aggressive invasive alien plant that has taken root in Jersey. In Asia and Eastern Europe it is used to feed livestock. It can also be used to make a flute. Hungarian artists Ágnes, Kristóf, Kitti and Bence will host a series of workshops with community and school groups, to build instruments using plants that are abundant but not native to the island, while considering how aspects of our cultural heritage are conserved in the story of imported plants. These Instruments will then be
used at a public concert, accompanying a new choral work that responds to a common theme within local folk music; that of leaving home, expatriation or exile, as found in both ‘Beautiful Jersey’ and ‘Ma Normandie’. Jersey Heritage, L'Office du >???Partners: Jèrriais/Department of Education, the National Park, the National Trust, Société Jersiaise and local schools. Host an instrument making work>shop. Learn new skills, while removing invasive plants!
>???Funding required: 5000
Maurice Meewisse Meewisse aims to explore >???Maurice the use of tools in agriculture, aquaculture and fishing, the industrial context in Jersey and the role of manual labour within the farming industry. This research will result in Maurice setting himself a series of public ‘tasks’ that reflect on the state of physical work today. t.b.c., but likely to involve >hardSpecials manual labour! Expect an unforgettable team building exercise.
>???Funding required: 5500
Maurice Meewisse investigates how art can contribute to positive change and community cohesion. In Taiwan, Maurice repaired a series of fishing huts, in close dialogue with the fishermen who own the huts, acknowledging the importance of these huts as frames for the fragile fishing industry in the area. Using recycled materials he built an additional hut that came to function as a coffee shack. In Belgium, Maurice visited three shrinking villages and collected wood donated from the local inhabitants on a small cart that was pulled from house to house. At the end of each stay he built a large communal bonfire and served homemade aquavit infused with the flavours of the local area. Maurice Meewisse’s work addresses issues that are relevant to the local context, but with a global perspective on thematics such as depopulation and sustainability.
TIMOTHY MURRAY ManagEMANT, species, empathy
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???Anthropologists claim that managerial practice in human societies originated with the domestication of animals, specifically the herding of sheep, goats, horses and cattle. Timothy Murray explores contemporary management strategy and the emergence of an ‘era of empathy’ with a training and reflection programme that brings together some of Jersey’s top managers, local shepherds and a flock of Manx Loaghtan sheep on the northern coast of Jersey.
The seminar includes immersive observation of sheep, skill sharing, empathy training and choreographic exercises in sheep/human biorhythms. A series of public talks accompany the project, exploring the interspecies history of management and the management of finance, sheep and land in Jersey. Aaron Le Couteur, National >???Partners: Trust Jersey, Jersey National Park The perfect choice for the manage>ment team! A training weekend with a difference.
>???Funding required: 6500
Reaching out Additional activities The morning boat newspaper
The JErsey Royal Potato Radio Network
Allow us to produce a publication that shares our achievements with a large audience in Jersey. Be presented as a sponsor of the newspaper and feature in an editorial.
Everybody in the potato netrork is provided with a potato radio set, to receive a regular broadcast at tea time that acts as a conversation starter around the table.
Funding required: 4500
Funding required: 3500
The morning boat Parish BANNERs
earth wind water Community meals
Be associated with a series of large banners located in prime locations across the island, working in partnership with local farmers, organisations and landowners.
Three community meals and discussions that help us define the direction of our programme, accompanied by presentations exploring the role of the arts within the rural economy.
Funding required: 2500
Funding required: 10000
The morning boat Documentary films
School visits
The morning boat hopes to work with local film makers to document our activities in a series of short films that will be shared with the wider community. Funding required: 2000/project
Help us provide young people in Jersey with the opportunity to engage with the programme in a series of artist led workshops across the island. Funding required: 1000/project
The Genuine Jersey Products Association exists to facilitate the success of local producers of goods that are made, grown, caught and reared in the island and we feel this project will help both visitors and residents think about local producers and products in a creative way. John Garton, Genuine Jersey
We welcome an initiative that aims to generate debate on farming and fishing practices in Jersey, connecting the general public with the countryside, marine environment and rural economy. We look forward to further engaging with the project by supporting and collaborating with visiting artists as they conduct research and develop their work in Jersey. Daniel Houseago, Department of Economic Development
Jersey Heritage is fully supportive of any project that uses the arts and heritage environment to inspire collaboration and mutual understanding. ... With the unique potential that this represents to inspire new ideas and ventures, we hope that other organisations supporting the arts, community and business sectors will come together to launch The Morning Boat. Jeremy Swetenham, Jersey Heritage
School visit, Seed Journey, April 2017
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