On Air Afternoon Holiday Music Paul Corkish | 2:00pm - 6:00pm

2018 Year of Our Island

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Just before Christmas, the Sovereign Art Foundation presented the Isle of Man’s First Student Art Awards. The initiative originated in Hong Kong and aims to celebrate the work of local artists while raising funds for the Sovereign Group’s philanthropic projects in Asia. With thousands of pounds in prizes for finalists and their schools, and promotion of the students’ artwork around the world, could this be a new formula for boosting the arts economy on the Island? We asked Chief Minister Howard Quayle his thoughts.

 

Georgia

 

 

Alice

 

 

Ella

 

And there’ll be more about the Sovereign Art Foundation’s Student Art Award coming soon as the Foundation prepares for the 2018 awards!

 

 

 

We’re at Noa Bakehouse next this evening, where we were among the first to find out what’s in store for 2018: Year of Our Island! I spoke to Geoff Corkish, Daphne Cain, Jane Jelski and Emma Callin about what this year is all about:

 

 

More information about what’s on and how to put forward an application to run your own project or event, go to ourisland.im .

 

Thank you for joining me this evening, I’ll be back next Wednesday at 5:30 and in the meantime you can listen again at manxradio.com or download the Spotlight podcast on iTunes. Have a lovely, creative week!