Société Jersiaise’s Spring Lunchtime talk with the Vraiqu’sie Collective.
This lunchtime lecture introduces Vraiqu’sie, a collaborative arts project by six artists and produced by The Moving Arts Collective, exploring Jersey’s seaweed heritage and the traditional practice of vraicking. Members of the collective will discuss the project’s research, development, and creation of new artworks.
The lecture will include a screening of a 15-minute poetic film created as part of the project, which follows a procession of vraiqu’rêsses (female seaweed gatherers) along historic vraicking paths. Their labour transforms into a ritual honouring the relationship between land and sea, accompanied by a newly composed soundtrack of Jèrriais songs offering a meditative reflection on community, creativity, memory, and ecological connection. A Q&A with the artists will follow.
The project was created by six artists: Karen Le Roy Harris, Natasha Dettman, Margarida Lourenco-Olivier, Esther Rose Parkes, Kerry-Jane Warner, and Blessed Ndlovu.
Vraiqu’sie has been made possible through the support of the Barreau Art Scholarship award from Société Jersiaise, Jersey Heritage, Aspiring Jersey Island Geopark, Jersey Community Foundation with funds from the Channel Islands Lottery and the Government of Jersey - Creative Island Partnership.
