The Channel Islands’ longest-running music and arts festival will take place in August for the 42nd year.
As the fair is an independently-funded event, the ‘Art-strument’ exhibition at Space 10 will be one of several fundraisers this year to help with the general running costs on the day.
There will be an open day, at Space 10 in the Inner Market, on Wednesday between 5.30pm-7pm.
Vale Earth Fair Collective member Rob Roussel said it was a way to bring the arts into the early planning stages of the festival.
‘We want to raise as much money as we can. Anyone can take an instrument and it’s an open brief as to what they do with it,’ he said.
There are over 100 instruments and pieces of equipment which have been made available for people to take home and decorate, including two electric organs, two mixing desks, three djembes and over 25 recorders for smaller projects.
‘Some are playable and some aren’t, the primary aim is for them to go on display. We’re quite happy for anyone to have a go, the intention is to create something that will be of value.
‘You can do what you like, take a chainsaw to them if you want, we’ve spoken to one person who wants to put some metalwork onto a guitar for example. I think it’s a fascinating project and something a bit different too,’ he said.
The completed instruments will go on sale at Space 10 in the first week of August.
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