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BBC News
20-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Portrait project to celebrate over 60s on the Isle of Man
The faces of 60 Manx people over the age of 60 are set to be captured in an art project to celebrate how "getting old is a privilege and every wrinkle is a gift".The Isle Be Creative project, run by Debra Tracey, aims to celebrate residents who have contributed to island life or made a difference further afield, into their later the Isle of Man Arts Council's extraordinary events fund, a range of artists and community groups will create 60 portraits set to be displayed in Tracey said "sometimes the older you get the more invisible you become. We want to shine a spotlight on those people who haven't been championed before". The artist, who is coordinating the 60 Over 60 Faces of Mann project which was awarded £15,000 from the fund, will also create six glass other artists will be given a small fee to produce further images, and the rest will be completed by schools, care homes and community Tracey said while the people in the portraits were to be over the age of 60, she wanted it to be an "inclusive project" which saw young people working with older people to "open up a dialogue and share wonderful stories". 'Quietly brilliant' The artist said the project would bring people who were "quietly brilliant into the spotlight"."We need to know their stories," she Tracey is calling on residents to nominate people to feature in the exhibition, whether they are alive or are figures from the past, by 30 Isle of Man Arts Council's £100,000 fund, launched to mark its 60th anniversary in 2025, was designed to support innovation by the creation and development of new "audience-centred" events. Read more stories from the Isle of Man on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and X.
Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Moon sculpture illuminates western cathedral
An exhibition featuring a giant illuminated sculpture of the Moon has gone on display in a Manx cathedral for the first time. The Museum of the Moon artwork by Luke Jerram, which is 20ft (6m) in diameter, has been installed at the recently refurbished Cathedral Isle of Man in Peel. Supported by the Isle of Man Arts Council, the artwork will be on show until 2 March. The installation, which uses detailed NASA imagery, has also been accompanied by a soundtrack composed by award-winning composer Dan Jones. It follows a similar exhibition of another of Jerram's works, Gaia, at St Thomas' Church in Douglas last year, which was visited by 13,000 people. The Museum of the Moon exhibition has toured the world and has been displayed in woods and above swimming pools as well as at other Cathedrals. At an approximate scale of 1:600,000, each centimetre of the artwork represents 3.7 miles (6km) of the actual moon's surface. A range of "lunar-inspired events for all" have been planned to coincide with the exhibition at the cathedral, including choral performances and Pilates under the artwork. Rosemary Clarke, who is a lay preacher at Cathedral Isle of Man, said early visitors had been "wowed" by the display after walking into the space, and had spent time learning about the Moon and its surface. She said she had also enjoyed speaking to children on school trips about potential careers in the space industry , but "for most of us this will be the closest we'll ever get to the Moon". Ms Clarke said she hoped it would encourage new visitors to the cathedral and those who do attended would "take away a sense of awe and thinking of things that are beyond our normal life". It had also been a "pleasure" to see the potential "for all kinds of events" to be held in the building, which "is now for everybody" following recent extensive refurbishment works, she added. Why not follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and X? You can also send story ideas to IsleofMan@ Moon installation to visit refurbished cathedral Giant globe exhibit attracts 13,000 Manx visitors Hundreds sign names for cathedral time capsule Museum of the Moon Cathedral Isle of Man
