They include a full day of celebrations including a Jubilee food fair with children’s activities, live entertainment and street performers, a motor cavalcade, a race meeting at Les Landes, and a spectacular fireworks display.
Other events include a photographic exhibition of the Queen’s previous six visits and the lighting of a special beacon.
In the States this morning, the Bailiff, Michael Birt, announced the first details of the official programme.
‘I very much hope that Islanders will feel able to fully support and participate in the programme of events, most of which will be free of charge, and enjoy the extended period of celebration, so that as a Crown Dependency, the Island can celebrate this historic occasion and re-affirm its loyalty to the Crown through its affection for the Queen,’ he said.
The main official celebrations for Islanders are due to be held on the Bank Holiday Monday, 4 June, when events will take place from 10.30 am until around 11 pm.
That day’s programme will start with an Island Thanksgiving Service at the Town Church led by the Dean, the Very Rev Bob Key.
At 2.30 pm, there will be a cavalcade of vintage and classic cars dating back to Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
Organised by the Jersey Old Motor Club, this event is likely to include vehicles from other clubs – possibly some which are horse-drawn.
The cavalcade will start in La Motte Street, and if permission is obtained, travel through Queen Street and King Street, down Gloucester Street and to the People’s Park, where a static display will be set up.
That afternoon, the Jersey Race Club is due to hold a Jubilee Race Meeting at Les Landes.
At around 4.30 pm, a Jubilee Food Festival will open at Jardins de la Mer featuring a wide range of culinary stalls, including a number offering Genuine Jersey produce.
Throughout this event, which is likely to include some children’s activities, there will be live entertainment with musicians and street performers.
A big screen will be set up on this site showing archive footage of some of the Queen’s previous visits to Jersey, as well as live coverage of the Jubilee Concert which will be taking place that evening at Fort Regent.
The concert will feature a wide range of military band, orchestral, choral and contemporary music.
At the end of the concert, the Bailiff will step onto the ramparts of Fort Regent to set off the lighting of the Island’s Jubilee Beacon which will be at Elizabeth Castle.
The beacon, which will be seen from Noirmont to Green Island, is being built by members of the Jersey Field Squadron and the Transport and Technical Services department.
A spectacular fireworks display will be fired from Elizabeth Castle at around 10.30 pm to mark the end of this major day of celebrations.
A Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, which is being supported by the Jersey Evening Post, will open at the Berni Gallery at the Jersey Arts Centre on Tuesday 12 June.
The exhibition will feature photographs from the JEP’s archives of the six visits which the Queen made to the Island between June 1949 when she was Princess Elizabeth and May 2005 for the celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Liberation.
The exhibition will also feature paintings, some of which are rarely seen in public, which were commissioned to mark some of the Queen’s visits to the Island.
Sunday 3 June is being earmarked for the parishes to hold their own events to mark the Jubilee.
