Society of Cocktails returns to Jersey in November - and first wave tickets are on sale
Secret location in St Helier to be announced.
Friday 21 to Sunday 30 November 2025
A tasting menu of borrowed moments…
Maybe you were there last year, sipping impossible cocktails, watching the shifting rooms, drinking your way through a story. Or maybe you are yet to step inside. Either way, the Memory Bar by Society of Cocktails experience is waiting to unfold.
Over 90 minutes, you’re invited to sip your way through original cocktail creations designed not just to taste extraordinary, but to transport you somewhere else entirely. With each specially curated drink the space around you transforms, transporting you to places both unfamiliar yet strangely yours.
“Like nothing we have ever experienced, or tasted before. Like stepping into a story with each sip.”
This is more than a bar. It’s a shifting archive of the funny, tender and surprising moments of community, served with high-concept drinks, elaborate garnishes, nostalgic glassware, small games, and just enough rule-breaking to keep you on your toes. The world outside will wait. Inside Memory Bar, you’ll be drinking inside a story.
Tickets include:
* A unique location (in central St Helier)
* Welcome drink
* Three handcrafted cocktail creations
* Multi-sensory set design of light, sound & scent
* Interactive storytelling woven into every glass
“Fast becoming an annual tradition for us - always different and always memorable - but get your tickets quick.”
BOOKING INFORMATION
Memory Bar takes place in a unique location in St Hellier (to be announced soon), with a very limited capacity. You book by table size for a specific chosen time slot. The run starts on Friday 21 November and ends on Sunday 30 November.
Tickets available for groups of 2, 4, 6 or 8. On second release, we will include social tables so you can book individually and make some new friends by sharing the experience. Looking for group booking? Please contact us via info@arts.je (advance booking advised, as tables are sold on a first come first served basis).
Booking a table for 8? Pay for 7 and the organiser’s ticket is on us!
Memory Collection
Memories to be collected in 20 minute slots next Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September 2025. Town centre venue TBC.
For Memory Bar ‘25 we’re asking you to share a little bit of who you are. Lead artist Thomas Buckley has been collecting memories for the last 6 years, inspired by moments of humanity, often finding the everyday to be totally magical when explored enough.
You’re invited to lend us a memory, to be explored and interpreted and transformed into a unique cocktail for public enjoyment as part of Memory Bar this November.
In 20 minute slots, you’ll be able to sit down with Thomas and either share a story that’s precious and meaningful to you, or just chat together about where you’ve been and what you’ve seen and what it might be like to share that.
This might be the story of that trip you took, the allotment you spend your mornings at, your first kiss, the bus journey to the hospital. That time you ate ice cream in the rain and laughed. Big or small, all memories are gratefully borrowed.
Although not every memory shared can be used in the final artwork we’ll keep in touch each step and let you know if yours is worked into something drinkable.
In recording the memories we will:
-take your photo
-record a video
-record your voice
-take photos of any objects you bring
The experience will just feel like a chat.
