Jessica will share insights about her showjumping career and answer questions from the floor. There is great interest in the event and already tickets are selling fast.
For such a successful athlete, who has twice represented Ireland at the Olympic games, to give up her time to do this, is incredibly generous, and it is thanks to her happy memories of hunting with the Mid-Antrim Hunt that she has agreed to fit it in to her packed schedule and fly over especially for the occasion.
Jessica was born at Ardvernis near Cullybackey on 24th November 1969 to George and Rosemary Chesney. Her father was a well known dentist in Ballymena and her mother a very attractive young artist who came to work at Cambridge House School as an art teacher.
The family was always deeply interested in horses, with George breeding racehorses and Rosemary mainly involved with the family ponies.
As a family they were stalwart members of the hunt with George on a succession of highly-strung thoroughbreds, Rosemary on one of her grey Arabs and the children on an assortment of ponies.
As a child it was obvious that Jessica was exceptionally talented and rode beautifully from an early age. Maybe the fact that her mother came out hunting while she was expecting Jessica instilled a love of jumping into Jessica's bones! Jessica certainly inherited her mother's striking good looks and until her death Rosemary was a great supporter of her daughter's career.
Jessica started competing when she was very young and took part in her first lead rein competition at the tender age of four. She won several national pony championships and went on to become Junior Irish Champion. After studying for a horse science degree she decided to make it her full time career and in her early twenties had a run of success with the Irish bred horse Diamond's Exchange.
This horse, a grandson of King of Diamonds, took her to eighth place at the Atlanta Olympic Games and the World Championships at The Hague.
In Dublin Jessica met her husband Eckard Kurten who manages her career and they married in 1994. They now live at Chesney's Farm, named after Jessica's family, in the German Rhineland.
Jessica has had consistent success with several horses including Paavo N which took her to the Nations Cup in 2000, Galopin du Biolay on which she won the prestigious British Open Showjumping title at the NEC in Birmingham and Quibell who proved a very talented horse but has recently retired.
Her association with Lady Georgina Forbes has brought many rewards with the horse Castle Forbes Maike taking her to 18th individual place at the Athens Olympics in 2004, but it is with the exceptionally talented Castle Forbes Libertina that she has most captured the public's imagination.
The mare was injured last spring but thankfully made a full recovery and came back to win the Rolex World Cup Qualifier last month for an impressive third time in a row, taking Jessica to second place in the Rolex World Cup Western European League standings.
Indeed Jessica has had an amazing start to 2010 with victories for Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois, Castle Forbes Cosma and Mirabel D'Anvray in Zurich and Leipzig.
Jessica has become such a celebrity that her appearances have not just been confined to the show ring but also to the TV screen. She appeared as a judge on the BBC's "Only Fools on Horses" in 2006 and in 2007 was involved with the RTE series, "Diarmuid's Pony Kids", in which she coached gipsy children who were being trained to jump at Dublin Horse Show.
Unfortunately Jessica is now too valuable an athlete to be allowed to hunt with the Mid-Antrims, although a few years ago she came out and gave the members a perfect demonstration on how to jump a gate.
As an added bonus the up-and-coming young showjumper Conor Drain will also be a guest. He has very kindly agreed to speak and share the stage with Jessica.
Conor who is from Antrim, has made a great start to what looks like being an exceptional career with many wins under his belt already. 2006 brought him the title of Young rider of the Year, 2007 the Young Riders Championship at Belfast International Horse Show, and 2009 the titles of Leading Young Rider at the Royal Dublin Horse Show and Leading Young Rider in the Guidam Grand Prix.
This is an evening not to be missed and tickets need to be booked in advance.
The evening will start promptly at 7pm and a fork supper is included in the price. Tickets are £20 and £10 for the under 10's. These can be obtained from Patsy on 0774895118 and Anne on 07730885227.