Events

Lower Hyde Holiday Park, Shanklin will be the venue for a fun evening raising funds for the Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CCAMHS).  Doors open at 19:00 next Saturday (4th March 2017) and there will be range of entertainment...

Newchurch Male Voice Choir start their 50th year anniversary with a St David's Day Concert at the Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary on Sunday 5th March. The concert programme will conclude with singing in Welsh of 2 traditional anthems, Gwahoddiad...

TRAC, the Ryde Art Collective, is holding its Spring 2017 Exhibition at Quarr Abbey next month. The name of this exhibition is ‘Water Marks’ and opens on Thursday 2nd March and continues until Tuesday 14th March 2017 inclusive. Artists have produced an...

Following on from the success of the inaugural event last year, The King Lud in Ryde are to once again host the 2-day February Folk Festival this coming weekend. In keeping with their commitment to celebrate as many music genres as possible,...

A number of well-known Island artists will be displaying work during an Open Exhibition being held at Earl Mountbatten Hospice’s Art Gallery during March. Artists taking part in the event are each entering 1 or more of their pieces, which...

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice, a unique opportunity is being offered to run through the grounds of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s beautiful estate of Osborne. To be held on Saturday 17th June 2017, participants can...

Ryde Town Councillor, Michael Lilley, is launching an awareness campaign on the real poverty and hardship many families and individuals are faced with in Ryde on a daily basis. On Shrove Tuesday (28th February), a national Big Pancake Day organised...

Happyness, Girl Ray, Her’s, Elder Island, Bad Sounds and Puma Blue are the first acts to be confirmed for the new-format Ventnor International Festival, which will showcase an array of emerging talent on Friday 11th August 2017. Created by the...

One of the Island’s most successful artists at the moment, RHAIN, will be performing a headline show at the beautiful St Catherine’s Church on Saturday 18th March. When she’s not performing with fellow Islanders Plastic Mermaids, RHAIN has been wowing...

A Battle of the Bands event, organised by an entrepreneurial group of Sixth Form students, is to take place at Sandown Bay Academy next month. As part of the Young Enterprise Scheme, a 9-strong group of 16 to 17-year-old Sixth Form students...