Events

PICTURE GALLERY: The forecast heavy rain was no where to be seen this afternoon (Saturday) as the second Mardi Gras parade brought sunshine to the streets of Ryde. Thousands of spectators took to the streets as the Brazil themed carnival...

The Ryde Art Collective (TRAC) is exhibiting at Quarr Abbey on the outskirts of Ryde next month. The Exhibition opens at 10:30 on Thursday 10th July and continues until Tuesday 15th July 2014. Ten members of The Collective have produced...

There’s another great weekend of music ahead at Ventnor Arts Club and the good weather is set to stick around. Last week French Band ‘Jane for Tea’ left Ventnor delighted, amazed and, especially for those that couldn’t get tickets for...

Islanders are being encouraged to forget the football, turn off the telly and head down to this weekend's annual Mardi Gras event in Ryde. The event, which takes place on Saturday (28th), will allow tourists and local residents to experience...

The 14th annual Children’s Memorial Service takes place on Sunday (29th June) and all are welcome. This year’s service features local band ‘ASAPH’ whose lead singer-songwriter is one of the Nurses from the Children’s Ward at St Mary’s.  One of...

The Red Funnel Cowes Food Show takes place this Saturday and Sunday in Cowes Yacht Haven as part of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race Regatta Village. The show is packed full of local producers from garlic...

A unique event that requires pedal power to watch a movie is returning to the Island - and votes are needed to choose which film will be shown. The outdoor 'cycling cinema' will again be part of the popular Isle of Wight...

Photographer Simon Roberts has spent the last three years photographing Britain’s last remaining Pleasure Piers, creating an architectural and ethnographical study of our coast and of British society. Culminating in a comprehensive and fascinating photographic record of these monuments of...

For this year’s Festival of the Sea and Round the Island race weekend, Ventnor Arts Club sailed across La Manche and signed up Jane for Tea for concerts on three consecutive nights between 19th -21st June. They first heard Jane for...

The Isle of Wight Film Festival is currently scrutinising film entries, received from all over the world, for its 2014 episode, to be held in August alongside Ventnor Fringe. To whet our appetites for what’s to come the IOWFF team is...