Gypsy Jazz Main Event | Cat Skellington
The Ryde Gypsy Jazz Festival is a celebration of gypsy jazz music, bringing world-class musicians and Island performers together in Ryde for performances, workshops and free public events from the 7th to 10th October. Join Cat Skellington, made up of Richard White, Hugo Boswell, Steve Thompson and Jon Thorne. In addition to the main ticketed […]
An Introduction to Gypsy Jazz by JC Grimshaw
The Ryde Gypsy Jazz Festival is a celebration of gypsy jazz music, bringing world-class musicians and Island performers together in Ryde for performances, workshops and free public events from the 7th to 10th October. In addition to the main ticketed Ryde Gypsy Jazz Programme, Monkton Arts will be organising free busking events around Ryde and […]
Gypsy Jazz Performance | The Panama Picnic Orchestra
The Ryde Gypsy Jazz Festival is a celebration of gypsy jazz music, bringing world-class musicians and Island performers together in Ryde for performances, workshops and free public events from the 7th to 10th October. In addition to the main ticketed Ryde Gypsy Jazz Programme, Monkton Arts will be organising free busking events around Ryde and […]
CAN YOU HEAR US? Opening Ceremony
CAN YOU HEAR US? opens at the newly launched Ventnor Exchange Arena with a big night of live music, performance and entertainment. Sol Grimshaw and a live brass band will bring soul, jazz and the feel of a New Orleans street party into the Arena. Around them, there’ll be cabaret, close-up magic, puppetry and live […]
Boom Circus: BERT
Join us in the Arena, our Big Top tent, for a hilarious family circus show for all ages this October Half Term. Immerse yourself in a world filled with breathtaking acrobatics and aerial stunts in Boom Circus’ comical story of trouble, triumph and maybe true love… Their cast of circus artistes is a cast like […]
Boom Circus: BERT
Join us in the Arena, our Big Top tent, for a hilarious family circus show for all ages this October Half Term. Immerse yourself in a world filled with breathtaking acrobatics and aerial stunts in Boom Circus’ comical story of trouble, triumph and maybe true love… Their cast of circus artistes is a cast like […]
Boom Circus: BERT
Join us in the Arena, our Big Top tent, for a hilarious family circus show for all ages this October Half Term. Immerse yourself in a world filled with breathtaking acrobatics and aerial stunts in Boom Circus’ comical story of trouble, triumph and maybe true love… Their cast of circus artistes is a cast like […]
Freshwater Five
First performed in Ventnor Exchange in 2021 we are excited to welcome back The Freshwater Five for one night only. In 2011, five fishermen on the Isle of Wight (Jamie Green, Jon Beere, Daniel Payne, Scott Birtwistle and Zoran Dresic) were sentenced to a total of 104 years for conspiracy to import £53m worth of […]
The Woman Who Tamed Lightning
The untold story of a trailblazer and a summer of sisterhood, sanctuary and stardust. In the summer of 1912, fourteen-year-old Irene Curie arrives on the Isle of Wight with her mother and Hertha Ayrton, her mother’s strange, brilliant friend. She doesn’t yet know that Hertha has spent her life outsmarting a world that doubted her. […]
The Woman Who Tamed Lightning
The untold story of a trailblazer and a summer of sisterhood, sanctuary and stardust. In the summer of 1912, fourteen-year-old Irene Curie arrives on the Isle of Wight with her mother and Hertha Ayrton, her mother’s strange, brilliant friend. She doesn’t yet know that Hertha has spent her life outsmarting a world that doubted her. […]