Wartime stories brought to life on stage
Carisbrooke Castle, on the Isle of Wight, has been awarded £40,000 of funding from an Arts Council National Lottery Project to bring voices from history archives to life through contemporary theatre. Known as the ‘Unlocking Collections’ fund, this injection of money gives museums the opportunity to increase public engagement and share Island voices. Prior to […]
Meet The Team – Claire Paul
Written by Amy Hall. If you live on the Isle of Wight, by now you may have come across or even befriended members of the Creative Island team. If you’ve not had to chance to meet the wonderful little team of passionate people that bring Creative Island to life, then get to know them in […]
Gemma’s Story: The ‘CAN YOU HEAR US?’ Leadership Programme
When I applied for this programme, I had somehow found myself in a leadership role at New Carnival (more by accident than design). My previous career as a primary school teacher gave me plenty of transferable skills, and there were many aspects of the role I felt confident with, but the concept of being a […]
How the Ryde Flower Trail Helped Island CraftWorks Take Root
This article has been written & submitted by Gabby from Island CraftWorks. Thank you Gabby! Island CraftWorks offers welcoming, beginner-friendly creative experiences and uses craft to strengthen community connections. Inspired by Ryde Carnival’s Spot the Difference competition and the Ryde Art Trail, I wondered whether a community art trail could encourage people to explore Ryde […]
Join us for the next IW Museums Forum
You may be aware that there is an Island museum forum that have been meeting twice a year as a means of sharing intelligence, supporting each other and identifying shared ambitions. These meetings benefit from the advice and support of an officer from Museum Development and, sometimes, Arts Council of England. Over recent months we […]
Brevity Collective Reveals Mercurial Carnival
By Anmarie Bowler, Brevity Editor & Founder Prompt. To make something happen. Writing prompts are needles that pierce a storyteller’s consciousness. But they’re often slapdash and dull. Lacking a point, prompts sometimes hardly scratch the surface. To create the Sept/Oct Brevity anew for the CAN YOU HEAR US? cultural celebration I invited a selection of […]
“The Island has made my creative career”
April 2026, we reached out to Liz Cooke after I (Sam, hello reader) have spent the last few years at the Isle of Wight Festival looking up at the colourful flags waving back at me. “We’d love some flags to dress the space for our CAN YOU HEAR US? celebrations. Your usual minimum order is […]
Meet The Team – Sam Cattee
Written by Amy Hall. If you live on the Isle of Wight, by now you may have come across or even befriended members of the Creative Island team. If you’ve not had to chance to meet the wonderful little team of passionate people that bring Creative Island to life, then get to know them in […]
National Saturday Club’s call-out for cultural organisations
Creative Island and the National Saturday Club are inviting potential delivery partners and venues to help create six accessible, Island-wide Saturday Clubs for young people on the Isle of Wight. Join the Isle of Wight National Saturday Club Consortium as a provider or venue. The National Saturday Club programme already supports thousands of 13-16 year […]
And we are LIVE, coming to you from Vectis Radio
Vectis Radio is a multi award winning community radio station broadcasting on FM104.6 DAB, Online and on Hospedia Channel 5, and is built on a simple belief: everyone deserves to have a voice and a place where they can be heard. From its beginnings at Quay Arts on the Isle of Wight back in January […]