Independent Arts
An Isle of Wight charity using the arts to improve wellbeing, quality of life and to reduce social isolation. Working with all ages in the community and schools.
Monkton Arts
Monkton Arts is a family run, community-based cafe and arts centre in Ryde. They have a commercial gallery, a children’s gallery and working studios. They work on community projects and host many musical events.
Artswork
Apprenticeships, Arts Award, Creative Enterprise Artswork is a charity that empowers young people through creativity, so they can build a better future – for themselves and others. They run programmes and projects that pave the way for work in the creative, cultural and heritage sectors. They give young people the means to make an impact […]
Horse Box Theatre
Joe Plumb founded the Horse Box Theatre Company in 2018 with an aim to create a proudly nomadic theatre group that creates new and exciting work on their converted horse box theatre and ‘off the box’ at a whole variety of performance spaces.
Boojum & Snark
Boojum&Snark is an innovative regeneration space on Sandown High Street that features a gallery, subculture events and community projects. They focus on exhibitions and placemaking projects that resonate with the town’s cultural heritage, as well as SubculturecluB events.
Brevity
Brevity is a 6-times yearly, literary handbill that launched in October 2019. Writer and founder of Brevity, Anmarie Bowler describes, “a full-scale glossy magazine is more than I can manage. But a handbill – an elegantly folded piece of paper featuring compelling stories from Islanders, for Islanders, is perfectly sized in terms of shape and ambition.” Brevity is printed at Boojum&Snark.
Shademakers
Shademakers create and work with ‘Dancing Sculptures’ to conceive, conduct and curate project work to provide spectacular shows. They also offer training and support in a variety of areas related to carnival arts.
Deadman Theatre
Deadman was founded with a deep desire to challenge the status quo. Not wanting to see the same old same old, an overwhelming need to see new, exciting, representative work for its own sake. Work that supports and represents underrepresented artists and communities.
Quay Arts
The Quay Arts offer a wide programme of art and performance in their gallery and theatre spaces and work with schools and the community offering workshops and experiences.
Isle of Wight Music Hub
Isle of Wight Music Hub is putting music at the heart of vibrant school and Island communities. The hub is building a strong partnership of schools and cultural organisations, ensuring that every child has the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.