Out On An Island - The Coast Is Queer @ Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton
2022-10-07 - 2022-10-09 | Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Gardner Centre Road, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RA, United Kingdom
BRIGHTON & HOVE’S LGBTQ+
LITERATURE FESTIVAL
7-9 OCTOBER 2022
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
Out On An Island will be at The Coast Is Queer! Bringing together writers, performers, academics, activists and readers for a weekend of events, workshops, panel discussions and performances to celebrate queer lives and writing.
Presented by New Writing South and Marlborough Productions.
Find out the full line up and how to book tickets here!
Date: Friday 7 October – Sunday 9 October
Time: Variable
Location: Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
Price: Variable

Island Collection - We Are Island Cultural Conference @ Hullabaloo Festival Site, Sandown, Isle of Wight
2022-10-14 10:00 - 16:30 UTC | Brown’s Cafe and Golf Course, Yaverland Road, Sandown, Isle of Wight, PO36 8QA, United Kingdom
A conference celebrating culture, creativity, inspiration and prosperity on the Isle of Wight presented by The Island Collection. For everyone interested in community aspiration and regeneration on the Island.
Our exciting line-up of contributors includes:

Sarah Dance, Chair, Creative Estuary (keynote)
Simon Eden, Director, Southern Policy Centre
Julian Wadsworth, Community Resilience Coordinator and Youth Intervention Officer, Community Action Isle of Wight
Nia Collins, Director, Isle of Wight Music Hub
Richard Smout, Lead Officer, Isle of Wight Museums and Schools
Georgina Newman, Director, Isle of Wight Creative Network
Claire Looney and Tim Rusby, Chief Executive and Chair, Portsmouth Creates

Plus performances throughout the day by internationally renowned StoneCrabs Theatre Company, based on the Island.
Further information and programme will appear here as details are finalised, so watch this space!
Limited places – book your free tickets now via Eventbrite
An informal networking event will follow on after the conference closes, from 5 – 6.30pm. Delegates and other attendees are warmly invited to stay on for a friendly chat over a glass or two.
Book your free tickets for this networking event separately on Eventbrite
Date: Friday 14 October
Time: 10 am – 4.30 pm
Location: Hullabaloo Festival Site, Brown’s Cafe and Golf Course, Sandown, Isle of Wight
Price: Free

IW Cultural Education Partnership - Inspiring Young Lives Conference @ Osborne House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight
2022-10-21 10:00 - 16:30 | Osborne House
A conference exploring how cultural education can offer new ways of enriching and connecting curriculums for brighter futures and belonging. For everyone involved with education, children and young people on the Island.
Our programme for the day will include:

An exciting keynote speaker setting the scene for the day
Case study presentations about 4 great cultural education projects on the Island:

Creative Biosphere
Supporting Young Minds
Museums and Schools

A carousel of workshop activities exploring themes linked to wellbeing, brighter futures, creative curriculum, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Behind-the-scenes tour of Osborne House and education offer

Further information and programme TBC!
Limited places – book your free tickets now via Eventbrite
Date: Friday 21 October
Time: 10 am – 4.30 pm (tea/coffee available from 9.30 am)
Location: Education Centre, Osborne House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight
Price: Free

Out On An Island – An LGBT History Through Portraits (Launch Event) @ Omnibus Theatre, London
2023-02-03 19:00 - 22:00 | Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common Northside, London, London, SW4 0QW, United Kingdom
The Out On An Island exhibition arrives in London!
An exhibition launch event with short film, panel discussion and first viewing

We are delighted to announce that the Out On An Island exhibition will be in display at London Omnibus Theatre, Clapham from 3 Feb through to 3 March 2023.

There is also a special launch ticketed evening on 3 Feb at 7.30pm featuring live performances, short films and panel discussions, as well as the opportunity for exhibition first viewing.
Book your tickets here

In a collaborative effort among LGBTQ+ Island residents, Out on An Island signifies the first ever project dedicated to local LGBTQ+ oral history on the Isle of Wight. Created in remarkable circumstances, it celebrates a close-knit community surviving together in the face of exclusion, prejudice and misrepresentation. The result is an inspiring collection of interviews from LGBTQ+ people concerning their lives on the Island.
Each interviewee has been skillfully captured through photographic portraits by Jon Habens. Each portrait sought to capture a character snapshot of the interviewees in familiar settings, either at their homes or local areas. Each case was approached from the starting point of listening to the interview and trying to create an image sensitive to the mood and tone of those words.
Visitors can listen to these oral histories gaining a new perspective of what it was/is to be LGBTQ+ on the Isle of Wight, where expressions of non-normative sexualities and genders have always been present.
Out On An Island is a project produced by StoneCrabs Theatre with support of the National Heritage Lottery Fund. The project has researched and unearthed 100 years of LGBTQ+ history on the Isle of Wight. The research, alongside the oral histories, are available in book format published by Medina Books, available online and at all major bookshops.
Date: Friday 3rd February
Time: 7pm
Location: Omnibus Theatre, London
Price: Free

Out On An Island – An LGBT History Through Portraits (Exhibition) @ Omnibus Theatre, London
2023-02-04 10:00 - 2023-03-03 17:00 | Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common Northside, London, London, SW4 0QW, United Kingdom
The Out On An Island exhibition arrives in London!

We are delighted to announce that the Out On An Island exhibition will be in display at London Omnibus Theatre, Clapham from 3 Feb through to 3 March 2023.

In a collaborative effort among LGBTQ+ Island residents, Out on An Island signifies the first ever project dedicated to local LGBTQ+ oral history on the Isle of Wight. Created in remarkable circumstances, it celebrates a close-knit community surviving together in the face of exclusion, prejudice and misrepresentation. The result is an inspiring collection of interviews from LGBTQ+ people concerning their lives on the Island.
Each interviewee has been skillfully captured through photographic portraits by Jon Habens. Each portrait sought to capture a character snapshot of the interviewees in familiar settings, either at their homes or local areas. Each case was approached from the starting point of listening to the interview and trying to create an image sensitive to the mood and tone of those words.
Visitors can listen to these oral histories gaining a new perspective of what it was/is to be LGBTQ+ on the Isle of Wight, where expressions of non-normative sexualities and genders have always been present.
Out On An Island is a project produced by StoneCrabs Theatre with support of the National Heritage Lottery Fund. The project has researched and unearthed 100 years of LGBTQ+ history on the Isle of Wight. The research, alongside the oral histories, are available in book format published by Medina Books, available online and at all major bookshops.
Date: Friday 3rd February – Friday 3rd March
Time: 10am – 5pm
Location: Omnibus Theatre, London
Price: Free

Rainbow Island & Staying Afloat - LGBTQ+ Meet Up @ Monkton Arts, Ryde, Isle of Wight
2023-02-04 10:30 - 13:30 | Monkton Arts, 11 East Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 1JP, United Kingdom
A relaxed social over tea or coffee, with a chance of participating on a laughter yoga session. If you have any queries, please contact Caroline at caroline@stonecrabs.co.uk.
Date: Saturday 4 February
Time: 10.30 am
Location: Monkton Arts, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Price: Free

Out On An Island - Online Meeting for Friends and Volunteers @ Online via Zoom
2023-02-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Online via Zoom
Out On An Island will be holding an online meeting for friends and volunteers on Thursday 9 February at 7pm. We will be talking about what is new for 2023, moving forward, ways to engage and contribute, our LGBT social calendar and more. Everyone is welcome!
Get in touch with us at caroline@stonecrabs.co.uk for the Zoom link.
Date: Thursday 9 February
Time: 7pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Price: Free

Out On An Island & Bendy Book Club – Coffee Social & Book Club @ One Holyrood, Newport, Isle of Wight
2023-02-25 10:45 - 13:30 | One Holyrood, 1 - 4 Holyrood Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5AU, United Kingdom
Out On An Island’s Coffee Social and Bendy Book Club will be meeting at One Holyrood in Newport from 10.45am on 25th February.
It’s a relaxed social meeting, so you can come along even if you haven’t read the book but would like to socialise and meet friendly folk.
The coffee social with breakfast or drinks will be taking place in the café from 10.45am. The book club will be meeting in the lounge from 11.45am.
Note: One Holyrood stop serving breakfast at 11.30am.
Please let us know if you can’t make it and if you have suggestions or any other queries, please contact Caroline at caroline@stonecrabs.co.uk / 07786 080203.
February’s book is This Much Is True by Miriam Margolyes. You can also join the Bendy Book Club Facebook group to stay up to date.

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury’s Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes, OBE, is the nation’s favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story – and it’s well worth the wait.
Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had; how she ended up posing nude for Augustus John as a teenager; why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she’s ever had; and what happened next after Warren Beatty asked ‘Do you fuck?’
From declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave to being told to be quiet by the Queen, this book is packed with brilliant, hilarious stories. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its inimitable author.

Date: Saturday 25 February
Time: 10.45 am
Location: One Holyrood, Newport, Isle of Wight
Price: Free
February’s Book Selection: This Much Is True by Miriam Margolyes

Out On An Island volunteer updates @ Online via Zoom
2023-05-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom
This is an opportunity for members, friends, and allies of the LGBTQ+ community to find out all about the next phase of StoneCrabs’ Out On Island and how they can get involved with future events, research, oral history training, etc.

We’ll be meeting online on Tuesday 16th May at 7pm. Get in touch with us at caroline@stonecrabs.co.uk for the Zoom link.

Date: Tuesday 16 May
Time: 7pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Price: Free
If you cant make it on Tuesday, 16th May, you can also come along on Saturday 13th May (Monkton Arts, 12.30pm)

Queer & Now
2023-06-16 18:30 - 23:00 | Snacks and ladders, 69-70 St James Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1LQ, United Kingdom
Queer & Now is back at Snacks and Ladders
Friday 16 June from 6.30pm
Great music, cool vibes and beautiful company.

Pride (LGBTQ+ History) workshops
2023-07-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Montage Place (Depozitory), 23 Nelson Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 2REZ, United Kingdom
Let’s make history together.

Join Out On An Island on Saturday, July 15, as we take part in the Isle Of Wight Pride parade

This year, we’re planning to reenact the early Pride Marches from the 70s, 80s and 90s, and we couldn’t be more excited!

Join us and learn about the history of Pride and uncover the reasons behind this celebration of love and unity. Let your creativity flourish as we make banners and placards, and let’s tell our history as we march!

Our fun and interactive LGBTQ+ History Workshops will be held on July 3 & 10 at Montage Place in Ryde.

If you cannot join us for the workshops – you can still party with us at the parade!

Let us know how you would like to take part by emailing caroline@outonanisland.co.uk / outonanisland@stonecrabs.co.uk

Out On An Island: Pride In Self, Pride In Place, launch
2023-07-07 19:00 - 21:30 | Cafe Isola, 85a St James Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1LG, United Kingdom
StoneCrabs’ Out On An Island: Pride In Self, Pride In Place Project.
Friday July 7 – 7pm – 9.30pm
Caffe Isola, 85A St James Street, Newport PO30 1LG
Reserve your ticket here

We are delighted to have been invited by the Heritage Fund to extend our Out On An Island project, which will continue to research the Heritage and History of the Isle of Wight LGBTQ+ community, recording fifteen new oral histories, and delivering islandwide events.
We will also look at the important role of the NHS in Isle of Wight LGBTQ+ culture in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Caffe Isola doors open at 7pm and you can enjoy a complimentary drink and find out about our plans for eighteen months of LGBTQ+ History events, opportunities for volunteering, social connection and for you to learn new skills.
The evening will be hosted by the talented performer Krysia Mansfield, with performances from the fabulous Ventnor Darlings, and others.
We will end the evening with cake and a chance to socialise in this lovely venue.

Maisie, the film - at Montage Place
2023-07-13 08:00 - 21:30 | Montage Place (Depozitory), 23 Nelson Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 2REZ, United Kingdom
Catch Maisie ahead of its National release date!
Our friends @ Montage Place are hosting the film Maisie as a pre-launch to Pride.
Maisie, old age can be a drag. It is a national film celebrating Maisie, the UK’s oldest drag queen
‘wonderfully crafted’
Montage Place (Depository), Ryde
Thur, 13 July, 8pm
Get your tickets: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/12721/maisie-screening

Isle of Pride - Isle of Wight Proms
2023-08-15 19:30 | Northwood House, Ward Avenue, Cowes, Isle of Wight, PO31 8AZ, United Kingdom
Isle of Pride, as part of Isle of Wight Proms.
Tue, 15 Aug, 7.30pm
Starring RuPaul’s Drag Race queens JIMBO and BAGA CHIPZ, plus island favourite QUIVERS and hosted by AMANDA LOVETT from BBC’s The Traitors, as they sashay into Cowes for ‘One Night Only’ with their huge personalities, comedy chaos and jaw-dropping vocals
Aftershow Act: DJ Snacks
Venue: Northwood House, Ward Avenue, Cowes, Isle of Wight, PO31 8AZ
Click here for tickets and more information

Isle Of Wight Pride 2023
2023-08-18 08:00 - 2023-08-20 17:00 | Isle of Wight
Let’s make history together.

March with Out On An Island on Saturday, August 19th, as we take part in the Isle Of Wight Pride parade

Parade or protest? Join us and learn about the history of Pride and uncover the reasons behind this celebration of love and unity.

After the parade, join us at the stall for a chat, find out how you can get involved with ‘Pride In Self, Pride In Place’ – we will also have a display of second hand LGBTQ+ books available!

Let us know how you would like to take part by emailing caroline@outonanisland.co.uk or outonanisland@stonecrabs.co.uk

Isle of Wight Pride is now on 18, 19 and 20 August.

Laught Out Proud @ Quay Arts 8 Sep
2023-09-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Quay Arts, Sea Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5BD, United Kingdom
LAUGH OUT PROUD IS QUAY ARTS’ BRAND NEW LGBTQIA+ COMEDY NIGHT featuring the best in established and upcoming acts from the community on the UK comedy circuit.
Get your tickets here!
This is night is all about giving acts and audiences alike a fun and friendly place to express themselves, kick back, have a laugh and good time in an inclusive and welcoming comedy clubs environment.

Whether it’s comedy, cabaret or anything in between – Laugh Out Proud is the queer night out you’re looking for.
Laugh Out Proud at Quay Arts will feature the comedy delights of Mark Cram, Adam Greene, Aaron Twitchen and Sharon Wanjohi.
Cafe / Bar open from 18:00
Doors 19:30
Onstage from 20:00

Oral History Interviewer Training
2023-09-12 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-09-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Riverside Centre, The Quay, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 2QR, United Kingdom
StoneCrabs Out On An Island Pride In Self Pride In Place Project invites you to join us, in recording new LGBTQ+ oral histories. Together, we can bring our history to life!
Oral History training delivered by Oral Historian, Museum and Heritage Educator, Lisa Kerley.
You can now enrol for two FREE Oral History Interviewing Techniques Training Sessions, on September 12 and 19 at the Riverside Centre, Newport from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
On September 12, Lisa will guide us through the process, forms, and techniques required to ensure the oral histories are recorded in accordance with archival standards. It is crucial to adhere to these requirements.
On September 19 will be a hands-on, practical session led by Lisa. In small groups, we will follow the steps and guidance we received, ensuring that we capture the stories with care and attention to detail.
Our community has made significant progress, but there is still more work to be done. As we have been recently reminded by a young person in our ‘History of Pride’ workshops: “If people think we don’t need Pride, they are not paying enough attention to what is going on”. We believe that we can make a difference to future generations by recording our stories, making sure that every voice matters, and every story deserves to be heard.
Your presence and contribution will help us elevate each other’s voices, celebrating our past, present, and future. You will be fully supported when you eventually record the stories with a second interviewer present.
If you’re interested in participating contact us on outonanisland@stonecrabs.co.uk

Rainbow Island Meet Up @ Monkton Arts, Ryde, Isle of Wight
2023-11-04 10:30 - 12:30 | Monkton Arts, 11 East Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 1JP, United Kingdom
Rainbow Island Pop Up Cafe Meet Up at Monkton Arts, Ryde
4th November – 10.30am
Join Rainbow Island from 10.30am for a relaxed social with tea, coffee and refreshments. Meet other LGBTQ+ people of all ages on the first Saturday of every month.
Admission and refreshments are free but donations are welcome.
Monkton Arts is fully accessible and dog-friendly.
If you have any queries, please contact caroline@stonecrabs.co.uk.
Date: Saturday, 4 November
Time: 10.30 am
Location: Monkton Arts, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Price: Free

World Aids Day LGBTQ+ Networking Event at Quay Arts
2023-12-01 12:00 - 14:00 | Quay Arts, Sea Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5BD, United Kingdom
Out On An Island, Pride In Self Pride In Place presents World AIDS Day, at Quay Arts, Newport
Quay Arts was used for one of the UK’s first AIDS awareness events in the late 1980s.
Join us for lunch in Quay Arts Cafe. This is an opportunity to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness and to support people living with HIV, as highlighted in this year’s Channel 4 hit series, It’s A Sin which referenced the Isle of Wight.
LGBTQ+ community supporters
You can meet representatives from organisations who support the Island’s LGBTQ+ community including Anna Murray, Sexual Health Promotion Practitioner from Solent NHS Trust.
Volunteers from Out On An Island, Pride In Self Pride In Place can talk about this Isle of Wight LGBTQ+ history project.
National AIDS Trust is calling on you to #RockTheRibbon for people living with HIV this World AIDS Day.
Taking place annually on December 1, World AIDS Day is a time to stand up for those impacted by HIV, past and present, and call for a better future. By wearing the iconic red ribbon, you are joining a community that shows solidarity with people living with HIV while remembering lives lost.
The event will be followed by a practical workshop looking at the Memorial Quilt and recreating our own response to it.
1st December, 12pm – 2pm, at Quay Arts Cafe, Newport.

LGBT History Club with Out On An Island Pride In Self, Pride In Place
2023-12-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Monkton Arts, 11 East Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 1JP, United Kingdom
Special Rainbow Island meet up with Out On An Island LGBT History club workshops.
2 December – 10am – 12pm
The morning starts at 10am with a relaxed social over tea or coffee.
This will also be an opportunity to participate in StoneCrabs Out On An Island Pride In Self Pride In Place LGBT History workshops.
Together with Jenna and Dawn Sabine, we will be revisiting the 80s/90s LGBT History through the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and creating our own ‘patch’ in response to the Quilt and our LGBTQ+ History.

If you have any queries, please contact caroline@stonecrabs.co.uk.
Date: Saturday, 2 December
Time: 10am
Location: Monkton Arts, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Price: Free

Book Club & Coffee Social @ One Holyrood, Newport, Isle of Wight
2023-12-30 10:30 - 12:30 | One Holyrood, 1 - 4 Holyrood Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5AU, United Kingdom
Coffee Social and Book Club will be meeting at One Holyrood in Newport from 10.30am on Saturday December 30th
It’s a relaxed social meeting, so you can come along even if you haven’t read the book but would like to socialise and meet other LGBTQ+ people of all ages.
The coffee social with breakfast or drinks will be taking place in the hotel’s function room ‘The Tool Shed’ in the garden.
Note: One Holyrood stop serving breakfast at 11.30am.
Please let us know if you can make it and if you have suggestions or any other queries, please contact Caroline at caroline@stonecrabs.co.uk / 07786 080203.
December’s book is Straight Jacket by Matthew Todd

Overcoming Society’s Legacy of Gay Shame
Meticulously researched, courageous and life-affirming, Straight Jacket offers invaluable practical advice on how to overcome a range of difficult issues. It also recognizes that this is a watershed moment, a piercing wake-up-call-to-arms for the gay and wider community to acknowledge the importance of supporting all young people – and helping older people to transform their experience and finally get the lives they really want.

Date: Saturday 30 December
Time: 10.30 am
Location: One Holyrood, Newport, Isle of Wight
Price: Free
Book: Straight Jacket by Matthew Todd

Isle of Wight Pride Christmas Party
2023-12-30 19:00 - 2023-12-31 01:00 | Strings 9 Bowling Green Lane Newport PO30 1LL, 9 Bowling Green Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1LL, United Kingdom
A Christmas celebration for our amazing LGBTQIA+ community and Allies at Strings Bar & Venue in Newport. Featuring Andrew Browning as George Michael, Dawn the Drag Queen and DJs Xtreme Vertigo. Doors open 7pm, over 18’s only. Tickets will be available here from 1st November.

Book Club & Coffee Social @ One Holyrood, Newport, Isle of Wight
2024-01-20 10:45 - 13:30 | One Holyrood, 1 - 4 Holyrood Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5AU, United Kingdom
Book Club & Coffee Social will be meeting at One Holyrood in Newport from 10.45am on Sat, 20 January 2024
It’s a relaxed social meeting, so you can come along even if you haven’t read the book but would like to socialise and meet friendly folk.
The coffee social with breakfast or drinks will be taking place in the café from 10.45am. The book club will be meeting in the lounge from 11.45am.
Note: One Holyrood stop serving breakfast at 11.30am.
Please let us know if you can’t make it and if you have suggestions or any other queries, please contact Caroline at caroline@stonecrabs.co.uk / 07786 080203.
You can also join the Book Club Facebook group to stay up to date.
January’s book is 6A Blackstock Gardens by Gerry Potter.

“Memories were people too, y’know!” Within the tenements of the notorious Scottie Road, amidst dockyards and back-kitchen sink dramas, the Butlers navigate Liverpool with stoic wit ‘n’ brio. For Gerrid, the seventh son of a seventh child, born in the seventh month, and youngest to the matriarchal May, childhood is fuelled by observation and imagination. But it too-soon becomes clear that resilience must prove the most life-formative skill required to comprehend communal and familial, repetitive, grief… The first autobiographical instalment from the author of Planet Young – as seen on BBC TV’s Between the Covers.

Date: Saturday, 20 January 2024
Time: 10.45 am
Location: One Holyrood, Newport, Isle of Wight
Price: Free
April’s Book Selection: 6A Blackstock Gardens by Gerry Potter

LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH EXHIBITION
2024-02-01 10:00 - 2024-02-29 17:00 | Monkton Arts, 11 East Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 1JP, United Kingdom
StoneCrabs’ OUT ON AN ISLAND LGBT HISTORY MONTH EXHIBITION
Claiming our past – Celebrating our present – Creating our future
1 – 29 Feb 2024
Why is LGBT+ History Month important and relevant to us?
A shared past, a vibrant present, a promising future – this is our story.
This exhibition shines a light on the Island’s rich LGBT+ History, it is aimed at young people as well as adults. Explore the Island map of LGBT+ Historical figures who left their mark here. Navigate our timeline of significant local and national LGBT+ events, it might just surprise you. It’s not just about the past – listen to current voices from our LGBT+ community, sharing their unique experiences and perspectives.
LGBT+ History Month is for everyone regardless of your age, sexuality or gender. You may be surprised to learn about the diverse and thriving community which has always existed here.
It is celebrated every February across the UK, and was founded in 2004 by Schools OUT co-chairs, Paul Patrick and Professor Emeritus Sue Sanders, first celebrated in February 2005. The 2024 LGBT History Month theme, Under The Scope, celebrates LGBT+ people’s contribution to the field of Medicine and Healthcare.

As part of the exhibition, we are offering FREE LGBT+ Awareness Workshops & Creative quilt making workshops with Jenna Sabine (inspired by the AIDS Memorial Quilt)
1 – 27 Feb
Quiz time!
Together with your feedback form, you will get the opportunity to complete a quiz on the exhibition with the chance to win prizes.
Also opportunity to contribute to our very own Memorial Quilt!
More information coming up soon.
1 Feb – 6 – 9pm
Evening Launch
7 Feb – 5.30pm – 8.30pm
Community workshops on LGBTQ+ awareness and the history of the Memorial Quilt – this is a practical workshop where you will be able to create your own patch to go to our Island Memorial Quilt.
29 Feb – 5pm – 7pm
Exhibition closing event, come see the finalised Quilt work!

Quilt Making Workshop @ Monkton Arts with Rainbow Island
2024-02-03 10:30 - 12:30 | Isle of Wight
Special Rainbow Island meet up with Out On An Island LGBT History club workshops.
3 January – 10:30pm – 12:30pm
The morning starts with a relaxed social over tea or coffee.
This will also be an opportunity to participate in StoneCrabs Out On An Island Pride In Self Pride In Place LGBT History workshops.
Together with Jenna Sabine and Dawn Fidler, we will be revisiting the 80s/90s LGBT History through the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and creating our own ‘patch’ in response to the Quilt and our LGBTQ+ History.

Quilt Making Workshop @ Monkton Arts
2024-02-07 17:30 - 20:40 | Isle of Wight
Out On An Island LGBT History club workshops. Everyone welcome.
7 January – 5:30pm – 8:40pm
This is an opportunity to participate in StoneCrabs Out On An Island Pride In Self Pride In Place LGBT History workshops.
We celebrate LGBT History Month by paying homage to the all the NHS staff who are/were key in supporting our community, particularly throughout the 80s & 90s. We will be learning about the Health & Wellbeing campaigns through our exhibition.
Together with Jenna Sabine and Dawn Fidler, we will be revisiting the 80s/90s LGBT History through the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and creating our own ‘patch’ in response to the Quilt and our LGBTQ+ History.

Pride Quiz Night @ Snacks and Ladders, Newport
2024-02-23 19:00 - 22:00 | Isle of Wight
On Friday 23rd February the lovely team at Snacks & Ladders will be hosting a Pride Quiz Night from 7pm. Entry £2 per person, up to 6 per team. Drinks will be available from the bar and food will be served until 9pm. If you would like to join please book through the link: https://letsbookfor.com/snacksandladders/s/pridequiz…

Book Club & Coffee Social @ Monkton Arts, Ryde
2024-03-02 10:45 - 13:30 | Isle of Wight
Book Club & Coffee Social has moved its meeting at Monkton Arts in Ryde to 10.45am on Sat, 2 March 2024
It’s a relaxed social meeting, so you can come along even if you haven’t read the book but would like to socialise and meet friendly folk.
The coffee social with breakfast or drinks will be taking place in the café from 10.45am. The book club will be meeting in the lounge from 11.45am.
Note:
Please let us know if you can’t make it and if you have suggestions or any other queries, please contact Caroline at caroline@stonecrabs.co.uk / 07786 080203.
You can also join the Book Club Facebook group to stay up to date.
February’s book is Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin.

“Tales of the City (1978) is the first book in the Tales of the City series by American novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle. Set in 1970s San Francisco, it follows the residents of a small apartment complex at 28 Barbary Lane, including the eccentric landlady, Anna Madrigal”

Date: Saturday, 2 March 2024
Time: 10.45 am
Location: Monkton Arts, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Price: Free
February’s Book Selection: Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Rainbow Island Meet Up @ Monkton Arts, Ryde, Isle of Wight
2024-04-13 10:30 - 12:30 | Monkton Arts, 11 East Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 1JP, United Kingdom
Rainbow Island Pop Up Cafe Meet Up at Monkton Arts, Ryde
13th April – 10.30am
Join Rainbow Island from 10.30am for a relaxed social with tea, coffee and refreshments. Meet other LGBTQ+ people of all ages on the first Saturday of every month.
Admission and refreshments are free but donations are welcome.
Monkton Arts is fully accessible and dog-friendly.
If you have any queries, please contact caroline@stonecrabs.co.uk.
Date: Saturday, 13 April
Time: 10.30 am
Location: Monkton Arts, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Price: Free
