APPLY NOW: 121 Creative Business Mentoring Sessions – online with Mick Smith
Special opportunity for organisation members! Deadline to apply 20th May 2024.
Special opportunity for organisation members! Deadline to apply 20th May 2024.
Hosted by Cowes Fringe, MAST Mayflower Studios and IW Creative Network on 23rd May 2024.
Critical group sessions for creatives working in visual arts, animation, moving image, photography & craft, chaired by Alys Scott Hawkins. Presenting on Mon 13 May: Visual Artist Laura Hathaway
Find out the developments of IW Open Studios and how you can get involved.
Come along to our first networking event for creatives working in the field of photography on 25th April. (Visual artists & videographers also very much welcome.)
Members can now apply for special opportunities to help develop your creative practice! Deadline to apply 29th April 2024.
Special 121 creative advice opportunity for members! Deadline to apply 22nd April 2024.
A talk and Q&A session on 20th April on the UK’s longest-running and most prestigious artists’ collective ‘The London Group’
Join us on 8th May with Arts Council England Relationship Manager for a talk on ACE’s Grassroots Music Sector funding.
Members of the IW Creative Network can now apply to be Independent Theatre Council hub associates.
A new regular event for 16-30 year olds on the IW to meet new people, make connections in the creative industries, and start collaborating.
Join us with Artist and specialist in Artist Support, Alys Scott Hawkins for this unique session and first networking event of 2024!
Over 40 established IW based artists selling affordable original work in the inaugural ‘Under the Bed Sale’!
A new regular event for 16-30 year olds on the IW to meet new people, make connections in the creative industries, and start collaborating.
Artist & Network member Jan Frith has been awarded funding for her technology and textile project.
Members can now apply for this special opportunity for 121 sessions to help develop your creative practice!
IW theatre makers & companies are warmly welcome to come along to a half day afternoon workshop on 'Tour Booking', followed by networking.
Join us on Saturday 18 November where we'll have a jam-packed away day in Southampton visiting the University of Southampton Arts & Humanities Day, John Hansard Gallery, SoCo Music and CHAOS Network!
Sharing the incredible work our members have been getting up to lately
Please help us by filling out this 10 min survey which will ultimately inform our programme in 2024 to support IW based Creatives.
Get involved with Ventnor Exchange’s new venture in restoring the old Ingrams building through artist studios & market stalls.
Quay Arts announces New Round of Mike Howley Trust Funding to support young Island Creatives!
Help influence culture where you live in the South West!
Creatives are invited to join Nicola Barratt, Tech Champion for Social Media at the Digital Culture Network, for a webinar exploring ‘How to grow your artist account on Instagram’.
The Wildheart Animal Sanctuary in Sandown is looking for someone to create a label for their own beer, which is currently being created by Goddards Brewery.
121 Support and 1 year’s free IW Creative Network membership for 18-30 year olds! APPLY NOW BY 1ST OCT!
Members and non member of the network are invited to this open networking event on 5th Oct at Quay Arts in Newport
Members of the network are invited to a NetWALK! Come along and meet on 22nd Sep at Chessell Pottery for a 3 mile wonder through the West Wight.
A free networking event for all Isle of Wight theatre companies on 10th Oct.
BOOK NOW! Members can now book a place on this exciting away day to Sway & Lymington on 16th September!
BOOK NOW! Don't miss this Creative Zoom Training Session on 10th Oct by Joe Bone, for Performers on how to develop and export theatre and make the transition to screenwriting.
Members can now book a place on this exciting jam-packed away day to Portsmouth this August!
Here are some of our top favs selected for this years Ventnor Fringe Festival!
An invitation to view work-in-progress at Quay Arts – all welcome.
Don’t miss this year’s Ventnor Fringe Forum: Tue 25 July, 10am – 3.30pm. FREE!
Make sure to check out the brilliant array of artists that have come together this year to form public Open Studios events on the Island!
Members can now apply for this special opportunity for 121 sessions to help develop your creative practice!
An open invitation to everyone to come and network with like-minded Creatives at this years Ventnor Fringe!
Calling all Theatre Creatives! Do you know about the ‘house southwest theatre network’ & Pitch-Up Portsmouth?
The IW Creative Network are proud to announce the recipients for this year’s bursary awards!
Book your place on this exciting jam-packed away day to Southampton's Cultural Quarter this June!
Book your place now to our third networking event of 2023 at the Wildheart Animal Sanctuary, Sandown!
Book your place now on our second networking event of the year at Building 41, in Northwood this May!
Three unique business support workshops for members of the IW Creative Network, specifically for creative individuals transitioning from being part-time or freelance, to running their own full-time business.
Three unique business support workshops for members of the IW Creative Network, specifically for creative individuals transitioning from being part-time or freelance, to running their own full-time business.
Members of the IW Creative Network can now apply for a bursary grant of £1,000 to help develop your creative practice! Deadline 15th May 2023!
BOOK NOW! Don't miss this Creative Zoom Training Session for Artists on pitching, presenting, and raising your profile by Rosalind Davis.
Flabbergast TV are casting a second series of their successful BBC 1 programme ‘Make it at Market’ and are looking for passionate artists, crafters and makers.
This lovely bit of green space is the perfect sheltered area for a family fun event with hands on activities, entertainment and trade stalls!
This April, make sure to come along for a walk in Bembridge, organised by Branding Consultant, Graphic Designer, Visual Artist and IW Creative Network member Sara Truckle!