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| | 1 September to 17 December - IOW Studio Glass All Year Events
IOW Studio Glass - 
www.isleofwight.com/studioglass
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| | 3 September - In Peascod Time by Passamezzo
19:30 Shorwell - A musical experience of Renaissance music, prose and dance by the very well known traveling group of performers who first appeared at Wolverton many years ago. They will also be appearing during the Garden Fair over the weekend with an inter-active opportunity for those who wish to enjoy a Tudor lifestyle
Ticket Information
Adult £10.00 Children (under 12)free
tickets@wolvertonmanor.com
01983 740609
http://www.wolvertonmanor.com/events.php?detail=48&active_page=
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| | 4 September - Ryde Illuminated Carnival 2010
7:00pm Ryde - 7.00 pm Assemble Esplanade & Canoe Lake
7.30 pm Judging
8.30 pm Procession moves off
Tableux should report to control point at the bottom of East Hill road.
http://www.rydecarnival.org.uk/show.php?contentid=21
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| | 4 September to 5 September - Wolverton Manor Garden Fair 2010
10:00 - 17:0 Shorwell - 
The most popular Garden Fair of the year held in the grounds of Wolverton Manor in aid of Age Concern. A good family day out with many interesting and unusual nurseries including many from the Mainland along with Craft stalls and a Farmers Market. Entertainments include the popular Elizabethans with their music and dancing along with Flying Falcons, Kayaking, Dog Agility and Last Orders Irish Band
For stalls and enquiries etc phone Age Concern 01983 525282
Ticket Information
Entrance £5.00 (Children free) 10.00-17.00 each day
WOLVERTON MANOR · SHORWELL · ISLE OF WIGHT · PO30 3JS
http://www.wolvertonmanor.com/events.php?detail=34&active_page=
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| | 4 September - To Russia with Love
19:30 St Johns Church Newport - 
www.loverussia.org
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| | 5 September - Morris Minor Rally
IW Steam Railway - The first car to sell a million! The ‘Moggy Minor’ is fondly remembered and is still a much-loved car.
See a host of these old classics at the annual Morris Minor Rally at Havenstreet Station.
Tickets - Free Admission.
Steam Train fares:
Adults £9.50
Children (5-15) £5.00
Infant (0-4) FREE
Family £24.00 (2 Adults & 2 Children).
For full details please contact: 01983 882204
www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/special-events/september/morris-minor-rally/details/21.html
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| | 5 September - NewFoundFriends Dog Rescue at The Folly
The Folley, Whippingham - The Island’s Hospice is looking for 40 people with a sense of adventure who would like to be rescued from the River Medina by one of 10 genuine Newfoundland Rescue Dogs.
The event will take place at The Folly, Whippingham on Sunday September 5th 2010.
The hospice is asking that all those taking part raise a minimum of £100 for the Island’s Hospice in order to take part.
The minimum age is 16 and you need to be in good health and a good swimmer.
Life Jackets will be provided and everyone taking part will be accompanied into the water and given a full explanation of what to expect!
For more information and to register to take part please call the Earl Mountbatten Fundraising Team on 528989.
http://www.iwhospice.org/events/newfoundfriends-dog-rescue-at-the-folly.aspx
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| | 9 September to 12 September - Bestival
Robin Hill - A multi award-winning 3 day boutique fun & quirky music festival. Attractions include the Come Dancing Spiegeltent & Bollywood Bar. Set in the leafy surrounds of Robin Hill Country Park in Downend, it's the best way to round off the summer festival season. Previous big-name headline acts have included Amy Winehouse, Scissor Sisters, Chemical Brothers & the Beastie Boys, with a further 200-plus acts performing across the site throughout the three-day weekend in the various tents & stages
http://www.bestival.net/
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| | 11 September to 12 September - Model Railway Exhibition
IW Steam Railway - A steam train here, a diesel there, and a mainline express charging through the station … Get up close and personal with your favourite model!
The excitement and the charm of railways in miniature for all to see ... and then a chance to ride on the real thing!!
Tickets - Free Admission.
Steam Train fares:
Adults £9.50
Children (5-15) £5.00
Infant (0-4) FREE
Family £24.00 (2 Adults & 2 Children).
For full details please contact: 01983 882204
www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/special-events/september/model-railway-exhibition/details/22.html
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| | 15 September - Pamper Party
19:30 - 21:3 St Johns Church Newport - 
www.loverussia.org
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| | 15 September - Wolverton Manor Jazz Concert
19:30 Shorwell - THe annual Jazz Concert with the exceptional talents of Ian Henry Jazz pianist and Danny Moss Jnr Double Bass playing jazz of every genre and whowing the audience!!
Ticket Information
£15.00 to include interval refresment
01983 740609
or
tickets@wolvertonmanor.com
In aid of Leukaemia Research
http://www.wolvertonmanor.com/events.php?detail=45&active_page=
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| | 16 September to 19 September - Little Britain Challenge Cup Regatta
Cowes -  The Little Britain Challenge Cup is a sailing regatta for the construction industry. Since the first event in 1988 the Little Britain Challenge Cup has grown from 3 to 250 entries and to include more than 3000 competitors, making it the biggest regatta in the UK after Cowes Week.
LBCC continues to attract more and more new companies to join the regulars that have been taking part in the event since 1988. All available berthing in Cowes Yacht Haven, Shepards Wharf Marina in West Cowes, and Venture Quays in East Cowes, is taken to accommodate the boats, and there's an action-packed social programme to complement the racing.
http://www.littlebritain.co.uk/web/code/php/main.php?section=home
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| | 17 September to 19 September - THE BIG BLUE FESTIVAL 2010 LANDS ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT
Sandown - 
• Return of an Extreme Sports Festival to the Isle of Wight
• One of the biggest mobile urban parks in Europe onsite
• Event will host top extreme sports athletes from all over the world
• Come and ‘PLAY’, opportunity to try all the extreme sports on offer
• Take part in the “X-Mile” raising funds for the Ellen MacArthur Trust
• Live bands and DJ’s
The Big Blue Festival is a new breakthrough extreme sports festival launched this year. Based on the Isle of Wight at Yaverland Beach in Sandown, the Big Blue Festival will take place over three days in September (17 – 19th) and feature over 20 extreme sports on land, air and sea. The Saturday will include a party night with a top headline act.  The Isle of Wight provides a naturally stunning setting for the event and has a great history in hosting Extreme Sports Festivals. The event ethos is to not only bring some of the top international sportsmen in their field to compete, but also provide everyone the opportunity to get involved and try something new themselves.What can you expect to see at the Big Blue Festival? Top professional competitions, sports displays, live music, a kid’s zone and a new concept called ‘PLAY’ where the general public can get involved and try some of the exciting new sports on offer at the event. A live big screen will ensure none of the action on land and sea is missed and provide expert commentary to the festival goers.The sea will be packed with action sports including: Windsurfing Freestyle and Racing Championships, National Paddleboard Championships, Surfing, Kitesurfing on the bespoke slider park, Wakeboards, Sailing, Kayaking and the Thundercats.On the land will be the Big Blue Freesports Park one of the biggest mobile urban parks in Europe. This state of the art urban park packed is filled with ramps and obstacles that provide an extreme sports playground for anything from BMX and Skateboarding, to Beat Box, Graffiti Jams, Parkour and much more. The Big Blue Freesports Park will showcase displays from the best riders, put on ‘PLAY’ sessions.
Beside the Freesports Park there will also be some exciting up and coming breakthrough sports including ropeboarding, slackline and street surfing. The UK’s tallest mobile climbing wall, standing at 9m also be onsite. Expert free tuition will be provided by the Disability Trust who will at the event to raise awareness of the importance of wearing a helmet when competing in action sports.
The Festival activities will culminate in the 'X-Mile' charity event on Sunday the 19th September, where the general public and competitors will be encouraged to cover an extreme mile on land and water in aid of the Ellen MacArthur Trust. On water participants will be encouraged to complete their mile on paddleboards, kayaks and even human power with a mile course to swim. To find out more or sign up to the X-Mile visit www.bigbluefestival.com
‘PLAY’
Would you like to take part in the action? ‘PLAY’ is a great feature at the Big Blue, encouraging people of all ages to get involved in some of the exciting sports on offer. The Festival will host open sessions everyday for a massive range of sports including; freestyle football, kitesurfing, mountain boarding, parkour, paddle boarding, surfing, skating, BMX, streetboard, mountain biking, Thundercats, powerboat driving and windsurfing. Whilst at Big Blue why not join in an Play! The UKs tallest model of mobile climbing wall, standing at 9m, will be in the main village.
For more information and how to ‘PLAY’ and to reserve your spot log onto http://www.bigbluefestival.com/play
Live Action and Music
One of the premier live acts of the summer playing all the biggest festivals, Newton Faulkner will take to the stage on Saturday night wowing the crowd with hit singles from his double platinum debut album ‘Hand Built by Robots’ and follow up album ‘Hand Built by Humans’. Recognised for his experimental guitar sounds, poignant vocals and breath-taking finger-picking skills Newton Faulkner is one of the biggest selling male solo artists of his generation and attracts a huge fan following, this will be the only festival appearance by Newton Faulkner on the Isle of Wight this year. An internationally famous top Radio 1 DJ will round off proceedings on Saturday evening, playing the biggest dance of tunes of the year at this unique beachside location.
A big screen situated right in the centre of the Festival will broadcast all the action over the weekend live – with expert commentary provided. The screen will be situated next to the custom built restaurant and bar area.
www.bigbluefestival.com
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| | 18 September to 26 September - Isle of Wight Cycling Festival
Island Wide - 
Each day of the festival, which runs from 18 to 26 September 2010 offers cyclists the opportunity to sample different cycling routes that will take in the most picturesque areas of the Island as well as local landmarks.
Further details of individual events for next year will be available in spring 2010.
www.sunseaandcycling.com/
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| | 19 September - It’s All Flowers and Fruit
Osborne House - 
Sunday 19 September – 11am
It’s All Flowers and Fruit
A stroll through the Pleasure Grounds taking in the Walled Garden and it’s developing fruit display.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.14479
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| | 20 September - International Classic Car Show
Ryde Seafront - International Classic Car Show with over 300 classic cars on show. Free entrance and there will be a collection for the hospice
http://www.iwhospice.org/events/diary/2010/September.aspx
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| | 25 September to 26 September - Wine Festival
IW Steam Railway - Whether you have a ‘nose’ for fine wines or just enjoy quaffing a favoured tipple, our wine festival will be a treat for your olfactory receptors and taste-buds! Now established as an annual event, our Wine Festival offers a selection of wines from around the World to taste and purchase; plus there’s a selection from closer to home, including the Isle of Wight
Tickets - Free Admission, but Wine-Tasting tickets available on the day.
Steam Train fares:
Adults £9.50
Children (5-15) £5.00
Infant (0-4) FREE
Family £24.00 (2 Adults & 2 Children).
For full details please contact: 01983 882204
www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/special-events/september/wine-festival/details/23.html
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| | 25 September to 26 September - Sweetcorn Fayre
Arreton Old Village - 
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| | 1 October - Hospice Go Yellow Day
Island Wide - 2009 saw us launch our first ever “Hospice Go Yellow Day” to an enthusiastic and responsive audience on the Isle of Wight. People across the Island took up the challenge to raise funds in the most imaginative and fun ways possible and came up with some terrific results!
With the kind support of Southern Vectis and Isle of Wight Radio we managed to tour the Island and found some truly great fundraising going on. We had monkeys roaming around East Cowes handing out banana’s and collecting money, Yellow Ice Creams for donations, a money trail, balloon races, a nursery school teacher’s car being painted bright Yellow and loads more crazy stunts that helped raise over £15,000.
We want to make our second “Go Yellow Day” Bigger and Better than before, if you’d like to get involved in the fun then please just give Fundraising a call on (01983) 528989.
http://www.iwhospice.org/events/hospice-go-yellow-day.aspx
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| | 2 October - The Fabulous Shadows - The Golden Greats Tour
Medina Theatre - 
This superb live show features all The Shadows classic instrumental hits from the 1960's. Apache, Wonderful Land, Kon Kiki and many more, al recaptured with the authentic Vox Amplification and Fender Stratocaster guitars.
Take a nostalgic trip back to the sixties re-living The Shoadows.
www.thefabulousshadows.co.uk
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| | 3 October - ISLE OF WIGHT MARATHON RACE
- 2006 was a very important year in the history of the Isle of Wight Marathon, it was the 50th running of this race, now we have started on the next 50 !.
It has been run continuously since 1957, making it the longest running (and one of the first to be held) in the U.K.
The categories and existing records can be found here.
A special series of web pages has been assembled for this event, with stories, memorabilia and photos, it is linked here .
A special page which allows you to search all of the Marathon Results back to 1957 has also been constructed, this is really worth a look if you can remember back then !!! Link to it here
Some of the runners are regulars and have been returning for many years, take a look at this anecdote written by Jim Parker of Crawley A.C.
Follow this link to see a selection of Photographs from the 2006 race
The Start is on the south side of Ryde Boating Lake at 11.00am, two minutes from registration in Ryde Rowing Club.
The course is a single lap, covering Ryde, Binstead, Wootton, Newport, Rookley, Aretton, Sandown, Brading and back to Ryde. Marker boards at each mile point.
There are eight drinks stations at approximately 3 Mile intervals with seven sponge stations in between. Competitors may leave their own Special Drinks at registration to be taken to any designated drinks station.
Medals will be awarded to all finishers.
www.rydeharriers.co.uk/
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| | 25 October to 31 October - Wizard Week
IW Steam Railway - It may spooky ... It might be scary ... But you’ll have a Wizard time!
In a puff of steam, marvel at the magic shows, explore the enchanting Woodland Walk, enjoy relaxing steam train rides, see owls and birds of prey ... But are you brave enough to meet the bats?!
Dress-up as wizards, witches and other spooky characters – there’s prizes each day for the best costumes – and enter our Halloween colouring competition.
It’s Halloween fun for all the family during Autumn Half-term week.
Steam Train fares:
Adults £9.50
Children (5-15) £5.00
Infant (0-4) FREE
Family £24.00 (2 Adults & 2 Children).
For full details please contact: 01983 882204
www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/special-events/october/wizard-week/details/24.html
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| | 25 October to 31 October - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH CARISBROOKE CASTLE’S GHOSTS
CARISBROOKE CASTLE - - Guided Ghost Tours Monday 25 October – Halloween, Sunday 31 October
The pale face of a girl drowning in the castle well; transparent ladies noiselessly walking their dogs on gravel that doesn’t scrunch; loud footsteps approaching but belonging to no-one and doors slamming shut and locking themselves. These are just some of the inexplicable happenings at Carisbrooke Castle which visitors can find out about in a series of ghost tours running during half term week.
The castle’s long history stretching back over nine centuries has left a chilling imprint of spooky sightings and ghostly goings-on, which will be revealed by knowledgeable
guides on tours taking in its haunted hotspots. Suitable for children - and brave adults - the tours last 40 minutes and will be running at 10.20am, 11.20am, 1.20pm and 2.20pm from Monday 25 to Sunday 31 October.
Carisbrooke Castle’s operational team love hearing new stories from visitors. ”There is always excited anticipation of extra spiritual activity around Halloween,” explained David Bailey, Visitor Operations Manager. “We already have a great catalogue of unexplained stories to tell, but we hope psychic conditions will be right for our ghostly residents during the tours, so that we can add some new ones to the mix.”
Normal admission prices apply of just £7.00 for adults and £6.00 for concessions and £3.50 for children. English Heritage members are admitted free. Carisbrooke Castle is on Castle Hill
in Newport (PO30 1XY) and is open daily from 10am-5pm.
For further information on Carisbrooke Castle or other English Heritage properties on the Isle of Wight call 0870 333 1183 or visit .
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk
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| | 31 October - Halloween
IOW Studio Glass - 
www.isleofwight.com/studioglass/
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| | 5 November - Sandown Lantern Parade
Sandown - A Carnival Parade around the town led by the Sandown Carnival Queens, featuring music, floats, magnificent costumes & lanterns, all lit with thousands of lights, finishing with music & a spectacular firework finale
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www.sandowncarnival.com/pages/generic/newgallery.php?GAL=2009nov5>T=November%205th%20Illuminated%20Parade%202009&CRD=VectisVibe%20Events
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| | 20 November to 21 November - A Victorian Christmas
Osborne House - Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 November
10am - 4pm
Adults £12.90, Concessions £11.00, Children £6.50, Family Ticket £32.50. Reduced entry price for English Heritage Members.
Experience the spirit of a traditional Victorian Christmas, with magic and illusion, side-shows and a travelling theatre. Enjoy carol singing and a chance to meet Queen Victorian herself. Pre-booking recommended – call 0870 333 1181.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.14479
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| | 1 December to 23 December - Christmas Open Weekend Event
IOW Studio Glass - 
www.isleofwightstudioglass.co.uk
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| | 4 December to 24 December - Santa Specials
IW Steam Railway - 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd & 24th December 2010
“The children and my husband and I had a fabulous time ... in fact the whole experience was superb!”
A visit to Santa at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway is a very special day out for all the family. Stroll through our stunning Winter Wonderland before meeting Santa in his grotto where a quality gift awaits every child. Take a relaxing ride on our steam trains, and enjoy a wealth of free entertainment. Plus there’s seasonal fayre in our station buffet and restaurant and a shop packed with Christmas gift ideas!
“We all had a great time and we certainly felt the whole day was good value for money”.
Tickets
4th, 5th, 11th, and 12th December
Adults £13.50
Children £9.50
Infants (under 5) £7.50
18th -24th December
Adults £15.50
Children £11.50
Infants (under 5) £9.50
www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/special-events/december/santa-specials/details/26.html
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| | 5 December - Ryde Lantern Parade & Festive Fun Day
Ryde - A range of activities will be taking place throughout the town from 10am until 7pm, including Morris dancers, African drummers, jugglers, stilt walkers, brass bands, bell ringers, choirs and Father Christmas in his grotto. Many shops will be open until 6pm & the day will end with the fantastic lantern parade & grand firework display
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| | 11 December - Huge Hospice Quiz 2010
Lower Hyde Holiday Park Shanklin - 2010 sees the Huge Hospice Quiz celebrate 10 years of brainteasers, headscratchers and fundraising. The quiz has so far raisied over £30,000 for the Earl Mountbatten Hospice and we look forward to raising even more at this excellent, fun event.
Last year saw over 80 teams pitting their wits against each other and for 2010 we are hoping to take that number to 100! Keep checking back here for registration details and more information.
www.iwhospice.org/events/huge-hospice-quiz-2010.aspx
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| | 18 December - Cowes Christmas Carnival
Cowes - The parade travels through various streets before entering High Street where Husky dogs will race
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| | 26 December to 28 December - Mince Pie Specials
IW Steam Railway - After the indulgence of Christmas Day, settle back in our warm and comfortable Victorian and Edwardian carriages to enjoy a steam train journey through the Island’s unspoilt winter landscape ... And there’s seasonal refreshments for every adult and child!
Tickets:
Adults £10
Children £5
For full details please contact: 01983 882204
www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/special-events/december/mince-pie-specials/details/29.html
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