Thursday 15 February 13.30

For children 8 years or older: Drawing a Villain, comic workshop
 

Eyepatch? Cape? Secret Lair? These are all important things to consider when making a villain and Adam will help you come up with and design a fun cartoon villain character.

Thursday 15 February 16.00

For young people 13 years or older: Macbeth in an Hour, theatre

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Ad Lib Theatre brings you the potted version of this famous tragedy – one hour, four actors, including all the well-known lines and scenes. Whether you are studying the play as an exam text or just want to become a Shakespeare buff in an hour, this show gives you what you need – and some laughs along the way!

Friday 16 February 15.30

For children aged 8 years or older: M is for Montgomery Bonbon
 

Unlock your inner detective with a series of funny, silly and clever challenges.

Friday 16 February 16.15

For children aged 9 years or older: Isle LOVE Wight Collage
 

Create your own masterpiece, inspired by Island landscapes. Join this exciting Artswork workshop led by artist Trudie Wilson.

Friday 16 February 13.30

For all ages: Indian Classical Dance Drama

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Indian classical dance drama. Enjoy the performance and be part of the interactive session. Indian classical dance Bharatnatyam has been used as a means of storytelling for over 2000 years.

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Thursday 15 February 13.00 

For children 7 years or older: Creaturama, Worlds of Wonder

 

Junk modelling: Creaturama World of Wonder junk model-making session. Create your own creature character.

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Thursday 15 February 17.00

For children 7 years or older:  The Creaturama Chronicles

 

Book talk: join Anthony from Creaturama for a talk about his books, The Creaturama Chronicles.

Thursday 15 Feb 16.00

For children 11 years or older: All the Way from Africa
 

The amazing story of spring bird migration, set to pictures on screen.

Saturday 17 February 13.00

For children 5 years or older: Story Stones
 

What’s your favourite story? Paint or collage your favourite story on a stone and use it to tell the story.

Friday 16 February 10.15

For children 4 years or older: The

Enchanted Cinema perform Where the Wild Things Are & Hedgehog in the Fog LIVE!

Saturday 17 February 11.45

For children 6 years or older: Two Terrible Vikings with Francesca Simon
 

What if your parents WANTED you to behave badly? Set in the snowy fjords of a Viking kingdom, the terrible twins, Hack and Whack, are proud to be the best worst vikings.

Saturday 17 February 14.30

For children 5 years or older: The Magic of Isadora Moon

 

Harriet can’t wait to share her passion for magic, sparkle and everything teeny tiny in this glittering event featuring draw-alongs, readings, and quizzes.

Friday 16 February 12.45

For children 5 years or older: Local Legends!
 

Sneaky smugglers, daring rescues, and villages that disappear!

Thursday 15 February 13.00

For children 3 years or older: Vincent and the Mermaid
 

What would you do if all of your cakes floated away in the sea? Find out what Tabitha does when she’s ordered by the Mermaid Queen to bake for her birthday.

Friday 16 February 12.00

For children 6 years or older: Mr. Dickens reads the winning entries
 

Following the competition in schools, hear the winning entries brought to life, as the
great-great grandson of Charles Dickens performs their stories at the prize giving event.

Friday 16 February 10.15

For children 2 years or older: Musical Storytelling
 

Classic fairytales with a musical twist! Join me for singing, percussion instruments and lots of fun interactive songs to experience in a fun new way.

Friday 16 February 14.45

For children 8 years or older: Building a Fantasy Character
 

Come and design and build a character for your own fantasy adventures with friend of the IW Story Festival, Kieran. Buy your copy of the newly published Podkin and the Singing Spear at the festival bookshop in the cafe, and Kieran will sign it for you.

Friday 16 February 11.00

or children 11 years or older: Writing a film - how to come up with an idea
 

James will be an introduction to some of the big ideas to think about when you are
making your first notes about a short film drama script that you would like to write.

Friday 16 February 13.30

For children 5 years or older: Stanley’s Stick and other stories
 

This colourful event brings together Author John Hegley and Illustrator Neal Layton who present the tale of Stanley’s Stick.

Friday 16 February 17.30

For children 12 years or older: Making Films with Monty Python

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The inside stories for some of the favourite films of the past decades. Tales from behind the scenes of Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Time Bandits and manymore.

Saturday 17 February 10.00

For children 8 years or older: Creating a Story
 

Create a Story from a picture - with surprises. Like a game of ‘Consequences’ help make a story from randomly chosen storylines and characters.

Thursday 15 February 14.30

For children 12 years or older: Murder On A School Night, Diary of a Confused Feminist, Must Do Better
 

Kate Weston is an ex-stand-up comedian and the author of the YA Comedy Murder
Mystery: Murder On A School Night, as well as Diary of a Confused Feminist and Must Do Better.

Friday 16 February 14.45

For children 7 years or older: Podkin and the Singing Spear
 

The new Podkin book is out! Come and hear some of the story and build a character for your own fantasy adventures with friend of the IW Story Festival, Kieran.

Friday 16 February 14.45

For children 3 years or older: What’s a stick?

Stanley Stick inspired workshop
What could you do with a bundle of sticks? Build a house for a little pig? Start a fire for
marshmallow roasting? Make a raft for a river adventure?

Saturday 17 February 13.15

For children 6 years or older: Kes Gray, Live & Dangerous!

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Come and hear Kes talk about the danger in both his life and his books. There will be whales, there will be nails, there will be exploding meatballs...

Saturday 17 February 15.30

For children 3 years or older: The King's Pants Opera

 

Opera Prelude is proud to present The King's Pants, which is now a delightful children's opera that will transport you to a realm of regal wonder. 

Saturday 17 February 10.00

For children 2 years or older: Teddy Bears’ Picnic
 

Bring your teddy along and listen to some wonderful stories all about bears!

Thursday 15 February 18.00

For children 12 years or older: More Horrific Makeup Effects by Master of Disguise
 

With new make up styles from last year’s Horror tutorial, we will be instructing you how to produce some quick and effective special effect techniques to try on yourselves!

By the end of this session you will be able to frighten and disgust your friends.

Saturday 17 February 14.30

For children 8 years or older: From pitch to page: let’s make a book!
 

Ever wanted to make you own book or comic and don’t know how? Well look no further!

Thursday 15 February 15.00

For children 11 years or older: Song writing workshop
 

A whistle stop introduction to the art of writing songs, delivered by an experienced
professional song writer.

Friday 16 February 15.30

For children 4 years or older: Captivating Kelp Forests: Book Launch
 

What is kelp? What creatures make kelp forests their home? Why do we need to protect these underwater forests?

Saturday 17 February 11.00

For children 5 years or older: City of Stolen Magic

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Join Nazneen as she shares the inspiration behind her fantastical adventure-filled children's book. Discover an array of magic and their origin stories, and write your own spells!

Friday 16 February 12.30

For children 5 years or older: Memorial Kites

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Come along and make a kite, decorate it with images and words from your own personal memories, happy or sad, poignant, or inspirational, anything goes.

Inspired by Mr Dick’s kite in Charles Dicken’s David Copperfield story. The story has many characters in it who were based on real life people from Bonchurch Isle of Wight.

Friday 16 February 11.30

For children 6 years or older: Stories to make you go green!
 

Listen to stories about looking after our planet, and create your own campaigning flag, to help make the Isle of Wight a greener place!

Saturday 17 February 10.30

For children aged 3 years or older: Going South for the Winter

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Pink Cow Theatre in association with the Newport’s own Apollo Youth Theatre bring you this enchanting tale of two friends who are discovering the world around them.

Saturday 17 February 12.15

For children 10 years or older: Inspiration for Storytelling in Comics
 

They say that ‘everybody has a book in them’, but where do you begin? Russ Sheath talks about the inspiration for his diverse range of published work.

Saturday 17 February 10.00

For children 11 years or older: Design, sew and create your favourite book in fabric.
 

Join Amber from Stitch Department to recreate your favourite book using fabric.

Saturday 17 February 12.45

For children 9 years or older: Illustrate and Create a Main Character
 

Learn how to design and illustrate a super special main character, from the clothes they wear to the way they interact with the world around them.

Friday 16 February 10.00

For children 11 years or older: Jessie Granton and the Invisible Steps
 

Come along and learn about the extraordinary world of Jessie Granton and the Bellas. Understand the truth behind turbulence shocks and a land that hovers above, but never seen. Who really occupies the Earth and who lives among us.

Saturday 17 February 11.15

This highly interactive story session will be great for anyone aged 4 -10 (and anyone who can remember what it was like to be that young!)

 

Sue tells tales. Some are true, many are not but can her audience tell the difference?

Thursday 15 February 14.15

For children 5 years or older: Vincent and the Mermaid Creatures from Under the Sea junk modelling

 

Following Horse Box Theatre's performance of Vincent and the Mermaid written by Jules Marriner, now is your chance to junk model a creature from under the sea. 

Thursday 15 February 16.30

For children 11 years or older: Graffiti - art on the run
 

Stories from the streets - a life on the fringes of the art market with how to use spray cans effectively with a hands-on workshop producing your very own masterpiece from recycled stuff.