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The Minghella Film festival comes to an end tomorrow, but there is a great lineup of events throughout the day to enjoy.

The morning kicks off with screenings of The Storyteller in Quay Arts and Cineworld. John Hurt and Duncan Kenworthy will be attending the screening at Quay and taking part in a discussion following the film.

Lunchtime sees the Big Italian Brunch at Quay Arts hosted by Gloria and Eddie Minghella.

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Tickets are still available for tonight’s concert at Quay Arts.

Barrington Pheloung wrote and performed the original music for much of Anthony’s early work, from the BAFTA-nominated soundtrack to Inspector Morse to Truly, Madly, Deeply.

Since then, he has gone on to become one of the most prolific composers for television and film in the UK.

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The Minghella Film Festival returns to Newport this weekend, but the Festival is not just about screening Anthony Minghella’s TV programmes and films. There’s a great range of film/writing related workshops taking place too.

Make a Film in A Day
Kicking off on Saturday morning, the first workshop is a full day course being run in association with the Young Film Academy.

The hands-on Make a Film in A Day workshop will be led by award-winning trainers helping young people aged 13 – 19 to make a ten shot digital film, from planning through to post-production in seven hours.

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This week is your last chance to catch the MELT exhibition at Quay Arts.

Taking over the cafe wall and Rope Store Gallery over the last few weeks has been work by two hugely talented Island artists.

The work of Michael Forrest and David Knight hang side by side, each a very different style, but both complementing each other.

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A new artist in residence takes their place at Quay Arts today, using the Learning Curve Gallery as their base.

The Medina Extended Schools Partnership in collaboration with Quay Arts and Medina High School welcome Chris Cudlip, who will be offering a range of workshops around the theme of Nomadic Life and Culture to invited schools during the month of March.

We understand that the ‘Medina Yurt’ will be the focus of the work, with workshops being held in and around the Yurt.

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If you’re looking for something to do over the next week, then the site to visit is Events On The Wight where you’ll find all manner of events taking place on the Isle of Wight.

Alternatively, you can sit back and listen to our top tips as we reeled them out on Tom Stroud’s mid-morning show yesterday lunchtime.

You’ll have to ignore the first two events, because they took place yesterday, but lots of music events were given a mention, including Headfunk at Blacksheep Bar or Cozy Flashbak at The Fountain Inn in Cowes.

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The long list of what’s on the Isle of Wight continues today with at least 19 events that we know of including turn up and sing the Messiah at Quay Arts.

If you’re interested in learning more about the effects of climate change, then you might want to head over to Quay Arts tonight.

There will be a charity screening of The Age of Stupid, raising funds for the IW Friends of the Earth.

Doors open at 6.30pm and everyone is invited along to enjoy a free glass of organic, fair-trade wine, browse a selection of information materials and meet some like-minded people.

If you’re going to be in the Newport area this afternoon, why not take cover from the wind and rain at the Quay Arts Centre.

Taking place between 2.30pm and 5.30pm today is a festival of poetry celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Poetry Society.

Island Stanza (Poetry Society members on the Isle of Wight) will be presenting a festival of poetry, readings and the prize-winners of Island Voices, the first national poetry competition on the Island.

Check Isle of Wight events site events.OnTheWight for more details.

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If you haven’t been along to any of the Artists’ Networking Evenings yet, we’d highly recommend them. Last month’s event, with a talk by Jeanette Appleton, was excellent. Ed

Artist and former curator; Andrew Cross will discuss his particular fascination with the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival at East Afton and film collaboration with the rock drummer Carl Palmer, formerly of Emerson, Lake and Palmer who made their first public appearance at the 1970 festival.

While Cross’s photography and film reflect life-long interests in journeying and transport, more recently, his work has focused upon broader aspects of landscape, place and memory.

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BBC Blast will be hearing Island side later this week and the variety of workshops and tasters sessions taking place is amazing.

13-19 year olds from the Island are being given the opportunity to can learn how to create their own original animation using 2D and 3D effects.

They can work with BBC mentors to write, perform and record the latest episode of a radio play.

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If you fancy taking in a bit of freeform jazz, broken beat, hip-hop, folk music mashed together with some older and more modern jazz, electronica and rock tonight then you need to head to Quay Arts in Newport.

The incredible Robert Mitchell Trio are making their way across the water today to perform at QA tonight and thanks to a generous offer from our friends at QA, you and a friend can enjoy the gig for just £10!

Yes folks, two tickets to see this amazing band for the price of one.

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This coming Friday night, Quays Arts Centre in Newport will play host to the rather excellent Robert Mitchell Trio and are offering two tickets for the price of one.

The Robert Mitchell Trio have developed a real signature in this traditional jazz trio format, honing its mix of influences of song, odd metre, freeform jazz, broken beat, hip-hop and folk music with older and more modern jazz/ electronica /rock.

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During 11th – 13th November, BBC Blast will be coming to the Island and bringing with them a bundle of fantastic free creative workshops for anyone aged between 13-19 years old at Quay Arts in Newport.

BBC Blast describes itself as a ‘mobile media village’ and its aim is to travel around to 30 locations each year.

Last year alone it provided free creative art workshops and showcases for a whopping 150,000 participants.

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The second No Man is an Island exhibition opened on Saturday in the Learning Curve Gallery, Quay Arts.

It followed a weekend workshop with Jeanette Appleton for parents and carers from the Island branch of the National Autistic Society.

Jeanette has an amazing exhibition in the Michael West Gallery, called Sow:Sew, and the Learning Curve work is a response to this and to the recent ‘Inside Outside Artists Moving On‘ exhibition from the Rope Store Gallery.

Called Textile and Landscape, it takes a playful look at what we might understand by landscape – it all depends on your view point!

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The No Man is an Island Project returns to Quay Arts, this time to the Learning Curve Young People’s Gallery.

Inspired by Michael West exhibition, SOW:SEW, parents and carers living with autism in their families on the IOW develop felt-making and other skills as part of the No Man is an Island Project supported by Awards for All and SEEDA.

Textile and Landscape No Man is an Island Project in collaboration with the IOW National Autistic Society

The end of show reception take place on Thursday 19 November between 6-8pm.

These evocative life studies are a form-specific project.

Inspired by the female nude, Tony Trowbridge creates this body of work through the medium of monoprint, bleach and spray can.

Trowbridge is a talented outsider artist who delves into different pools of the art world. Although he works in many different mediums from acrylic, bleach and inks, his main means of communication is through the aerosol can.

These series of paintings, sketches and monoprints show how serious he is about his drawing from life models.

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15:12 17.Nov.09 – We’ve just heard from Quay Arts that this gig has to be postponed due to a family bereavement.

Keep an eye on Events on the Isle of Wight for updates.

Quay Arts present an exquisite music recital by young piano virtuoso Sholpan Sharbakova in the Anthony Minghella Theatre next month.

Sholpan, born 1982 began studying the piano at the age of four, won a “Bolashak” Presidential Scholarship of Kazakhstan enabling her to pursue her post-graduate studies at London’s Royal Academy of Music, under the guidance of pianist Hamish Milne, she graduated with “Honours” from the Gnessin State Academy of Music in Moscow, where she studied with Professor Grigory Gordon.

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Following his masterful performances at the 2008 Isle of Wight Festival we are proud to present an evening with Alex Roberts.

This singer, song writer wows audiences with his outstanding musicianship, driven by the artist’s love for the song.

The timeless nature of Roberts’ musical charm provides the perfect vehicle for expressing his lyrical musings.

In the fashion of the troubadour or bard Roberts crafts stories, love songs, ballads, spiritual insights, or protests into a mesmerising web of song.

However it is on stage that Roberts is best appreciated.

A comfortable and engaging performer he is quickly becoming known as an act not to miss and a hard one to follow.

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This month’s AnE will team up with Michael West exhibitor; Jeanette Appleton’s talk in the Anthony Minghella Theatre, where she will be talking about her Michael West exhibition; ‘SOW:SEW’.

AnE is a networking opportunity for arts and creative professionals from the Isle of Wight and the South East region.

AnE is organised by Quay Arts and supported by arc (Aspex Artists’ Resource Centre, Portsmouth).

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Quay Arts will be hosting the last showing of ‘SOW:SEW’; touring exhibition.

Jeanette Appleton is an artist trained in craft and fine art whose practice explores the boundaries between hand and mass-production.

Her prime medium is felt.

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VM Musicals is a new and dynamic musical theatre training company based Quay Arts, in Newport for 8 – 18 year olds.

VM Musicals stage West End and Broadway productions giving each cast member the opportunity of working as part of a team to create performances that ‘feel’ professional.

VM Musicals offers the young and aspiring performer the space to develop their talents and expand their skills supported by an expert and dedicated team of staff.

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Tim Johnson and Chris Jenkins have been working hard over the last few weeks as part of the Kingdom of Old Exhibition in the Michael West Gallery at Quay Arts Centre.

Tomorrow sees the End of Show Reception taking place tomorrow between 2-4pm.

The event will celebrate the work that Tim and Chris have not only completed in the gallery, but also the workshops they’ve been doing with school children.

If you are a fan of poetry then this free event at Quay Arts Centre should be right up your street.

As you may already know, 2009 is the 100th anniversary of the Poetry Society.

To celebrate, the Island Stanza (Poetry Society members on the Isle of Wight) will be presenting a festival of poetry, readings and the prize-winners of Island Voices, the first national poetry competition on the Island.

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Quay Arts proudly presents the highly popular, Robert Mitchell 3io performing in the Anthony Minghella Theatre next month.

Robert Mitchell 3io have developed a real signature in this traditional jazz trio format, honing its mix of influences of song, odd metre, freeform jazz, broken beat, hip-hop and folk music with older and more modern jazz/ electronica /rock.

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