Author Sylvia Clare will share what she learned from recording the feelings and observations for a single year in a Brighstone garden. Mindfulness is a deeply healing approach to life and gardening mindfully can be about the most beneficial combination possible. How can we all embrace this approach and fall in love with our ecosystem, to celebrate this wonderful biosphere we live in?

A talk on the fascinating history of Quakers and the Environment. Quakers have a long history of being aware of the importance of good husbandry and concern for our living home planet and as human understanding has progressed, so have our values and inputs into this approach to life.  What do the Quakers as a whole global organisation actively do and what actions do our local group take, individually or collectively?

How to create a wildflower area in your garden. This two hour session will include a guided walk through the meadows at Naturezones picking up lots of hints and tips on how to develop your own area. By meadow expert Angela Hewitt BEM.

Come and enjoy beautiful Bonchurch as you explore over 15 wonderful gardens! A shuttle bus will run through the village to help you get around, with parking available at Shore Road. The Hub, marked with a large yellow banner near The Grotto on Village Road, is your go-to spot for tickets, cream teas in the garden, plants for sale, restrooms, and the shuttle bus stop. Many gardens will also be selling plants from their own collections.

Join team Gurnard on Sunday 6th July for an Earth and Sea Day. Whether you want to join the Gurnard Dippers for their regular morning meet, or upload your observations to the new vertipool citizen science project, litter pick or just find out more about your surrounding area there is something for everyone.

Have you ever found seaglass? Or fairy stones? Join fabulous local storyteller Sue Bailey for a seaside story walk and a chance to find some of your own, in this little-known area of the IW National Landscape’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There will be plenty of stops for stories about the sea and chances to look for beach treasure. It is ideal for anyone aged between 4 and 12 who likes fossicking about on the tideline.

An exhibition containing information about the Biosphere Festival, relevant island artists and a showcase of the Solent mural trail which will be ongoing in the area during this period of time. 

Head to Niton for Permaculture Island’s Open Day.

Permaculture Island is a family run smallholding that offers education and demonstrations of sustainable living and community services.

Join us for a fun and fascinating day by the sea at the iconic Ryde Pier seafront. As part of the 2025 Isle of Wight Biosphere Festival, the University of Portsmouth’s expert marine scientists, and the Revolution Plastics Institute are hosting a hands-on, family-friendly event to learn about our amazing coastal environment and local conservation efforts. 

The IoW Doughnut Economics Working Group, Together For Mission Zero, Parish Futures & Grow Gurnard are joining forces to offer you a series of community events for families as part of the Biosphere Festival. 

Join us on a short trail through ‘Planet, Parish, People’ followed by a bring-your-own-picnic in the Grow Gurnard field, displays from Gurnard Primary School, story telling, Ice-cream and activities included.

A sustainable/circular local fashion collaboration for four days between Holly Maslen and Kori. All clothing is sourced, second hand here on the Island, before hand-painted designs are added, making the clothes once again desirable and extending their life span. Also bespoke clothing made from old linen and lace. Made in response to the clothing see Appley oak gall drawings, alongside paper sculptures related to form and movement.

Open all week; Grammar’s Common, with its dense, almost impenetrable woodland and ancient Black Barrow is an unusual place and well worth a visit. A chance to talk with John Osborn who is working the land throughout the festival and can answer your questions.

Throughout the festival. Join the ‘Rubbish Revolution’ and come and see a sculpture made entirely of trash and transformed into an amazing artwork, displayed on the Network Ryde patio throughout the Biosphere Festival. Made by young people, this creation highlights our relationship with consumerism and waste, and the importance of recycling.

Throughout the festival. An exciting collaborative project between local artists Alice Malia and Laura Hathaway, ‘Sheltered’ will see the 14 neglected shelters along Appley Beach in Ryde transformed over the course of this Summer. This installation will show some of the work in progress for this project, giving us an exciting insight into this imminent transformation of Ryde’s seafront.

Join the New Carnival Company for Ryde Mardi Gras. The theme for this year’s parade has been announced as ‘The Wheel of the Year’ as part of a two year ‘Our Folk-tastic Isle’ project.

Your chance to see local Morris sides keeping this tradition alive and entertaining the crowds before the Mardi Gras begins. There will be chances to join in as well!

Brading Roman Villa are hosting a special Sketching Workshop led by local artist Lucy Bell called “sketching the Ancient Landscape”. This two-hour session offers a chance to slow down, connect with nature, and capture the beautiful surroundings of the Villa through art.

If you’re aged under 16yrs, are arty and creative, and interested in supporting the amazing Isle of Wight Biosphere do pop along to Independent Arts to join in with a simple and fun craft activity.

Come and enjoy beautiful Bonchurch as you explore over 15 wonderful gardens! A shuttle bus will run through the village to help you get around, with parking available at Shore Road. The Hub, marked with a large yellow banner near The Grotto on Village Road, is your go-to spot for tickets, cream teas in the garden, plants for sale, restrooms, and the shuttle bus stop. Many gardens will also be selling plants from their own collections.

Translating Frequencies: 639 is a site-specific immersive sound installation by artist Nathan Holt, hosted at All Saints Church, Calbourne, a 12th-century site of architectural and cultural heritage. The work incorporates acoustic and subsonic sounds captured within the church and its surrounding natural environment, composed around the harmonic frame work of 639Hz. Visitors are invited to engage in deep listening within the fabric of the building itself.

An exhibition of the nine principles of the Isle of Wight UNESCO Biosphere Reserve showcased through island organisations.

More details coming soon.

Celebrating all things fabric at Gurnard village hall, both body and textiles. Stalls and exercise activities, with afternoon workshops such as creative mending of beloved items with a moth hole, stain or small tear to keep clothing from going to waste. Refreshments will be available.

Brading Roman Villa are hosting a special Sketching Workshop led by local artist Lucy Bell called “sketching the Ancient Landscape”. This two-hour session offers a chance to slow down, connect with nature, and capture the beautiful surroundings of the Villa through art.

Esprit Freedivers in collaboration with Theo Vickers are proud to present their Underwater Freediving Safari. Their resident marine biologist and award-winning underwater photographer Theo will be guiding our underwater tour, helping to discover the marine inhabitants of the Seagrass Meadows at Seaview, Isle of Wight. Booking essential and spaces limited.

Learn how to create colourful memories in your sketchbook while walking on the hills over St. Catherine's point with artist Lucia Para. Lucia Para is an Italian artist and illustrator and she will share her favourite techniques to start a sketchbook practice outdoors (or enrich your existing one).

From the team at Isle of Wight National Landscape.

Join Wight Nature Fund for our Biosphere Day on the 5th July at Yarmouth Community Centre (CHOYD), a celebration of nature and community, highlighting the Isle of Wight’s UNESCO Biosphere status.

Includes a group scavenger hunt, a guided walk and a whole day of displays, quizzes and refreshments at the hall.

Step away from the hustle of modern life and join the National Trust for a guided wellbeing walk through the stunning Newtown National Nature Reserve.

This gentle walk is designed to help you connect with nature on a deeper level, with opportunities for mindfulness, meditation, and sensory experiences along the way.

Walk via Abbey church through woodland and on to the Old Abbey ruins with the very knowledgeable chairman of the ”Friends of Quarr”. The walk (on private Quarr land) takes you around the ancient ruins and describes the workings of a medieval monastery, you are very welcome to ask questions!

Quarr is a great place to see the red squirrels and the whole site has a very special peaceful atmosphere. There lots of places to sit and ponder and it’s close to lovely walks. The Abbey church itself is awesome in the true sense.

Join us for a fun and fascinating day by the sea at the iconic Ryde Pier seafront. As part of the 2025 Isle of Wight Biosphere Festival, the University of Portsmouth’s expert marine scientists, and the Revolution Plastics Institute are hosting a hands-on, family-friendly event to learn about our amazing coastal environment and local conservation efforts. 

A sustainable/circular local fashion collaboration for four days between Holly Maslen and Kori. All clothing is sourced, second hand here on the Island, before hand-painted designs are added, making the clothes once again desirable and extending their life span. Also bespoke clothing made from old linen and lace. Made in response to the clothing see Appley oak gall drawings, alongside paper sculptures related to form and movement.