Culture on Scilly 2025 Season

With the support of Arts Council England, we will be presenting a range of activities throughout 2025 which will help inform the programme of the new Isles of Scilly Cultural Centre and Museum.

Alongside our regular programme of events, we run and support projects and commissions which enable people to experience high quality arts and culture.

We work with partners on Scilly and beyond to deliver work which focuses on community participation, building new audiences, and developing skills – especially for young people on Scilly.

Coming in April 2025

Kid Hyena Live in Concert

Saturday 19 April, Workshop at 5pm and Show at 9pm, FREE for show / £5 for workshop, Old Town Inn St Mary’s

CONCERT

Trailblazing urban folk music from the back streets of Barcelona. Foot stompin' sing along tunes, fiery percussion, rhythm tap dance beats & a whole load of positive vibes!

As seen at Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, Tropical Pressure, the band will be playing songs from their new album 'It takes courage to be happy' which recently had a hattrick of songs featured on BBC introducing. Expect the unexpected!

“A call of arms to the heart” - BBC Introducing SW
“A powerhouse...” — Ollie Winiberg - BBC Introducing & Radio 1 Presenter

“A gem in the inbox!” — Itch Fm

BODY PERCUSSION WORKSHOP - There will be a small charge of £5 for the workshop

A fun family based workshop that will explore patterns and techniques of body rhythm through coordination, beats & fun dance routines.

Clicks, claps, stomps & your very own heartbeat will combine to make body music. No experience required.

"Fantastic week of workshops. Brought us all together with fun & music”
"Lots of laughs, jokes and great leadership”
“The Workshops are ace! You are encouraged to express yourself in a non-judgemental environmen

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Coming in April 2025

Ridiculusmus’s Alas! Poor Yorick

Thursday 24 April, 7.30pm, £10/5, Old Town Inn St Mary’s

If the Two Ronnies were cast as the Gravediggers in Shakespeare’s Hamlet re-written by Samuel Beckett you might have something like Ridiculusmus’s “Alas! Poor Yorick”.

Mixing the mundane with the magical; moments of banal idiocy are interspersed with ones of cinematic elegance to an underscore of groans, grunts and the odd Shakespearean aside. The legendary independent theatre double act of Jon Haynes and David Woods pull out every trick in their theatrical playbook to create a fresh take on Shakespeare’s much- loved clowns, re-enacting all the preceding acts of the original and meticulously staging the famous graveyard scene in all its 420 year-old glory.

Flipping the Shakespearean original tragedy into an existential clown piece, Ridiculusmus cast aside chaos andmistaken murders to unearth a beautiful and oddly moving meditation on work, faith and existence, with the prevaricating protagonist offered in arefreshingly contemporary light.

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