Celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with Onto the Street

Ryde town centre has prestigious squares — Town Square, Minghella, Square and St Thomas' Square — all of which are set to become the focus for a range of high-quality street entertainment.

The project was devised by Ryde Business Association to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee by bringing entertainment out onto the streets of Ryde, encouraging the community to visit the town, enjoy the day and explore the local shops and businesses.

The event will see collaborative working between New Carnival, Monkton Arts, Ryde Arts, Riboleau St Studios, Ryde Town Council and Executive Command. Funded by Arts Council England, this will create not only a memorable Jubilee Day, but an event that we can build upon in the future'.

• New Carnival will work with local youth and arts groups to develop community street performances of theatre, carnival, and deliver an exciting range of costume making workshop, arts, and crafts.
• Monkton Arts will develop an arts and craft market to be located in St Thomas’s Church Gardens.
• Ryde Arts & Riboleau Street Studios will provide opportunities throughout the day for the community to get involved in pattern making which will
• go on to be incorporated into a largescale mural.
• Ryde Town Council will support logistics for the event.

Executive Command, a local security company, will offer training for volunteer stewards and marshals who will then support all the threads of activity on the day.

We believe that the Jubilee celebrations can provide a unique opportunity to fuse many creative opportunities together within Ryde to support, and be supported by, the retail sector in the town. The addition of professional street entertainers to the day will ensure that our first ‘Onto the Street’ event will attract a large diverse audience into Ryde and help set the scene for an annual unique festival unlike any other currently experienced on the Island.

Katy Edmunds from New Carnival said ‘‘We see ‘Onto the Street’ as a great opportunity for many sectors of the town to work together in a way that has not happened before.

This collaboration will truly benefit community cohesion in Ryde. We want to bring all our communities back onto the streets of Ryde to support each other, to build new and lasting partnerships and to celebrate all the town has to offer’’.

Hannah East from Ryde Town Council said ‘’ We are delighted to be a partner in this amazing initiative ‘Onto the Street’ and what a fantastic
year to kick it off with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Not only will it be a fantastic day celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee, but it will also be wonderful
to see Ryde come alive with street performances’’

We believe that by harnessing the excitement of the Platinum Jubilee it will act as a catalyst for change in the perception of the town centre.
‘Onto the Street’ is so important to us because it will: -

• Provide inspiring training for many of our young people
• Showcase their creative and sporting talents in a public arena
• Offer free high-quality entertainment for everyone to enjoy
• Inspire young people to consider the arts as a viable career path.
• Develop a pool of volunteer trained stewards who can support the local tourist economy
• Increase income opportunities for artists and artisans
• Support opportunities for different communities to work together for mutual benefit
• Put Ryde firmly on the cultural map
• Offer a range of legacy project ensuring that ‘Onto the Street’ isn’t just one day, but the start of many such days.

Town Ambassadors
We know that the events that are offered in Ryde often struggle to find trained stewards essential for the safety of those events. Whilst this is small part of our project, we see it as vital in that it provides a structured opportunity for the many local people who want to find a route to volunteering, it will ensure the safety of the public at ‘Onto the Street’ and we aspire to maintain support for this volunteer team to develop some ‘Town Ambassadors’ as on the street guides and information sharers on busy summer weekends in Ryde.

WHAT'S ON
Pre-event PERFORMANCE rehearsal
2nd June. Oakfield Primary School 11am-3pm
New Carnival is looking for a small troop of budding performers to be part of its ‘Back to the Future’ skateboarding and dance performance.
If you are free on Thursday 2nd June for a rehearsal at Oakfield Primary School as well as the performance day on Saturday 4th June, in Ryde, please contact Gemma Mallinson to register gemma@thenewcarnivalcompany.com

4th June. High Street & Union Street.
Craft Market, St Thomas’s Square 10:30am-3:30pm
The Isle of Wight boasts many talented artists and artisans, and the inclusion of an open-air art and craft market will provide many of them a new opportunity not only to sell their wares but also to raise public awareness of themselves as artists.
Many of us have witnessed the great success of art and craft markets in town like Lymington, Hay-on-Wye or Keswick and understand that they not only support the producers but that the marketplace is a significant attraction for the town. We hope that these bespoke markets will be present in Ryde on a more regular basis.
Royal Victoria Arcade
Elizabeth in Wonderland at 12pm
New Carnival, 13b Union Road, Ryde
Drop into New Carnival between 11am–2.45pm to make a Jubilee Flag. Free workshop for families. Once your flag is made, why not join the finale celebration, starting in the Town Square at 3:15pm
Cheeky Monkey Circus Act
Town Square 2pm–2:30pm
One Cheeky monkey takes the essence of Covent Garden and brings it ‘Onto the Street’. Danger, death defying feats and dodgy jokes you would expect from street hustlers alongside the polish, presentation and pazazz of the high-end pyro shows. You'll see acrobatics, knife tricks, Flaming Cyr wheel and juggling galore.

Town Square food market and performances
Back to the future! The next generation.
Performance times 12:45pm 1:30pm 3pm
Finale 3:15pm
New Carnival will be working with young people within the Ryde community to create a ‘Back to the Future’ style performance.
This piece will celebrate 70 years of dance, spanning the Queen's reign, and will integrate dance performance with skate boarding. Working in collaboration with John Cattle’s Skate Club to devise a piece that integrates sport (skateboarding) and arts, celebrated in a public arena.
New Carnival invites families and individuals to join them in Town Square at 3:15pm to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee by Dancing in the Streets. To end the day, join Vectis Brass Band at 3:30pm for a trip down memory lane in Minghella Square.

Elizabeth in Wonderland: A professional street performance piece.
Original Script written by Charlie Bonner, Roaming performances throughout the day. Based on the idea of ‘Mad Hatters Tea Party’ linked with the tradition of Royal Street Tea Parties. Physical Theatre, comedy.

Community Art Project; large-scale mural
Community opportunity to get involved in pattern making which will be incorporated into a large-scale mural. Drop-in sessions taking place at Minghella Square between 11am–3pm. Work produced will be displayed in Town Square during the summer.