This Weekend: Sandown's Hullabaloo Lite Festival Of Science, Nature And Art Returns

Saturday, 9 October 2021 06:00

By Iona Stewart-Richardson @IslandIona

The popular Hullabaloo Lite Festival will return to Sandown this weekend (Saturday and Sunday).

The popular event at Brown's Golf Course involves music, magic and everyone is invited to come along for FREE. Last year the team behind it took the event online - in the first lockdown to cheer everyone up.

This year, the weekend has been adapted to a small bijoux event, with local naturalists, artists and creatives.

In the evenings, you can either head to Moon, Music, Moths and Other Flying Insects at Browns, or head up the High Street to Boojum and Snark for a microbrewery, art and more.

Meanwhile, charity Isle of Wight hedgehog rescue will also be there to showcase the hogs!

Joel Bateman, from the IW AONB, said:

'COVID put the kybosh on people physically attending Hullaballoo in 2020, but the geniuses behind the scenes at Shademakers put together a fantastic event at home in partnership with Sandown’s finest artists, musicians and ecologists. This year, the Isle of Wight AONB has been lucky enough to have secured money from the European Union’s Interreg Programme and this is being used to help fund community and arts events to entice tourists back to the Island. We are really pleased to support this superb event and hope it draws an important line in the sand, where we can get back to celebrating the Island through art and science, safely together and as a community once again.’