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StoneCrabs Theatre - Out On An Island
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StoneCrabs Theatre - Out On An Island
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StoneCrabs is an LGBT+ led theatre and arts organisation committed to bringing hidden stories to light. Out On An Island is our ongoing, award-winning heritage and oral history project uncovering a century of hidden LGBTQ+ life on the Isle of Wight. Led by Artistic Director Franko Figueiredo and Project Manager Caroline Diamond, it brings together volunteers, artists, and researchers to record stories of LGBT+ Islanders and their experiences of belonging in a small rural community.
Since launching in 2019, the project has produced exhibitions, films, performances, and the book Out On An Island: The Isle of Wight’s Hidden LGBTQ+ History. Working with museums, schools, and archives, it preserves LGBTQ+ voices for future generations.
Its latest creative phase, Faces + Places, created in collaboration with the Queer Heritage and Collections Network and supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, transforms research into live, site-specific performed walks. Inspired by the Isle of Wight LGBTQ+ Heritage Trail Map, designed with Spike Spondike, the project exists as live performance, audio podcast, and film, inviting audiences on self-led journeys through local, literary, and queer heritage featuring figures such as Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Mew, Oscar Wilde, the Ferguson’s Gang, and Swinburne.
