A session exploring the importance of crits, hosted by Resort Studios and in conversation with Jess Jordan-Wrench, Anna Skutley & Umut Gunduz. * Crit - a space for peer support and collaborative knowledge exchange, giving artists a platform to discuss, critique and question. You will first hear from Mercedes Workman from Resort Studios with an […]

Come drum up the coastal winds with Kensei Taiko and learn the basics of Japanese drumming!   Taiko is a full body, holistic experience...it's soul enriching, physically exhilarating and an ancient art form! Come feel the deep vibrant pulse. Learn the basics of Japanese drumming, bring out the spirit of the drums and awaken dragons. […]

Shirt Notice is a project put together to engage with local artists and the community, to raise funds and awareness in support of People Dem Collective.   Taking inspiration from recent global protests against racism, we have 20 artists local to Margate, exhibiting an 'upcycled' T-shirt into wearable (or not) artwork.   The exhibition will […]

UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED    |  Boxing series by Freya Tewelde   |    Outdoor Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space   A figure in a morph-suit and wearing boxing gear, boxing an invisible–self or other as we all being hurt by this invisible force especially 2020…and how […]

|   Nowadays by Canterbury School of Visual Arts and Creative Industries at Broadstairs College   |    Margate NOW 2020 are excited to host a visual arts exhibition of students from Canterbury School of Visual Arts at Canterbury College and students from Creative Industries at Broadstairs College. They have responded to the theme Margate NOW – Margate as […]

|   Colour Blind by Leondre Ansah   |    Colour Blind is an exhibition at Resort Studios. An exploration of the questions ‘If you don’t see the colour of my skin, how can you see me?’ If you don’t see a person’s colour then how do you see the struggles that black and brown people have […]

UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED    |  Boxing series by Freya Tewelde   |    Outdoor Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space   A figure in a morph-suit and wearing boxing gear, boxing an invisible–self or other as we all being hurt by this invisible force especially 2020…and how […]

|   Colour Blind by Leondre Ansah   |    Colour Blind is an exhibition at Resort Studios. An exploration of the questions ‘If you don’t see the colour of my skin, how can you see me?’ If you don’t see a person’s colour then how do you see the struggles that black and brown people have […]

|  Free Speech Equaliser 9000 by Crab Museum   |    What is the Free Speech Equaliser 9000? When exercising your freedom of speech, do you find that other people's voices overpower your own? Or perhaps your voice drowns out other people's? Enter the Free Speech Equaliser 9000, the world's first communication enhancement system. Using the […]

|   The death of George Floyd by Sebastian September & Mandalorian Revisited 2020 by Asa Chandler   |    Outdoor Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space    “Three words ‘BLM’ I wanted to help support black & brown people because I felt bad for George the way he died a slow painful death was not […]

Join us for a first look at The Margate Kebab Map, a playable, documentary game highlighting various kebab restaurants in Margate. |   The Margate Kebab Map by Anna Skutley & Umut Gunduz   |    The Margate Kebab Map is a multi-media documentary project highlighting a group of restaurants often overlooked or excluded by cultural profiles […]

|   Lost for Territory by Freya Tewelde   |    Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space   Lost for Territory is a looping video installation with sound (hymns) which explores a 48 seconds vision in the future. It is a reflective study on present–day territories which navigate and equally roll through our everyday diasporic experiences. Partly […]

|  Boxing Series II by Freya Tewelde   |    Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space   A figure in a morph-suit and wearing boxing gear, boxing an invisible–self or other as we all being hurt by this invisible force especially 2020…and how the narrative falls short of clarity but lands more interesting on distortion. […]

|   Live experimental sound and art workshop for kids & families led by Megan Metcalf!   |    You are invited to attend this fabulous live experimental sound and art event led by Margate artist Megan Metcalf in collaboration with sound experts Jo Miller of Solasta Sounds and Margate Social Singing Choir, led by Hughie Gavin. […]

|   Lost for Territory by Freya Tewelde   |    Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space   Lost for Territory is a looping video installation with sound (hymns) which explores a 48 seconds vision in the future. It is a reflective study on present–day territories which navigate and equally roll through our everyday diasporic experiences. Partly […]

|  Boxing Series II by Freya Tewelde   |    Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space   A figure in a morph-suit and wearing boxing gear, boxing an invisible–self or other as we all being hurt by this invisible force especially 2020…and how the narrative falls short of clarity but lands more interesting on distortion. […]

|  Hip-Hop Something by Lee Saffery   |    Hip-Hop Something is an audio & visual space created in order to highlight the essential impact that the music genre has had on race issues. “Hip-Hop Something started with my love for the music genre. In a town where Hip-Hop is so underrepresented I wanted to make […]

|   Live experimental sound and art workshop led by Megan Metcalf!   |    You are invited to attend this fabulous live experimental sound and art event led by Margate artist Megan Metcalf in collaboration with sound experts Jo Miller of Solasta Sounds and Margate Social Singing Choir, led by Hughie Gavin. The sound and art […]

|  Wind-Breaker Mural by Rory Strudwick   |    The Wind-Breaker Mural is a giant windbreaker with an abstract representation of Margate’s growth as a town across the past 10 years. With this painted onto one side of the piece and facing the town, I will set it up to create various windless patches for people […]

|  Boxing Series II by Freya Tewelde   |    Screening at Pie Factory Margate A figure in a morph-suit and wearing boxing gear, boxing an invisible–self or other as we all being hurt by this invisible force especially 2020…and how the narrative falls short of clarity but lands more interesting on distortion. The blue background […]

|   Lost for Territory by Freya Tewelde   |    Screening at Pie Factory Margate   Lost for Territory is a looping video installation with sound (hymns) which explores a 48 seconds vision in the future. It is a reflective study on present–day territories which navigate and equally roll through our everyday diasporic experiences. Partly reaching out […]

|   Tunnel Vision by Sprankenstein   |    Tunnel Vision installation by Sprankenstein, artist, animator, explores the hidden history of subterranean London, and speculates on the city’s future. Through a series of meetings and discussions, the artist took inspiration from the work carried out by engineers from Mott MacDonald, Buro Happold, and research carried out at […]

|   Participate (the diversity fayre) by Geoffrey Chambers   |    Participate is an immersive art event, very much like a school sports day or village Fair typical in Thanet. Join in, fill out ‘the check your privilege’ questionnaire and enter your bubble. Participate. To take part in Participate: The Diversity Fayre, you must be available […]

|   A skate-dance performance by Bob Chicalors & Tanya Loretta Dee   |    An elusive, non-immersive skate dance improvisation along Margate seafront at some between 5 - 6pm on Saturday 10th October. There will be no audience as such, but perhaps you'll catch a fleeting glance of Bob and Tanya performing a carnivalesque teacher-student routine […]

Make Noise For Equality: a panel discussion of race, identity and the world with the C4E collective, including a series of performances. Canvas 4 Equality presents to you: Make Noise For Equality, a two day event featuring a panel discussion amongst the Canvas 4 Equality collective supported by an interlude of musical and poetry performances on […]