New, large scale murals have been created at Cliftonville Lido by local and visiting artists.
Rise Up Residency, responsible for almost 20 large scale murals painted across Margate in 2022, partnered up with Margate Soul Festival to create new art.
New Margate CIC, headed up by Eli Thompson of Olby’s, has organised the 22nd annual soul festival taking place now until Sunday (August 4) at 19 indoor and outdoor stages, including a new Sunset Stage next to the beach, behind the Lido.
Rise Up Residency (RUR) invited artist Breeze Yoko from South Africa to install a large-scale mural to celebrate the festival.
The site was prepared by volunteers including five asylum seekers from Eritrea currently housed in Margate and awaiting their asylum claims.
Works also include murals by Catneil; Chu; Copie; Deam Safari; Eks; Gman; Guerilla Pest; Joe Drury; Notice It; Outta-Gram; Pad 303; Soul and Vince Pugh.
The art pieces join the existing large scale, environmental themed murals that have been created across Margate.
Breeze Yoko is a South African based multidisciplinary artist and curator specialising in video/film and graffiti/street art. Yoko has participated in urban art projects in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Senegal, Germany, France, Sweden and many more places.
RUR is an ocean awareness mural project spearheaded by Margate artist Louis Michel. Previous murals have focused on ocean plastics, rising sea levels, endangered marine life and lost souls at sea.
The promenade behind the Lido (Lower Newgate Prom) is being used as the new Sunset Stage for MSF.
they are vandalising a town in the name of ” art ” , and thats without that blot on the landscape of the turder centre
Is “real world” a stroppy teenager or just someone who likes to pretend he/she is one? It would be interesting to see what works of art “real world” has produced recently.
Thanks for your comment, Peter. Will you also be making a comment as one of your other characters?
Do you need planning permission to do this sort of art in buildings
Nope, none at all.
Sorry should be on buildings,not in
Horrendous. Thanet gets more and more like Croydon everyday. Armed robberies, feral youths, drugs and violent disorder everywhere.
This is histrionic bs.
They look wonderful
The murals are a big improvement on the previous graffiti ridden buildings. Good work. Some people have no taste or imagination
the murals were done by a group of folk who are also responsible for the majority of graf and tagging across the isle. One of them has even featured in this papers pages for being charged for criminal damage for it.
Well said 👍🏻
I live on the clifftop at Walpole Bay.
I have just walked into the beach, because the promenade has been fenced off. Operatives of a private security then tell me I cannot walk along the beach. I then ask them where the byelaw is on display permitting them to instruct me so and to close the promenade. They shrug, I walk along the beach in the sunset to Margate and back along the clifftop. All the whole accosted by the sound of flat, timeless lyrics and music.
Save for an image of an old “Whitey” mariner in a corner, the subject matter has nothing to do with the oldest seaside resort in Britain. It is neo-DFL dross. Most of the concert goers didn’t appear to be locals either.
My questions to Thanet District Council:-
Was a byelaw passed to close the promenade and instruct members of the public not to walk on the beach?
If it was, why was it not displayed/ published in accordance with statutory requirements?
If not, then the entire affair was an illegal act. The perpetrators of which must be prosecuted.
Lastly, how much council taxpayers’ money was spent on the event and the murals and who authorised it? The event will certainly not have brought any money into the community. Unless TDC charged Olby’s to rent the promenade. Did they?
I suppose going forward this is what we have to look forward to? I saw the adverts up for the forthcoming August/September soul geriatric’s weekender. Presumably, the same restrictions of movement for locals will be in place for this next delightful entertainment?🙄
@thanet.gov
Yes, a lot of out of towners. That’s the point- we are a resort, people have come here in large numbers to spend money on in our town. It’s a great event, and great to see the towns bars and eateries full throughout the weekend without any trouble. A great atmosphere and look forward to next years slready
Oh no, whatever next, visitors to a seaside resort. The cheek of it!
I agree. I walk the same route twice a day with my dog and some jumped up security guard told me I couldn’t use the public space of the beach.
And as for the murals, it doesn’t represent the history and culture of Margate. Just woke
Are you the guy with the wind chimes on the balcony, Johnny?
No.
Not me
“Most of the concert goers didn’t appear to be locals either.”
Gosh! I went to a Promenade concert at the Royal Albert Hall. And do you know what? Hardly anyone there came from Kensington! In fact, some were actually foreign!!
Oh look, harry webb, the infamous twitter racist keyboard warrior has a problem with music of black origin. What a surpise.
Reread my posting.
Put your own prejudices and name calling aside.
I would have posted precisely the same if the murals had been of Hitler & Mussolini and the music death metal.
Where was the byelaw/notice published permitting the closure of the promenade and fencing off of the beach? Where was the license for entertainment and liquor? That’s my point.
“Licence”. It’s a noun.
And this is Mr. Chipping’s Monday afternoon Grammar class?
And, yes I know. Never start a sentence with, and.
To err is human. To forgive is divine.
Cheer up, it could be worse. Anytime soon we might have a bunch of drunken neo nazis descending on the town to set fire to things, chuck stones at the police and defecate in our front gardens. Although I suspect quite a few on here would welcome such an invasion, maybe even old right whingers like real world would object to having his front garden defecated on.
Neo Nazis are always such a problem. You see them everywhere {insert eyeroll here}. Winger isn’t spelled with an “H” btw, and it’s pronounced “ah-ch”.
You are wrong, as a moment’s Google would reveal:
“whinger
noun [ C ] UK informal disapproving
a person who complains repeatedly..”
I stand corrected Andrew. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I must not have noticed the joke since the entire comment seemed to have been one.
“You see them everywhere {insert eyeroll here}.”
Given the fact the margate has paid host to white lives matter marches organised by infamous neo nazi paul pitt of the south east alliance, alongside local neo nazis that used to post on facebook under the name “pat riot”, well…
None so blind as the wilfully ignorant.
How dare people have other opinions. Amazing the things you see when you are outside the echo chamber.
Thank you Eli . You created magic today. Margate came alive.
It’s great that events are taking place in Margate (Thanet) and bringing money into our economy. The venues which hosted the events and many other restaurants where the visitors spent their money, employ local people who all benefit from having a job.
And this colourful street art brightens up what has become a very drab area.
as an idea i suggest to point the age those who comments in order to understand at what age you become a nerd and a fan of words.)))) I’m 44 y.o.
I have been interested in words since I was about four, when I had just learnt to read. How can anybody not be interested in words ? They are essential parts of human life.