End of Summer Party
August 30, 11am-1pm, Millmead Children’s Centre
The Millmead Children’s Centre on Dane Valley Road (Margate CT9 3RU) is hosting a End of Summer Disco with fun outdoor activities for children under the age of 8 years.
£2.00 per person, children must be accompanied by a adult over the age of 18 years for the full duration. Children are NOT to be left unattended.
Located in the large hall, join the fun with party music, visual effects, laser and disco lighting together with activities in the large community garden
Tickets are non-refundable. No Mobile Phones, photography or recording equipment is allowed.
Drinks and nibbles will be provided
Full Name, Age (for those under 18 years) and Postcode is require for each person attending to valid the ticket.
DIY Things That Fly
30th August, 1pm, Monkton Nature Reserve
Join in a guided hunt around Monkton Nature Reserve
A chance to spot damselflies, dragonflies, butterflies and more!
Craft and create your own favourite ‘flying thing’
All ages are welcome.
Tickets £5 (£3 for members) Book now
1927’s Bivouac Tales
30th August, 2pm-5pm, ARK – Cliftonville Cultural Space in Albion Road
An animated journey by 1927 and the children of Thanet at ARK, Cliftonville’s Cultural Space
For the last 6 months, 1927 have been working with Thanet’s most imaginative and inventive young minds, co-creating animated tales of curiosity and mayhem coupled with surreal soundtracks.
Crawl into the bivouac and experience the creations on all surfaces in a special one-off exhibition at ARK.
There’s also an opportunity to create an animated bivouac tale of your own!
Bivouac Tales has been made in collaboration with children from Thanet Endeavour Learning Trust schools including Laleham Gap School, Parkside Community Primary School, Garlinge Primary School & St Mildred’s Primary Infant School with additional animations from ARK Summer Sessions.
Free
Outatime: 10th Birthday Party
30th August, 6pm-1am, Dreamland Margate
Dance and sing your hearts out to the top tracks from the 80’s & 90’s at Dreamland Margate!
This is a 18+ event (ID required)
Outatime returns to celebrate 10 years of keeping it Retro! Dust off your shell suits, get your leg warmers on and back comb your hair.
Tickets from £15 (additional order fees may apply) Book now
Ramsgate Blitz Walk
30th August, 7pm-9pm, free, donations welcome
Relive the dark days of the war in the heaviest bombed seaside town in the country
Walk starts from Ramsgate Library.
No need to book. Dogs and children welcome.
Kavus Torabi
30th August, 7.30pm, Justines Margate
Kavus Torabi is a British/ Iranian composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, author, artist, broadcaster and DJ. His largely autobiographical solo work marries the human with the celestial. Since 2016 he has fronted legendary psychedelic band Gong with whom he is principal songwriter.
This is an 18+ event
Tickets £11.50 Book now
The Improvised Shakespeare Show
30th August, 8pm, Pierremont Hall in Broadstairs. Free
Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we would give him a hand. Using his language, the audience suggestions, and the overactive imaginations, they create a brand-new Shakespeare play live on stage, complete with live music, songs, and plenty of laughs.
At a ShakeItUp show, you get to help their intrepid improvisors make up an entirely new Shakespeare play on the spot! Pick your authentic Shakespearean genre, then sit back and watch the hilarity unfold as we improvise a totally authentic (and totally bonkers) play that Willy Shakes himself would be proud of! Accompanied by improvised song and music from our talented ShakeItUp Band.
Turner Lates: Movements from the Margins
30th August, 5.30pm-9pm, Turner Contemporary
An evening of art, music, dance and community at the Turner Contemporary in Margate.
Featuring live music and DJ sets, improv dance, sound healing, and meditation workshops, performances, and a panel talk with representatives and special guests of People Dem Collective and Diasporas Now on nurturing diverse discourses and sustainable social change in the cultural industries – all served with curated offerings of cocktails and cuisines.
Movements from the Margins is inspired by Clark’s legacy on the Abstract Expressionist movement, and his own strategies of seeking global support networks to platform perspectives from the peripheries into the cultural canon.
The shop and café will remain open with a paid bar.
Free entry – booking recommended. Book now
Murder at the Broadstairs Funfair
August 31, 10am-4pm, Westgate Galleria
Author Carol M Creasey launches her latest book. Pop in and meet her, public talk at 2pm.
Westgate Galleria, Station Road, Westgate
The Magic of Motown
31st August, 7.30pm-10pm, The Granville Theatre Ramsgate
Celebrate the sound of a generation with one very special night at the Granville Theatre in Ramsgate!
Get ready for all the hits, glittering costumes, dazzling dance routines and outstanding musicianship in this breath-taking live concert spectacular.
Tickets from £33 + booking fee Book now
Rumble Wrestling
31st August, The Oval Bandstand and Lawns Cliftonville
Rumble Wrestling returns to The Oval Bandstand in Cliftonville for an afternoon of top action.
5pm – Doors open
6pm – Show starts*
8:15pm – Meet the Rumble Wrestling stars**
9pm – Doors close
No dogs or pets allowed (except registered assistance dogs).
Please note that all under 18’s must be accompanied by an adult, unable to accommodate children under 5 years old
From £14 plus booking fee. Book now
Gary Obee at York Street Gallery
Broadstairs artist Gary is relatively new to painting and this is his first solo exhibition. His show is a mix of studio and plein air paintings.
Meet the artist, August 31, 2pm. Exhibition runs until September 4.
York Street Gallery, Ramsgate
Journey to Italy (U)
Palace Cinema Broadstairs
Journey to Italy is a deceptively simple tale of a stuffy English couple (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders) travelling to Naples while attempting to resuscitate their dysfunctional marriage. A romantic classic.
Saturday 31 August to Tuesday 3 September
Manston Market
A regular Saturday market will take place at Manston airport from August 31.
The event will be run by Bray Associates, which also runs the Friday market in Ramsgate.
Manston airport market will be open to the public from 9am to 3pm.
The Very Best of TOMMY COOPER – Just Like That
31st August, 7.30pm, Sarah Thorne Theatre in Broadstairs
One-man show focuses on Tommy Cooper’s legendary comedy act, recapturing his trademark mayhem and misfiring magic.
The hour-and-a-half show with interval includes many of Cooper’s beloved one-liners, dazzling wordplay and celebrated tricks, including Glass/Bottle, Dappy Duck, Spot the Dog and Jar/Spoon.
Produced and performed by Daniel Taylor.
The Production has the blessing of the Tommy Cooper Estate
Tickets £19 +£1 Booking Fee in advance, £21 on the door Book now
Live Music at Broadstairs Bandstand – Einstein’s Children
31st August, 2pm-4pm
5-piece band fronted by two highly talented female singers.
They specialise in beautiful vocal harmonies and their songs are a mix of pop, dance, blues and soft rock from the 60s through to the present day.
Conscious Light
31st August, 2pm – 4pm, Droit House, Margate harbour arm. FREE
Screening of The Divine Life and Revelation of Avatar Adi Da Samraj
Reality itself is always already the case.
Conscious Light offers a penetrating glimpse into the remarkable life and enlightened teachings of Avatar Adi Da Samraj and his work to establish a way of ultimate spiritual realization for everyone. It draws on extensive archival film, photography, and audio recordings, as well as interviews with students who lived with Avatar Adi Da and continue to practice the way that he revealed.
The film also captures candid, often humorous, and spiritually profound exchanges between Avatar Adi Da and his students over the course of more than three decades, including transcendent moments of sublime silence and spiritual transmission. Viewers are drawn into a deeply intimate experience of Avatar Adi Da’s living spiritual presence.
Happy Reading Children’s Bookshop event – The Storm Foal
31st August, 10.30am-11am, The Happy Reading Children’s Bookshop Broadstairs
Meet local Children’s author, Lily Cleo Hewitt for a lovely storytime and activity with her picture book ‘The Storm Foal’ at Staple.
One stormy summer’s day the lighthouse of a small town flickers out and a lost kelpie, Finn, wanders ashore in the dark. Rose befriends him and decides to bring him home – despite warnings not to! But as the kelpie spends more time on land, both he and the weather become more and more out of control.
Despite their fun and friendship… is the kelpie meant to be somewhere else? A heartwarming and magical tale about the lifelong impact of true friendship.
Lily and her co-author, Megsie Bray, wrote ‘The Storm Foal’ together during Covid as a long-distance way of sharing joy. They took it in turns to write a sentence at a time and then found their illustrator Maddie Vian by chance, who happened to live in the same town! They have both always adored folklore and spoken stories and have had a whole load of adventures together around the globe since meeting aged seven. The Storm Foal is also available to order in Mandarin and Spanish.
During the session, the responsible adult(s) are very welcome to enjoy their favourite coffee and pastry downstairs at STAPLE or come and hang out upstairs in the bookshop!!
For ages 3+
Free – drop-in
Pickled
31st August, 9pm-3am, Justines Margate
A night of house, disco, beats all night long!
DJs on the night: Derrick Patterson, Jonathan Henfrey, Greig Gaskill
This is an 18+ event
Tickets £5 in advance, £8 on the door Book now
Cycle del Mar
31st August. Meet outside Turner Contemporary for a 7.30pm start
If you are looking to make getting active fun then come and join Col’s Kent Bike Tours to ride and see the Margate Sunset. They have a live DJ on a Rickshaw leading the ride, with 3 ride leaders if you need confidence to get cycling again. There is also space on the rickshaw for 2 non-riders to enjoy the experience.
This is a flat ride suitable for beginners along the Viking Trail and will be a great way to meet new people to cycle with.
Children are welcome to join with an adult.
Please contact: [email protected] with any questions.
Bikes are available to hire for this event from The Bike Shed Margate please email: [email protected]
Classic Cars at Quex House
1st September, 11am-3pm, Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House and Gardens, Birchington
Classic cars at Quex House are brought to you by Thanet Classics Car Club members.
Thanet Classics are a family-friendly classic car club serving the South East Kent Region, primarily in Thanet, but also has members from Essex, Faversham, Dover and Sandwich. They are a club of owners and enthusiasts of vehicles that are over 25 years old.
On Sunday 1st September enjoy some classics from the 70s and older! You’ll see a range of 12-15 cars, with brands such as Wolseley, Pontiac and Austin. Also on this day, why not purchase some snacks and drink to enjoy while looking around the cars, or to have when relaxing on the lawn in front of Quex House.
Visitors are welcome to explore the Museum, House and Gardens – tickets can be booked online
FREE to visit the cars.
Museum, House & Gardens entry Member Free, Adult £4, Concession: £3.50, Child £3, Infant (age 0-3 years) Free Book now
Live Music at Broadstairs Bandstand – Gravesend Borough Band
1st September, 2.30pm – 4pm
Concert band (brass, woodwind and Percussion) playing live music at the Bandstand.
Blink Twice (15)
Carlton Cinema Westgate
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality. Blink Twice is a psychological thriller about the abuse of power. While this is a fictionalised movie, it contains mature themes and depictions of violence – including sexual violence. This may be upsetting or triggering for some viewers.
Now until September 5
Ramsgate Blitz Walk
1st September, 10am to noon
Relive the dark days of the war in the heaviest bombed seaside town in the country
Walk starts from Ramsgate Library… lasts approximately 2 hours.
No need to book. Dogs and children welcome.Free, donations welcome.
Salsadelic at The Oval Bandstand & Lawns
-Doors, toilets and concessions open: 1pm – 5pm .
-Concert: 2pm – 4pm.
-A minimum £2 donation per adult on door (under 16’s no donation required).
-All persons under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.
-A fully licensed bar and food is available (alcohol and food is not to be brought into venue, bag searches are in operation).
-Fully accessible toilet facilities are available.
-All seating areas have step-free access.
-There is no car parking at the venue, please use public transport, bicycles, or arrive on foot. There is very limited local car parking and charges may apply.
-Well behaved dogs are welcome, but they MUST be kept on a lead at all times whilst in the bandstand auditorium.
Westgate garage safari
September 1, 10am to 2pm
Toys, clothes, bric-a-brac and lots more
Printed maps of homes taking part from Bethany’s sandwich bar & cafe or online at https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit…
More than 50 houses taking part.
Ramsgate Vikings Model Boat Club open day
September 1, 10am to 4pm, The Boating Pool, Royal Esplanade, Ramsgate
Display of model boats, demos, Club 500 racing at noon and 2pm.
Margate RNLI Community Blue Light Day
Volunteers at Margate’s RNLI lifeboat station are once again hosting the popular Community Blue Light Day on Sunday 1 September where the public can meet the emergency services and learn a little about what happens when you dial 999.
Between 10.30am and 3.30pm the public can come along to the RNLI lifeboat station at Margate and meet representatives from among others: Margate RNLI Lifeboat, RNLI Lifeguards, HM Coastguard, Kent Fire & Rescue Service, Kent Police, South East Coast Ambulance Service and St John Ambulance.
It promises to be a fun day out suitable for all the family, children in particular will love the experience where they can get close up to the lifeboats and rescue vehicles and meet the emergency responders – don’t forget your cameras! The day will include live demonstrations including sea safety advice and the opportunity to learn new life skills including junior CPR instruction. Operational circumstances permitting, the lifeboat will launch for an afloat demonstration at 1pm and Kent Fire & Rescue is hoping to have its height vehicle and urban rescue team in attendance.
Visitors can meet RNLI fundraisers with the opportunity to buy a gift at the Lifeboat Shop where you can contribute to saving lives at sea. You can even learn about volunteering for the lifeboat service – including in roles where you don’t have to get your feet wet! Hot and cold drinks will also be available, all proceeds in aid of the RNLI.
Further afield
Sense of Stigma
The Beaney Canterbury, now until September 29
Mellissa Monsoon from Ramsgate is an internationally recognised bio-artist whose work brings the invisible world of human anatomy to life. Her multidisciplinary practice ranges from illustration, printmaking, photography, film, sculpture, electronics and ceramics.
Sense of Stigma is an exhibition of printmaking, interactive art, ceramics and sculpture sharing Monsoon’s lived experience and journey as a ‘fat woman’ in healthcare and society. Monsoon invites the public and healthcare professionals to engage with the exhibition respectfully, learning about how to speak about body types and taking part in workshops to make sense of the stigma through visual art; changing the way people see and speak about larger bodies.
This exhibition is supported by the Arts Council and IIHUK Charity.
