Margate Festival – 14 to 30 September 2018

Margate Festival
Margate Festival 2018: NOW

14 to 30 September 2018

at over thirty venues throughout Margate

Discover more of Margate during NOW, the ambitious and extensive Margate Festival 2018.

You’ll find poets in cafes waiting to write for you inspired by the world around them, sound installations, exhibitions, unexpected signs, projection, performance, workshops, print, poetry, drama, photography, painting, walks, tours, video and film screenings, shared food and experiences.

From Margate Station across Margate to The Garden Gate Project and in over thirty venues in between, you’ll discover more than sixty events to provoke thought, draw you in and entertain you.

Find out more at www.margatefestival.org and put the dates in your diary – you won’t want to be anywhere else.

 

“Margate Festival encourages us to live in the moment, to momentarily stop whatever we do to participate, jump in, and focus on what is really happening.”

Sacha Craddock, guest curator

 

Contact:           Margate Festival  [email protected]

www.margatefestival.org

TEAM

Consortium:    Crate, Limbo, Resort

Partners:         Turner Contemporary, Dreamland, Kent County Council

Panel:              Sacha Craddock (Guest Curator), Jo Murray (Crate), Claire Orme (Limbo), Dan Chilcott (Resort), Kate Kneale (Marine Studios), Jess Jordan Wrench (Dot Dash), Molly Molloy (Turner Contemporary), Victoria Barrow Williams (Dreamland)

Coordinator:    Jenny Duff

Programme

All Margate Festival events are FREE with no need to book unless otherwise specified

Further information about all events can be found at www.margatefestival.org

Curator tours will take place throughout the Festival, these are free but booking is essential

 

Throughout the Festival

 

Poetry Micro-Residencies          

Connor Sansby

14 – 30 September

Discover the locations and times on Facebook events

Margate becomes home to a metre of poets, writing poetry inspired by the world around them at events throughout the festival.

 

Now you see me Now you don’t

Helder Clara

14 – 30 September

Westbrook Bay, Royal Esplanade, CT9 5DW

A site-specific installation. The solid becomes invisible. The sense of loss and gain from the shimmer of reflected light. They are here, now they are not. You are here, now you are gone.

 

Stoops

Babe Studio

14 – 30 September

Look out for the photographers throughout the Festival

An exploration through photography of people on their door stoops; a place to be neighbourly, to be a member of the community, to sit and be, to observe, to stare, to be nosy, to smoke, to drink.

The photographs will be exhibited at Hantverk & Found from the 28 – 30 September.

 

Turner Way

Chu

14 – 30 September

Rendezvous, CT9 1HG

Discover this huge, handmade landmark tribute sign honouring JMW Turner and Margate’s beautiful landscape as a regenerative destination.

 

Where Were You Now

Dot Dash

21 – 30 September

Free download at www.dotdashhq.com/now

Time is elastic and relative. Dot Dash present an intimate binaural sound-work, exploring the dynamic relationship between nows.

 

 

 

Exhibitions

 

Arrangement

Lizzy Rose

Private View: 14 September 18:00 – 20:00

14 – 30 September: Thursday – Sunday 12:00 – 16:00

Crate, Bilton Square, CT9 1EE

A layer of living moss forms an indoor landscape in Lizzy Rose’s new audio-visual installation. The work explores landscape, form, nostalgia and the pursuit of knowledge between cultures.

 

Spirit of Kim’s Video: Out NOW!

  1. AA.

14 – 30 September

101 Social Club, 101 Northdown Road, CT9 2QY

Video installation playing loop screenings of obscure independent films from all times, alongside images, texts and sounds from 80/90s NYC.

 

Spirit of Kim’s Video: NOW and then

  1. AA.

14 – 30 September: Friday – Saturday 10.00 – 00:00; Sunday, 10.00 – 21:00; Monday – Thursday 11:00 – 20:00

101 Social Club, 101 Northdown Road, CT9 2QY

Pictures, text, sounds and videos portraying the 80/90s East Village scene of independent arts and music intertwined with work produced by Margate-based artists, inspired by the Kim’s Video world and mythology.

 

A rose is a rose is a rose…

Chiara Williams

8 September – 6 October: Wednesday – Sunday 11:00 – 15:00

Chiara Williams: In Conversation: 29 September 14:00

Liddicoat & Goldhill Project Space, The Printworks, 1a Union Row, CT9 1PP

An installation of paintings, sculptures and projections; the space becomes a hamam, a temple, and an ode to female bodies.

 

Portraits of Margate

Caroline Dyal

Private View: 15 September 18:00

14 – 30 September: Thursday – Friday 11:00 – 17:00; Saturday – Sunday 11:00 – 18:00

Joseph Wales Exhibition and Event Space, 2A Dane Hill, CT9 1QP

This photographic exhibition reinforces the importance of the community, a feeling of belonging and being a valued member of society.

 

Thrills and Spills

Darren Lewis and Ross Andrews

Private View: 14 September 18:30 – 21:00

14 – 25 September 10:00 – 18:00

Pie Factory Margate, 5 Broad Street, CT9 1EW

‘Thrills and Spills’ brings together all the fun experiences of our coastline through painting with oils and photography.

 

Rechsteiner, Reynolds & Rose

Jay Rechsteiner, Nick Reynolds, Edward Rose

By appointment only: [email protected]

Eaton Hill ArtHouse, 6 Eaton Hill, CT9 1UT

‘Bad Paintings’ by Jay Rechsteiner and ‘Japornism’ by Nick Reynolds in collaboration with Edward Rose at Alyson Hunter’s Eaton Hill ArtHouse.

This artwork contains adult content and is not suitable for children.

 

Complex Kinships III

Betsy Porritt               

27 – 30 September: Thursday – Friday 19:00 – 21:00; Saturday – Sunday 11:00 – 18:00

LIMBO, 2 Bilton Square, CT9 1EE

‘Complex Kinships III’ uses sound, image and installation to ask: When we touch each other, what else is touching us?

 

 

Stoops

Babe Studio

Private View: 27 September 19:00 – 21:00

28 – 30 September: Friday – Saturday 18:00 – 22:00; Sunday 12:00 – 16:00

Hantverk & Found, 18 King Street, CT9 1DA

An exploration through photography of people on their door stoops; a place of being a neighbour, a member of the community, to sit and be, to observe, to stare, to be nosy, to smoke, to drink.

 

Conversations

Contemporary Cubed Artist Collective: Shirley-Ann Galbraith, Phillip Williams, Christine Parsons

Private View: 29 September 16:00

28 September – 1 October 11:00 – 18:00

Pie Factory Margate, 5 Broad Street, CT9 1EW

Contemporary Cubed artist collective present their inaugural show ‘Conversations’. They explore conversations with self, between materials, space and society.

 

14-16 September

 

Faces of Thanet

Jordan Gray

14 September 10:30 – 14:30

The Garden Gate Project, Northdown Park, Northdown Park Road, CT9 3TP

A fun collaborative project that will be exhibited publicly during Margate Festival 2018. Come along and get creative with collage and screenprinting and make your own face to be featured in the artworks.

 

Tool Shed Dark Room & The Garden Gate Project

14 September 10:30 – 14:30

The Garden Gate Project, Northdown Park, Northdown Park Road, CT9 3TP

Make a picture of NOW: garden photograms combining analogue and digital technologies. New and Improved: our biggest wood fired pizza yet AND a selection of this year’s pickles.

 

Approaching Viriditas

Holly Slingsby

14 September 12:30 – 13:30

The Garden Gate Project, Northdown Park, Northdown Park Road, CT9 3TP

A new performance, collaging Hildegard of Bingen’s concept of Viriditas – a spiritual fecundity – with imagery pertaining to medical infertility.

 

Commissioning Artists: How Arts and Heritage work together

Appletye: Dawn Cole, Lorna Dallas Conte and Dan Thompson

14 September 14:30 – 17:00

The Side Bar, Dreamland, 49-51, Marine Terrace, CT9 1XJ

Free event. Places are limited, booking is essential at margatefestival.org

A CPD and networking session for artists and other interested parties encouraging conversations around commissioning artists within Arts and Heritage. The session includes an artist-led heritage walk round Dreamland.

 

Spirit of Kim’s Video: Mondo Party

14 September 21:00 – 00:00

101 Social Club, 101 Northdown Road, CT9 2QY

Live DJ set by Kevin Morpurgo @connect_nothing, Nina Radio Tapes + Ice Cream Mafia and special guest DJs.

 

Sand on Sand

Ty Locke

15 – 16 September 10:00 – 16:00

Margate Beach, location to be announced via social media

Join Ty Locke in this performance installation building hundreds of identical sand castles on the beach.

 

Faces of Thanet

Jordan Gray

15 September 11:00 – 15:00

Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, CT9 1HG

A fun collaborative project that will be exhibited publicly during Margate Festival 2018. Come along and get creative with collage and screenprinting and make your own face to be featured in the artworks.

 

Start Stomping

Moving Memory Dance Theatre with Intergen31

15 September 14:00 & 15:00

Winter Gardens, Fort Crescent, CT9 1HX

Free event. Places are limited, booking is essential at margatefestival.org

Featuring a sixteen feet tall inflatable man, ‘Start Stomping’ brings the generations together to waltz their way to wisdom in a merry dance to save the world.

 

Appropriate

Liene Steinberga Cesar

15 September 21:00 – 23:00

Clubs and Pubs of Margate to be announced on Instagram: @steinbergacesar

Performance artist Liene Steinberga Cesar appropriates contemporary pastimes referencing the overwhelming rise of ethnic pride. A nightclub becomes a stage questioning appropriate behaviour.

 

17-20 September

 

The Avenues

Beth Turrell, Marcus Brooker and emerging filmmakers from South East Kent

17 September 19:15 – 20:15

The Tap Room, Prices Avenue, CT9 2NR

Other venues TBC, please check margatefestival.org

Set in Cliftonville, ‘The Avenues’ short documentary films explore change, gentrification, identity and home. These documentary profiles offer a unique lens on a rapidly changing Margate.

 

Faces of Thanet

Jordan Gray

18 September 11:00 – 15:00

Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, CT9 1HG

This session is aimed at people aged 50+

A fun collaborative project that will be exhibited publicly during Margate Festival 2018. Come along and get creative with collage and screenprinting and make your own face to be featured in the artworks.

 

Artists Dinner

Mel Cole

18 September 19:00

Limbo, 2 Bilton Square, CT9 1EE

Free event. Places are limited, booking is essential at margatefestival.org

Artist Dinner invites you to join guests Dan Scott and Trish Scott to have a conversation about their work over a shared meal.

 

Funding for Artists

Arts Council England

19 September 10:00 – 12:00

Resort, 50 Athelstan Road, CT9 2BH

Free event. Places are limited, booking is essential at margatefestival.org

Join us to discover more about the process and requirements of funding, with Arts Council England. A small number of bookable one to one sessions are available between 13:00 – 16:30.

 

Looping The Loop

20 – 23 September

20 September 18:00 – 23:00; 21 September 14:00 – 22:00; 22 – 23 September 10:00 – 22:00

Marine Gardens, CT9 1UH

Visit the pop up bar to catch up on the news of the day. Have a drink, read the paper, listen to a twisted tale from today’s news delivered by your waiter.

 

 

21-23 September

 

Fantastical Places: Collage Workshop

Julie Rafalski

21 – 23 September 11:00 – 13:00

21 September, location TBC, please check margatefestival.org

22 & 23 September, Resort, 50 Athelstan Road, CT9 2BH

Free event. Places are limited, booking is essential at margatefestival.org

Join this collage workshop to create fantastical places and buildings based on the unusual places and architecture of Margate.

 

Last To Go

Emma Gibson

21 – 23 September 12:00 – 18:00

Old Water Tower, Margate Station, CT9 5AD

‘Last To Go’ examines the near-future world of automation via strangely familiar

‘survivalist’ shelters, created from remnants of work that used to be human and rendered in mixed reality.

 

Looping The Loop

20 – 23 September: 20 September 18:00 – 23:00; 21 September 14:00 – 22:00;

22 – 23 September 10:00 – 22:00

Marine Gardens, CT9 1UH

Visit the pop up bar to catch up on the news of the day. Have a drink, read the paper, listen to a twisted tale from today’s news delivered by your waiter.

 

Your England

Dan Thompson

21 September 14:30

Roundabout, Marine Gardens, CT9 1UH

Free event. Booking is essential at margatefestival.org

Award-winning artist and writer Dan Thompson tells the story of England Now, as he sets out to write 100 poems about 100 places.

 

Spirit of Kim’s Video: Kim’s Video NOW!

  1. AA.

21 September 19:00 – 20:30

101 Social Club, 101 Northdown Road, CT9 2QY

An interview, talk, screening and open discussion on how the Margate chapter of the Kim’s Video story might be developed. Filmmakers Ashley Sabin and David Redmond will present clips from their documentary on the story.

 

Heritage Sharing Event: 200 years of Xanadu in Margate

Round in Circles

22 September 14:00 – 17:00

Location TBC, please check margatefestival.org

Free event. Places are limited, booking is essential at margatefestival.org

As part of making ‘In Search of Xanadu’ Bob Chicolars and Anna Symes have been researching 200 years of leisure and entertainment culture in Margate. They have interviewed many wonderful local people in Margate, learnt historic dances, delved into archives and made interesting discoveries along the way.

 

Poetry on the Sand

Joshua Cialis

22 September 17:00

Nayland Rock Shelter, Royal Crescent Promenade, CT9 1XJ

Bring poetry and ears to share in this interactive poetry workshop and open mic event where Margate poets and writers will share their work.

 

Das Hund – For Freedom, Debut Album Launch

Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski – Das Hund

22 September 19:00

LIMBO, 2 Bilton Square, High Street, CT9 1EE

Das Hund launch their debut album ‘For Freedom’, with a collaborative live performance with musicians Fancy Smith and Serafina Steer.

Appropriate

Liene Steinberga Cesar

22 September 21:00 – 23:00

Clubs and Pubs of Margate to be announced on Instagram: @steinbergacesar

Performance artist Liene Steinberga Cesar appropriates contemporary pastimes amid the overwhelming rise of ethnic pride. A nightclub becomes a stage questioning appropriate behaviour.

 

Slow Walk – Turner to Crate

Heather Tait

23 September 14:00 – 16:00

Turner Contemporary to Crate

Meet at Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, CT9 1HG

Join this extremely slow walk focusing on breathing and steps and designed to encourage a slowing down, being in the moment and feeling in the environment. The walk will create a spectacle to make perceptions change and passers by stop. Culminating in tea and cake and a sharing of the experience.

 

 

24-27 September

 

Arts Emergency Mentor Training

Arts Emergency

25 September 18:00 – 20:30

Resort, 50 Athelstan Road, CT9 2BH

Free event. Places are limited, booking is essential at margatefestival.org

Arts Emergency is a support network for disadvantaged kids who love arts. Come along to hear more about becoming a mentor.

 

In Search of Xanadu

Round in Circles

26 & 27 September 19:30

Sunshine Café, Dreamland, 49 – 51 Marine Terrace, CT9 1XJ

Tickets £7/£5 concessions. Places are limited, booking is essential at margatefestival.org

Immerse yourself in Greek mythology, roller skates and Olivia Newton-John. This site-specific, promenade show re-imagines 80s film Xanadu in Margate.

“All I want is now! And now is all we have”

 

 

28-30 September

 

A Day In The Life Of My Friend

Matt Harding

Private View: 28 September 18:30 – 21:30 (screening & live performance from 19:30)

29 – 30 September 11:00 – 17:00

Gordon House Margate, 10 Churchfield Place, CT9 1PJ

Places for event on 28 September are limited, booking is essential at margatefestival.org, £5 donation on the door

This immersive event centres on the film ‘The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari’, utilising the unique setting of Gordon House. Using his own score with looped sound and projection, Matt Harding will redefine how we experience the original material.

 

Margate Bookie Poetry Slam

Dean Atta & the Bookie

28 September 19:30

The Quarterdeck Brewhouse, Dreamland, 49-51 Marine Terrace, CT9 1XJ

£5 entry on the door

Ten top poets battle it out for The Kentish Poetry Championship and the coveted Margate Bookie belt. Expect some boundary-breaking word wizardry.

Headlined by Dean Atta, a London-based poet, whose poetry deals with themes of race, gender, identity and growing up.

 

Apocalypse Now!

Genetic Moo

29 – 30 September 10:00 – 18:00

Dreamland, 49 – 51 Marine Terrace, CT9 1XJ

A generative digital artwork created with over 200 National Citizens Service teenagers in Kent inspired by apocalyptical paintings.

 

Animated Animal Worlds

1927

29 & 30 September

Resort, 50 Athelstan Road, CT9 2BH

Free event. Places are limited, booking is essential at margatefestival.org

Suitable for children aged 8-12 with a range of abilities, including those with learning difficulties and access needs.

Join 1927 for an illustration & stop-frame animation workshop to create a rebellious animated Animal world. Content created will be edited into a film to be screened in Margate on 5 & 6 October. No animation experience needed.

 

Walking Shrines

Thread and Word with Billie Penfold

29 September: film 10:30 on a loop; walk 11:30 – 13:00

Starting and ending at Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, CT9 1HG

Free event. Places are limited, booking essential at margatefestival.org

Thread and Word artists will celebrate the Autumn Bookie by undertaking a pilgrimage erecting four small shrines to books in Margate.

 

A rose is a rose is a rose… Chiara Williams: In Conversation

Chiara Williams

29 September 14:00

Liddicoat & Goldhill Project Space, The Printworks, 1a Union Row, CT9 1PP

Free event. Places are limited, booking essential at margatefestival.org

Join artist Chiara Williams and curator Lucy Howarth in conversation around the themes of Chiara’s installation ‘A rose is a rose is a rose…’ including materiality, value, desire, style, fakery, beauty and the feminine.

 

On Demand

The Natashas Project

29 September

Time & location TBC, please check margatefestival.org

Free event. Places are limited, booking is essential at margatefestival.org

‘On Demand’ is a new dance production challenging perceptions and assumptions of human trafficking and modern day slavery in Margate NOW.

 

Appropriate

Liene Steinberga Cesar

29 September 21:00 – 23:00

Clubs and Pubs of Margate to be announced on Instagram: @steinbergacesar

Performance artist Liene Steinberga Cesar appropriates contemporary pastimes amid the overwhelming rise of ethnic pride. A nightclub becomes a stage questioning appropriate behaviour.

 

Print the Moon

Lumen Studios

29 September 21:30 – 23:30

Margate Steps, Marine Drive, CT9 1XJ

View the moon through a telescope and capture the moment with a Polaroid, for your own NOW.

 

Muy Serio

Carlos Maria Romero aka Atabey Mamasita

30 September, 16:00 – 17:00

Tom Thumb Theatre, 2A Eastern Esplanade, CT9 2LB

Suggested donation £5. Places are limited, booking essential at margatefestival.org

Traditionally male clothing is used as the sculpting material in this series of queer acts.

 

 

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