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Margate Festival – 14 to 30 September 2018
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!
- 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
- 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!
- 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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