Pride Art Map / Margate Pride Festival LAUNCH

Albion Road Margate CT9 2HP

Margate Pride is proud to launch this year's festival with the PRIDE ART MAP, aka PAM on the evening of Friday 2 August. We're delighted that over 50 artists are participating this year, exhibiting in venues across Margate throughout Margate (that includes Cliftonville). Most events...

Margate Black Pride Art Show Fundraiser Private View

Cliffs 172 Northdown Rd, Margate

Margate Black Pride stands as a testament to the power of unity and celebration within LGBTQIA+ communities of colour. Since its inception in 2022, it has evolved into a vital platform for honouring and uplifting individuals of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American, Pacific Islander, and...

Free

You Are Safe Here by Rachael House

Oast 68 Northdown Road, Margate

Elaborately decorated 'Welcome' tiled panels create a clarion call to gather and a promise of refuge and protection.

Free

YANG QUEEN: a ‘psychedelic musical’ starring Mantawoman

The Tom Thumb Theatre 2A Eastern Esplanade, Margate, United Kingdom

90 min (plus an interval) Witness the magic of Mantawoman – a mesmerising yangqin player, singer-songwriter, and performer from San Francisco – in YANG QUEEN, a psychedelic musical about the power of self-acceptance. Crystallizing twenty years of performance experience into one kaleidoscopic show, this musical extravaganza...

£15

YANG QUEEN: a ‘psychedelic musical’ starring Mantawoman

The Tom Thumb Theatre 2A Eastern Esplanade, Margate, United Kingdom

90 min (plus an interval) Witness the magic of Mantawoman – a mesmerising yangqin player, singer-songwriter, and performer from San Francisco – in YANG QUEEN, a psychedelic musical about the power of self-acceptance. Crystallizing twenty years of performance experience into one kaleidoscopic show, this musical extravaganza...

£15

Pride is a Drag

Margate Arts Club 276 Northdown Rd, Margate, United Kingdom

Margate icons Pretzel Cage and Shelly Grotto are back with a whole heap of extra special drag friends for a Margate Pride special of Is a Drag (Margate's dedicated drag performance night). We'll be getting you in the mood for Margate Pride in this bumper edition...

£10

Striking with Pride Film Night

ARK - Cliftonville Cultural Space Albion Road, Margate, CT9 2HP

We are super proud to bring documentary Striking with Pride to our Margate Pride festival this year. United at the Coalface. A mining community and a group of gay activists form an unlikely alliance during the 1980s miners' strike. Doc is 1hr 15min Followed by...

A Very Lesbian Love Story

ARK - Cliftonville Cultural Space Albion Road, Margate, CT9 2HP

One woman monologue at ARK Cliftonville A big gorgeous, touching , funny, irreverent and moving look at falling in love, loss and grief and what happens afterwards on the journey to survive after the love of your life has died. Clare Beloved is an artist,...

One Thousand Tiny Stories – grief workshop

ARK - Cliftonville Cultural Space Albion Road, Margate, CT9 2HP

FREE - sign up via ticket link Artist and therapist Clare Beloved shares stories from her own grief journey and facilitates this beautiful queer creative grief workshop space. A safe space to come together, meet new people and to share stories about life and grief...

Chump’s Comedy Margate Pride Fundraiser

Margate Arts Club 276 Northdown Rd, Margate, United Kingdom

Chump's is teaming up with Margate Pride to bring this incredible LGBTQ+ mixed bill Comedy show to Margate Arts Club. All proceeds go to Margate Pride Line Up: Jodie Mitchell Frankie Thompson Sapphire Mcintosh Hosted by Dominic McGovern Doors 7pm Comedy starts shortly after that...

£14

FilmPride screening at ARK Cliftonville

ARK - Cliftonville Cultural Space Albion Road, Margate, CT9 2HP

Deborah Espect is the Festival Director of FilmPride - Brighton & Hove Pride's Official Queer Film Festival. Together with Margate Pride she has curated a line up of excellent queer films for this years Margate Pride festival. Don't miss this night if you're into film...

Section 28 and Me

The Tom Thumb Theatre 2A Eastern Esplanade, Margate, United Kingdom

Section 28 and Me is a playful, honest and heartfelt portrait, exploring queer stories on past invisibility and shame.  In this new show Theatre maker Tom Marshman asks; has the impact of growing up within Section 28 legislation made him both a show off and...

£12

A Note To My Young, Queer Self

Turner Contemporary

What if you could go back and meet your younger self? What would you say? What would you want them to know? ‘A Note to My Young, Queer Self’ asks just this. Join local, queer writer-performers, who bravely share heartfelt letters addressed to their younger...

Margate Pride Coffee Morning

Camp 125 Northdown Rd, Margate, United Kingdom

The time has come to…gather your gays 🌈 Wondering what to do and where to meet before we march, Margate? Well, what about a cute queer coffee morning at every fags favourite - CAMP 🩷 From 9-11am we’ll be slinging iced coffees, fun drinks and...

Free

Breakfast drag party with Sister Joan GLAM SQUAD *under 25s

Sister Joan 270 Northdown Road Margate

9am - 11.15am The incredible team at Sister Joan are hosting a breakfast Drag party with the Sister Joan Glam Squad! Help will be on hand for hair and make-up styling, get dressed up and march together. Bring your own wigs for styling or get...

Margate Pride 2024 – Free Daytime Activities

Margate Walpole Bay Lawns & Dreamland, Margate, CT9 3AB

WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN OUR PRIDE DAY CELEBRATIONS AT WALPOLE BAY LAWNS AND DREAMLAND 🏳️‍🌈⚧💖 Please register for a free ticket to get priority access*. Tickets are limited to 4 per person. This year, we will hold our free daytime activities in two different...

Margate Pride 2024 Parade Registration

Walpole Bay Lawns, Margate, CT9 3AB

To be in the parade, each person needs to register their details below for free or for a donation. If you're joining as a organisation or collective, please email info@margatepride.org.uk If you have specific access needs please get in touch info@margatepride.org.uk This year, 2024, Margate...

No. 42 by GuestHouse Pride Party on The Rooftop Bar

Pride is parading through town and what better way to celebrate colourfully than up on The Rooftop Bar at No. 42? Join us from 1-4pm and Drag Queen, Just May, the self-titled ‘World’s Premier Geri Halliwell Impersonator' for an afternoon of fun, sun, laughs, tunes,...

£28

Dreamland Drag Party

Dreamland, Margate

Margate Pride Festival is excited to announce the DREAMLAND DRAG PARTY on Saturday 10th August! From 18:00 – 23:00, featuring an awesome line up including Jodie Harsh, Bimini, Raven Mandella, plus Amy Zing b2b Harry Gay & the CT9 drag family - this is one...

Meadows at Palm Bay with queer nature lover, Phoebe Apollo

Sites around Margate & St Peters

Did you know that we have some gorgeous rare nature spots on our doorstep? For Pride month, join a small group for a guided session in Margate's meadows and woodlands, tuning into slow joy. Together we'll get to know the meadow grasslands at Foreness Point,...