Olivia Strange ‘It Softens The Blow, That Deep Melodic Bliss’

Liminal Gallery 34 Fort Hill, Margate

Pulling together the multifarious strands of Strange’s practice "It Softens the Blow, That Deep Melodic Bliss" explores notions of escape and survival through snapshot moments of euphoria and pleasure, as an act of resistance. The work celebrates the freedom and intimacy found within singular moments...

Free

Queer Tartan Register Launch

Fez, Margate 40 High Street, Margate

Queer Tartan at Fez, Margate. Tartan subverted into magical beads to launch the Queer Tartan Register for queer brands, communities and allies.

Free

Robert Aberdein

Clayspace 61 Northdown Road, Margate

Robert Aberdein

Fruity

The Good Egg 49 Northdown Rd, Cliftonville, Margate

Heidi is a queer illustrator based in Margate. Her 'Fruity’ series, as part of Margate Pride Art Map 2024, continues her ongoing interest in food and the human form. She has a passion for all things colourful and always aims to bring an element of...

Free

BLOCK exhibition Anka Dabrowska

Faith in Strangers Faith in Strangers, Margate, KY, United Kingdom

Anka Dabrowska is a queer artist working and living in London. Her exhibition BLOC is a mixture of drawings and collages embracing themes of queer empowerment, identity, belonging, environmental issues, architecture and regeneration.

Free

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

Desire

Vendelmans 14A Arlington House, Margate, United Kingdom

Desire pairs the work of two wildly different artists: French photographer Laure Albin Guillot (1879-1962) and Swedish painter Eugène Jansson (1862-1915). Through a selection of their work - photography of female nudes and drawings of male nudes respectively - we contemplate the roles of artist and sitter,...

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...