The night where LGBTQ+ folks read REAL teenage diaries, poetry, fanfiction and more! “If a Queer Diary event was scheduled on the Moon, the most anti-capitalist queers would be befriending Bezos in hopes of securing a rocket ride.” – DIVA Magazine A handful of brave...
Free daytime cabaret for swish seniors (over 55s) Music, drag, poetry and dance all accompanied by free tea and cake!
🏳️⚧️Trans Club 4🏳️⚧️ Catch us at Margate Arts Club on Thursday the 4th of July 6-9pm ❤️ This month we will be having a drop in bunting workshop run by volunteers of Margate Pride! Trans Club is a safe space to come and meet more...
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...
Sacred trinkets, thingliness, living commodities and prayers to the home. Embracing the sanctity of contemplation - "Soft Landlord" invites you to entwine in the virtues of space. Come to witness a ruin, a monument and a communion of artefacts. A selection of new works by...
Needle felted butterflies inspired by some of the Pride flags, an emergence of the true colours we grow into as we accept ourselves. This display is being held, with thanks, at Batchelor's Patisserie so why not treat yourself to a beverage and a pastry! Please...
Via an installation of painting and expanded painting, Russell Chater presents a (homo)erotic narrative with nods to both the autobiographical and art historical; the spiritual and the sexual. Thoughts around surface, touch, display and concealment are teased - with works, perhaps ultimately, a reflection on...
‘Chapman's debut play isn't just genuine; it is brutally real.' ★★★★★ (The New Current) 2008. Margate isn't cool (yet). 12-year old Dev sits on a derelict shack, sandwiched between Margate's sea and the abandoned theme park, Dreamland. He's also recently discovered gay people exist... Is...
Learn to use colours, patterns and textures using coffee granules and plant inks to create your banner and write your message. All materials supplied - Pay What You Can Tickets
Queer Tartan at Fez, Margate. Tartan subverted into magical beads to launch the Queer Tartan Register for queer brands, communities and allies.
Robert Aberdein
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...
Puer Deorum - Sutured Sights
Daisy Blower - Nesting Dyke
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 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...
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.
Elaborately decorated 'Welcome' tiled panels create a clarion call to gather and a promise of refuge and protection.
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...
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...
