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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 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...
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...
