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...
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...
Queer Tartan at Fez, Margate. Tartan subverted into magical beads to launch the Queer Tartan Register for queer brands, communities and allies.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
Currently based in Ramsgate, David Tovar focuses on portraiture and human figures. After the pandemic cut short his art studies at the London Fine Arts Studios, he continued learning on his own, which allowed him to focus his practice on the topics and community he...
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,...
The Filth Collective is very proud to present to you... Kerosene!! An Alternative club night in a gorgey Queer Venue- Salon Du Miel (Upstairs at Sugar Rush) This is a club night that caters to all the emos, pop punkers, metallers and Indie Cindys of...
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,...
