Zita Whalley - Strange Tourist

From L-R Dalibor's teacher Naomi, Dalibor, Sandra Hampton and Dailbor's siter Bailey at TMS. Photo: Strange Tourist

Interviews

Thanet art studio adapting creative processes for artists with additional needs

"I just like to get to know the person in front of me," says Sandra Hampton from Sandra Art4All studio on working with artists with special needs

Art

The Love Booth: A joyous and intimate glimpse into private moments

See pictures from The Love Booth exhibition and hear our live Q&A with artist Karen Vost

A woman with long brown hair wearing a yellow jumper rests on a pair of mannequin legs

Interviews

Lou Sanders on everything but her show ahead of Ramsgate tour date

Lou Sanders speaks about her memoir, moving to Margate and begrudgingly about trampolines, but not about her stand-up show No Kissing in the Bingo Hall

A woman stands behind a microphone wearing a bra. She wears a black wig with pigtail lifted up by red rope. Another woman plays saxophone in the background.

Interviews

Ziah Ziah's artistic growth through creative freedom

TKE Studios performance art fellow Keziah Stilwell on creative exploration and shifting artistic gears.

A man and a woman dressed as pirates stand in front of a skull and crossbones, and two crossed swords.

Interviews

New Ramsgate bookshop mines Thanet treasures for literary gain

Plunder bookshop’s Seb Reilly on treasures other than the gold or buried kind

A pile of black and white photo strips from from an old analogue photobooth

Interviews

'Dying breed' photo booth art project brings 'a lot of joy'

Dogs and their owners, people recreating past photographs and a cheeky flash - a lot goes on behind the curtain at Ramsgate community arts project, The Love Booth

An elderly woman with grey hair sits on a stool, dressed in black with colourful art in the background

Things to do in Thanet and beyond

In pictures: Anna Boghiguian's The Sunken Boat at Turner Contemporary

Inside the latest exhibition at Margate's Turner Contemporary, and our delightfully off topic conversation with artist Anna Boghiguian

A group of people celebrate Pride in Ramsgate

Interviews

Ramsgate Pride returns for second year with drag pageants and family raves

Ramsgate Pride is back for more LGBTQ+ power and rainbows

Interviews

New DIY LGBTQ+ library a ‘form of resistance’

A mobile library on a bike, donated books and a 'Cats for Trans Rights' banner; Margate Queer Library & Archive founder Sè Malaika on creating a new community minded space

A group of people sit at tables. Two children look through kaleidoscopes.

Interviews

Ramsgate STEM outfit closes High Street doors - but it's not goodbye

Xanthe Pitt, a founder of Ramsgate’s Discovery Planet, reflects on over a decade of galactic pondering, spacecraft shields and debunking trickle down economics

A man stands at a flipchart on which is written 'Drawing is magic' with two cartoon birds

Interviews

The Dinosaur That Pooped illustrator: ‘Trust what comes out of the pencil’

Garry Parsons, the illustrator who brought The Dinosaur That Pooped to life, on draw-along workshops and nailing the colour of poop

Several elderly women dressed in white stand around a gold four poster bed. The woman in the foreground holds her finger to her lips.

Interviews

'Old dried up prunes' take the stage in a playful protest against ageism

Ahead of POW Thanet, dance company Moving Memory’s Sian Stevenson talks mixing the personal with the political and the joy of “old dried up prunes”

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