Incoming: Fatboy Slim, 2025 quiz, Jurassic Park

See Fatboy Slim, test your knowledge of 2025, watch a classic dance music documentary, explore wellness and listen to carols by candlelight. All these amore more upcoming events in Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs.

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Currently celebrating his 40th year in showbiz, Fatboy Slim has announced a show at Dreamland in Margate next summer. He will play a headline DJ set on the theme park’s Scenic Stage on Friday, August 28. Tickets £64.10.

How’s your 2025 knowledge? Find out on Sunday, December 28 when Seabird in Ramsgate runs an end of year quiz. There will be rounds covering general knowledge, politics, music, film and sport. Maximum team size is six and it’s £5 entry per person. The winning team will take all the cash. It all kicks off at 3.30pm. Find out more.

Neptunes Hall in Broadstairs is taking over the Palace Cinema again to screen another classic dance music documentary. This time they're showing Larry’s Garage: The Movie, the story of longtime resident DJ at the Paradise Garage nightclub in New York. It’s also two-for-one on pizzas at the Neptune afterwards. Tickets £11.55.

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The Turner Contemporary in Margate has announced its first Winter Wellness Festival. The three week programme will run from Friday, January 30 to Sunday, February 22. It will have events including workshops, immersive experiences, panel discussions, supper clubs and more. See the full programme. 

Don Letts will be DJing at Ramsgate Music Hall on Saturday, March 21. You know what to expect from Don by now, surely - an eclectic and often surprising mix of dub and reggae. It'll be a lot of fun. Tickets £20.

The Institute Collective choir will be singing carols by candlelight at Margate’s Fort Road Hotel bar on Thursday, December 18. The choir have previously been heard on the soundtracks of shows like Silent Witness and True Detective. For this one-off performance, they’ll be serving up a setlist of contemporary choral reimaginings of Christmas classics and carols. Tickets £14. 

Bar Nothing in Cliftonville will host a Winter Solstice workshop on Saturday, December 20 from 3-5pm. Led by Anahata Apothecary, participants will make mistletoe tinctures, craft winter smudging wands, and join in a new moon solstice intention setting. Tickets £25. 

Good Good Film Club will be screening a Christmas classic movie at Margate Arts Club on Wednesday, December 17. Which one? You won’t know until you get there. Fun! The only clues are that it’s a contemporary American comedy drama and contains some bad language and “a lot of smoking.” There will also be a screening of short comedy films and you can pre-order Casa pizza to have while you watch the main feature. Tickets £15 with pizza / £5 without.

Ocean Stefan is back with another movie night with a difference. The performance artist will screen Jurassic Park at Margate Arts Club on Tuesday, December 23. What’s the difference I alluded to? The sound will be muted and instead Ocean will attempt to create the entire soundtrack themselves using only their voice. Every piece of music, every dinosaur roar, all of the dialogue. Tickets £5. 

The Kent Whisky Explorers night is back at Little Swift in Margate on Friday, January 23. It will again be raising money for Movember - having raised over £1300 with two editions last month. Having guided attendees through whiskeys from all around the world, the January event will sample Scotland’s independent distilleries ahead of Burns’ Night. These always sell out well in advance, so don’t hang about. Tickets £30 (including £5 donation to Movember). Email kentwhiskyexplorers@gmail.com to book.