Interviews with creative people in Thanet and East Kent

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“Death positive” witchcraft festival welcomes the darker months

High Priestess witch Tree Carr discusses A Dead Good Festival, which she hopes will challenge the taboos of death and bring a bit of magic to Margate

Mushrooms are nuts. Photos: Margate Mushrooms

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Margate Mushroom Festival: ‘All mushrooms are magic’

From zombie fungi and our distant fungus relatives to anticancer properties of white button mushrooms and spiritual rituals, the world of shrooms is bizarre and amazing

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

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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

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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

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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 band performs on an outdoor stage at night

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Ramsgate Festival of Sound’s impact resonates around the town

Ramsgate Festival of Sound invites visitors to explore the town through sound, celebrate local talent and discover new ways of engaging with what surrounds them

Two men stand against a warning sign on a wall in front of the sea. One wears an anorak, the other a black shirt and leather waistcoat. Both wear black trousers. Buildings in the background.

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Margate band Big Woes on the town’s “personal and human” music scene

“Softcore punk band” Big Woes on a new compilation A Margate Sampler, the “amazing” energy of its launch shows, and feeling part of a musical community

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.

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Ziah Ziah's artistic growth through creative freedom

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

A woman with black hair, wearing hoop earrings, an orange knitted jumper and black trousers crouches with her head cocked to the side.

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A jukebox of confessions: Letters You’ll Never Send brings anonymous confessions to the stage

Have you got something you’ve always wanted to say to someone but don’t dare? Katie McGarry's show Letters You’ll Never Send takes your deepest secrets and puts them on stage

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

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New Ramsgate bookshop mines Thanet treasures for literary gain

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

A woman with white hair sits in the front row of an otherwise empty cinema looking directly into the camera

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Palace cinema celebrates 60 years at the heart of Broadstairs

“Cultural institution” the Palace cinema’s 60 year journey to become “a place that really is about film as opposed to two hours of entertainment”

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

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'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

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