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
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Strange Tourist gets the inside track on the best and most interesting creative people and culture in Thanet and East Kent.
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Ramsgate Pride returns for second year with drag pageants and family raves
Ramsgate Pride is back for more LGBTQ+ power and rainbows
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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
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Smugglers Festival’s journey to become a magical and mysterious summer highlight
With most of its stages hidden in woodland, Kent’s Smugglers Festival is an “inspiring and magical” experience, says programmer Stewart Hughes
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Small but mighty: Margate Fringe returns
Margate Fringe Festival returns with its biggest programme to date this week. Co-founder Faye Bowker tells all about the event’s past, present and future
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Butt of the joke: book teaches kids about evolution one bum at a time
How do you get kids excited about science? Make it about bums. Margate’s Crab Museum is bringing this knowledge to the wider world in a new children’s book
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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
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Comedian Stevie Martin talks online success and her return to the stage
Comedian Stevie Martin on live versus online comedy, filming her new show in Margate, and the “weird dream” experience of being on Taskmaster
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Pie Factory Music’s fight to save the building it calls home
As youth service Pie Factory Music fights funding cuts and plans to sell its Ramsgate HQ, CEO Zoë Carassik explains why “young people deserve better”
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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
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'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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POW Thanet's Decade of Dissent a reflection of festival's past says CEO Rosanagh Fuller
POW Thanet CEO Rosanagh Fuller on harnessing the power of dissent and creativity in the fight for equality for women, girls and non-binary people