There’s lots going on in Thanet (and beyond) this week. If you’re in need of ideas for what to do with the family over the school holidays, check out our guide to what’s on during the two week break:

Family-friendly Easter holiday fun in Thanet, Kent and London
Lots of ideas for things to do with the kids over the Easter holidays in Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate and further afield
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The Writing in Progress new writing night is on at Off Licence in Cliftonville on Wednesday. Free entry. 

The Happy Mondays will perform at Dreamland in Margate on Thursday, joined by The Farm and Northside, recreating the line up of their legendary 1991 show at Elland Road in Leeds. Tickets £42.50. 

Wild Life Drawing returns to the Fort Road Hotel in Margate on Thursday. Modelling this time will be a group of rescued reptiles - snakes, lizards, and tortoises. Tickets £35 with a 10% donation to animal charity Happy Endings Rescue. 

Wild Life Drawing class features owls, wolves and more as models
More lively than your standard life drawing class, Wild Life Drawing works with models who won’t pose or be still, and are an opportunity to be inspired by the natural world, as founder Jennie Webber explains
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Author Francesca Wade will be discussing biography and a “literary detective story” Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife at CAMP in Cliftonville on Thursday. Free tickets. 

Floating Frequencies hosts a multi-instrumental sound bath at Bleak House in Broadstairs at 11am on Friday. Tickets £25. 

Cockles and Muscles’ annual Spring Bonnet Party at Margate Arts Club on Friday. DJing will be Dani St James, Cookie Man and Amy Zing, and there will be drag performances from Father JC, Symone, The Deity, Shelly Grotto and Janet District Council. Tickets £7. 

Thanet Urban Forest leads a Hanami Tree Walk through Margate’s Dane Park on Saturday. Tickets from £4.

ARK in Cliftonville invites you to participatory dance show Feel The Beat on Saturday, with two performances at 11am and 7.30pm. Tickets £14. 

Stevie Martin brings her show Clout to Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre on Saturday. Tickets £22. 

Stevie Martin: “Taskmaster was like a weird dream”
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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Drag artist Baby Lame will be performing Britney Spears themed show Hit Me Baby One More Lame at Ramsgate’s Alley Bar on Saturday. Tickets £15. 

Steven Todd’s play about a bookshop, Goat. Book. Dad, will be performed - appropriately - in Ramsgate’s Plunder bookshop on Saturday. Tickets £10.

Bis! Bis! Bis! returns to Margate Arts Club on Saturday for its first outing of 2026. DJing will be Disco F**ks and Full Contact. Tickets £5.

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