Hot Coals Productions is running a five week series of workshops for professional actors on how to better understand and perform during the casting process at Screen South in Folkestone. Starts on Tuesday. Places £195. 

Queer Fight Margate launches a newly expanded timetable of classes for trans and queer people on Tuesday. Find out more. 

LGBTQ+ social meet up groups in Margate and Ramsgate
If you are LGBTQ+ and living in Thanet and want to get social with your interests and hobbies, then there’s a meetup group for you
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Dame Jame and Elz will be putting on a production of Mamma Mia at CAMP in Cliftonville on Wednesday, splitting all of the parts between them. Tickets £10. 

Culty Film Club will be screening John Waters’ Polyester at Faith in Strangers in Cliftonville on Wednesday, complete with scratch and sniff cards. There will also be a meal themed on the movie and a quiz. Tickets £55.

Pink Suits perform Pansies (in Summer), their first full work as part of their artist fellowship at TKE Studios, in the gallery’s garden on Thursday. Tickets £15. 

Missed the amazing Revel Puck Circus in Ramsgate? The troupe will be bringing their big top to Victoria Park in Deal from Thursday until August 16. Tickets from £10. 

Revel Puck intends to “redefine” how people think about circus
Revel Puck Circus comes to Ramsgate this month with its new show. Artistic director Luke Hallgarten explain what makes the company different.
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Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre will play an intimate show at Queens Road Baptist Church in Broadstairs on Thursday. Tickets £40. 

Comedian Grace Cambell will be performing a new work in progress show at Where Else on Thursday. Tickets £15. 

Thandii launch their new album Coco Okayo at Margate Arts Club on Thursday. Tickets £9.

New music festival Canterbury Live takes place at St Lawrence Cricket Ground from Friday to Sunday with headline performances from JLS, Becky Hill and Madness. Tickets from £45. 

Broadstairs Folk Week kicks off on Friday, running through to August 14. As well as music in venues all over town, there will also be family friendly activity, craft fair and more. See the full programme. 

Artist Sabina Pieper is showing her new exhibition Arriving at the Beginning at Hold Creative Spaces on Saturday and Sunday. Drinks reception from 6pm on Saturday.

Margate Pride takes place on Saturday, taking over the whole town with a parade, talks, performances, after parties and more. See the full programme.

Margate Pride co-founder Amy Zing on the event’s growth from short protest to month-long festival
Margate Pride co-founder Amy Zing on growing the grassroots festival from a three-minute walk into a whole town takeover
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Patrick Wolf performs at ARK in Cliftonville on Saturday, as part of Margate Pride. Tickets £30. 

Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard will be christening new Ramsgate pub Blackbird with an intimate DJ set on Saturday. 

Katie Evans returns to Santa Clara in Margate with another talk on the psychology of horror movies on Sunday. Tickets £11.55.

Photo credit: Stephen Daly

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