Watch new documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street followed by a Q&A with director Felipe Bustos Sierra on Wednesday at the Palace Cinema in Broadstairs. Tickets £8.
Pie Factory in Margate host group exhibition Keep Show featuring 14 artists and makers working along the Kent coast from Thursday to Tuesday. On Monday, writer Hettie Judah will take part in a Q&A to mark the launch of her new book How to Enter the Art World. More details.
Smiths Townhouse in Broadstairs will host a sound bath session focussing on men’s wellbeing on Thursday. Tickets £30. DM to book.
Satirist Rosie Holt will be previewing her new work in progress show at the Tom Thumb Theatre in Cliftonville on Thursday. Tickets £10.
Turner Contemporary in Margate hosts One Ocean - a three-day event exploring humanity’s relationship with the ocean from Friday to Sunday. See the full programme.
Community festival Homeward is on at Kollektiv Gallery in Folkestone from Friday to Sunday, featuring artists and performers with lived experience of displacement. See the full programme.
Punk band Crabs play a special summer show at Margate Arts Club on Friday. Tickets £10.
Garbage and Skunk Anansie will co-headline Dreamland in Margate on Friday. Tickets £64.10.
Margate Dating’s Singles Social is on at Margate Beach Club on Friday. Over 25s only. Tickets £10.
Margate’s Crab Museum has two launch shows for its new children’s book The No-Brainer Brain Explainer on Saturday and Sunday. Free tickets.
Artist Emma O’Rourke and yoga teacher Lily Cleo host an art retreat at a secret orchard location near Broadstairs on Saturday. Places £55.
Connor the Ecologist and Bi-Curious George lead an interactive ecology walk around Margate on Saturday. Tickets £10.30.
Like drinking? Like drawing? Join the Drink and Draw Crawl on Saturday, sketching your way around various Ramsgate pubs and bars. Starts at Noa Rooftop at 2.30pm, then on to Wetherspoons and The Bedford Inn. More info.
Ramsgate Arts Club celebrates its first birthday with club night Basement Boogie on Saturday, with DJs Richie Suzuki and Andrew Medhurt playing soul, rare groove, funk, disco, and classic house. Free entry.
Positive party Optimissimo is back at Margate Arts Club on Saturday. Tickets £5.
Drag artist Fanny Bleach and comedian Tilly ‘Turbo’ Fletcher preview their new Edinburgh shows at Ramsgate’s Alley Bar on Saturday. Tickets £10.
Gilles Peterson is in Margate to play a three hour DJ set at the Drill Shed on Saturday. Tickets £28.33.
Fancy marking the summer solstice with a swim? Set your alarm and join Margate Community Dips for their 4am sunrise bath on Sunday, June 21. Meet near the sauna at Warpole Tidal Pool. I’d love to say I’ll see you there, but I know I won’t. However MCD will meet again later that day, at 7pm, at the same spot for a sunset dip and BBQ - sunset is around 9.15pm. Come to one, come to both.
The Namaka team at Stone Bay in Broadstairs will also mark the summer solstice on Sunday with a sunrise dip, coffee and a hang. Starts at 4.30am.
Cherif Hashizume, Richard Pike, and Tomas Jefanovas play Ramsgate Arts Club on Sunday. Tickets £8.
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