Margate Pride hosts an introductory session on arts and community fundraising at the TKE Studios on Tuesday. Pay what you can tickets

Thanet Alive is coming back for a second year, putting on an exhibition showcasing the district’s best emerging artists at the Margate School of Art from Wednesday to Friday. 

Comedian Kit Proudfoot performs a work-in-progress version of his new solo show Little Defeats of the Heart at Big Shot in Margate on Wednesday. Tickets £5

Kent-based vineyard Chapel Down hosts a wine tasting evening at The House in Ramsgate on Thursday. Tickets £45

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Seaside CEO hosts a panel discussion on finding funding for your business at the Royal Temple Yacht Club in Ramsgate on Thursday. The event will also act as the Kent launch for the South East Investment Fund, which is making over £200 million available to businesses in the region. Tickets £5.

Historian Dr Julia Phillips will be giving her talk The History of Witchcraft & Women: Magic, Rituals and the Patriarchy twice at the South Quay Shed in Whitstable on Thursday. Tickets £18. Catch it at 5.30pm or 8pm

Adam Coney & Richard Pike record the follow-up to their 2025 improvised guitar and piano improv album Driftingland in a live studio session at Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate on Friday. Tickets £7 (free for under 21s).

Eclectic soul-focussed club night Different Directions returns to Margate Arts Club in Cliftonville on Friday. Tickets £5

Join a one day multi-colour linocut printmaking workshop at The Studio in Ramsgate on Saturday. No experience necessary. All materials provided. Place £70. Email fionadebulat@gmail.com to book.

Five hour daytime indie disco All Day Indie Party is coming to Dreamland in Margate on Saturday. Tickets £33.25.

Finnish author Lottie Saahko hosts a workshop to celebrate the release of her first novel in English, Lumi and the Wolf, at the Best of Times bookshop in Broadstairs on Saturday. Suitable for ages 9+. Tickets £7

Recently added to the Michelin Guide, Broadstairs plant-based restaurant Asters will be putting on a charity roast on Sunday, raising money for Coppershell Animal Rescue in Wiltshire. Places £35 per person.

The Little Brick House Lego building cafe in Ramsgate will be putting on an adults-only evening on Saturday. Tickets £12. DM to book

Where Else in Margate turns eight years old this week and you’re invited to the venue’s birthday party on Saturday. Kicking off at 5pm, there will be live sets downstairs from DNA Test (members of Snapped Ankles, Loggsplitter and the Thurston Moore Group), Fruit Band, Moina Moin, TBH, Jumbo Shrimp and Blackhouse Hill, plus DJ sets upstairs from Reggy Brown, Jerry and Lu Kirnon. Tickets from £5.

Draw still life in the style of late Mexican surrealist painter Leonora Carrington at this month’s Still Sunday at Emma O Studio on Sunday. Places £25

The Free Association and Chump’s Comedy begin an eight week improv comedy course at Margate’s Turner Contemporary, starting on Sunday. Places £275.

Magician and mindreader Ian ‘Savvy’ Saville performs his show The Deceptionist at Santa Clara in Margate on Sunday. Tickets £22.38.

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