If you’re a business owner in Thanet looking to network, boy is this the week for you. BOSS - that’s Business Owners Supporting Sharing - launches on Monday at Olby’s in Margate. Free tickets. Then Seaside CEO takes place at Royal Temple Yacht Club in Ramsgate on Thursday. Tickets £5. Finally, the Empower Her women's business network will hold a charity fundraising ball at Smiths Townhouse in Broadstairs on Friday. Tickets £40.
Join a beginners crochet workshop at Giant Coffee in Ramsgate on Monday. Tickets £25. Email stitchescrochet@outlook.com to book.
Writer Hettie Judah will take part in a Q&A to mark the launch of her new book How to Enter the Art World at Pie Factory in Margate on Monday. Tickets £6.
LA Priest plays Where Else in Margate on Monday. Tickets £14.
New writing performance night Writing in Progress launches a new monthly show at Penelope in Ramsgate on Wednesday. Free entry.
The next Bar & Peace silent book club takes place at the Bedford Inn in Ramsgate on Thursday.
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Looking at the banning of books in US public libraries, documentary The Librarians will be screened at ARK in Cliftonville on Thursday, followed by a panel discussion. Tickets £13.50.
Climate change documentary the People’s Emergency Briefing is showing at Where Else in Margate on Thursday. Tickets £5.
Independent Broadstairs returns on Saturday, with independent businesses around the town offering deals, freebies and activities. Find out more.
Chapel House Estate in Minster hosts a fundraising afternoon tea in aid of the Evie Dove Foundation on Saturday. Tickets £45.
It’s a TKE Studios takeover in Cliftonville this weekend. At the studios themselves you can catch the final show from this year’s Tracey Emin Artist Residency cohort. Over the road at Victoria House, current residents Alex Morante and Enrique López Llamas will be hosting a two day open studios event. And TKE-based ceramicist Lindsey Mendick’s show Where You End and I Begin opens at the Carl Freedman Gallery.
CAMP in Cliftonville hosts the Queer Makers Market on Saturday, 1-5pm. Find stalls selling handmade items, art, vintage, crafts and more.
Balearic Boutique returns to the steps outside Turner Contemporary on Saturday for a chilled DJ set to soundtrack the sunset.
Thanet Chamber Choir perform an immersive show with a string orchestra at ARK in Cliftonville on Saturday. Tickets £12.
The Palace hosts a cinema history walk around Broadstairs on Sunday. Tickets £10.
Santa Clara in Margate hosts Unmasking Fear: The Psychology Behind Horror Movies, a talk from psychotherapist Katie Evans on how scary cinema gets inside our brains on Sunday. Tickets £11.55.
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