> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.strangetourist.co.uk/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Things to do: Skinny Dip, Palace Cinema, This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete - URL: https://www.strangetourist.co.uk/things-to-do-thanet-margate-broadstairs-ramsgate-london/ - Published: 2024-06-28T21:53:45.000Z - Updated: 2024-06-28T21:53:45.000Z - Description: Things to do in Margate, Ramsgate, Broadstairs and beyond, including eating great food, discovering lost cinemas, and playing with obsolete tech - Author: Strange Tourist - Tags: Things to do in Broadstairs, Things to do in London, Things to do in Margate, Things to do in Ramsgate, Things to do in Thanet and beyond The first episode of the latest series of **BBC Radio 4’s Mark Steel’s In Town** is out and comes from **Margate.** Wherever you’re from in Thanet, we’re sure you’ll enjoy hearing the town being roasted for half and hour. [**Listen here**](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b00rtbk8?ref=strangetourist.co.uk). **Cliftonville**’s **Quench art gallery** has announced that it will **temporarily close** when its current exhibitions end after failing to secure new funding. “Unfortunately these further rejections mean we have to stop and restructure how we fund Quench in the long term,” say its owners in [a statement](https://www.instagram.com/p/C8oZ97rI4kn/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk). **Donations are being invited via PayPayl and Patreon**, and visitors are also encouraged to fill out an audience survey. [Find out more here](https://linktr.ee/quenchgallery?ref=strangetourist.co.uk). Experimental and old tech museum [**This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete**](https://this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk) has announced its summer open days for those interested in weird musical instruments and forgotten scientific equipment. This month, they’re open **1pm-4pm** on **June 29 and 30**, and there’s also open **weekends and Wednesdays in July and August**, and **September 1\. 5-7 Church Hill CT11 8RA**. [**Bar Nothing**](https://www.instagram.com/%5Fbar%5Fnothing/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk)on **Cliff Terrace in Margate** is now a cafe too (harking back to its old Radio Margate days). **Open at 3pm from Wednesday to Friday**, it will serve up hot drinks and some tasty looking snacks from **Prayer Food**. A date for your diary, **Broadstairs Autumn Food Festival** is on **September 27-29**. More details to come closer to then. A new addition to your **London** sightseeing list, [**The Serpentine Gallery**](https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk)will unveil Japanese artist **Yayoi Kusama’s tallest ever bronze pumpkin sculpture** in **Kensington Gardens on July 9**. It will remain on display in the park until November 3\. **Riot Gull**, post punk feminist music night in the spirit of Kathleen Hanna but with a seaside twang, have announced its next night in **Folkestone Creative Corner on August 16**, as part of grassroots event, **Compass Music Festival**. **Early Bird tickets, £12** [**on sale**](https://dice.fm/partner/dice/event/l88wmx-compass-festival-night-1-riot-gulll-takeover-16th-aug-creative-folkestone-quarterhouse-folkestone-tickets?dice%5Fid=3423657&dice%5Fchannel=web&dice%5Ftags=organic&dice%5Fcampaign=DICE&dice%5Ffeature=mio%5Fmarketing&%5Fbranch%5Fmatch%5Fid=1335289077143083156&%5Fbranch%5Freferrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz8nMy9ZLyUxO1UvL1S8wMzBNNUgzMjdIMQUAQXsHiCEAAAA%3D&ref=strangetourist.co.uk) now. **Mrs Fox’s Skulduggery Tour of Ramsgate** returns for a second year this summer, offering tales of the darker sides of the town’s history. This year Mrs Fox - aka historial Tracy Russell - also adds **Regency Ramsgate - The Jane Austen Tour**, looking at the influence of the town on Austen and her work. Both take place throughout July and August on Wednesdays and Thursdays. **Places available for £9 each** [**on Eventbrite**](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/tracy-russell-66741280373?ref=strangetourist.co.uk). More walking, and the [**Palace Cinema**](https://thepalacecinema.co.uk/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk) in **Broadstairs** has announced a series of events to **explore Thanet’s lost cinemas**. While they may be few and far between today, there have been many across Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Margate since the 1890s. The tours will visit their former sites and offer insights into local social history. **Taking place on August 4, 18 and 25,** [**tickets cost £8**](https://thepalacecinema.co.uk/production/cinema-walks/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk). ![Broadstairs have announced the dates for its food festival. Photo: Ferran Feixas/Unsplash](https://storage.ghost.io/c/06/39/0639efc0-b873-4e30-ac06-2893b029d0e0/content/images/2024/06/ferran-feixas-_T3cl6Wuc2U-unsplash.jpg) Broadstairs has announced the dates for its food festival. Photo: Ferran Feixas/Unsplash A new **ballet based on The Who’s 1973 album ‘Quadrophonia’** is set to open at **Sadler’s Wells** in **London** on 24 Jun 2025\. Written by Who guitarist Pete Townshend and choreographed by Paul Roberts, the show is soundtracked by Rachel Fuller’s 2016 orchestral arrangement of the album. Like the 1979 film based on the album, the story follows troubled mod Jimmy between London and Brighton - wrong bit of the seaside for us, but whatever. [**Priority tickets, from £15 on sale now**](https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/quadrophenia/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk) for exceptional forward planners. **Little Swift** and **Big Shot** on **Margate**’s Marine Drive will be hosting a **Big American Weekender from 4-7 July**. There’s be **BBQs** on Thursday and Friday, and a curated selection of US beers and whiskies will be on offer throughout the weekend. **Soho Theatre** will be hosting the **London Clown Festival from July 8-26**. Not a place to find creepy guys with white face paint and red noses (should that be your phobia), the event aims to showcase the broad range of styles in **contemporary clowning and physical comedy**. Tickets range from **£13 - £26**. [**Booking open now**](https://www.londonclownfest.online/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk). Shops on **Cliftonville’s Northdown Road** will be hosting their annual **Block Party on July 27**. As well as an opportunity to shop late into the evening, there will be food, drink, street performers, live music and more. [**Follow on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/northdownroadshops/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk) for more info. **Doctor Forager** is back for days roaming around the sea, fossicking for seaweed, and coastal and hedgerow plants. Sessions start at **10am** from **Margate’s Bus Cafe** and end around **2pm somewhere in Westgate** that has good transport links. **On July, 13, 14, 27\. £50 per person**. Book via [DM](https://www.instagram.com/doctorforager/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk). **Pot Luck** is an informal queer get-together in **Margate**, and everyone is welcome. This one is on **Sunday, July 7 from 1pm to 3pm** and comes with a **BBQ theme**. BYO a dish to share or bring what you need to cook something there, along with everything you need to eat with. Find this lunch at Margate’s beach facing the Lido. [Drop the organisers a line](https://www.instagram.com/potluck.margate/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk) if you’ve got questions. Like to suck on crustaceans? [**Snakeoil Barbecue**](https://www.instagram.com/snakeoilbarbecue/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk) **at** [**Daisy**](https://www.instagram.com/daisy%5Fmargate/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk) is serving up a **crawfish boil** on **July 4**. In full Southern Americana style, there will also be andouille sausage, hot prawn butter and creole-spiced corn corns, as well as other things to shove greedily into your maw. There's two sittings at **6pm and 8pm and it’s £38** each. [**Book through Eventbrite**](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/4th-of-july-crawfish-boil-tickets-927911737987?ref=strangetourist.co.uk) **and pay on the night**. [**Skinny Dip**](https://www.instagram.com/skinnydipcoffee/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk) returns, kind of. The **Margate** cafe, which closed last year, is **re-opening as a public-facing, micro-roasting place in Studio JH in the Westwood light industrial area**, behind B&Q. It will be open **Tuesdays to Fridays, 8am-2pm**. For their **soft launch, on July 1,** Skinny Dip roasters are offering **£1 coffees all day**, so head down there, and pick yourself up some colour match paint while you're at it. **Vote in the election**. Fun! Who will you vote for now that the Bionic MP is out of the race? Will this be the end of Tory rule? And if so, will things just say the same? Ahhh, democracy has never felt more empowering. Still, though. Have your say. **Voting makes you far more sexy**. **Find your closest poll station** [**here**](https://www.thanet.gov.uk/info-pages/polling-station/?ref=strangetourist.co.uk). ### ICYMI - previously tipped events happening this week TKE Studios, Margate presents the Tracey Emin Artist Residency Final Show opens June 30th. Margate Black Pride takes over The Sundeck on July 6\. Starts at 3pm and running until 10pm. Pop-up cinema night Deeper Into Movies screens Harmony Korine’s Gummo at Bar Nothing, Margate on Jul 10\. [Tickets available through Dice](https://www.strangetourist.co.uk/r/377e1df8?m=870adf39-6bf3-415e-9a09-b549ce2edfca). Seafood pop-up Catch’s next appearance will be at The Bedford Inn in Ramsgate on June 29, from midday to 4pm. Places are £20pp. [Book here](https://www.strangetourist.co.uk/r/cb186217?m=870adf39-6bf3-415e-9a09-b549ce2edfca).