All of our features and interviews, highlighting the best creative people and culture in Thanet and East Kent.
Things to do in Margate
The build up to Margate Pride 2024 on August 10 is underway, with a wide programme of events taking place over the next month ahead of the big day itself. Check out our picks of the performances, workshops, film screenings and more over the next month, plus the main event and after parties
Features
Rachel Proctor, founder of Offvine wine tours on why you don't want to drive to a Kentish vineyard
Things to do in Margate
The best spots in Thanet to catch a sunset (with a sundowner in hand)
Things to do in London
Lennie and Ray from Margate band pink suits chat Queer Cuntry before they take the explosion of camp, queer country and Americana to London's Southbank for Chaka Khan's Meltdown
Things to do in Margate
Tunng’s Mike Lindsay will release his new solo album Supershapes Volume 1 later this month. Strange Tourist speaks to him about the album’s celebration of “the majestic in the domestic,” the influence of the sea on his work, and making cucumber salad live on stage
Things to do in Margate
Margate's mermaid parade, Mergate returned this weekend, in a glitter and sequin filled celebration of coastal living.
Things to do in Ramsgate
Hedi Moran, a founder of Ramsgate’s inclusive community arts space Sugar Rush and Salon Du Miel, on building Pride from the community up
Things to do in Margate
Singer-songwriter Dana Gavanski speaks to Strange Tourist about celebrating strangeness, recording in Margate and her ‘Duds’, ahead of her Ramsgate Music Hall gig
Things to do in Margate
From an idea shared on a train home to sell-out shows featuring the likes of Ed Gamble and Phil Wang, Andy Malt speaks to Margate’s Chump’s Comedy about how it all came together so successfully, so quickly
Things to do in Margate
A Filipino fusion restaurant from the team behind Hoxton’s Rapsa, Tins & Fins opens up at Selina for peppy small plates and ocean views.