Things to do: Garden Gate Music Day, Rakookoo, Margate Ceramics Market

Rakookoo’s next kitchen takeover will be happening at Twenty Seven Harbour Street in Broadstairs on July 31. If you’ve ever ordered any of their food for at home takeaways or frozen meals, you’ll know how good it is. Here’s your chance to eat it in a restaurant setting. £40pp, book here, and be quick about it.

Melanie Johnssan holds her first exhibition at High Tide Social in Cliftonville. It opened yesterday evening, but her brightly coloured pics are on show until September. 

Broadstairs cocktail bar Delilah’s is so great, it needs more staff. If you know how to mix a drink or have some floor experience up your sleeve, get in touch. 

Margate Ceramics Market returns to Turner Contemporary Saturday and Sunday July 27 & 28, 10am-4pm, with free entry. Find yourself something nice from a local maker.

Ark in Cliftonville will screen a double bill of new documentary United At The Coalface and 2014 comedy film Pride on Monday, August 5 at 7pm. Both films tell the tale of a mining community who formed an alliance with a group of gay activists in the 80s during the miners’ strike. Following the documentary screening, there’s a Q&A with director Ashley Francis-Roy. Book free tickets. 

Reign Bar in Broadstairs has two cocktails for £16 Fridays and Saturdays, from 6pm to 9pm, and 2-4-1 cocktails Wednesday and Thursday 6pm to 9pm. There will be music from Red on Friday, July 12 also, from 8pm. 

Head to Palm Bay for a morning dose of yoga, Monday and Fridays 7am to 8am. Bring your mat, and dress in layers for fickle weather and your togs should you want to join in with the group sea dip after. By donation and if the weather is really foul, yoga’s off. Donations welcome. 

Sète teams up with the delectable Updown Farmhouse from just outside of Deal to put on a St Bastille garden party and Frenchy BBQ. Head to the Margate wine bar for your piece of a whole pig and some French wine. On Sunday, July 14. Book, or try your luck as a walk in. From 2pm. 

The charming, family-friendly Garden Gate Music Day is back, bringing a mixed-bag of music to the delightful walled garden by Northdown Park on July 20. Held 2pm-9pm, expect lots of music, beer and cider, homemade cakes, food stalls serving up the likes of woodfired-pizza and a selection of curries, and rain. Tickets, £16.96, are (as ever) selling fast. 

Gemilia Boss, the driftweed artist, who makes stuff out of seaweed, has workshops in Broadstairs on July 14. At the end of the four-hour session which runs 11.30am-3.30pm, you'll have made your own seaweed picture to hang on your wall. Tickets £65, and check her Instagram for dates and times.

Grab the kids and head to Pegwell Bay County Park for a guided walk with the good people of Kent Wildlife Trust who will point out really cool things in nature as you pass them as you stroll through the coastal wetland. Held as part of National Marine Week, the walk is on Wednesday July 31, 10am-12pm. It’s free, but book. A256 Sandwich Road, Cliffsend, CT12 5JB. 

Chuckle Club returns to The Bedford Inn in Ramsgate. Acts haven’t been announced yet, but the night is on Friday, July 26 from 7.30pm and tickets are £5. 

Have you ever wondered why there aren’t more activities that combine pilates with live harp music? No, us neither. Probably a totally different vibe to doom yoga, this core workout sees a live harp accompany a pilates session taken by candlelight. After your stretch, there’s a little break, followed by a harp-tracked relaxation session. Sounds quite lovely. This one’s on Wednesday, September 11, at Newlands Primary School on Dumpton Lane, Ramsgate, CT11 7AJ, at 7.15pm for £27.80.

New Ramsgate restaurant, Pericolounge has a Tuesday tapas deal that gets you three tapas plates and a wine for £13.95. It’s on every Tuesday from 5pm. We haven’t tried it yet, so let us know what you think. 

Margate’s new material night Inkling will be hosting a work in progress performance of comedian Rich Hardisty’s new show Pop at the Tom Thumb Theatre on July 25. It’s a tale of Rich coming out of a psychiatric ward and travelling to America to meet his biological father for the first time. The last few tickets are available for £5. 

LA’s Warehouse Preservation Society will be arriving at Margate Arts Club on July 26 with special guest Johnny Aux. Expect a mix of psychedelic and acid house. It all goes down on July 27. Tickets are £7 if you book now. 

Gadd’s will be unveiling its new beer Ramsgate Carnival in the tap room at its brewery on the Pysons Road Industrial Estate in Ramsgate. There’ll be food on offer too, including a £12 burger and pint deal. 

ICYMI - previously tipped events happening this week

Little Swift and Big Shot on Margate’s Marine Drive will be hosting a Big American Weekender until July 7 with a BBQ, US beers and whiskies.

Margate Bike Club’s kids ride on July 7. Starts midday from the Jubilee Play Park heading to Captain Digby for soft play, beach fun and drinks. Free. 

Pot Luck is an informal get together in Margate, and everyone is welcome. This one is on Sunday, July 7 from 1pm to 3pm and has a BBQ theme, BYO everything and find it at Margate’s beach facing the Lido. Full info on Instagram. 

Pop-up cinema night Deeper Into Movies screens Harmony Korine’s Gummo at Bar Nothing, Margate on July 10. Tickets available through Dice.