Things to do in Thanet and beyond this week (April 28-May 4)

Live music, craft, stand up comedy, daytime clubbing and more. Here's everything you'll want to be doing this week in Thanet, East Kent and London.

Margate Creative Land Trust will cover the screen and fashion industries in the organisation’s final consultation on its plans to support the Margate creative economy on Wednesday, 5-30pm-7pm. Register your interest. 

Illustrator Megan Metcalf will lead a crockery doodle workshop at Our Curated Abode in Ramsgate on Wednesday. Tickets £36. 

Margate Assembly turns one year old this week, so the acoustic night is bringing back the line up from its first ever event. Meg Bird, Jacob Berry and Lo Barnes will all return to the stage at Off Licence in Cliftonville this Wednesday. Free entry.

Artist Vicki Griggs hosts Paint & Pizza at Louie On Sea in Margate on Thursday - a guided painting session with food from Hot Wood Pizza. Tickets £38.62. 

Margate’s Turner Contemporary will unveil a new artwork by Cassi Namoda on the floor to ceiling windows of its Sunley Gallery on Friday. This follows the success of Beatriz Milhazes’ window installation O Esplendor in 2023. 

Queer Cuntry is heading back out of Margate and will be at Signature Brew on Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow on Friday. Tickets £15. 

Sound installation Sixty Beats Per Minute opens at Saint George’s Church in Ramsgate on Friday, running until June 29. It will be open to the public three days a week, as well as being live streamed 24/7. More info. 

The audience become mythmakers in kids’ theatre show The Story Forge: Make Your Own Myth at The Gulbenkian in Canterbury on Saturday. Tickets £8. 

The Margate School launches its new Schwarzman Gallery with a retrospective of the work of its namesake, Arnold Schwarzman, on Saturday.

Comedian Kerry Godliman will be performing her latest show Bandwidth at the Granville Theatre in Ramsgate on Saturday. Tickets £22. 

New music showcase On Margate Sounds returns on Saturday at Where Else, with performances from Lime Garden, Adult DVD, Hot Stamp and Blue Mirror. Tickets £18.88.

At the Turner Contemporary on Sunday afternoon is panel discussion Environmental Campaigns: Past and Present. Speaking will be environmental experts Dr Toby Butler, Tom Burke, Fiona Harvey and Fatima Ibrahim. Tickets £5. 

Daniel Avery headlines Movement at Faith In Strangers on Sunday, which will kick off at 4pm and run through to 10pm. Tickets £20.74.

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