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Current and Upcoming Guest Lectures

Previous Guest Lectures

  • Margate Bookie: Bee’s Bookshare
    Margate Bookie: Bee’s Bookshare
    04 Oct 2024, 16:00 – 18:00
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Bee’s Bookshare is a friendly community of book lovers, and we love to welcome new people to our meet-ups. Any type of book and any type of reader is welcome. There are no set books to read, just bring something you’ve loved or loathed to pass on and share the reading buzz. Free to Attend
  • Margate Bookie: Bookbinding Taster
    Margate Bookie: Bookbinding Taster
    04 Oct 2024, 14:00 – 15:30
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Join Hope Fitzgerald from Bindfulness Handmade Books, as she shares a variety of simple handbound structures and a taster of bookbinding techniques. Find out about paper grain and learn a simple sewing technique to create useful and beautiful books using basic tools and materials. Tickets: £25
  • Margate Bookie: The Nature of Belonging - Rainforests and Caminos
    Margate Bookie: The Nature of Belonging - Rainforests and Caminos
    03 Oct 2024, 19:30 – 21:30
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Maggie Harris and Mark Holihan both hail from the Americas and their artistic journeys continue to entice them to cross continents. Together with Ramsgate Radio’s Creative Director, sound artist and musician Filipe Gomes, and Margate poet Jess Rose, they’ll explore the lure of travel. Tickets: £5
  • Margate Bookie: Margate - A hidden history of authors, artists and lovers
    Margate Bookie: Margate - A hidden history of authors, artists and lovers
    02 Oct 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Join us for a funny and irreverent presentation that takes you through the ages in Margate. Will MacLachlan is a local historian who works in marketing and loves comedy… so he likes to make history relevant and fun for the audience. Tickets: £5
  • Margate Bookie: Borderland by Rod Edmond
    Margate Bookie: Borderland by Rod Edmond
    02 Oct 2024, 18:00 – 19:00
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Rod Edmond sets out to walk the East Kent coastline from Thanet to Folkestone, to explore its geography, its history of invasion and defense, and investigate how its fabled White Cliffs mark a border that has sometimes offered refuge and at other times refused entry. Tickets: £5
  • Margate Bookie: Local Writers Showcase
    Margate Bookie: Local Writers Showcase
    01 Oct 2024, 19:30 – 21:30
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    The literary scene in Planet Thanet is booming! Come and listen to readings from 13 local writers. Wellness & badness, love & death, music & sandwiches. Tickets: £5
  • Margate Bookie: Mixmatched presents Noughties Nostalgia & Atypical Love Stories starring Elvin James Mensah
    Margate Bookie: Mixmatched presents Noughties Nostalgia & Atypical Love Stories starring Elvin James Mensah
    30 Sept 2024, 19:30 – 21:30
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Join us for an evening celebrating love in all its many forms. Hosted by Alice and Emma from Mixmatched, and starring queer British-Ghanaian novelist Elvin James Mensah, there may or may not be passionate discussion about the Spice Girls and/or the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Tickets: £5
  • Weird Photo Walk with Ed Thompson
    Weird Photo Walk with Ed Thompson
    29 Sept 2024, 11:00 – 15:00
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Join us on the first of our Autumn series of photography workshops for the Weird Photo Walk with photographer Ed Thompson who will guide you through the delights of flâneur-ism and psychogeography in the centre of Margate. Tickets: £40
  • From Margate to Hollywood & back
    From Margate to Hollywood & back
    26 Sept 2024, 17:00 – 18:00
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    We are thrilled to announce that renowned Graphic Designer and Oscar-winning documentary film maker Arnold Schwartzman will be our next Guest Lecturer on the Visual Communication Design lecture series.
  • Speculative Listening in the Margins
    Speculative Listening in the Margins
    10 Aug 2024, 11:00 – 13:00
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    In this artist talk and workshop, we will explore how different approaches to sound and listening can open spaces for imagining alternative possibilities. We will examine how speculative approaches to sound and listening can develop different perspectives on social and environmental relations.
  • Kavel Rafferty | DIY - self taught and surviving
    Kavel Rafferty | DIY - self taught and surviving
    16 May 2024, 18:00 – 19:00
    The Margate School, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Join us as Kavel Rafferty shares her experience as a self-taught, multi-disciplinary artist working in collage, painting and assemblage art, who explores the possibilities of found materials.
  • Arnold Borgerth | 40 Years Looking For Something
    Arnold Borgerth | 40 Years Looking For Something
    11 May 2024, 14:00 – 16:00
    The Margate School, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
  • postponed Graham Wood | Public Guest Lecture
    postponed Graham Wood | Public Guest Lecture
    28 Mar 2024, 18:00 – 19:00
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Join us to hear designer Graham Wood talk about his work and his experimental approach to typography
  • Jim Sutherland | Flags, Games, Symbols, Shapes, Observations and Play
    Jim Sutherland | Flags, Games, Symbols, Shapes, Observations and Play
    15 Feb 2024, 18:00 – 19:00
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Discover Visual Language in this Guest Lecture by brand expert Jim Sutherland
  • Margate Festival of Design: Horizons
    Margate Festival of Design: Horizons
    11 Aug 2023, 10:00 – 17 Aug 2023, 16:00
    The Margate School, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Tickets are now LIVE for an exciting programme of talks and exhibitions
  • Guest Lecture - Derek Seaward
    Guest Lecture - Derek Seaward
    15 Jun 2023, 17:00 – 19:00
    Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Based in his Studio just outside Canterbury in Kent, now concentrating more on Portraits and Products. Derek will be delivering a talk focusing on the creative side of his practice to students and the community at TMS
  • Ben Edge | Guest Lecture
    Ben Edge | Guest Lecture
    14 Mar 2023, 17:00 – 19:00
    The Margate School, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Ben Edge is an artist, songwriter and folklorist, who over the past 7 years has been obsessively documenting the seasonal folk customs of the British Isles.
  • Jazz  Grant | Guest Lecture
    Jazz  Grant | Guest Lecture
    09 Mar 2023, 17:00 – 18:00
    The Margate School, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
    Jazz Grant is a British artist who mainly works with mixed media, non-digital collage artwork and stop motion animation.
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The Margate School's key partners are renowned French art school, Esä, l’École Supérieure d’Art Dunkerque-Tourcoing. It is a member of CHEAD,  associate member of ELIA. It is also a RSA South East Fellowship Co-working Hub.

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