Current and Upcoming Workshops and Short Courses

Expand your darkroom skills in black and white photographic printing, learning how to get the most from your photographic image.

Learn to get the most from your film camera and build your confidence in this one day course Shooting on FIlm.

During this workshop you will learn the process for developing your black and white film, a good introduction to the magic of analogue photography. Using Patterson film tanks and standard photographic chemistry you will develop your own film. Tickets: £30

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Make your own pinhole camera and explore Margate in this half day photography workshop at The Margate School.

Join Dominic Rose for this one day course in black and white photographic printing, suitable for any level of experience

During this half day course you will discover the joys of analogue photography & learn the process for developing your black and white film

Discover the dazzle of typography in this 6-week short course

Join Dominic Rose for this one day course in black and white photographic printing, suitable for both beginners and those with experience

Join local graphic designer Becky Thomas for a full day workshop as she teaches the basics of screenprinting. This workshop will take place in the TMS Print Space.