Margate NOW

Cement Fields are currently looking for a Deputy Director to play a key role supporting the Director to ensure the organisation runs smoothly, meets its goals, and plans effectively for the future. Find out more about the role here: cementfields.org/opportunities/

I recently had a great days with @OpenSchoolEast Young Associates at @MargateNOW which included drawing ivy mounds in a freezing cold sea wind! OSE are an incredible free art school offering valuable opportunities to people wanting to learn through the arts 🙌❤️

Have you stopped to take in the incredible ‘Black British History – Past & Present Icons’ Mural at @DreamlandMarg yet? Our editor @jjordanwrench wrote about this @peopledemcolle1 @MargateNOW collaboration in our latest issue on pages 34-35 at margatemercury.com

🌱 What an amazing time we have had over the last few weeks during Margate NOW 2021! 🌱 If you attended any of our events, please take a few minutes of your time to help us secure the future of Margate NOW by completing a short survey ➡ surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MN2021AS #margatenow

🔎 Garden-to-garden walk, Sara Trillo ⏰ 10 Oct, 14:00 – 14:45 A walk from Dent-de-Lion villa to the Sunken Garden, which imagines a historical link between the latter and the vanished garden that once surrounded the medieval Dent-de-Lion gatehouse. margatenow.co.uk/events/garden-…

🔎 Spliced: An Obituary in Three Movements, Ama Josephine Budge 📱 Online A visual and textual honouring of the unspoken human and non-human lives taken, displaced, misnamed and misremembered by colonial cultures of dispossession. ➡ margatenow.co.uk/spliced-an-obi…

GLOBAL WESTBROOK! Book your place on tomorrow's @MargateNOW events with me, @hackneytours and @jmjfs. There'll be a walk exploring Westbrook's intricate planetary connections followed by a workshop at the once magnificent Nayland Rock Hotel. margatenow.co.uk/2021-events/

🔎 Loci, @SoniaOverall ⏰ 9 Oct, 17:00 – 17:40 📌 Sunken Garden A site-specific project of walking, words and speculative situations. In this re-envisioning of place, strange mutations take root, entangling past and future to erode our present certainties. margatenow.co.uk/sonia-overall

🌱 Olu Ogunnaike, Nesting 🌳 Margate NOW 2021 Permanent Commission 🌳 Kent’s coasts play host to a plethora of migratory birds; Ogunnaike has made a sculptural bench from some of the same species of wood that these birds pass on their journeys across the globe. #margatenow

🌱 Lindsey Mendick, Rotten to the Core 🌱 🐌 Margate NOW 2021 Permanent Commission 🐌 The compost bin, always so contained and concealing of the processes happening within, wears its decomposition with pride. Photo credit: Thierry Bal #margatenow

We had a fantastic day on Sunday at the Sunken Garden for 𝙀𝙘𝙤 𝙂𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜, a day of public talks and family activities centred around local ecology! This event has been curated by the Sunken Garden Society 🌱 📸 Heather Tait #margatenow #margatenow2021

Head to the Nayland Rock Hotel today to see the work of Holly Slingsby, Sara Trillo & Adam Chodzko at the Nayland Rock Hotel! Open until 6pm. 🔎 The Hortorium, Sara Trillo 📸 Thierry Bal #margatenow #margatenow2021

Join us today from 10:00 – 16:00 in the Sunken Garden for Eco Gathering, a day of public talks and family activities centred around local ecology! This event has been curated by the Sunken Garden Society 🌱 Full schedule: margatenow.co.uk/events/the-eco… 📸 Thierry Bal #margatenow

🔎 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙂𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙨 ⏰ Sunday 3 October, 10:00 – 20:00 📌 Sunken Garden A mysterious rock formation appears to have fallen from the sky and landed in the Sunken Garden. Scientists from across the globe are investigating. #margatenow #margatenow2021

🌼 This evening at 6:15pm, come to Nayland Rock Hotel to see 'Phyto' by Kim Conway! 'Phyto' is a form of "reality" cinema, without a plot or storyline. Plant matter from the Sunken Garden was placed onto photographic film emulsion and exposed under the sun. 📸 Heather Tait

Come in from the 🌧 today and see the work of Holly Slingsby, Sara Trillo & Adam Chodzko at the Nayland Rock Hotel! Open until 6pm. 🔎 An Enclosed Garden, @HSlingsby 📸 Thierry Bal

Great to hear that @FavershamLit are going to join us at Transit Collective for the walk at @MargateNOW on 9th Oct. #Kent culture creators and facilitators in the Thanet house. See you on the Margate beach :)

🔎 The Sympathy of Clocks 🌻 Part of Margate NOW 2021's Wider Programme 🌻 ⏰ Installation: 3 Oct, 14:00 – 18:00 (FREE, just show up) ⏰ Installation & live show from Yemrot: 3 Oct, 19:00 (£5, book tickets via bit.ly/3D6BmVc) 📌 @elsewheremarg8

New schedule for Saturday 2 October! 🌧Due to rain being forecast tomorrow, we have decided to move some of our events indoors🌧 We hope you are still able to join us at some of the great events tomorrow, in the warm indoors of the Nayland Rock Hotel! #margatenow #margatenow2021

Alas, tomorrow's scheduled Loci walk for @MargateNOW will not go ahead due to a very grim weather forecast. Fingers crossed for better weather on the 9th... If you'd like to join me for an alternative walk, indoors or out, I'll be here on Sunday 10am - just follow #DistanceDrift.