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‘Enchanted Things’ - The Margate School’s MA Degree Show

8 Jul 2023
By 
Content Editor

Guest review by Cheri Allcock, MA Fine Art graduate 2023

Last Friday The Margate School opened its doors for ‘Enchanted Things’, the culmination of a two-year project in which seven artists on the Art Nature Society MA programme would come together to show their work as one celestial body.

The opening was lively, with us artists buzzing around relieved, jubilant and deliriously tired, while visitors moved through the show with small rocks on the ground to lead them around the artworks. A lot of our show is based on the ground and takes the audience through different spaces and heights, asking one to look up, down and around. 

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Enchanted Things exhibition poster

Thanet Youth Network: A guide to creative opportunities for young people

15 Mar 2023
By 
Kat Lewis

The Thanet Youth Network has recently published a guide for young people and the organisations that support them to find out about the wealth of opportunities, facilities and support available in the district.

Co-Relate and Margate Bookie are part of the Thanet Youth Network - a group of creative and cultural organisations across Thanet that develop projects and opportunities for young people - and feature in the new guide.

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Thanet Youth Network mapping resource cover

A Sea Change for Thanet

10 Feb 2023
By 
Justin Brown

With new laws about single-use plastic coming into force in October, Plastic Free Thanet wants to help businesses to remove barriers to going plastic free, stopping the flow of plastic onto our streets and beaches.

 

We’re so grateful to marine conservation charity Sea-changers, for funding Plastic Free Thanet’s business engagement project to prompt behaviour change working with local businesses.

 

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Go Plastic Free in 2023

25 Jan 2023
By 
Content Editor

Guest blog by Danielle Ward, Plastic Free Thanet Lead for Minster

Have you made any new year’s resolutions this year? Maybe you’re trying to eat more plant-based foods? Perhaps you want to drink less alcohol or exercise more? Or maybe you’ve jacked it all in already. Well let’s start over in February! 

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New Year, New Publishers

13 Jan 2023
By 
Justin Brown

Following the Margate Bookie Young Producers pilot project, which brought together young creatives to plan, produce, fund and execute literature events, we’re supporting a new Margate Bookie programme to introduce young people to publishing.

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