TICKETED EVENTS
20
July
PROJEKT ENCOUNTER
Join us for the final public sharing of PROJEKT ENCOUNTER, a twenty-week drama workshop bringing together refugees, asylum seekers and first-generation migrants from across the region. Led by Performing Arts Charity PROJEKT UTOPIA (formerly PROJEKT EUROPA) and hosted by ARK, this intimate and informal performance offers an opportunity to experience an original piece of theatre created through collaboration, storytelling and creative exploration. Expect serious playfulness, multilingualism and fun as participants share their experiences, imaginations and perspectives through performance. Following the presentation, there will be an opportunity for a Questions and Answers session with the cast and creative team, where you can learn more about the project and the role of the arts in creating spaces for connection and belonging.
4
Aug
PRIDE: Out Laws (film Screening)
Out Laws follows three queer activists as they fight to overturn the colonial-era laws that still criminalise their lives. The battle unfolds in a moment of escalating jeopardy: activists are being murdered, churches and politicians are mobilising against LGBTQIA+ rights, and foreign actors are exporting hate across the Global South. From tense courtrooms to private moments of fear and determination, the film reveals what it means to resist when the cost can be everything. Visually bold and emotionally urgent, Out Laws exposes the political forces trying to force queer people back into the closet — and the movement pushing back with courage, joy and global solidarity.
8
Aug
PRIDE: Patrick Wolf and Sophie Crawford present Invert Folk Club with Selkies Kiss
The legendary singer songwriter and musician Patrick Wolf has invited his band mate Sophie Crawford, the co-founder of the Queer Folk project to his home on the Isle of Thanet this August the 8th, to curate for Margate Pride a one off evening of folk music performed completely acoustically, without amplification in the beautiful Ark venue, Cliftonville, Margate's old synagogue. Wolf and Crawford will be performing a double act concert accompanying each other on their own songs, duetting and taking the extremely intimate audience of 120 on an inverted adventure through the folk standards that have shaped and accompanied them through their work. They have selected the brilliant "Selkies Kiss" a queer riot of free-folk music, playing music influenced by the traditions of Britian, Ireland and Scandinavia to open the "Invert Folk Club", filling the Ark with fiddles, Bodhran and mandolin alongside Crawfords accordion, Clog Dancing, Patrick Wolfs Viola, Kantale, Harp, Harpsichord, Guitar, Flute Organ and if we are very lucky, a moment of double appalachian mountain dulcimer between our curators of the club.
10
Sep
A Message for the Future
A Message for the Future is an inclusive, multi-sensory art installation and gig theatre experience designed for early years (ages 0-3) and family audiences. DIY punk poetry gig theatre parents Brigitte Aphrodite and Quiet Boy offer a multi-sensory experience that subverts the early years genre through joyful rock n roll storytelling, celebrating a journey of nature and kindness. This calm pocket of punky joy explores a future full of hope, the wonders of the environment, and its unsung heroes.
11
Sep
Sabina Desir & Jessica Lauren present TEN
This September, Sabina Desir and Jessica Lauren invite you to join them for TEN — a special live performance celebrating a decade of artistic collaboration. Expect an uplifting journey through Soul, Jazz, Blues and beyond — with the depth, feeling and musicality that have defined their collaborations over the last decade.
9
Oct
Lunatraktors
Award-winning ‘broken folk’ experimentalists — Lunatraktors strip Anglo-Celtic traditionals to the bare bones of vocal harmony, expanding into weird, playful spaces with eclectic acoustic beats, accordion, whistles and deep drones. Ancient and contemporary, mournful and joyously deranged, Lunatraktors are ‘simply different’ (RTÉ Lyric FM). MOJO Top Ten Folk Albums 2019 & 2021.
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