Featured Events in Margate in April, 2025 (May Updated)

Looking for a fun, engaging way to get active and meet new people? Pickleball is suitable for all ages and skill levels. Whether you're a seasoned player or a complete beginner, our friendly sessions are designed to improve your skills, knowledge and fitness. The sessions are perfect for those people wishing to get more active and try something new. Coach Dave Wood will be on hand each week to guide you through the basic rules and understanding of the game. With four courts available players can play with people of similar ability. It is recommended to wear trainers and sport/leisure clothing and to bring a water bottle. Equipment is provided. The cost is £10.50 per weekly session. Each session runs for 2 hours from 7pm to 9pm. The sessions will be run by Dave Wood. Dave is a local pickleball player and qualified coach. Dave lives in Margate and has been playing pickleball for 9 years. He loves to play in tournaments and has even played in the US Pickleball Open in Florida. Dave is currently the national champion in men's and mixed doubles 60+ category. Information Source: Dave Wood Pickleball | eventbrite

First session: Join us for a dynamic, genre-defying writing workshop series where Dub Music Mixing meets storytelling. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced writer, these sessions will ignite your creativity, deepen your writing techniques, and push your writing into bold new spaces. Inspired by dub music production—its layering, remixing, echoes, and rhythm—we'll experiment with language, sound, and structure to find fresh, innovative ways into our stories. Open to writers of all genres and levels, these workshops offer a playful, immersive, and exploratory space to enhance your craft, drawing energy from music as language. Come ready to remix, experiment, and bring the fire to your writing! All writers welcome—no prior knowledge of music or dub required.First session: Thursday, 24 April, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Turner Contemporary Café, Margate Limited to 20 participants – Book now! About the Monthly SeriesJoin Jacqueline Crooks, author of the award-winning novel Fire Rush, for a monthly creative writing workshop series exploring the intersection of creative writing and music. Inspired by the deep basslines, fragmented echoes, and sonic experimentation of dub music, this series will guide writers in using rhythm, improvisation, and layering techniques to enrich their writing. Held in the stunning café space at Turner Contemporary, with its sweeping views of Margate’s harbour, these intimate sessions will push your writing into new territories, whether you're a beginner or an experienced writer. April Session: The Mixing Board – Building Your Writer’s ToolkitTheme: The writer’s ‘mixing board’ as a creative hub. Exercise: Create a personalised mixing board of music, images, and text that fuel your writing. Outcome: Leave with a curated resource bank and your first writing sample, setting the foundation for the series. Why Attend?Use dynamic technologies to enhance your writing practice.Explore sound, rhythm, and fragmentation in storytelling.Engage in guided writing exercises and feedback in a unique and inspiring setting.Be part of a community of writers exploring new creative approaches and working towards publication.Event DetailsLast Thursday of every month | 5:00 PM – 6:00PM. £35 per workshop. Join us for an optional 20-minute inspirational walk around the harbour before each workshop. Meet outside Turner Contemporary Café at 4:30 PM sharp to soak in the coastal atmosphere and spark creativity before we begin at Turner Contemporary Café, Margate. This accessible series is perfect for locals and for those looking to combine a long weekend of writing and coastal walks in the inspiring landscapes of Margate, Westbrook, Westgate, Botany Bay, and beyond. Hotel recommendations can be provided for those visiting for the weekend. Limited to 20 participants – Early booking recommended! About Jacqueline CrooksJacqueline Crooks writes short stories and novels. She is the award-winning author of Fire Rush, a novel that channels the energy of dub reggae to tell a powerful story of migration, music, and resistance. Fire Rush won the 2024 PEN America Open Book Award and the Society of Authors Paul Torday Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Waterstones Debut Author Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, and the McKitterick Prize. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Prize and have been programmed on BBC Radio 4. ProgrammeAPRIL The Mixing Board – Building Your Writer’s Toolkit Theme: The writer’s ‘mixing board’ as a creative hub.Exercise: Create a personalised mixing board of music, images, and text that fuel your writing.Outcome: Leave with a curated resource bank and your first writing sample, setting the foundation for the series.https://sharpskillscreativestudio-writingworkshop-session1.eventbrite.co.ukMAY Audiotopias: Writing Sonic Worlds Theme: Creating immersive soundscapes in fiction.Exercise: Use sensory language to write a setting where sound shapes the environment (e.g., a city at night, a forest during a storm, a crowded nightclub).Outcome: A richly atmospheric scene using sound as the central element.https://sharpskillscreativestudio-writingworkshop-session2.eventbrite.co.ukJUNE Experimentation & Improvisation in Writing Theme: Writing as an exploratory and daring process, going beyond boundaries.Exercise: Use unexpected words, phrases, and sources (journal articles, lyrics, overheard conversations) to disrupt conventional storytelling.Outcome: A short experimental piece inspired by randomisation and improvisation.https://sharpskillscreativestudio-writingworkshop-session3.eventbrite.co.ukJULY Writing with Sound & Music Theme: The interplay between music and narrative rhythm.Exercise: Listen to a selection of dub tracks and write scenes or descriptions that mimic their rhythm, tempo, and structure.Outcome: A piece that captures the essence of sound, mood and pace in storytelling.https://sharpskillscreativestudio-writingworkshop-session4.eventbrite.co.ukAUGUST Mixing Language: Creating a New Literary Sound Theme: Blending dialects, lyrical styles, and rhythms in writing.Exercise: Experiment with mixing different linguistic influences (Nation Language, poetic structures, spoken word elements).Outcome: A short passage using hybridized language to create a unique literary voice.https://sharpskillscreativestudio-writingworkshop-session5.eventbrite.co.ukSEPTEMBER Fragmentation: Disrupting Time and Narrative Theme: Using fragmentation to challenge linear storytelling.Exercise: Break apart a written piece—cut sentences, remove words, shift tenses—and observe how meaning changes.Outcome: A fragmented narrative that experiments with time and memory.https://sharpskillscreativestudio-writingworkshop-session6.eventbrite.co.ukOCTOBER Sampling: Borrowing & Remixing Stories Theme: Using elements of past work to generate new ideas.Exercise: Take a previously written story or poem and ‘sample’ parts of it to create something fresh.Outcome: A remixed story or poem inspired by the original.https://sharpskillscreativestudio-writingworkshop-session7.eventbrite.co.ukNOVEMBER Absence as Presence: The Power of What’s Left Out Theme: The role of silence, gaps, and voids in storytelling.Exercise: Write a scene with missing dialogue, words, or even whole sections—then analyse what the gaps suggest.Outcome: A piece that explores tension and meaning through omission.https://sharpskillscreativestudio-writingworkshop-session8.eventbrite.co.ukDECEMBER The Mix: Editing & Refining with Dub Techniques Theme: Approaching revision like a dub producer—remixing, cutting, and reshaping.Exercise: Take a past piece and ‘remix’ it—mute unnecessary sections, amplify key themes, introduce unexpected shifts.Outcome: A fully revised piece shaped by dub-inspired editing techniques.https://sharpskillscreativestudio-writingworkshop-session9.eventbrite.co.ukJANUARY Writing as Performance: The Dancehall of the Page Theme: Writing for the ear—how words sound when spoken.Exercise: Write and perform a short spoken-word piece with musical elements or rhythm-driven language.Outcome: A performed piece that enhances the words on the page.https://sharpskillscreativestudio-writingworkshop-session10.eventbrite.co.uk Information Source: Sharp Skills Creative Studio | eventbrite

Welcome to the APRIL SOCCER SCHOOL! Please ensure that you bring - Correct footwear. Shinpads. Coat. Drink. Hot lunch will be supplied. Spaces are limited. Information Source: Margate Football Club | eventbrite

Looking for a fun, engaging way to get active and meet new people? Pickleball is suitable for all ages and skill levels. Whether you're a seasoned player or a complete beginner, our friendly sessions are designed to improve your skills, knowledge and fitness. The sessions are perfect for those people wishing to get more active and try something new. Coach Dave Wood will be on hand each week to guide you through the basic rules and understanding of the game. With four courts available players can play with people of similar ability. It is recommended to wear trainers and sport/leisure clothing and to bring a water bottle. Equipment is provided. The cost is £10.50 per weekly session. Each session runs for 2 hours from 7pm to 9pm. The sessions will be run by Dave Wood. Dave is a local pickleball player and qualified coach. Dave lives in Margate and has been playing pickleball for 9 years. He loves to play in tournaments and has even played in the US Pickleball Open in Florida. Dave is currently the national champion in men's and mixed doubles 60+ category. Information Source: Dave Wood Pickleball | eventbrite

Looking for a fun, engaging way to get active and meet new people? Pickleball is suitable for all ages and skill levels. Whether you're a seasoned player or a complete beginner, our friendly sessions are designed to improve your skills, knowledge and fitness. The sessions are perfect for those people wishing to get more active and try something new. Coach Dave Wood will be on hand each week to guide you through the basic rules and understanding of the game. With four courts available players can play with people of similar ability. It is recommended to wear trainers and sport/leisure clothing and to bring a water bottle. Equipment is provided. The cost is £10.50 per weekly session. Each session runs for 2 hours from 7pm to 9pm. The sessions will be run by Dave Wood. Dave is a local pickleball player and qualified coach. Dave lives in Margate and has been playing pickleball for 9 years. He loves to play in tournaments and has even played in the US Pickleball Open in Florida. Dave is currently the national champion in men's and mixed doubles 60+ category. Information Source: Dave Wood Pickleball | eventbrite