Sunday 4 May
Exhibitions
10am - 6pm
Various (see festival map)
Free
Click here to find out more.
Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? Science experiments on the beach with materials scientist Dr Mark Miowdownik
10am - 12pm
Margate Main Sands - meet at Art for All Gallery, 9-10 Marine Drive
Free
No booking required
Children under 16 must be accompanied by adults
Want to know whats what on the beach in Margate? Here’s a chance to investigate the scientific unpinnings of the sand and the sea. Watch the decomposition of chalk into lime using hydrochloric acid, then add dyes to the powder and watch the chalk’s reconstitution into pastels to make drawings on blackboards set up on the beach! Click here to find out more.
Florimania
2pm - 5pm
Tudor House, King Street, Margate
Free
No booking required
A Tudor inspired flower festival at the Tudor House. The house will be adorned with flowers, greenery, herbs and other decorations. Click here to find out more.
This is a partner event run by Thanet District Council
Drop-In Family Workshop: ‘Art From Earth’ with artist Sara Wicks
12 - 4pm
Art for All Gallery, 9-10 Marine Drive, Margate
Free
No booking required
Children under 16 must be accompanied by adults
Explore the possibilities of creating prints and paintings by just using pigments and colours from natural sources. Use the earth as a media to create mud mono-prints and drawings with chalk, charcoal and saps! Click here to find out more.
Green Filmmaking Workshop with the Magnificent Revolution’s Cycling Cinema
2 - 4pm
The Pie Factory, Broad Street, Margate
Free
No booking required
Inspired by the UK’s only cycle-powered cinema to live a greener film life? Come and see and hear how it’s done from the experts, with a masterclass in making and showing films whilst remaining ecologically sound. This is a unique chance to learn about how to make and exhibit low- or zero-carbon films. Click here to find out more.
Ecology on Film in the Magnificent Revolution’s Cycling Cinema
5 - 9pm
The Pie Factory, Broad Street, Margate
Free
No booking required
Featuring Andrew Kötting’s Gallivant and Jean-Gabriel Périot’s Nijuman no Borei (200,000 Phantoms)… All powered by Magnificent Revolution’s unique Cycling Cinema! Please come ready to cycle and power the films! Click here to find out more.
Image: Bristlecone, 2007 (still, detail) © Rebecca Birch