THESE ARE SELECTED IMAGES FROM OUR 2011 LIVE EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS AND ALL OF THE PREVIOUS ‘UP THE LINE’ REMEMBRANCE PERFORMANCES TO SEE IMAGES FROM 2010 AND EARLIER CLICK HERE
Margnification, by the conceptual art collective Akleriah, was a live street intervention that challenged the perception of the space in which the performance takes place. Moving through the streets of Cliftonville and the Margate Old Town, stopping on route to perform in the new Turner Contemporary gallery, the intervention interacted with local people with varying results. MORE...
'Draw Me / Tedne Ve' creates instant public portrait galleries in public spaces. The Cliftonville intervention has been one of the most successful event of the last six years with over 85 portraits. MORE...
The ‘Draw Me’ is a camera obscurer built into a specially designed booth, on one side sits the subject who, via a lens and mirror, appears upside down for the drawing participant There is no fee for creating a portrait, the event looks to unravel the way people see those who are closest to them often the closer the subject-drawer relationship the more revealing the image MORE...
It is an imperative with any arts intervention to embed as quickly as possible within the local community One method is to associate with people who are already known and well regarded locally Krista Bubble was born in Margate and was highly involved in the opening weeks of the Moonbow Jake café She organised a live music night with her band, The Bubbleband, and others musicians which attracted over 100 people MORE...…
The Lido Complex in Cliftonville sits opposite the place where Platform-7 set up the Moonbow Margate art intervention café, Moonbow Jakes. Although there was an interest in having some event on or in the Lido complex it was not envisaged that a virtually disused 1980s nightclub would be offered for the month of September 2011 for no rent With a fair amount of bewilderment we accepted the keys and proceeded to relocate from the café and install two exhibitions and a host of live events Over 1000 people visited the venue What followed was furious discussions on the fate of many of Margate’s disused buildings and much MORE...…
What would happen if the supermarkets collapsed as the banks did in 2007? The supply of food in a country like Britain is seen as secure; yet how secure is the food chain? To ensure that profits rise each year supermarkets are finding it increasingly difficult to pass on higher prices to consumers; the answer is to strip the supply chain to increase their margins This leaves many suppliers of food working to very tight margins making investment difficult, the collapse of the supply chain is not beyond the realms of possibility In such a scenario how would the British public react? MORE...…
As the Moonbow Margate project developed it became increasing noticeable how people living in Cliftonville and Margate were either looking back to the ‘golden days’ or looking far ahead into the future, see comments book Few seemed very interested in the present ‘Cliftonville Now’ was an attempt to capture how the area is perceived today by using objects synonymous with Cliftonville and the people who live there MORE…...
