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Jan 12, 2012
3 min

MARGATE OR CLIFTONVILLE: WHO DO YOU LOVE?

A beautiful mosaic artwork, in the form of a giant mobile, that for many captured the communities of modern day Margate and Cliftonville. Artists: Maureen (Mo) Black and Jane Black Concept: Maureen Black and John McKiernan Cliftonville and Margate are two separate areas on the Kent coast interweaved in a physical sense yet, as the Moonbow Margate art intervention found, distant in the sense of harmonic living. Moonbow Margate was situated on the very border between the two ar

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Platform7

Jan 8, 2012
1 min

DARREN SPERRING

September 2011, part of 'What is Food' Darren Sperring, trained as a dietician and worked in hospitals and surgeries throughout England while pursuing his art practice. The concept for the exhibition ‘What is Food?’ initiated from discussions centred on Darren’s humorous observational practice, which focussed on how people consider their diet, what they choose to eat and the way the consume food. Click for gallery Darren's response to 'What is food?' Answer: Any substance con

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BRAN JONES - MOONBOW MARGATE PHOTOGRAPHER

Platform7

Nov 30, 2011
4 min

BRAN JONES - MOONBOW MARGATE PHOTOGRAPHER

Bran Jones became the official Moonbow Margate photographer because of his love of espresso. Up The Line Remembrance 2011, Margate Cemetery Living and studying in Thanet, Bran discovered the Moonbow Jakes café in Cliftonville while researching his beach photography project. He was invited to photograph the amazing Akleriah, a live interactive performance around the streets of Cliftonville, Margate and inside the Turner Contemporary. Only shooting in black and white the result

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Platform7

Nov 26, 2011
2 min

MELANIE SIMPSON DANCE: 'ON THE HORIZON'

SUNDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER 2011, LIDO COMPLEX, CLIFTONVILLE AND MARGATE, KENT, ENGLAND Choreographer and dancer Melanie Simpson presented ‘'On the Horizon'’, a site-specific collection of living sculptures. View here A continuation of previous work 'Juncture' in collaboration with scenographer Chan Vi. 'On the Horizon' saw seven solo figures dotted about the local landscape - living sculptures allowing people to see their surroundings in a new light. The performance moved around

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DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA: LIVE AT THE LIDO COMPLEX

Platform7

Oct 22, 2011
3 min

DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA: LIVE AT THE LIDO COMPLEX

The Dead Rat Orchestra (DRO) performed two stunning gigs at the Lido bringing remarks of 'incredible’, ‘raw’, ‘ancient stirrings’ and 'primitive'. Using a multifaceted arrangement of improvised sounds within a rigid musical structure, the DRO brought a challenging set to an audience unaccustomed to such complex arrangements. The reception in which the band’s music was received shows there is an appetite within Thanet for less mainstream music. You can watch the guys performin

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ARTIST PAUL HAZELTON REFLECTS ON MOONBOW MARGATE

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Sep 24, 2011
4 min

ARTIST PAUL HAZELTON REFLECTS ON MOONBOW MARGATE

Throughout Summer 2011 Paul Hazelton is an international artist, presently preparing for a commission for the New York Museum for Art & Design, born and grew up in Cliftonville, Kent. Throughout the summer project, Paul was pivotal to the success of the Moonbow Margate intervention, with many of the interesting artworks and performances that appeared having in some way Paul’s prints on them. Paul Hazelton's thoughts on the project: 'My first intervention at Moonbow was the w

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Platform7

Sep 24, 2011
2 min

REBECCA LOCKE: GOLD JUNK

FRIDAY 24TH - 26TH SEPTEMBER CLIFTONVILLE AMUSEMENTS ETHELBERT CRESCENT, MARGATE, KENT CT9 2DY www.rebeccalocke.com Gold junk -- win artist's work from Margate arcade machine In association with Platform-7 Margate and the Lido project, the work of artist Rebecca Locke will come to Margate over the weekend of September 23/24/25. A limited series of twenty-five pieces of artist Rebecca Locke's work Gold junk can be won from the penny pusher arcade machine at Cliftonville Amusem

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GORDON CLARKSON DISCUSSED ‘THE LIDO’S LAST SEASON’

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Sep 23, 2011
1 min

GORDON CLARKSON DISCUSSED ‘THE LIDO’S LAST SEASON’

Saturday 24th September 2011, The Lido, 2pm Amusing anecdotes from Gordon Clarkson’s formative years working at the Lido to putting on the last summer season. www.gordonclarksonproductions.co.uk Local celebrity, Gordon Clarkson, discussed the history of the Lido and his years as a worker and performer to an audience of more than 70 people. This event led to many emotions surfacing about the Lido in Cliftonville and greater Thanet in general. Committees were formed and new

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Platform7

Sep 22, 2011
1 min

FREE LUNCH

Free Lunch is a trio of local Thanet musicians who, although they played together almost 30 years ago, have only recently reunited to perform again. The group is comprised of Steve Cope (vocals and guitar) Bob Haines (guitar and vocals) and Peter Barnett (drums). All three have been involved in a wide range of different musical projects across the UK and abroad over the last three decades. The band’s material is original and tends to present a wry, social commentary on every

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Platform7

Sep 10, 2011
1 min

ANIA BAS RECESSION CUPCAKES, 2011

Saturday, 10th September 2011 Participative performance by Ania Bas (artist and keen baker) with people of Margate at the Lido Complex During the performance a series of edible (and almost edible) artworks was created. Each cupcake explored the relationship between food, recession and socialscape as seen and experienced by individuals not society. Themes of abundance as well as scarcity, reborn and fertile recession grounds, social status, changing tastes, colour-overflows, s

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Platform7

Sep 9, 2011
1 min

CLARE PATTINSON - FOOD POLICE

Cliftonville based artist, Clare Pattinson created a series of innovative food menus that were designed specifically for the hand made menu holders as part of the ‘What is Food?’ exhibition at The Lido in Margate, and also for the Dining Club of Margate. Food Police The three menu holders are humorous, interactive mechanical toys, inviting the diner to partake in the animation of the characters on top of the wooden mechanical boxes. The characters signify the food police

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Platform7

Sep 8, 2011
2 min

CLAIRE AND DEAN PLAY TONY AND DOMINIC

Soundscape by Claire Hazelton and Dean Wood To Listen Click Here Centred around the 1976 record, 'Tony Savage and Dominic Play the Organ' (recorded live at the Lido), Claire Hazelton and Dean Wood create a theatrical soundscape incorporating classical music, laptop, radio and culinary equipment (for a La Monte Young inspired interlude). Looking back to the Savage's lively Cliftonville, the piece fluctuates between the melancholy of the lost Cliftonville of now and the energy

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JONATHAN POLKEST'S 'DRAW ME/TEDNE VE': THE CHANGING FACE OF CLIFTONVILLE

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Aug 12, 2011
3 min

JONATHAN POLKEST'S 'DRAW ME/TEDNE VE': THE CHANGING FACE OF CLIFTONVILLE

Artist: Jonathan Polkest Assistance: Joe Cornwell, Samantha Grace Drew-Griffiths and Daniel Crawford For full gallery Click Here Overview 'Draw Me / Tedne Ve' booth, is an ongoing public portrait project by Cornish artist, Jonathan Polkest. ‘Tedne Ve' (which is Cornish for Draw Me) creates an instant portrait gallery by offering an opportunity for one person to draw another regardless of artistic ability. The ‘Draw Me’ is a camera obscurer built into a specially designed

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Platform7

Aug 4, 2011
6 min

AKLERIAH - MARGNIFICATION LIVE PERFORMANCE

Margnification, by the conceptual art collective Akleriah, is a live street intervention that challenges the perception of the space in which the performance takes place. 'Let's change the rhythm of the clock!' - Akleriah Thoughts The airy mix of experimental and classical music represents the feeling of Margate; the sea with the seagulls and the half empty town, worn out cobbled streets and air of past glory, a decadent nostalgic feeling of what it might've been, of the ravi

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Platform7

Jul 2, 2011
1 min

MATTER BY JONATHAN POLKEST

'MATTER' BY JONATHAN POLKEST, UNTIL 18TH AUGUST Many seaside towns often mask their own sense of community by immersing themselves in the idealized version of the tourist , even though tourism could be seen as a constructed ideal, created to benefit the same community it now deludes. Seaside communities sprang up as they obviously benefited from their close proximity to the former superhighway for all material and intellectual cargo - The Sea. The origins of seaside communi

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GANDHI IN LONDON 1931// NOAKHALI 1946: EXPLORING THE SPACES INHABITED BY MAHATMA GANDHI

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Jun 27, 2011
2 min

GANDHI IN LONDON 1931// NOAKHALI 1946: EXPLORING THE SPACES INHABITED BY MAHATMA GANDHI

An exhibition exploring the spaces Inhabited by Mahatma Gandhi Saif Osmani, Visual Artist & Spatial Designer The starting point for this exhibition was Kingsley Hall in Bow, in the East End of London where Mahatma Gandhi chose to stay in during his visit to the 2nd Round Table conference in October 1931. Kingsley Hall was then a place for refuge for poor people, where orphans, the homeless and old people would receive a hot meal, somewhere to socialise and sleep for the nigh

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Platform7

Jun 17, 2011
4 min

MOONBOW MARGATE AKA MOONBOW JAKES

The Golden Grill, 18 CLIFF TERRACE, MARGATE, CT9 4TD, June 2011 Moonbow Margate is a temporary café performance bar space in a derelict shop on a derelict parade in Cliftonville, Margate, within 4 minutes walk of the new £18m Turner Contemporary Gallery. Running from June to September 2011, the space will become a representation of change that often takes place following art-led regeneration and will attempt to become a reflective of the way local people view and interact wit

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Platform7

May 14, 2011
5 min

MARGATE: A PLACE OF PIXELATIONS

CAFE FROM THE CITY UNTIL 25TH JUNE A PRESENTATION TO THE CITY AND SEA SYMPOSIUM, GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, 10TH JUNE 2011 Nikki by Paul Halliday has been photographed by Platform-7 through the dirty window of the cafe using a Nokia cameraphone The idea of place is of particular interest to a number of knowledge traditions within the humanities, arts and social sciences; as is also the study of landscape. Both place and landscape studies are predicated on the notion o

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