Ramsgate Spring Festival

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RAMSGATE SPRING FESTIVAL

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FESTIVAL LAUNCH NIGHT: 1 May 2008 from 7.30PM

FESTIVAL VENUE: The Belgian Bar, Ramsgate Harbour

FESTIVAL THEME: SPRING

To Spring - Spring - A Spring
I Spring -You Sprang - We All Sprung Together!

SPRING SONG
Every Thursday evening in May at 7.30pm, All Styles of Music
COME & LISTEN OR MAKE YOUR OWN MUSIC. Open Mike arrangements.
Contact Ruth Cutler: 01843 591081 to book your place.

SPRING INTO ART
EXHIBITION OF VISUAL ARTS From 1 May to 31 May 2008 at The Belgian Bar. Work Invited based on Festival Theme of SPRING. Reception Days: 29 & 30 April 10.00am – 5.00pm.
ALL WORK MUST BE READY TO HANG
A Cash Contribution to the Belgian Bar is requested for any work sold during The Festival.
Contact: Ruth Cutler: 01843 591081.

WRITES OF SPRING - POETRY COMPETITION
On the Festival Theme of SPRING. All work must be typed, no more than 40 lines per poem. Your Name and Contact Details on the reverse side of each poem. Maximum of 6 poems per entry. THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE

Winning Poems will be read at The Belgian Bar by yourself or a nominated reader on Wednesday 21 May 2008 from 7.30pm - CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 30 APRIL 2008
Please send your entries to:
Margaret Swan, 20 Pegwell Close, Ramsgate, CT11 0NB

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Calendar Update

It's a bit of a shock, but the Calendar has been updated with dates for a range of cultural activities - Ramsgate Spring Festival, Thanet's Own Poets, Broadstairs Writers' Circle, Spring Into Art and Writes of Spring (a poetry competition).

Mode dates of local interst and excitement will be added over the next few days, but if you know of an event that should be there, LET US KNOW. An email to events@thanetcan.org.uk will do the trick, just provide all the infromation you have (what, where and when would be the minimum).

Click for the full calendar.

Have a look, go along, participate, tell your friends etc etc...

Balkan Belly Burlesque at the Belgian Bar

How can you not want to see this? Go. Enjoy. Wobble.

Bandstand Bazaar!! 15 December 2007

Starting at midday, come and have a sing song, a cup of mulled wine and mince pie and pick up some lovely pressies for your friends and family at the Bandstand Bazaar! Christmas Lantern Parade and fire sculpture too!! Still a few spaces left if you would like to have a stand. Call Tara on 07977 666519

SeaART2007 and photoSeaART

5th to 27th August

Community Pharmacy and Old Town Galleries Margate,

and various Thanet venues

Download complete leaflet (.pdf) here, or click on image above

YOU ARE INVITED TO EXHIBIT & REGISTER YOUR INTEREST TO SUBMIT WORK FOR THIS SUMMER'S SeaART2007 EXHIBITIONS - BEFORE 21st JULY!

Contemporary artwork will showcase local North East Kent artists along with photographic work - all inspired or influenced by the sea or coastal environment. We welcome the submission of new exhibits of visual artwork or installations, and photographs for the suggested photoSeaART themes of the nature of our coast, human impact, & textures & light.

The exhibition and art workshops are a new collaboration between the Thanet Coast Project, lead artist Ruth Cutler, the Community Pharmacy Gallery with support from the Stronger Safer Communities Fund and Thanet District Council. SeaART2007 will also include various children art workshops at the Community Pharmacy Gallery throughout August, and at Ramsgate's Eastcliff Bandstand events. PhotoSeaART Exhibitions can be seen at the Old Lifeboat House, Broadstairs Harbour and Cliftonville library's Exhibition Room.

You can register your expression of interest to exhibit

by contacting the Thanet Coast Project

e-mail: thanet.coast@thanet.gov.uk

or phone 01843 577672

before 21 July 2007.


To register, please provide your contact details - name, address, phone number and e-mail - and the type of artwork that you would like to submit. We will send you the artist's terms of agreement and the submission information that we will need from you.

Web site, forum, etc

Well we're live, sort of. ThanetCAN.org.uk is up and running and needs visitors, contributors and content. There's a Calendar, a Blog (obviously), a Forum (with just one lonely posting needing a response) and a Yahoo Group. So sign up to the forum or the group and say hello, suggest (or rather, PROVIDE) content for the web site - and tell the world (well the local bit anyway).

The web site is just a structure at the moment - it is you who will provide the content, so do please think about what you would find useful - then find it and send it in.

And if you have a web site, a link to the blog and/or the web site will be appreciated by us and by Google.

ThanetCAN Events Calendar

Thanks to those nice people at Google, there is now a ThanetCAN Events Calendar. Very much in its early stages, but the idea is that it will become a one-stop reference for the arts-related events in the area (and the air show, powerboat racing and horse shows) - as long as you tell us what's on. So add a comment with any events, or volunteer to maintain and update the Calendar itself.






And if you suggest an event please provide enough detail for an entry: date, location, title and where available a URL to link to. I'm not going to try to include film and theatre listings, more news on where to find them easily coming soon . . .