Current and Upcoming Guest Lectures

Speculative Listening in the Margins
Sat, 10 Aug
10 Aug 2024, 10:00 – 14:00
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
10 Aug 2024, 10:00 – 14:00
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
In this artist talk and workshop, we will explore how different approaches to sound and listening can open spaces for imagining alternative possibilities. We will examine how speculative approaches to sound and listening can develop different perspectives on social and environmental relations.
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Previous Guest Lectures

Thu, 16 May
Kavel Rafferty | DIY - self taught and surviving
The Margate School
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16 May 2024, 18:00 – 19:00
The Margate School, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
Join us as Kavel Rafferty shares her experience as a self-taught, multi-disciplinary artist working in collage, painting and assemblage art, who explores the possibilities of found materials.
Sat, 11 May
Arnold Borgerth | 40 Years Looking For Something
The Margate School
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11 May 2024, 14:00 – 16:00
The Margate School, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
Thu, 28 Mar
postponed Graham Wood | Public Guest Lecture
Margate
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28 Mar 2024, 18:00 – 19:00
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
Join us to hear designer Graham Wood talk about his work and his experimental approach to typography
Thu, 15 Feb
Jim Sutherland | Flags, Games, Symbols, Shapes, Observations and Play
Margate
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15 Feb 2024, 18:00 – 19:00
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
Discover Visual Language in this Guest Lecture by brand expert Jim Sutherland
Fri, 11 Aug
Margate Festival of Design: Horizons
The Margate School
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11 Aug 2023, 10:00 – 17 Aug 2023, 16:00
The Margate School, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
Tickets are now LIVE for an exciting programme of talks and exhibitions
Thu, 15 Jun
Guest Lecture - Derek Seaward
Margate
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15 Jun 2023, 17:00 – 19:00
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
Based in his Studio just outside Canterbury in Kent, now concentrating more on Portraits and Products. Derek will be delivering a talk focusing on the creative side of his practice to students and the community at TMS
Tue, 14 Mar
Ben Edge | Guest Lecture
The Margate School
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14 Mar 2023, 17:00 – 19:00
The Margate School, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
Ben Edge is an artist, songwriter and folklorist, who over the past 7 years has been obsessively documenting the seasonal folk customs of the British Isles.
Thu, 09 Mar
Jazz Grant | Guest Lecture
The Margate School
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09 Mar 2023, 17:00 – 18:00
The Margate School, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
Jazz Grant is a British artist who mainly works with mixed media, non-digital collage artwork and stop motion animation.
Thu, 19 Jan
David Shillinglaw | Guest Lecture
The Margate Leisure Centre
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19 Jan 2023, 17:00 – 18:30
The Margate Leisure Centre, Black Axe Throwing Co, Edgar Rd, Cliftonville, Margate CT9 2EA, UK
Join David Shillinglaw for an insight into his practice. This event has been relocated and there is no need to book
Fri, 09 Dec
James Jordan Johnson | Guest lecture & performance
Margate
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09 Dec 2022, 18:00 – 19:30
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
James Jordan Johnson works within experimental music that is informed by black sound cultural traditions, using his sound practice to think beyond logics of legibility.
Fri, 02 Dec
benjin | Guest Lecture
Margate
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02 Dec 2022, 17:30 – 20:00
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
benjin is a multi-instrumentalist, academic, artist and storyteller who has toured with a number of experimental ensembles over the last 15 years.
Thu, 10 Nov
Rob Lowe (Supermundane) | Guest Lecture
Margate
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10 Nov 2022, 17:00 – 18:00
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
Supermundane is coming to the seaside! Join us for an insight into his playful, colourful work. This event forms part of the guest lecture series for our Visual Communication course, which this year we are opening up to the public.
Tue, 01 Nov
Vince Miller | Guest Lecture
Margate
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01 Nov 2022, 17:30 – 20:00
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
This guest lecture is based on Vince's autoethnographic research of three abandoned or nearly-abandoned virtual worlds (Twinity, Active Worlds, Blue Mars)...
Fri, 16 Sept
Margate Festival of Design 2022
Margate
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16 Sept 2022, 10:00 – 25 Sept 2022, 16:00
Margate, Margate, UK
2022 will be the debut year of Margate Festival of Design™, an event created by The Margate School that will explore social and environmental matters through the language of design.
Tue, 07 Jun
Ancient Light: Rematerialising The Astronomical Image, A PhD Journey.
Margate
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07 Jun 2022, 13:00
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
"Ancient Light: Rematerialising The Astronomical Image" considers how light travels thousands, if not millions of years, before reaching photosensitive film or a digital sensor.
Sat, 07 May
ECO EXPO 2.0
Margate
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07 May 2022, 14:00
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
Join us for a day of collaborative eco-education with 7 local experts as we bring creativity, eco-consciousness, and local action together.
Wed, 06 Apr
Online Guest Talk with Eleanor Crook
Online via Zoom
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06 Apr 2022, 15:00 – 16:30
Online via Zoom
Sculptor, painter and Medical artist, Eleanor Crook, talks about anatomy, waxworks, archaeology and accessing the unconscious in art.
Mon, 28 Mar
Rémy Noë
Margate
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28 Mar 2022, 17:30 – 18:30
Margate, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK
The journey – Art, Society and Nature. A free guest lecture about a planned trip to near the arctic circle by bus and train by artist Remy Noe.