Showing posts with label Ramsgate Arts Festival press release. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ramsgate Arts Festival press release. Show all posts

Saturday, 18 August 2012

A Summer Squall creates a commotion in Ramsgate...

This year's A SUMMER SQUALL arts festival opens in Ramsgate on Saturday 25 August @ 10am. It is launched by Thanet Open Studios which run this weekend 18/19 August and then the festival weekend of 25-27 August. 

The Squall offers three days of theatre, dance, comedy, music, art installations and exhibitions, talks, workshops - it's a commotion of creative activity which we believe really does have something for everyone, whatever your age and taste! There's lots happening on Ramsgate harbour and performances and workshops in venues around town. Full details are at  http://ramsgatearts.org/squall/summer-squall-programme  and programmes are available around Thanet. 

THANET OPEN STUDIO details are on our website and programmes are available around town. 

We're looking for a few more volunteers at the events, so if you can spare a couple of hours, we'd love you! Please get in touch or see details here: http://ramsgatearts.org/squall/volunteer-at-the-squall

A FEW FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS:
The Dualers - live on stage FREE 9pm Sat 25
La Boheme - Olivier Award-winning production from the Kings Head Theatre London - FREE 7.30pm Sun 26
Ramsgate's Got Writing Talent - annual competition to get a meeting with a leading literary agent - Sat 25 £10
Noggin the Nog - first performances of new national touring play + talk with illustrator Peter Firmin - 2.30pm Sun 26 £3/£2
ScandalNights at the Squall - Thanet's finest storytelling spot - 7.30pm Mon 27 £8/£6

There's lots going on, it'll be fun, most is free of charge and many events are outside on the harbour. We can email the programme to you, please just ask. 

We owe thanks to a host of fantastic people who make the festival a possibility, including our funders Arts Council England, Big Lottery, Ramsgate Town Council and Thanet District Council, local organisations and individuals and the companies and artists who've put lots of work into the events you will see. 

We hope you enjoy what we've put together. 

With best wishes from all the team at Ramsgate Arts
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Tuesday, 5 October 2010

GET INVOLVED IN RAMSGATE ARTS

Ramsgate Arts, the group which organised last month's highly successful Summer Squall three day arts festival, is looking for new members.

If you want to get involved with a dynamic, creative team who are putting Ramsgate on the arts map, then come along to their next meeting on Thursday 7 October at the Foy Boat pub in Ramsgate. The meeting starts at 7.30pm and is open to all.

Plans are already afoot for next year's Summer Squall festival, so now's your chance to help shape it.

For more details contact Suzy Humphries on 07939 542990 or email her at info@ramsgatearts.org


Notes for Editors
Ramsgate Arts is a voluntary organisation supported by local businesses and Ramsgate Town Council and made up of residents committed to working with local people and professional a rts practitioners to create meaningful and exciting activities in Thanet. In August 2009 they staged their first event, Love Hate Hope Ramsgate, in a 'pop-up shop' in the town, which was attended by almost 1,000 people. Since then they have also staged three surprise 'flash dances' in Ramsgate, and the three day Summer Squall festival in Ramsgate over the 2010 August bank holiday, which hosted around 50 individual events attended by in excess of 20,000 people.

More info about A Summer Squall at Ramsgate Arts website www.ramsgatearts.org

Ramsgate Arts committee members available for interview on request

Contacts for further information:
Suzy Humphries (Ramsgate Arts committee) 07939 542990
Email: info@ramsgatearts.org

Stephen Arkell (Ramsgate Arts committee) 07956 278616
Email: stephen@retina-productions.co.uk

Stephen Arkell
Aug 2, '10, 12:04 PM

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

A Summer Squall - a fantastic new Ramsgate arts festival 28-30 August 2010

A fun-filled three day event with a wide variety of arts activities and experiences for people living in and visiting Ramsgate! Come along over the three days of the August Bank Holiday (28th, 29th and 30th August) and enjoy an explosion of creativity. There is a full diary of events and our programme is downloadable as well as being available at the Ramsgate Visitor Centre at The Custom House, Harbour Parade, Ramsgate.



Ed click on the link for program of events as an ordinary webpage http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/SummerSquallfestival/