To The Shelter

February 13

The Substation: 2.00, 3.00 & 4.00pm

On the late-winter afternoon of 13th February, Marcia Farquhar will be leading a short guided procession to the seaside shelter where TS Eliot sat in 1921 looking onto Margate sands. ‘I can connect/ nothing with nothing’, he wrote. Taking this as its rallying cry, Farquhar’s expedition will seek the heart of nothingness and nonsense in Margate’s bleak wintry front.

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That's The Way To Do It

February 13

The Substation: 2.00 & 6.30pm

12 Shooters is an experimental showreel of short films, each directed by a different artist-filmmaker, and each derived from a different work from the past 12 years of Farquhar’s practice.

The Return of the Dinghy King

February 27

The Substation: 5.00pm

"After a childishly long sabbatical the Dinghy King returns with tales of his touristic cargo cult. The Bucket and Spade Shamen from Costa Geriatrica tells of drifter dentists and drop-out opticians and the freckled bums of the Manchester navy. Colwyn Bay – Margate. Same shit different smell or is it same smell different shit?" asks Mr Williams from North Wales.

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Students' Short Films

March 06

The Substation: 7.30pm

Total run time, 1 hour 14 minutes

Welcome Speech
Andreas Pashias - 3 mins 44 Chip Shop
Elizabeth Rose - 5 mins Traces
Elizabeth Rose - 2 mins Monolith Pater
Laura Phillips - 3 mins 20 Dancing Couple
Harry Davidson - 2 mins 18 Field
Harry Davidson - 1 mins 46 Peep Show
Patricia Vidal Delgado - 4 mins 30 Cycle
James Kelly - 4 mins 45 One small leap by an Artist, one giant leap makes it Art
Charlotte Jackman - 2 mins 47 World War 2
Hannah Kimani & Serra Tansel - 1 min 56 The Haunted Castle
Inez De Coo - 2 mins 29 My Dreams are Made of You
Gavriella Kalafati - 2 mins 35 Interval
- An Extraordinary Predicament of Matter
Rebecca Hope - 2 mins 30 Theramin
Dewi Cary - 9 mins 57 In Glasses
Andreas Pashias - 3 mins 37 Nolde's Sky
Sharon Liu - 2 mins 9 Points of Contact
James Kelly - 5 mins Trimester
Kye Wilson & Helena Eflerová - 7 mins 57 Patron Saint of Womanhood
Keita Lynch - 2 mins 17 Sakura and Sex
Hannah Kimani & Serra Tansel - 1 min 22 The Suggestion
Inez De Coo - 1 min 16 To Dry
Claudio Rivetti - 53 secs

Margate's First Beaux Arts Ball

March 13

The Substation: 2.00 - 4.00pm

Thanks to Harold Offeh, Margate will be holding its First Beaux Arts Ball – an event where participants will be given the chance to dress-up as their favourite buildings from the town, before parading along the Seafront and taking part in an exhibition at the Substation.

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Short Films

March 14

The Substation: 11.00am & 7.30pm

A selection of short film works by artist Harold Offeh.

Wrasslin'

February 20

Margate Beach: 2.00 - 4.00pm

Are you frustrated? Depressed that the Christmas season has passed? Is the economic downturn bringing you down with it?

If so, Anthony Schrag has the answer: For one day only he will be your human punch-bag, because he wants to see you ‘smile and sweat’. Schrag is fed-up with culture that plays it safe and offers cerebral solutions. He is far more interested in making a direct physical connection with his audience, even if it means he ends up pinned to a wrestling mat.

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Specially selected from the LUX collection

February 20

The Substation: 7.30pm

Total run time, 50 minutes (Approx)

Disclaimer
Michael Curran 1993 YYAA
Wojciech Bruszewski 1973 Taxonomy (Death Stories)
Franko B 2002 Waiting For Waste
Anne Course (animation) 2000 To Be Born Through Our Own Hands
Jane Prophet 1987 Shouting Match
George Barber 2004 Prince
Ann Course (animation) 1999 Intermission
- * I.L.Y.L.A.M.L.T.V
James Unsworth - 25 minutes

*This screening contains grotesque depictions of violence and sex in animatic form.

Lighting The Wayward Ways

March 06

Margate Town: see various times

In the tradition of troubadours, and travelling minstrels, This Happy Band will parade around Margate, commemorating its past, and the themes of Winter Dormancy, and Glorious Resurrection with their eccentric and eclectic performances. Lord Lehan will continue into the night when he transforms himself into a human lighthouse.

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Shine The Light

March 06

The Substation: 6.30 - 7.30pm

Join Daniel Lehan, the Human Lighthouse, on a tour around Margate’s dark and mysterious places and ask him to shine the light for you.

Daniel Lehan, as Human Lighthouse, will illuminate the dark and dead places of Margate, with his performance Shine The Light, a work that commemorates the presence of notable writers and artists in Margate, and casts light upon future creativity in his own hometown.

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David Leahy and Geraldo Si

March 13

The Substation: 7.00pm

SichtLautTrio is a playful interaction between a musician, a dancer and a double bass. Through improvisation of music, movement and space, the performers allow the energy from each instant to fuel a performance full of life, spontaneity and humour.

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Connecting Nothing With Nothing

March 20

The Substation: 7.00pm

What does MTV have in common with political performance art? What does 1920s German stage composer Kurt Weill have in common with feminist electro-pop group Chicks on Speed? And, what links Margate to the anti-globalisation lobby, the oil industry and the French resistance movement?

The answer: Artist Anat Ben-David.

Limbo has commissioned Anat to produce an exhibition and performance especially for Margate. The new work will reimagine the song Die Muschel von Margate by Kurt Weill, taking further inspiration from T S Eliot’s poem The Wasteland, which was partly written in Margate and famously contains the lines, 'On Margate sands. I can connect/ nothing with nothing'.

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As holiday makers and day-trippers flock to the beach to enjoy the sun and seaside amusements, Margate like many seaside towns, comes to life in the summer. But, in the winter, many of the outdoor amusements and even some of the businesses who trade during the summer, close down. It is Margate’s Dead Season.

Looking at the annual life cycle of seaside towns, and drawing on the rich traditions, myths and rituals of life, death and rebirth, Limbo aims to breathe new life into winter.

Brand new arts programme for Margate starts February 13 2010