Ramsgate Arts

About Ramsgate Arts

In March 2009 a group of Ramsgate residents and arts professionals came together to form a charitable organisation to promote and facilitate arts events and activities in the town. The aim is to provoke opportunities for local and national artists, provide high quality entertainment for residents and to attract visitors from around the UK through the work produced.

Ramsgate Arts has already produced three different events and ‘A Summer Squall’, our first multi-arts festival in August 2010. With 51 events in 18 venues over the three days of the bank holiday weekend, the festival drew a crowd of 10,000 people to theatre, dance, film, exhibitions and workshops. The organisation is now programming the second festival, and this year’s A Summer Squall will take place between 27-29 August.

Ramsgate Arts is a membership organisation and is currently run by an entirely voluntary team. The festival is supported by Ramsgate Town Council and other funds for this and other activities are raised by the voluntary team.

This year, we’re delighted we were asked to contribute to the Turner Contemporary opening programme and created TURNER: 10 Sketches, an improvised play exploring Turner’s life as part of ‘You Are Here’. The play will be performed at this year’s Summer Squall, on Sunday 28^th in Vale Square, where we will also be showing kinetic sculptures by Andrew Baldwin and encouraging visitors to add their own version of The Sunflowers by Van Gogh to a collection made with hand and finger prints.

Take a look at our past events.