✨ Don’t Miss These 5 Things At The Turner Coming Soon
Who else has back to school vibes coming in strong? This will cheer you up, there’s so much happening at Turner this autumn, we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss out!
Turner Lates returns, a new exhibition looks incredible and there are some wild and wonderful events coming in. Scroll down and start marking your calendars.
Georgina x
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🖤 Sophie Calle / Something Missing
Sat 3 Oct - 23 Jan 27, 11am - 5pm
If you haven’t heard of Sophie Calle, you will have had by the end of October. This is her first big show since 2009 and this covers photography and installations. Don’t miss On the Hunt, which tracks what people have wanted in a partner from 1895 personal ads through to Tinder messages and Voir la Mer, filmed with Istanbul residents seeing the sea for the first time
🎟️ Free
🧑🎨 Sophie Calle Opening Weekend Events
Fri 2 Oct, 7.30–8.30pm (doors open 6.45pm) & Sat 3 Oct, 11am–7pm
As part of the opening weekend, there are some special events taking place. Drop in for In Conversation: Sophie Calle and Emma Lewis on Fri evening and then on Sat, the Drawing Studio will be open and there’ll be music and cocktails in the Sunley Gallery. From 5pm, there will be music on the Terrace and the Curry Mistress will be taking over Louie On Sea.
🎟️ Free (events)
📝 RIEKO Course
Sat 10 Oct for 4 weeks (Fri 11 Nov)
Japanese born ritual artist RIEKO, who works between London and our own doorstep, is running a four part ritual writing course at Turner, built around intuition, memory, sound and self expression. Expect writing, meditation, movement, drawing and improvised performance across four Saturday and Sunday sessions, all building towards a public presentation in December.
Session 1, Claircognizance: Writing for Knowing, Sat 10 Oct, 10am to 12pm
Session 2, Clairsentience: Writing for Feeling, Sat 31 Oct, 10am to 12pm
Session 3, Clairaudience: Writing for Listening, Sun 15 Nov, 1pm to 3pm
Session 4, Clairvoyance: Writing for Envisioning, Sat 28 Nov, 10am to 1pm
Final public presentation, Fri 11 Dec, 6pm to 9.30pm
🎟️ £100 full course, £75 concession, £30 per individual session. Four application based concession places are available for artists, with priority for 16 to 30 year olds and Global Majority artists.
🍹Turner Lates Is Back
Fri 10 Sep, 5.30pm - 9pm
I love how Turner Lates bring so many faces from across Margate together. It’s your last chance to check out Dominican artist Hulda Guzmán’s paintings. Her work is like open portals into vibrant, dreamlike worlds, where mythical beings exist in close dialogue with nature. But there’s also so much else happening!
Don’t miss singer songwriter Yazmin Lacey plays an intimate live set of jazz, R&B and electronica, poet Rachel Long will run a creative writing workshop, sustainable designer Eirinn Hayhow hosts a mindful making session using foraged natural materials. There’s a scent led exploration of the exhibition with Robin Bayley, plant based Jamaican inspired food from Denai Moore of Dee’s Table, bespoke cocktails, floral installations and a scented welcome created with Dulcie. Phew!
🎟️ Free
🤗 Winter Wellness Festival Returns
Winter Wellness Festival returns in Jan 2027, exploring new ways of thinking about wellbeing through art, science, technology, ecology and community. The second edition will feature a programme of workshops, conversations, creative activities, performances and immersive experiences, exploring themes including sleep, neuroscience, the future of the body, fungi, coastal ecology, ancestral knowledge, sound, meditation and altered perception.
Want to take part?
Are you a practitioner, artist, researcher, community organisation or someone else who would be interested in contributing to the 2027 festival? Get in touch.
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