This Week: First Of The Summer Fireworks, A Beer Festival & Women's Beach Circle
The School Holidays have started in style.
I’d like to start the newsletter this week by saying a huge thank you to everyone who came to our launch party at Finxs last week. What a brilliant evening!
It was so great to meet so many of you. We had some lovely feedback about the newsletter and it was great to hear how useful you’re finding it and that you’re enjoying what we’re doing.
As it’s the start of the school holidays this week, this week’s edition is jampacked.
We’ve got the first fireworks of the season! There’s so many family and child-friendly activities and events, but it’s not all about the little ones. There’s wellness activities like beach circles and sound baths, and plenty to keep you entertained as well with a beer festival, live music and food deals to try. Scroll on for all.
Don’t miss out - Kim xx
✏️ Doodle Art Collage
Wed 22 Jul, 10am - 1pm / Hilderstone College
In this course, learners will explore collage and doodle art using a wide range of materials including magazines, newspapers, typography, colour, linework, and mixed media to create expressive and imaginative artworks. The focus is on experimentation, play, and developing personal style.
🎟️ £25 / Book here
🌊 Proms By The Sea
Wed 22 Jul, 7.30pm / Pavilion
Join Thanet Male Voice Choir at their second Proms by the Sea concert, featuring guest soloist Hannah Kirk. It’s free, with donations gladly received for choir funds. Enjoy an evening of fun and singing, followed by the fireworks! (More below)
🎟️ Free, no tickets required / More info
🎬 Film: The Invite (15)
Fri 24 Jul + Sat 25 Jul, 7.30pm, Sun 26 Jul, 4pm / The Palace Cinema
A star-studded comedy-drama directed by Olivia Wilde. It follows a bickering married couple (Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde) who invite their freewheeling, sexually-enthusiastic upstairs neighbours (Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton) over for a disastrous dinner party. Head to The Palace if it floats your boat.
🎟️ From £8 / Book here
🎤 The Bradstow Singers & Symphony Orchestra Summer Concert
Sun 26 Jul, from 4.30pm / Holy Trinity Church
The Bradstow Singers are a 50-member, mixed-gender community choir based in Broadstairs, led by musical director Jacob Bride. Catch their Summer concert this Sun, featuring Karl Jenkins' Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary and the premiere of Jacob Bride's Her Half Told Tales.
🎟️ From £12 / Book here
🦪 Bar Txoko Now Open Wed - Sun Over the Summer
Wed - Sun each week / Bar Txoko
Bar Txoko is now open every Wed to Sun over the Summer! They’re serving oysters for just £1 between 5pm - 6pm each day, they’ve got wine on tap, draught beer, amazing aperitifs, plus a great non alcoholic selection, as well as Cicchetti snacks. The last Thurs of each month is Bin End night with £5-a-glass wines too.
Book a table
⚓ Dinner With A (Fireworks) View
Wed 22 Jul / The Charles Dickens and Tartar Frigate
Why not time a dinner with the fireworks so you can watch the sky light up with some food with a front row view? Both the Dickens and the Tartar Frigate are offering tables from their brilliant viewpoints on Wed night. The Dickens also has live music from 9pm. Just note that reservations do not guarantee a window table!
Book a table at the Charles Dickens / Book a table at the Tartar Frigate
🍝 Italian Small Plates / Sharing Set Menu
Sun 26 Jul, 12pm - 6pm / Aster
Aster always do an end of month fundraiser, and they’re doing something slightly different for it this month – they’re hosting their first ever Italian small/sharing plates set lunch menu. This month it’s raising funds for Rosina Animal Centre. Head on down to sample their menu.
🎟️ £40pp / Book a table
🌟 Shop Local Spotlight / Best Of Times Bookshop
Broadstairs has a new home for book lovers! The Best of Times is a welcoming, colourful place to browse, read, write, meet and dream, with a wide selection of new fiction and non-fiction celebrating authors from all cultures and ages, from Sappho and Chaucer to this year’s award winners. Look out for the 19th century bread oven housing the cookbooks, The Land Under the Stairs and the ever popular Spooky Book Nook. There’s a programme of author talks, book launches, music nights, open mics and their unique take on book dating coming up, and you can shop their curated selection online from anywhere in the UK.
🎇 Fireworks Night
Wed 22 Jul, Fireworks at 9.45pm / Viking Bay
It’s that time of year again! This Wed it’s the first summer fireworks of the season. There’s only three dates over the summer this year, so make sure you go down if you can, it’s always one of the best evenings in Broadstairs. There will be music on at the bandstand from 8pm, with The Mixtape Collective on the mic.
🎟️ Free
🍻 GADDS’ The Chairman’s Beer Festival
Sat 25 Jul, 12pm - 6pm / GADDS’ Ramsgate Brewery
Thanet CAMRA are hosting this annual summer festival event. Expect 12 guest cask ales, live music and food on offer. It’s free to attend and child-friendly.
🎟️ Free / More info
🥂 Cramptons Garden Party
Sat 25 Jul, Day + Night / Cramptons
Amor Sounds are back at Cramptons for their legendary summer Garden Party. There will be back-to-back DJs from 2pm until 10pm in the garden, with special guests like Louis Pardo, Dankz and Gaffa. Followed by afters in the bar.
🎟️ £11 - £22 / Book here
🎸 Bands on the Sands: Moment’s Duo
Sun 26 Jul, 3pm / Pavilion
It’s all about being outside this week. For some live music in the sunshine, head to the Pavilion’s outdoor area, this time for Moment’s Duo.
🎶 Summer Sundays: Ruby Valentine
Sun 26 Jul, 2pm - 4pm / Captain Digby
The Digby also launched their summer live music sessions last week, so you have another spot to enjoy yourself in the sunshine. Soak up the sea views & enjoy an afternoon of live music. This Sun it’s Ruby Valentine, and each week you can expect anything from laid-back acoustic sets to feel-good summer vibes. Sundays sorted!
🎟️ Free / See the line-up
👩🍳 Old Curiosity Shop Summer Holidays Activities
Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop has got you covered if you’re at a loose end with little ones over the holidays. Every Thu they hold their Curious Cooks Club, every Fri they will have Lego Days, plus every day they’re holding a Shell Counting Competition. Give them the correct number and win a lollipop! There will also be events like litter picks and mermaid life drawing on dates throughout the holidays, and Yuna Young Friends singing and storytime sessions will be on. Plus they serve some great milkshakes!
🎟️ Free, drop-in / More info
🦀 Free Craft Corner: Summer Scrapbook and Flower Press
Every day this Summer / Kinder Collective
Enjoy Kinder Collective’s weekly storytime session on Tuesday at 10am. Plus you’ll want to head to their cute craft table, where they’re holding free craft sessions every day throughout the summer. You can get your little ones to create either a Summer Scrapbook or Flower Press. They’ve got lots of lovely summer events planned as well, from beach cleans to creative workshops. Check them all out and book them up here.
🎟️ Free, drop-in
🍿 Film: Toy Story 5 (PG)
Tue 21 Jul + Sat 25 Jul, 4pm / The Palace Cinema
The toys are back! This time it’s all about Toy meets Tech. Arriving in Broadstairs just in time for the school holidays, get yourselves to the cinema to entertain the kids one afternoon this week. Next week the film switches to Minions & Monsters.
🎟️ From £5 / Book here
🌊 Family Beach Clean & Storytime
Fri 24 Jul, 9am - 10am / Meet: Viking Bay, by the lift
Calling all mini eco-warriors! A lovely school holidays tradition, head to Viking Bay with Kinder Collective for a 30-minute beach clean and do your bit to keep the beach free from litter. Then head back to their lovely shop for snacks and a gentle storytime.
🎟️ Free / Book a slot here
🌞 Free Storytime Session + Bookshop Events
Every Fri, 9.30am / Happy Reading Children’s Bookshop
Head to Happy Reading Children’s Bookshop for their free weekly storytime sessions on Fri mornings, every week, including in the holidays. Nicci also has loads of upcoming book clubs, author events and workshops weekly throughout the holidays. This Sunday’s session is already sold out, so it’s best to book up as quickly as possible. We’ll update you on what’s available each week, but get ahead and book them up here.
🎟️ Free / More info
🚮 Family Friendly Litter Pick
Fri 24 Jul, 10am - 11am / Old Curiosity Shop
It’s all about keeping the beaches clean with your little ones this week! The Old Curiosity Shop is also hosting a family-friendly Litter Pick. Meet at the shop from 10am on Friday. There will be free tea and biscuits for all helpers.
🎟️ Free
🎠 Broadstairs Summer Fair
Sat 25 Jul - Wed 29 Jul, Open Daily / Victoria Gardens
To coincide with the Water Gala, which is taking place on Viking Bay next week, there will be a Summer Fair starting above the beach on Victoria Gardens from this Friday! Expect craft and trade stalls, food options, a funfair and plenty of fun for the kids. The final day will be the Water Gala and next week’s fireworks day.
🎟️ Free entry
🐛 Our Green Day
Sat 25 Jul, 10am - 3pm / Sarah Thorne Theatre and Hilderstone College
Our Green Day in Broadstairs is a free, family-friendly environmental event offering hands-on activities like bug hunts, bird feeder making, and crafting throughout the day. Other activities include colouring, making a plant pot, and for the adults there’s activities like making a bag for life and drawing from nature. Head on down.
🎟️ Free / More info
⭕ Women’s Beach Circle
Thu 23 Jul, 7pm - 10pm / Stone Bay (Outside Namaka)
Feel and experience the magic this summer with Evie at Sea, Spirit & Stones as she hosts her first Women’s Beach Circle of the season this week. Held on Stone Bay, meet up with like minded souls to connect and heal together. Expect meditation, sound, energy healing, movement, sharing and hot cacao and cake.
🎟️ £35 / Book here
🪴 Succulent Dish Workshop
Sat 25 Jul, 3pm / Foliage
Make your own soil mix, plant a ceramic dish with beautiful succulents, decorate it all and take it home. All while being surrounded by plants in their lovely cafe. Pop in or call them to reserve your spot: 07907 500611.
🎟️ £45 / More info
🥣 Sound Bath
Sun 26 July, 5pm / Bleak House
Join Sari Riches for a 60 minute immersive multi-instrumental sound bath for deep rest and relaxation in the lovely setting of Bleak House this Sunday. Sari uses crystal bowls, chimes, gong, and Tibetan bowls in the experience.
🎟️ £20 / DM to book
Finally, 3 Things To Know…
Revolution Skatepark is hosting Skate and Scoot Camps throughout the holidays, starting from next week. See the dates and book up here.
We’re really looking forward to this one - Bayside Cafe have teamed up with Ramsgate Community Cinema to screen Finding Nemo outdoors on the beach. It’s taking place on Friday 31 July at 4pm.
Make sure you head on down to Plantlet for some plant goodness this week or next, as it’s the last chance before they close for good. Sad times!
📌 The Noticeboard is here — for all of Thanet
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And if you missed it… last week’s newsletter still has lots of things happening that you might want to know about.
DMB Launch Party, The Bus Café Pop-Up At Bleak House & A Classic Car Event
Hopefully we’ll be seeing plenty of you at our Don’t Miss Broadstairs launch party at Finxs this evening!