About The City Brief Margate
Your Personal Newsletter For All Local Events in Margate
The City Brief helps Margate residents and visitors stay across what's happening in town each week. Whether you live in Main Sands, Birchington-on-Sea, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, or anywhere else in the area, we bring together the local events and activities that matter to your community. Margate has a strong calendar of recurring events that define its character. The Old Kent Market runs weekly, offering a mix of food, crafts, and records. Weekly activities for children foster family engagement throughout the year. Seasonal highlights include the Margate Festival of Lights in winter, The Turner Prize Festival celebrating contemporary art, and the Margate Carnival bringing summer energy to the town centre. Dreamland hosts regular summer fairs, while Turner Contemporary keeps the art scene dynamic with rotating exhibitions. Draper's Mill holds monthly open afternoons, inviting the community to connect with local heritage. Our role is straightforward: **we help you find out what's on locally, week by week.** Rather than searching across different websites or missing announcements, you'll find Margate's events gathered in one place. We cover everything from music concerts and festivals to family activities and cultural programming. This matters because Margate is a town where things happen, whether that's a neighbourhood activity, a heritage event, or something bigger drawing people from across the Isle of Thanet. We focus on the events and activities that bring locals together and help visitors discover what’s worth their time. We’re simply keeping you informed about what your community is doing. If you're based here, work here, or visit regularly, The City Brief is how you stay connected to what's happening in Margate. Check back each week for the latest local events, activities, and things to do across the town.
What we Cover
Each week The City Brief highlights events happening across Margate – live music, theatre, food, family activities, markets and more.
Have a look at what's happening this week and this coming weekend.
About The City Brief
The City Brief is a global network of local newsletters. We succeed in sending the best of local information to local people. To learn more, visit our main website.
About the editor
The City Brief Margate is edited by Dean Withey, founder of The City Brief. A former RAF pilot turned founder and investor, Dean has built and sold two technology companies, including ubisend, a conversational AI platform used by the NHS and BAE Systems, and has shipped more than thirty enterprise AI systems over twenty years in tech. He is based in Norwich, England.
Why this site exists, in Dean's words: "In an AI-powered world, you can no longer trust what you see and hear online. The future is local: trusting only what you can see for yourself. The City Brief is the trusted brief for what's happening in your city."
Listings are gathered from venue websites, official box offices and event platforms, then checked and curated before publishing. AI tools assist with drafting; every published page follows our editorial policy.
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