Entry
£3 low income / £7 standard / £10.50 pay it forward
Date
Fri 7 Aug 2026
Time
8–9.30pm (bar open from 7pm)
Location
Foyle Rooms, Turner Contemporary
As the sun sets over that sea on the eve of Margate Pride, members of the local queer community gather to share their connections to our coastline.
The sea in Margate roars in the winter. Quietly laps through summer. Its tides inform our experience of living here, whether we love it, loathe it or feel indifferent. As days and seasons pass, its shores draw queer folks and build communities.
As the sun sets over that sea on the eve of Margate Pride, members of the local queer community gather to share their connections to our coastline.
A beautiful way to ease into Pride weekend.
With contributions from pianist, keyboard player and composer Jessica Lauren, writer and researcher Rachel Seoighe, actor and narrator Sam Crerar, actor, writer and activist, Charlie Condou, Occupational Therapist and Community-connector Detchema Baptiste, musician LANTA, actor and writer Tom Giles, writer, composer, theatre-maker, director and dramaturg Liv Morris and actor, creator and Margate Pride team member Kate Malyon.
About Jessica Lauren
London-born pianist, keyboard player and composer Jessica Lauren has been a cult figure on the UK’s soul and jazz scene since the early 1990s. Drawing on a wide range of influences, she has forged her own distinctive sound and musical personality, blending jazz, blues, soul, psychedelia, 1960s film soundtracks and elements from Brazilian, African and Afro-Cuban music to create a rich landscape of musical tones and colours, all dusted with a fine layer of sea salt from her home out on the coast in Margate.
Soulful keyboards, trans auntie, sea swimmer, Green. She likes her coffee strong and her chillies hot.
About Rachel Seoighe
Dr Rachel Seoighe is a writer and researcher whose work supports and explores transformative justice and activism. Her research often sits at the intersection of social justice and the arts, grounded in abolition feminism, anti-oppressive practice and radical care. In her recent collaborative project Flow.Walk.Drag., Rachel wrote and narrated a playful podcast about Margate's sewage crisis and the town's most notorious and toxic resident, E. coli. The project uses drag as environmental activism.
As director of two research consultancies — Hearth Consultancy Ltd and Tend Toward Justice CIC — and of the Margate Queer Library and Archive, Rachel creates spaces for reflection, healing and togetherness.
About Sam Crerar
Sam is an actor and narrator, graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and twice nominated for a Black British Theatre Award. His work appears on stage, screen, and a number of podcasts and audiobooks.
His work primarily involves theatre, with credits including two productions at Shakespeare’s Globe, a touring production of Happy Meal by Tabby Lamb in the UK and Australia, and Once Before I Go by Phillip McMahon at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. His motivations and interests lie in the act of communal creative analysis, exploring the intersections of black, queer identity on stage, and the significance of inclusive representation in the arts.
About Charlie Condou
Charlie Condou is a British actor, writer and activist. With a screen career spanning more than four decades, he has appeared in many productions including Unforgotten, Coronation Street, Nathan Barley, Doctor Who and most recently Tip Toe. Beyond acting, he is a Guardian columnist and prominent LGBTQ+ rights advocate, known for his work promoting equality, inclusion and awareness of diverse family structures. Through his writing, public speaking and charity work, he has become a respected voice on LGBTQ+ parenting and social justice issues in the UK.
About Detchema Baptiste
Detch is an Occupational Therapist and Community-connector, bringing people together professionally through creativity, inclusion and meaningful connection.
An overthinker and lover of the sea, you'll often find them on the beach or on some kind of adventure, ticking things off her ever-growing bucket list.
Currently working on projects focused on decolonisation.
About LANTA
Blending the soulful intimacy of Tracy Chapman with the emotional resonance of Joan Armatrading, Olivia Dean and Rachel Chinouriri, LANTA has recently released Liminal, a four-track EP born from upheaval, solitude and a long walk across Spain. It is both a reckoning and a rebirth, a project that threads together acoustic textures, alternative sensibilities and pop instinct with lyrics that refuse to shy away from the rawness of lived experience.
In 2024, as her marriage dissolved and she was forced to confront long-suppressed struggles with her mental health, LANTA set herself a challenge: to walk the 480km Camino de Santiago alone. The five-week journey across Northern Spain, she says, was 'about listening — to my body, to the silence, to the natural world. I needed to grieve, to question, and to find out who I was when everything else fell away.' It was during this period, immersed in shifting landscapes and solitude, that the seeds of Liminal were planted. 'Like nature, we are built to evolve. To begin again. Even when everything around us is shifting, life finds a way forward. And so can we.'
About Tom Giles
Tom is an actor and writer living in Margate and working internationally.
His work ranges from plays and musical for The National Theatre, The RSC and The Donmar as well as numerous other London and regional credits.
Writing commissions include work for stage, screen and online including his ACE funded solo show No More Mr Nice Gay.
About Liv Morris
Liv Morris is a writer, composer, theatre-maker, director and dramaturg. She is one half of critically-acclaimed musical double act Bourgeois & Maurice, with whom she has created 9 theatre shows, including the large-scale musical Insane Animals (HOME Manchester, 2020) released 6 albums, and toured extensively in the UK and internationally. With B&M she is currently under commission to write music and lyrics for a new musical for Ireland’s Abbey Theatre.
She is writer and director of new family musical Queen of the Serpents (Gulbenkian Arts Centre 2025), was Associate Director of Dream Factory (Dublin Theatre Festival, 2024), and has worked as dramaturg on Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe 2024), Ginger Johnson Blow’s Off! (EdFringe, Soho Theatre, UK Tour 2024), and is the director and dramaturg of multisensory early years show A Message for the Future (Southbank Centre, Feb 2025)
Liv has also worked as a script reader for Soho Theatre, the National Theatre, and the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.
About Kate Malyon
Kate Malyon is an Actor, Creative and proud member of the Margate Pride Team.
She was born and bred in Thanet before training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London and then working on stage and screen nationally and internationally.
Recent Credits include work at the National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, Soho Theatre, BBC & CBBC.
Kate is currently performing in Alice in Wonderland at the Soho Theatre, Walthamstow and Riverside Studios.
