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Celebrate ten years of the Ramsgate Festival!  This year Ramsgate Arts brings the second Ramsgate Festival of Sound. Celebrating the landscape, buildings, people and history of Ramsgate in exciting new ways with multiple sound installations and hundreds of amazing musicians, performers and artists. The week will begin with a series of  talks during Ramsgate Week in the build-up to the main festival weekend, these include Ramsgate Reflections and an artist symposium with guest speakers to be announced.

Highlights this year include Dame Evelyn Glennie, Simon Boswell and the AND live, Jazz Sessions with Sabina Desir, music from Amy Montgomery, Things With Words and Music, Screaming Alley Cabaret, a Sonic Trail featuring ten new sound installations, the Cervia Sound installation.

https://ramsgatefestival.org 

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Heritage Open Days - England’s largest festival of history and culture! Every September some 40,000 volunteers across England organise 5,000 events to celebrate our fantastic history and culture. It's your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – all of which are FREE to explore.

This years local events are again being coordinated by the Ramsgate Society and run from 13-22 September. The 28 participating venues across Thanet are open free of charge and offer a unique glimpse into the past of our local area. The brochure outlining the individual participants with dates and timings will be available at a variety of locations across Thanet from mid August. If your business would like to supply the brochures please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/ 

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Have you seen the van Gogh bust in Spencer Square and wondered how it got there?
In 2018 sculptor and artist Anthony Padgett had been working on a project called A Year with Vincent and contacted our society chairman to talk about the work he had been doing.
The output from the project were busts created by Padgett and were being donated to sites that were significant to the life of van Gogh, of which Ramsgate was one. So the question was "Would the Ramsgate Society be interested in creating a permanent memorial to van Gogh and finding a site for one of the busts?"
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