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People Dem Collective is a community group based in Margate. We facilitate systemic change, promote healing and continue the work of our ancestors.

https://linktr.ee/peopledemcollective

07/05/2026

🍵 Ginger Tea This Saturday

Join us for a special community health session with People Dem Collective x Maroon Adventures.

🗓 9th May
🕥 Doors 10:30am | Starts 11am
📍 8–12 Harold Road, Margate, CT9 2HT

A welcoming space for Black and Brown communities to connect, share experiences around health & wellbeing, enjoy games, food and conversation and help shape better public health services for our communities.

Dr Ade will also be available for quick consultations and blood pressure checks.

Come through, bring a friend, or just drop in 💛

Link in bio

30/04/2026

We’re stepping into something new.

Tonight is our first music-curated event as part of an ongoing series…

We really couldn’t have chosen a more beautiful artist and human to begin this with ✨ Someone who embodies so much of what this series is about.

A practice in what it means to invite artists into Margate with care, intention, and relationship at the centre.

Not just performance.
But connection.
Culture.
Healing.
Joy.

Last week, Ni Maxine also joined on , and now she’s in conversation with People Dem Collectives at HQ reflecting on what it means to hold space, to gather, and to build something rooted in community.

This work sits within a wider commitment to care, culture, and community in practice…

Thinking about how culture is held, not extracted.

How space is created with, not just for.

How artists and communities can meet in ways that feel reciprocal, grounded, and alive.

This is just the beginning of us testing, learning, and shaping what this can become.

Still some tickets available - link in bio.

Come be part of it 🙏🏾

🎥

01/04/2026

⚙️ Join us in holding this work

We’re looking for an
Operations & Community Spaces Manager
to join People Dem Collective.

This role holds the day-to-day life of our co-working, studio and event spaces, supporting the systems, people and relationships that make the work possible.

We’re building while operating. We’re looking for someone organised, steady and thoughtful, who understands what it means to hold shared space well.

We are less interested in formal titles, and more interested in how you work.

✨ Role details
📍 Margate (on-site)
🕰 Full-time
💰 £32,000

📝 How to apply

We are inviting expressions of interest as the first stage.

No CV required.

👉 Full job description + expression of interest form in link in bio

📅 Deadline: Sunday 12 April
📩 Interviews: mid–late April

We encourage applications from people whose experiences are often underrepresented in these roles.

09/03/2026

A new chapter for People Dem Collective.

This time last year we were in a very different position.

Having taken part in the Margate Town Deal process and believing in the possibility of community-led regeneration, we suddenly found ourselves outside of that process and without the temporary home that had been holding much of our work.

Moments like that are part of the reality of building community infrastructure. They’re messy, disorientating, and often unseen.

But they matter. And they need to be documented.

As we begin growing our team and imagining what a long-term home for the People Dem could hold, we believe it’s important to capture this journey, what it reveals about regeneration, participation, and the realities of access to community assets.

So in collaboration with , we’re commissioning a researcher or writer to develop a case study exploring People Dem Collective’s experience participating in the Margate Town Deal.

This work will help inform future advocacy, funding conversations, and collective learning about what it really takes for communities to build and hold cultural infrastructure.

Full brief via link in bio
Expressions of Interest close 23 March

Always for the People Dem.

14/01/2026

Last week was such a beautiful way to begin the year ✨

A week of intimate gatherings, rituals, sound, movement and shared intention, invitations gently offered across the week and held with so much care.

Thank you to for holding space for many different kinds of gatherings, to for supporting our technical needs throughout, and to all the artists, healers and creatives who brought Movement From the Margins - Collective Altar to life.

Deep gratitude to everyone who attended, who offered objects to the altar, left chalk messages, and shaped the work through presence and participation.

Grateful to for another meaningful collaboration. It feels good to start the year this way and to move forward together.

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Slide 1: 𝘊𝘌𝘙𝘌𝘔𝘖𝘕𝘠 with , photo by

Slide 2: 𝘈𝘓𝘛𝘈𝘙 𝘐, photo by

Slide 3: 𝘚𝘊𝘙𝘠𝘐𝘕𝘎 with and

Slide 4: 𝘙𝘌𝘚𝘖𝘕𝘈𝘕𝘊𝘌 with , photo by

Slide 5: 𝘚𝘜𝘉𝘛𝘌𝘟𝘛 with and , photo by

Slide 6: 𝘊𝘖𝘋𝘈 with , photo by

Slide 7: 𝘊𝘖𝘋𝘈 with , photo by

Slide 8: 𝘊𝘖𝘋𝘈 with , photo by

Slide 9: 𝘊𝘖𝘋𝘈 with , photo by

Slides 10-11: 𝘈𝘓𝘛𝘈𝘙 𝘐𝘐, photos by

With support from ,

09/01/2026

Tonight is the closing event for Collective Altar with CODA.

Over the past week, Collective Altar has unfolded as a residency of gatherings, performances, and collective rituals, some now passed, some held in memory, and one final moment to come together tonight.

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𝘈𝘓𝘛𝘈𝘙 – Fri 2/1 – Fri 9/1

A collective altar of objects and channeled chalk writing

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 – 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵, 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘳

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𝘊𝘖𝘋𝘈 – Fri 9/1

The closing event of the residency — live art and music performances by
RIEKO, SERAFINE1369, Haroon Mirza, and Flora Yin Wong

𝘙𝘌𝘚𝘖𝘕𝘈𝘕𝘊𝘌 – Thu 8/1

Deep listening for grounding and attunement with Ruby Savage

𝘚𝘜𝘉𝘛𝘌𝘟𝘛 – Tue 6/1

A sonic conversation between Paul Camo and James Jordan Johnson

𝘚𝘊𝘙𝘠𝘐𝘕𝘎 – Sun 4/1

Beachside fire scrying with Hubert Green with sound bath by Cherelle Sappleton

𝘊𝘌𝘙𝘌𝘔𝘖𝘕𝘠 – Fri 2/1

A curated dinner for artists and healers by Eat Ethio

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Details via link in bio

𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘳 is a week-long residency at Quench Gallery, as part of Movements from the Margins, People Dem Collective and Diasporas Now’s nomadic programming across live art, music, and collective healing.

Featuring:

With support from

📍 Location: Cliftonville Avenue, Margate, CT9 2AH

02/01/2026

We begin with an offering.🕯️

This Saturday marks the opening of our week-long programme of activations, beginning with CEREMONY an intimate gathering where we’ve invited a small group of local healers and creatives, held as an offering to them.

Saturday 3 January

An opening for Collective Altar shared through ritual, nourishment, and presence.
Hosted by Eat Ethio.

For us, this moment marks a shift into the new year:
moving with intention,
creating spaces with care,
and opening slowly, together.

A grounding before the wider unfolding.

28/12/2025

SCRYING
Sunday 4 January | Offsite

A beachside fire ritual and sound bath held at the threshold of sea, flame and listening.

SCRYING is a closed-circle gathering for Black and Brown diaspora only.

Rooted in ancestral practices of seeing, sensing and deep attunement, this ritual invites participants to sit with the elements, listen beyond language, and receive what is ready to be revealed.

The gathering will be guided by , with a grounding sound bath by , creating a container for reflection, release and quiet knowing.

🕯️ Ritual Protocol
This is not a public event.
This is not a performance.
This is a held and intentional space.

📍 Meeting point
15:30 at People Dem Collective
8–12 Harold Rd, Cliftonville, Margate CT9 2HT
(We will walk to the beach together)

Part of Movements from the Margins: Collective Altar - a week-long residency exploring nourishment, belonging and collective transformation across the diaspora.

Link in bio 🔗

23/12/2025

SUBTEXT - Paul Camo & James Jordan Johnson

📍 Quench Gallery
🗓️ 6 January | 7:30–9pm

A sonic conversation between and

Part of Movements from the Margins: Collective Altar
People Dem Collective x Diasporas Now

In SUBTEXT, Paul Camo and James Jordan Johnson collaborate through live sound performance, using sampling, live instrumentation and found text to form new, sometimes legible and sometimes illegible, relationships between genres and themes. The session unfolds across four CDJs, moving between structure, disruption and shared listening.

This activation sits within Movements from the Margins: Collective Altar, a week-long residency exploring ritual, sound, diasporic lineage and transformative shared experience. Drawing on Margate’s coastline, chalk, salt, water and fire, the programme gathers Global Majority artists and practitioners working through listening, story and sonic transmission.

🎟️ Free event - places are limited. Book via link in bio.

This event is open to all. While the residency is rooted in Global Majority experiences and practices, all are welcome. No prior experience required.

22/12/2025

RESONANCE with Ruby Savage
📍 Quench Gallery
🗓️ 8 January | 7–9pm

An embodied listening experience within the Collective Altar residency, exploring vibration, attunement and deep-time connection.

Part of Movements from the Margins: Collective Altar
People Dem Collective x Diasporas Now

In RESONANCE, leads a deep listening journey exploring how vibration moves through the body, how sound recalibrates the nervous system, and how collective attunement roots us in presence.

Part sound ritual, part meditative grounding, part communal recalibration, this session invites participants to arrive softly, tune inward, and open themselves to subtle frequencies that guide transformation.

This activation sits at the heart of the residency’s sonic thread, preparing the ground for the closing performances later in the week.

🎟️ Free event - places are limited. Book via link in bio.

This event is open to all. While the residency is rooted in Global Majority experiences, all are welcome. No prior experience required.

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Margate

Website

http://www.peopledemcollective.com/

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