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A huge thank you to everyone who came to our first event back in Margate in 2024 – and to the Margate Arts Club for making your space so warm and welcoming for us. It was a wonderful (and weird!) evening of sumptuous delights, from a unique comedy act delivered from the future (wearing shorts!) …
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Mythology and Miraculous Worlds Workshop took place upstairs at Little Swift upon Wednesday the 21st of Feb 2024. Nine participants signed up to the spellbinding world constructed by Creative Writing Practitioner Emma Robdale. Review by Alice Riley. This last week saw the first MixMatched creative writing workshop of the year. Our theme was mythology and …
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WOW! What a start to the year! – With an audience of 40+ it was the largest MixMatched we have ever hosted at the Mooring Cafe, Canterbury. We’re happy to say that our first Art’s Council funded event was a hit! THANKS SO MUCH TO THE FRIEND’S MEETING HOSUE, for loaning us their impressive speakers …
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Wednesday the 24th of January, The Quakers Meeting House. 7.00- 8.30pm Our first workshop of 2024… and also our first event since gaining arts council funding! – I’m pleased to say that ‘Pimp Your Performance was a hit! – We were almost at maximum capacity with nine wonderful attendees. Thanks again for the friends meeting …
Thank-You Everyone for your support! – We’re now going to take MixMatched to the next level 😀 WE DID IT!!! – AFTER A LOT OF VERY HARD WORK…. gruelling and never ending forms, and some exasperatingly phone-calls, THE ARTS COUNCIL HAVE GIVEN US £36.400 to continue our MixMatched Projects!!! WOOP WOOP. Along with our monthly …
Upon the 29th of November, at the Mooring Cafe, another awesome MixMatched night unfolded! – The topic, ‘Masks and Masquerading’ was open to interpretation, however the term ‘Masking’ is often used within Neurodivergent community to refer to ‘fitting in’, and adapting to neurotypical expectations… How would other’s interpret the theme? MixMatched stage was graced by ten …
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On the 20th of September 2023, MixMatched hosts, Emma Robdale, and Alice Riley made their way to Margate Bookie Festival, to speak as guest authors on the panel for, ‘Before They Were Famous’ at Droit House on Margate Pier, at 11.00am. They were joined by fellow authors Anna Gash, Cesca Baker and Glyn Brown, and …
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Our very own Adam Dorr (not that we own him… but he has come to every single one of our events!) proudly presented HIS FIRST FULL LENGH COMEDY SHOW. A bunch of us gathered to support him from MixMatched collective and watch his hilarious, but sometimes quite poignant experiences of growing up autistic… from his …
We gathered a group to watch and support Paggy! – they had just debuted their show at MixMatched earlier that week, and they performed a full length comedy stand-up upon autistic joy at Faversham Fridge Festival, Alexander Hall. Show Bio: After a successful run @brightonfringe, Stimmicanto has returned – this time for the people of Kent. …
Our second night at Fond Coffee was PACKED OUT – we had a wonderfully eclectic show of talent. PROUDLY TAKING TO THE STAGE were Adam Dorr and Paggy, who’d travelled all the way from Brighton! They both debuted to us a small section of their stand-up acts upon their life and autistic experience. Both went …
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