Despacito Art School presents..
Home is where the garden is

Friday 22 – Sunday 24 August 2025

Roland Ross
231 Northdown Road
Margate CT9 2PJ

An exhibition of artwork made by Despacito Art School with guest artists Samara Scott, Harold Offeh and Flora Parrott, with the work made with community partners as part of Open School East’s roaming civic project Home is where the garden is.

Exhibition Events

• Friday 22 August, 4:00 – 6:00pm – Opening preview and celebration for families, community partners and the public.

• Saturday 23 August, 2:00 – 3.30pm – Tour of the exhibition and our community garden at Ethel/Athel Alley, starting at Roland Ross.

• Sunday 24 August,12:00 – 5:00pm – Drop-in poster-making workshop with the Home is where the garden is mobile growing unit at Roland Ross – all welcome, just turn up!

Open School East’s 2024-26 programming cycle is Home is where the garden is. The cycle explores the garden as a metaphor for spaces of cultivation, rooting, and unexpected encounters. It is built around an ecological, rhizomatic framework that focuses on the networks, systems and communities that form civic space.

Community partners include: AgeUK Thanet, Ark (Cliftonville Cultural Space), Cliftonville Community Centre, Roma Drom: Cliftonville Culture Centre and Millmead Community Centre.