It’s the big one you’ve been waiting for! The notorious cult phenomenon that is, Tommy Wiseau’s, The Room (2003), often described as “the Citizen Kane of Bad Movies”, or, as Rotten Tomatoes puts it ”A bona fide classic of midnight cinema, Tommy Wiseau’s misguided masterpiece subverts the rules of filmmaking with a boundless enthusiasm that renders such mundanities as acting, screenwriting, and cinematography utterly irrelevant. You will never see a football the same way again.”
The Room is unavailable on any streaming services so don’t miss the rare screening! The event is free but PLEASE sign up on my Eventbrite page in my bio if you wanna come.
Things will kick off at 7.30pm at the Fort Road Hotel Bar with an introduction by me, Guy Oliver
Bad Movie Club returns this Wednesday 6th May with The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
A live action adaptation of the popular and beloved trading card series, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie holds a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and the tied lowest score ever on Metacritic. The film is intended as a kids movie but often described as nightmarish and grotesque in all the wrong ways. The puppetry and “humour” of the film alone causes the film to be acurately described as horrific!
Things will kick off at 7.30 at the Fort Road Hotel Bar with an introduction by me, Guy Oliver.
My film Millennial Prayer will be showing this Friday 24th April at Tate Modern as part of Tate Modern Lates in conjunction with Tracey Emin’s exhibition A Second Life.
It is a full on Margate takeover with my fellow representatives of @tkestudios also on the bill.
There will be performances from Ted Rogers @artpornblog Keziah @keziah_ziah and Pink Suits @pinksuitsband as well as a mono-printing workshop led by artists from @tracey_emin_artist_residency
There is also music provided by a trio of brilliant Margate DJs, DJ Sophie Stirling @sophie_stirling_ DJ Paul Camo @paulcamo and DJ Reggy Brown @reggyrooo
The event is totally free and will run from 18:00 -22:00. See you there!
Photo credit: @elissacray@tate@traceyeminstudio
Up next in the Bad Movie Club, we are showing Super Mario Bros (1993) this Wednesday. The disastrous big budget mega flop video game adaptation, listed amongst IGN’s Best Worst Movies Ever Made List and described by Bob Hoskins as the “Worst thing I ever did!”. Please join us at The Fort Road Hotel Bar this Wednesday 22nd April. Things will kick off at 7.30 with an introduction by me, Guy Oliver.
The event is free but please sign up on my eventbrite page in my bio!
@fortroadhotel
Hello everyone!
Today is Quench Gallery’s 5th birthday! We are having to pause our birthday celebrations briefly for a very important and time sensitive announcement… please read the slides!
Huge thank you to everyone who has got us this far! We are going to need all the help we can get for the final push!
Thank you to Crowdfund Kent for this potentially huge boost!
Let’s do this!
I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that my film, Millennial Prayer, will be screened at Tate Modern next Friday 24th April as part of Tate Modern Lates curated curated with Tracey Emin @traceyeminstudio in conjunction with the exhibition, A Second Life.
Millennial Prayer is a personal essay film exploring what it meant to transition into adulthood at the turn of the new millennium. It was commissioned and made in support with the amazing @jupiter.artland .
The event is 18.00 - 22.00 and is completely free! My film is one hour long and will be running on a loop!
Please join us tomorrow, Wednesday 8th April, 7.30pm at the Fort Road Hotel bar for our first film screening in Guy Oliver’s Bad Movie Club! We will be showing Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2008), a film so jaw-droppingly terrible it has to been seen to be believed. It’s completely free to attend but please sign up on our eventbrite page in the bio to confirm numbers
Welcome to Guy Oliver's Bad Movie Club! A new bi-weekly film club in Margate celebrating the very best of the very worst. We will be showing some of the most magnificently awful films ever made! Please join us at the Fort Road Hotel Bar, beginning this Wednesday 8th April where we will kick things off with Birdemic: Shock and Terror, described by The Huffington Post as "truly, one of the worst films ever made".
Things will start at 7.30 with an introduction by me, Guy Oliver. The event is totally free but please follow the link in our bio to sign up on our eventbrite page so that we can keep track of numbers.
Fort Road Hotel, 18 Fort Road, Margate CT9 1HF
FORGE (Quiver)
Sunday 12/04/26
@_josephwales_
5-8pm
Forge is a semi regular gathering of moving image + poetry, shaped by the artist + space that holds it.
This month it is held within Vasilisa Forbes’ exhibition QUIVER at Joseph Wales (show runs 9-13 April).
Expect a web of film and voice from a selection of guest artists, curated to gently thrum with the automatic drawings and intuitive geometries in QUIVER.
Hosted by @chiara_williams and @vasilisaworld
Guest contributors:
Agatha Scaggiante @agathapple & Robbie McLean
Helga Dorothea @helgadorotheafilm
Noah Downs-Brown @noahdownsbrown
Vasilisa Forbes @vasilisaworld
Tom Furse @tom_furse
Lily Hughes @lilyzhughes
Guy Oliver @guyjoliver
Jay Rechsteiner @jayrechsteiner
Chiara Williams @chiara_williams
Zara @sha.manic
If you’d like to be involved in this or future editions, get in touch!
Chiara & Vasi
We made a video to explain the new Where Is My Mind? project in more detail that we are currently raising money for. We are very passionate about this project but we need your help to make it happen. Please follow the link in my bio to our Spacehive page to see you can get involved. We really appreciate each and every donation x
Big News! Team Quench are fundraising for a new season of programming to begin in May and we need your support…
Where Is My Mind? Is a group exhibition of artists that identify as having mental health challenges moving away from cliches of the tortured artist we’ll explore how we use our practices to weather the storm, how we pause when we need to and share what works for us through a series of artists talks, a publication and exhibition.
Please head to the Spacehive page for the full details and help us by getting the word out of the coming weeks.
We want to thank you for being part of this journey so there are thank you gifts available when you support check out the slides for details!
We can’t wait to share more with you over the next few weeks.
🧠 x
@quenchgallery
