She’s left us a trail. Act 2 of E. coli’s Margate Tour is out now — and she has been busy.

After making a sensational appearance at the Old Cliftonville Lido, E. coli takes off along the beach towards Walpole Tidal Pool, leaving a trail of red flags in the sand behind her. We follow, reading them as we go. What do they say? Let’s just say she’s not holding back.

This act moves us along the beach from Newgate Gap to the Oval Steps, getting closer to the Walpole Tidal Pool — and closer to understanding what she actually gets up to in Margate’s water.

If you’re joining us in person, pick up the tour at the Old Cliftonville Lido and follow the coastline east.

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Every seaside town has its secrets, its scandal, its toxic gossip. Margate is overflowing with it. And Act 1 of E. coli’s Margate Tour is out now.

We begin at the Coastal Shelter on Ethelbert Crescent and start to unfold Margate’s long, complicated history with the sea: from the devastating impact of cheap international flights on the town’s seasonal economy to the DFLs, the diaspora communities, and the artists who’ve kept finding their way here.

And then…we go looking for E. coli, the town’s most notorious resident.

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She’s been the talk of the town for years. Her name turns up constantly in WhatsApp groups, in health warnings, in reasons why you probably shouldn’t have gone in the water last August. And now, she’s ready to tell her side of the story.

We’re thrilled to share the trailer for E. coli’s Margate Tour — a microcosmic deep dive into hidden water histories, following E. coli along the Margate coastline. This is the sister show to our Liverpool Cholera Audio Tour.

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We’re bringing people together for a pooling party in Margate. These are gatherings that pop up in community spaces – just humans and microbes coming together to share resources, ideas and a bit of bacterial wisdom.

Tidal pools are amazing. They’re temporary, precarious, and somehow teeming with life — because everything in them has learned to adapt, share, and hold on together. Inspired by the Walpole Tidal Pool, that’s the spirit we’re bringing to People Dem Collective this April.

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We were happy to be invited to be in conversation with SHIFT Liverpool, the sustainability network for cultural organisations in the Liverpool City Region. Our first public event of the year, on the 3rd of Feb, facilitated by Metal Culture & hosted at OpenEye Gallery was to dip our toes into the wider dialogue with people who have already been meeting to “collaboratively address the climate emergency and the Liverpool City Region’s ambitious 2040 zero-carbon target.” It resonates with our aims of bringing climate conversations into everyday life.

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