Arts Diary
Jazzing Up the Stade
On Tuesday 5 July, award-winning saxophonist, Gilad Atzmon, will be headlining at the Jazz Hastings July monthly session at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association on the Stade along with his trio featuring two of the best-known musicians from the contemporary British jazz scene.
Just Imagine
Whiskey and Soda, a new play at the Stables by Ben Randall, imagines a meeting between Margaret Thatcher and John Lennon in 1979. The PM is visiting the White House and invites John Lennon for drinks. Could the deal that Thatcher proposes change John’s life?
• Stables Theatre Hastings 19 and 20 July.
Jason’s Argonauts
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery hosts an Arts Council England funded 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Touring exhibition by Jason Wilsher-Mills, a disabled digital artist. Jason & his Argonauts on Tour has seen Jason work with disabled communities around the UK. The exhibition explores themes of disability, telling the stories of the geographically diverse, learning-disabled groups.
• Hastings Museum and Art Gallery Saturday 9 July – Sunday 4 September
Jump for Joy
Lakwena Maciver’s Jump Paintings, abstract portraits of some of the most inspiring Basketball Players past and present, are on view at the Hastings Contemporary, where the entire floor of the Foreshore Gallery features a monumental 18x10m depiction of one of the first African Americans to play in the NBA. Lakwena, internationally renowned for her public art commissions and installations says: “I like the notion of the basketball court as a platform or a stage where the players become almost like superheroes.”
• Jump Paintings at Hastings Contemporary until the 25 September.
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