ARTS DIARY
Summer Picnic Concert at Fairlight Hall
Thomas Kelly
Thomas Kelly, 2022 prize winner of the Hastings International Piano Competition, returns for a summer picnic recital at beautiful Fairlight Hall. He will play four bright Scarlatti sonatas, Schumann’s evocative Kinderszenen Op. 15, and Liszt’s incredible virtuoso representations of Italy, its gondoliers, its songs, its dances, Venezia e Napoli. After the interval he will play a work by the extraordinary, brilliant 20th century composer Busoni, and finish the recital with a glorious Rachmaninoff Sonata. This is an astounding programme of some of the most difficult and impassioned piano pieces ever written, and I would urge you to go, listen, and marvel in the summer sunshine.
9 July 2023 at Fairlight Hall. Tickets, £25 obtainable at hastingsinternationalpiano.org, under-16s free with a full-paying adult. Interval cream tea is also available. To book the picnic lunch tickets at £75 email [email protected]
Clannad Reconfigured
Moya Brennan, founder member of her own long-running and revered family band Clannad, is to launch a solo career after 50 years. Her live solo shows are always rich and moving, and she has received awards and accolades for her ability to “sing from the heart of music, to reach the essence, and to make the ordinary extraordinary”.
Tickets have gone on sale for her concert (next year!) at the De La Warr Pavilion, 28 March 2024, 7 p.m. Buy now to avoid disappointment!
Djuna O’Neill at the De La Warr
Flatland Projects will present The ground is kind, black butter, a first solo exhibition by young Irish artist Djuna O’Neill (b. 1998). It will showcase moving image and sculptural works. O’Neill investigates the peat as a communal archive, digesting bogland habitats as sites of alterity, borderlands, and ‘wastelands’, sites of refuge in histories of colonial dispossession, taking her title from Seamus Heaney’s 1969 poem Bogland.
1 July to 6 August 2023 at Flatland Projects, Unit 7, Beeching Road Studios, Beeching Road, Bexhill on Sea TN34 3IJ, Sat-Sun 12-4 p.m. or email [email protected] to arrange a weekday visit.
St Leonards Festival
Immerse yourself in a joyful day at St. Leonards Festival, taking place on 1 July. The day will start with a drumming circle, followed by a Carnival Parade themed People of the Coast. The parade route will follow the seafront from Hastings Pier to Warrior Square Gardens. The event starts at 1.00 pm and will feature an extraordinary aerial show, African music from Zong Zing All Stars, and a disco from Glass House Dance. Aretha George-Tooley, chair of the Festival Committee, is thrilled to be bringing the festival back to celebrate the vibrant local community.
Saturday 1 July, 1 p.m. For more information visit stleonardsfestival.org.
Ex Voto
Rachel Williams & Jude Montague are printmakers living in Hastings. They specialise in one-off creative prints, using printmaking in a painterly way. They have been planning to exhibit together for over two years and their theme Ex Voto [Votive Offering] is taken from their shared interests in the Ancients, creatures of the tomb, museum artefacts, the loss of animals and objects, and prayer. Both printmakers have a connection to Italy, exploring Latin history and pre-Roman archaeology.
Private View/Open Evening Friday 7 July 6pm-9pm. Exhibition 6-9 July, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards TN38 OAL
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