Andrew Kötting: Who You Walk With Alters What You See
Towner Art Gallery until 31 December If you have an interest in film that falls into the British psychogeographical genre you are likely to have come across Andrew Kötting, a local to St Leonards on Sea for over 15 years…
Folio 14 at the Hastings Arts Forum
Folio 14, a group of creatives making work under the tutelage of artist and educator Jo Kori, opened their first show this week at Hastings Arts Forum. These 10 local artists met through a workshop held at the Jerwood Gallery…
University of Brighton launches 3 month consultation on Hastings
After much confusion and protest following the announcement in March that the University of Brighton would be pulling out of Hastings, U of B have launched a 3 month public consultation on the future of a University Centre at Hastings. The…
Revised Observer Building planning consultation ending soon
OB planning consultation The consultation for the revised plans post University of Brighton plan to withdraw from Hastings, closes in the next week or so (one source says this Thursday 18 Aug). It is crucial that the local community have…
Panama Papers – It’s laws and treaties that are the problem, not the tax avoiders
British Virgin Islands, Tax Haven Tax avoidance is legal. Google “offshore investment” and the results are a ‘how to’ of investing: ‘you don’t have to be a millionaire to be treated like one’ as one site is the problem. We…
Hastings Independent Press launches crowdfunder!
We know you love HIP as much as we do which is why we've just launched a crowdfunder to keep this fantastic newspaper truly independent and thriving. Your local community news source, run by a bunch of extremely dedicated volunteers working on a…
Local Uproar as University of Brighton Announces Withdrawal from Hastings
photo credit: Sam Kinch Well, it has happened. The University of Brighton has released a strangely vague statement apparently announcing its pullout from Hastings over the next two years. No one seems to really know what is meant by: "The university…
It’s Complicated
Photo credit: Jilliene Sellner Wading through the quagmire of policy, bills and recent historical events surrounding the austerity myth, and in particular the proposed Tax Credit cuts has reduced my inner voice to resemble the Peanuts’ school teacher ‘mwa mwa…
Shadows of Equality
Alison Sharland and Varsha Gohil’s recent victory in court with respect to their ex-husbands who lied about their net-worth during divorce proceedings, cases dealing in multi-millions of pounds, points to a much bigger issue for women at the other end of the economic…
Buy Palestinian
Shortly before 23 year old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed by an Israeli Caterpillar bulldozer in 2003 while trying to save Palestinian homes in Rafah, I had become involved with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. There is an acute powerlessness felt…