“Dead”
Mia L considers local artist Ian Probert's recent show at the Arts Forum Ian Probert's debut show is something of a sombre affair, as its succinct title suggests. Probert uses watercolour, to immortalise a plethora of counter culture icons, each…
100 Years Of Bauhaus And The De La Warr Pavilion
Merlin Betts considers the De La Warr’s 2019 summer exhibitions programme From now until September the DLWP will be holding two Bauhaus-inspired exhibitions in their ample showspaces on the ground and first floors of the Pavilion. ‘How Chicago! Imagists 1960s…
FESTVAL BY THE LAKE 2019
Top musicians support festival welcoming refugees to Hastings Top jazz musicians Sarah Jane Morris and Gwyneth Herbert are headlining at this year’s Festival by the Lake on Sunday 23 June, 12-8pm, in the beautiful surroundings of Ashburnham Place, near Battle,…
1066 Cycling Festival is Rolling Your Way
This is a press release from Hastings Borough Council (events schedule for the weekend included at end)The 1066 Cycling Festival is a FREE two day festival celebrating everything cycling. Now in its fourth year, the festival will take place on…
Help the Community Help Themselves
This is a press release from Hastings Borough Council A community integration and networking event called “Help the community Help Themselves” was held at the Cinnamon Spice restaurant in St Leonards last week, organised by Mohammed Akmol Ali. The purpose…
The Hastings Contemporary’s Inaugural Exhibitions Programme
A new, independent art gallery (previously the Jerwood Gallery) will open on 6th July 2019. The Hastings Contemporary aims to champion modern and contemporary art, especially painting, and especially art which explores the rich cultural fabric of the South East.…
Hastings Contemporary: Meeting Expectations
Merlin Betts discusses the new gallery’s place and plans I went to a coffee and chat at the Jerwood last week for the locals: us, the Hastings Observer, the Council press team. The gallery management gave us a fine tour…
Heavy Horses Return to Bruising Bracken
HBC reports on a countryside management open day and horses removing troublesome bracken sustainablyHastings Borough Council has invited Frankie Woodgate and her heavy horses back to Hastings Country Park in June. Everyone is welcome to come along and meet them…
Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou with Special Guest Hayley Savage + Film Screening
Press Release Friday June 14th – (film screening at ) Kino-Teatr St LeonardsTickets are £10 available from Kino-Teatr box office and online through Ticketsource Following the release of their fifth critically-acclaimed album Fair Lady London, songwriters Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou…
Hastings Tapestry Brought Out of the Basement
Merlin Betts looks at an embroidery, an arts centre, and Britishness Commissioned in 1965 by Group Captain Ralph Bagshaw Ward, the Hastings Embroidery was imagined along somewhat similar lines to the Bayeux Tapestry, when Ward visited Bayeux with his wife.…