Mew Welch: Pot star
By Gareth Stevens Many of our best loved music icons came to us via Art schools, but it is less usual that successful musicians find fresh passion for the visual arts later on in their ; So who is Mew?…
FOOTBALL
Back On Track With The 1066 Specials By Nick Pelling As we all know, things have been opening up again. But, as the noise of supposed normality kicks in, it’s worth shining a light on a club that deserves to…
Bunker Girls at the Stables
The Stables Theatre recently staged Bunker Girls – set in Berlin in 1945. Francis Saunders watched the opening and closing performances on Wednesday 19th and Saturday 22nd ; This was the first time I’d visited the theatre since the pandemic…
Posh Bus Starts the New Season
The Posh Bus is a converted open top Routemaster bus that houses an exciting local sightseeing tour and a glamorous roving variety show for local older folk. Patrons from The Posh Club in their 90s, 80s, 70s and 60s will…
Greening the Triangle
Hastings Heritage Action Zone and Green Dreams landscape architects are consulting on making Robertson Street and the surrounding area greener and more pedestrian ; They suggest the creation of temporary ‘parklets’ – an idea based on a walkabout with local…
Creative Projects for Care Homes
HIP ran two stories about care homes in the last issue as part of Dementia Action Week. This week we take a look at the use of creativity in care homes to tackle the stress caused by the Covid-19 pandemic…
ARTS DIARY
Black Magik Black Magik Fest is a new arts festival in St Leonards celebrating what it means to be Black and British. It’s devised and curated by resident Jack Kennedy who says: “Alongside an amazing line-up of artists we will…
INTERVIEW
Carol Prior’s All Choired Up By Caf Fean Monday June 7th brought in a new high note to Hastings’ LGBTQ+ folk, heralding the first in-person meeting of All Choired Up, a community formed online during the first lockdown thanks to…
Semaphore: Sending out an SOS
On 17th May Hastings celebrated the relaxation of Lockdownwith its first large live event, Semaphore, a site-specific blend of live and digital, of sound, light, fire and performance on the beach. A sequence of seven choreographed performances wove together sound…
Police Team Claims Rural Successes
Sussex Police’s Rural Crime Team has marked the first anniversary of its launch in June 2020, claiming that it has made great progress over the past 12 months in tackling rural crime offences and building direct engagement with rural communities…