Electric Palace Pleads For Support
The Electric Palace cinema in the Old Town is warning that it may have to let the end credits roll after an 18-year run. Closed between March and August due to the Covid-19 lockdown it reopened for screenings this ;…
HIP#163: LISTINGS GUIDE
Victor Pasmore: Line & Space
By Gareth Stevens I am an atheist, but still cherish visiting temples and churches and the feeling of contemplation that descends on me when I enter old religious spaces. Similarly, I am not a believer in the fictitious history of…
Hastings Storytelling Festival Goes (mostly) Online
Sometimes fact is indeed stranger than fiction. From the devastation wreaked on the entertainment industry by Covid 19, bright shoots of creativity spring forth. Support from Arts Council England has helped storytellers for Hastings Storytelling Festival to adapt for digital…
Black History Month
Celebrating the local Black community in Hastings St Leonards and Hastings Alliance for Diverse Ethnicities (SHADE), Black Butterfly and Hastings Borough Council are joining in the celebration of Black History Month this October. WE ARE HERE is a collaborative programme…
Return to the wild
St Leonards residents Robin and Rachel Holtom visit Knepp Knepp Wildland is an inspirational environmental project near Horsham in West ; In the early 2000s Charlie Burrell and his wife Isabella Tree’s 3,500 acre farm was losing money, so they…
FOOTBALL
United Host SheGoals Project Believing that the Beautiful Game transcends all social barriers, Hastings social enterprise Eggtooth is combining with the United club to promote a new project in women’s football. The title they have given it is SheGoals –…
Treatments: What We Find and What We Bring
Review by Benji Thomas In our last issue, I interviewed artist Sophie Shaw about her then upcoming show Treatments: What We Find and What We Bring . The show opened for just one weekend starting on 10th October but still…
“Lockdown”
at Hastings Arts Forum By Benji Thomas Hastings Arts Forum, nestled within Marine Court and facing out to the sea, is currently playing host to Lockdown, an exhibition of works made either during, or in response to the COVID-19 pandemic…
HIP INTERVIEW
Should We Fall Behind By Sharon Duggal, Bluemoose Books, 2020 INTERVIEW BY LUCY BROWN Brighton author, Sharon Duggal, launches her latest book Should We Fall Behind on October 22nd. The novel is a piercingly accurate depiction of unnoticed lives. From the…