Hastings marks Refugee Week
Over the last 20 years, the Links Project, which is supported by Hastings Borough Council, has been working with immigrants and asylum seekers. This year national refugee week (18 – 24 June 2018) celebrated acts of welcome shown to refugees…
Quantum Illusion
Trevor Watts (Saxes) + Veryan Weston (keypad) will be playing as their electro acoustic QUANTUM ILLUSION project at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea on Sunday July 15th at pm plus two other groups (see below). The concert is free,…
Jason Singh and Anna Helena McLean: Flight Music
A medieval Sufi prince and a Nordic goddess. What kind of music would they make together? Had you been at the Kino-teatr on Saturday, 30th June in St Leonards you would have found out. It was astoundingly good. Thrillingly original,…
Ruth E Cockburn – ‘Postcard from Blackpool’
Reviewed at The Palace In contrast to a Hastings Comedy Fringe bill dominated by stand-up routines, Ruth E Cockburn’s ‘Postcards from Blackpool’ was a consummate piece of theatre. Centred on the themes of romance, nostalgia and (the clue’s in the…
Watermelon, Avocado & Mint Salad
Who knew that this selection of fresh, juicy ingredients would work so well together? Well, they most certainly do, and what a delicious combo it is! Fragrant mint, juicy watermelon and soft, ripe avo make the perfect team mates! I…
Bloomsday1066
On 16 June 2018, Hastings celebrates the date made famous by James Joyce LUCY BRENNAN-SHIEL writes Bloomsday1066 came to Hastings Library on Saturday 16 June, with readings from James Joyce’s modernist novel Ulysses (the events described within this ground breaking…
Let’s All Keep Bees to Win the “War on Drugs”
Gareth Stevens If you are like me, you have probably noticed an indisputable correlation between a downturn in your mental wellbeing and incessantly cruising the internet and repeatedly checking your social networking apps. Come on - hands up if you…
/////REFLECTIONS – Only a Yawn in their Game
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss Among the host of sensational performers who gathered at this month’s club, was the returning Lantern Player, Michael Prochak. Originally hailing from the Rust-Belt, USA, he is a…
Learning to Change the World – Learning to Think
The common link between my time working at a hotel that subsequently burned down, interviewing Basil Brush and spending ten weeks walking backwards around Sussex with a stop-go lollipop and a walkie-talkie radio behind four 25-ton vibrators is the town…
Honouring the World War I Centenary in Béthune, France
Deputy Mayor of Hastings Councillor James Bacon attended a wreath laying ceremony in Béthune, France, on behalf of the town of Hastings earlier this month. The deputy mayor said, “It was such an honour to be one of the representatives…