Mind-body outdoor gymnastics
How much happier we would be, if we had all grown up infused with a feeling that we had the resources for what life was going to throw at us. It’s confidence, but confidence based in real experience rather than…
Finding The Macro In The Micro – Alchemy At The blackShed
This is a show of photographs, ceramics and a poem. Each pot stands on its floating plinth with all the dignified composure of the truly ancient. Yet these exquisite soil-textured ceramics scuffed with the pigments of their origins are the…
HIP CLASSICS
Nympholepsy – What’s it all about? Tales of Greek gods seducing women are well known, but there are stories of goddesses seducing men too. On this vase, Eos, goddess of dawn, pursues young and justifiably reluctant Tithonus. Mortals who became…
So Where’s That Then? New And Nearly New Eateries In St. Leonards
I grew up in a house where Angel Delight was the acme of everyday luxury, so it’s a constant pleasure to find such a cornucopia of reasonably priced dishes created by the current high level of professional expertise, home-grown talent…
Passion Wins Over Process
The reconfiguring of open on grand parade Rossana Leal, whose award of Woman of the Year at the Women on the Move ceremony was featured in HIP issue 123, has exciting plans for ‘Open’ on Grand Parade, St Leonards. Rossana…
HIP CLASSICS: Diminutive Monsters
The Myth of Arachne in Ovid and Velazquez Queen Victoria’s wedding dress was made of spider silk. It wouldn’t have been my choice. I wonder how many died during the production for spiders are inveterate loners and prone to combat…
A Treasury Of Community Ideas
The Common Treasury aims to bring into Hastings the experience of other UK organisations who have effected far-reaching change in their own communities. Driven by Energise Sussex and Jericho Road, and funded by the Big Lottery’s Power to Change programme,…
White Liars and Black Comedy
By Peter Shaffer. Directed by Leigh Shine. The Stables 5th-13th April. Review By Simone Witney White LiarsThere was nothing amateurish about the production of White Liars by Peter Shaffer at the Stables. It’s a one act play with just three…
Sunny Side Up
Ore Campus Solar Panels Installed In Six Days The feed-in tariff which pays back money for every solar energy kilowatt* produced by businesses and homes ended on 31st March. But in the previous week East Sussex College announced the completion…
Stairway To Heaven
Simone Witney reviews Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang Dir: Kevin Macdonald (2016) I’m told that the best way to appreciate a foreign country is to live like the inhabitants. So, on a recent trip to the US, I…