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…
Respect Existence or Expect Resistance
Simone Witney talks to Lucy Bell and David Rhodes about the Tom Hunter show Karam at Rock-a-norePICTURE: Tom Hunter The title is a phrase I spotted among a wall of slogans written by the public at the Ian Hislop exhibition…
‘No Smoke’ Makes A Perfect Fire
How to reduce air pollution and save money by keeping your stove-handling skills bright and shiny Though wood and coal are time-honoured materials for fires, they can still cause pollution by creating small particles in the air, but this can…
The Jeweller, the Chimney Sweep and the Sales Exec
If I tell you that I’m talking about one person here, you may think I’m just making a sweeping statement. On the other hand, if you have spent much time reading HIP you will have an idea just how diverse…
HIP CLASSICS
What’s with the Hat?! If you just stumbled across this photo of a beautiful man you might think it was someone’s lover or friend; you might weave all kinds of stories about it. If you got curious and started digging,…