Archives for Arts - Page 41
Claudia De Grandi, Artist profile by Natalie Tate
Claudia de Grandi & Josh Tennent. Painting & music performance. Hastings UK, Sept 09, 2016. Brazilian artist Claudia De Grandi has lived and worked in the Hastings area since 2006.…
Help bring Paula Rego to Hastings by Caf Fean
Dame Paula Rego is a Portugese-British artist whose work centres around themes of feminism, folk and fairy tale. An adept storyteller, she has used her discipline to exact revenge upon…
Café des Arts – Dave Koller, By Maria Stretton
Stepping into Café des Arts there is a sense of Art Deco meets the present - people of all ages relaxing in huge leather armchairs and sofas, drinking cups of…
ML Liebler interviewed by Pete Donohue
Bookbuster Interview The US Rust Belt Poet with the Wife of Bath Kicks Out the Jams in Hastings (England) ML Liebler interviewed by Pete Donohue The (mad) March monthly…
American Porn by Heathcote Williams
A HIP READ - Review by Pete Donohue On 20th January many of us on this side of The Pond watched mouths agape as the 45th President of the United States…
Hastings Fringe Festival 2017
Do you want to take part in the newest, boldest performing arts festival in Hastings? Then give it a go and showcase your work whether it's theatre, music, magic, spoken…
‘A Little Jazzed Up’ for the Friends Of The Conquest £1M Scanner Appeal
A special concert intriguingly called ‘A Little Jazzed Up’ is going to be staged at the Hastings Centre on The Ridge on Saturday February 4 at in aid of the…
Tribute To Artist Harry Snook
by Mary Hooper Harry Snook, a much admired artist and well loved friend to many, died peacefully on Tuesday December 6th. Harry worked prolifically in different media - painting, construction,…
Hit the Stage for Hastings Fringe Festival 2017
by Miranda Gavin Have you got an original act you want to perform, new writing to showcase, a story to tell, poetry to slam, or music to share? Join us…
Hastings Orchestra Creation
By Brian Hicks A new fully professional orchestra in Hastings? The idea might seem insane in this time of austerity ,but that would be to ignore the enthusiasm and expertise…
Telling Stories
After another excellent Storytelling Festival, I do a bit of Q n A with 18 hours………. How did the Storytelling Festival start? The festival was started in 2011 by…
I Love Mel
“ When I was 5, I used to say, I’m going to go to the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore” said Mel Simone Elliot. And so she did.…
Fill Her Up Mate
Why not spend a Christmassy Sunday down at Borough Wines, making your own modern felt Christmas stocking with Michelle, from Merchant and Mills, whilst supping on warm mulled wine and…
Tense art and Performance Poetry in St Leonards
Local artists Kate Gritton and Valerie Grove brought “Surface Tension" to St. Leonard's in an exhibition expressing the power of the tangible and intangible forces around us. This Hastings Arts…
Lost Magic at the Stables – Ed Boxall and Brian Moses.
By Laurie Taylor. (more…)
Poetry Corner
Pebbles of Life Dave Hempshall Written while co-facilitating Poetry for Recovery course for Hastings Recovery College Pebbles of life move. Shifting brown and grey. Gulls transcend, lifting, preying Struck dumb…
Write on in Hastings: Gavin Martin – Talking Musical Revolutions
Pete Donohue introduces: Hastings & St Leonards based music critic and performance poet, Gavin Martin, has interviewed or reviewed just about any artiste worth knowing about in the music industry…
Get Creative This Christmas
The festive season stalks us once again, presenting the usual difficulty of coming up with interesting and exclusive gifts for family and loved ones. Here in Hastings and St Leonard’s,…
The Jerwood Score a Glorious Century
Charley Bolding-Smith Century, the current exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, brings together the work of 100 modern British artists. It’s a vibrant mix of paintings, sculpture, and works on…
A Callout to all Experienced and Budding Filmakers
Keith Adams Whether an actor, a cinematographer or one of those people who holds a big fluffy microphone on a long stick we want you all. A new, dynamic and…
Hastings Story Telling Festival
Two Clowns Trapped in a Cardboard World was played out in a set made entirely of cardboard at St Mary in the Castle as part of the Hastings Story Telling…
ARTISTS PROFILE: Maika Crampton – Paper Couture
Maria Holme-Slater Originally from Hamburg in Germany, Maika studied then worked for a record company before moving to London in 1995, where she began making children’s clothes in linen for…
Artistic tension in St Leonards
By Neil Partrick A tense art show is taking place at Hastings Arts Forum in St Leonards. Local artists Kate Gritton and Valerie Grove are jointly exhibiting in ‘Surface Tension’,…
Brookes & Leal bring an icon of contemporary literature to Hastings
Review: ‘An Evening with Irvine Welsh’ plus support from Andrew Grainger, Richard Heslop, Michael Smith and David Quantick. By Pete Donohue Recently relocated back to Hastings, arts event producers and…
To the ghosts of 1066
By Sophie Shaw Jane Packman and Ben Pacey, cofounders Dens and Signals The Feast of the Dead is nearly here, but what can we expect from this most unusual of…
Irvine Welsh hits Hastings – An exclusive HIP interview
Ahead of ‘An Evening with Irvine Welsh’, local promoters Simone Brookes & Rossana Leal caught up with the internationally acclaimed Edinburgh author for an intimate chat about Hastings, music and…
The Frackers: the Outrageous Inside Story of the New Energy Revolution – by Gregory Zuckerman
Portfolio Press, 2013. Available at Bookbuster £ Review by Tim Barton For those of you that remember the 'Jett Rink' in the movie Giant, or the TV soaps Dallas and…
The argument for DIY poetry
By Pete Donohue If you want to get your message across you need to get up, stand up. No one else will do it for you. Speak up, speak…
Revised Observer Building planning consultation ending soon
OB planning consultation The consultation for the revised plans post University of Brighton plan to withdraw from Hastings, closes in the next week or so (one source says this Thursday…
Trainspotting in Hastings
By Pete Donohue Not an article on currently invisible Southern rail carriages, this is a good news heads up for Irvine Welsh fans. The celebrated Edinburgh author is coming to…
THE KIDS’ TAPESTRY UNVEILED
THE KIDS' TAPESTRY UNVEILED TO MARK 950TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS Photo credits: David Parry/PA Wire Children help to create sequel to the Bayeux Tapestry featuring Shakespeare, Queen…
Well blow me down!
By Pete Donohue As an introduction to playing music when a little one, recorder lessons were hard to beat. Sure, potential percussionists might have favoured the triangle, marimba or shaky…
The Great Survey
THE GREAT SURVEY As part of the ROOT1066 International Arts Festival, Hastings Council has commissioned WildWorks Theatre Company to come to Hastings to make a show about us… and they…
Marcus Harvey – HipCast
Marcus Harvey INSELAFFE Kate Renwick, the Arts Editor of Hastings Independent gets an exclusive interview with Marcus Harvey at Jerwood Gallery a day before the launch of INSELAFFE, his largest UK public…
The resurfacing of the enigmatic Mr.Fudge
So I went to meet Nicholas Fudge, the Goldsmith’s graduate who notoriously threw his work in the bin two days before his degree show. One might think another gimmick to…
Light Fantastic
the iy_Project:The nature of sound and light Tracy Jones A spectacular immersive sound and light installation is set to become one of the iconic events that form the Root 1066…
Sublimation of the Tattoo
Kate Renwick Twenty-two years ago whilst completing my Foundation course, I was embarking on an introductory project set by the University I was to attend that September on the subject…
Pause ll Play
Bargainstudio, St Leonards Sarah Lloyd PauseIIplay makes exceptionally rewarding viewing, by deftly questioning what we lose touch with when we become more coupled to images, social networks and machines than…
Rams
Director: Grímur Hákonarson Winner Cannes: Un Certain Regard 2015, Golden Eye at Zurich 2015 Reviewed by Simone Witney Will watching an elderly Icelandic sheep farmer make coffee in his lonely…
Young artist impresses HIP
By Pete Donohue The HIP editorial team were so impressed with Izzy Henson’s artwork that we gave her the prestigious full back page local artist’s showcase in Issue 54. Describing…