Archives for Culture - Page 51
See Spray Gallery
Jilliene Sellner You may not have seen it ’s ‘all the way’ up Queens Road, just past Morrisons. Newly opened in June, this commercial gallery with a twist is located…
Our Man in Moscow
John Cole and Simone Witney Many of us know John Cole’s iconic photos of Hastings fishermen, a product of his close relationship with them, but his sympathies are international. This…
On the Fly
Elisabeth Sonneck and Christian Gode at Electro Studio Project Space Two German artists are coming to St Leonards in July to create a new, site-specific installation at the Electro Studio…
Sausage Life
The column which thinks that tired, worn-out cliché is the elephant in the room READER: Football’s coming home! And on top of a glorious heatwave to boot! MYSELF: I assume…
Eden Stell Guitar Duo
Mark Eden and Christopher Stell, Kino-Teatr, 14 July Internationally renowned for their dynamism, innovation and breathtaking virtuosity, the Eden Stell Guitar Duo will be performing in St Leonard’s this month at Kino-Teatr.…
Bookbuster Book Review
The True Cost of Food PDF, available from the Sustainable Food Trust REVIEW BY TIM BARTON In our last issue, HIP 105, Zelly Restorick covered a really great talk and…
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…
Hastings Beer and Music Festival Hosts This Year’s Seaside Zumbathon Party
St Michael’s Hospice is delighted to announce the return of the Seaside Zumbathon Party, which is taking place at Hastings Beer and Music Festival on Saturday 7th July, 9am –…
Collect
SoCo artists respond to Hastings Museum’s eclectic collection for a new show “The artist’s eye can see the familiar through a new and alternative lens,” writes Catherine Harvey, Keeper of…
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…
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…
/////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…
HIP READ – Paper And Ink #13
Tales From The Bar Side Hastings’ own local literary zine has just published its thirteenth issue. Paper And Ink has already achieved cult status in the national and international underground…
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…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
My Turn Will Come By E G Smart Paperback, available at Bookbuster REVIEW BY EMILY BRYANT The author of this moving new novel has a background in training and business support.…
‘When the Oak Spoke’ to Wadhurst
Beth Martin Hastings-based artist Beccy McCray got Wadhurst talking on Sunday 10th June, when she launched her latest participatory arts project, ‘When the Oak Spoke’; an initiative commissioned by local…
Print Matters
Every seaside town should have its urban rock pools: places where time drifts delightfully while your curiosity and imagination are captivated by the familiar and the unexpected. An independent book…
Final Year HND Exhibition
Photography students exhibited their work at Sussex Coast College, Friday (June 15th) Review by Chris Coombes The Hydrangea, a Domestic Odyssey by Mary Wilkinson The work is inspired by the earliest…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
PAINTING THE TOWN GOLD According to Adam Stephens and Finbarr O’Connell, of Heritage Lottery Fund-appointed administrators Smith & Williamson LLP: “After careful assessment of all offers received for the pier,…
Sausage life!
The column that won’t shoot until it sees the whites of your eggs READER: I see there were riots at the Poundland closing-down sale. MYSELF: I’m not surprised. There was…
St Leonards Festival kicks off high summer
St Leonards is preparing for crowds of around 10,000 for the 13th annual St Leonards Festival on Saturday 30th June. The event is centred around Warrior Square Gardens, where there will…
HIP SHORT STORY – Able Was Ere I Saw Elva
ADAM RUSSELL Trillions of miles in to an endless journey, no-one now can imagine a world without cars. As my gym buddy Tim always comments, quoting Heidegger, “they solicit our…
Top Musicians Support Festival Welcoming Refugees to Hastings
Award winning jazz musicians Liane Carroll and Ian Shaw, and poet John Hegley are among the artists appearing at Festival by the Lake on Sunday 24 June, 12-8pm, in the…
BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW – A Party with Socialists in It
A Party with Socialists in It – A History of the Labour Left By Simon Hannah Pluto Press, paperback, available at Printed Matter Bookshop and Bookbuster, at £ – 10% discount with…
ADVERTORIAL: Babies Can Teach!
Alison Waterhouse In my work as an Educational Psychotherapist, I’d been concerned for many years about the way poor mental health can affect children’s long term ability to learn from…
Paul Feiler – An Artist of Few Words
A. Vasudevan The Literary Shed Early summer at the Jerwood Gallery sees it hosting a major retrospective of the work of renowned Anglo–German artist Paul Feiler, the first since his…
Penny Johnson – Designer, Illustrator, Artist and St Leonards-on-sea Superfan
Caf Fean Penny Johnson is a designer, illustrator and photographer living with her life and business partner, Laurence Attrill, in her beloved St Leonards. “It’s the happiest place I’ve lived…
Sausage Life
The column which thinks that a cambio is as good as a siesta READER: You know what’s missing from this column, don’t you? MYSELF: A crossword? READER: Wow! How did…
Great Opportunity for Local Music or Dance Groups – YOU’RE WANTED!
Seaside attraction Hastings Adventure Golf is looking for three local music or performing groups to showcase their talents as part of its summer entertainment line-up. Located at the newly developed…
The Future of Energy
This supplement, the first in what we hope will become a bi-annual publication, reviews the future of energy: how its generation, supply and demand is undergoing rapid revolution along with…
Summer Recital 2018 – Fairlight Hall
Julian Norridge For two evenings in early March, the White Rock Theatre reverberated to the sound of some truly dazzling pieces of playing by some of the world’s finest young…
Hastings Writers’ Group SF Competition Results
VICKY ARMSTRONG Nineteen weird and wonderful stories were entered for our recent science fiction short story competition, ably judged by Dr Who writer, Simon Guerrier. Simon praised the originality and…
Giles Duley, Presents Work in Hometown for the First Time
July 4th, July 5th St Mary in the Castle Felicity Laurence and Dan Matthews, Hastings Community of Sanctuary The internationally renowned documentary photographer Giles Duley has been working tirelessly with…
HIP READ – Coming Home For Good Personal Reflections On Homelessness By Roger Nuttall
Hastings self-published author Roger Nuttall is a nurse co-ordinator for Hastings Homeless Service. Coming Home For Good, as the back page blurb explains, charts his personal journey from teenage rebellion…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
SEA CHANGE – AS GOOD AS A REST? Empty office buildings in Havelock Rd, ‘business parks’ that decimate areas of outstanding natural beauty whilst remaining unfinished and deserted, and the…
A CONCERT FOR SUMMER
De La Warr String Quartet The Albion, Hastings Old Town, Thursday 29th June The second of a series of seasonal concerts by the De La Warr String Quartet takes place…
Coastal Currents set to make a Bigger Splash
Tina Morris We are pleased to announce that Coastal Currents Arts Festival has been successful yet again with their Arts Council England funding, so we can all breathe a sigh…
Action Man – Is he the kind of man you want to be?
Clement Boland, a former soldier, gives HIP extracts from his dissertation - part of a Designer/Maker course at Hastings College. The idea of war as a competitive game, with overtones…
Bearding Mary: Perseus and Medusa Herstory not History
HIP CLASSICS BY SIMONE WITNEY Medusa is a gorgon, a monster with snakes for hair, whose glance alone will turn you to stone. Perseus is a young Greek who cuts…
Bloomsday1066
Hastings Celebrates James Joyce’s Ulysses. Lucy Brennan Shiel writes. Bloomsday is a secret event that is gradually arriving in towns and cities all over the world. Last year it crept…