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‘Shrouds’ by Robert Sample
Reviewed by Gareth Stevens Robert is a gentle and humble man with a pronounced sense of fun. However this belies the fact that his work is both profound and challenging.…
Songs in Unexpected Places
On Sunday 13th May a small group gathered on the corner of Magdalen Road and St Margaret’s Road. They were met by musician Bev Lee Harling and taken to what…
Opus Theatre launches World Series
Opus Theatre launches its second season of events this June. It is called World Series and unlike the similarly named baseball tournament, this one takes a genuinely global perspective. In…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
BORIS’S JET I’m not referring here to the inept Foreign Secretary’s ability to urinate over high walls, useful though that might be. No, this is something quite different. Boris Johnson…
BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW
May Made Easy: An Oral History of the 1960s Uprising in France By Mitchell Abidor Pluto Press, paperback, available at Bookbuster, £ REVIEW BY TIM BARTON During the 1984 miners’…
Sausage Life
The column firmly aimed at the louche, disaffected bon viveur and the properly bearded man-about-town READER: The Royal Wedding! Did you see it? MYSELF: See it? I was there mate.…
elemental:summer
2 artists, 4 elements, 6 weeks, 8 women. An embodied, ephemeral and experiential exploration of the elements for women through movement, site-specific artworks and meditation. Create a visual memoir of…
Hastings poet nails London rap battle
Chalked Out is a new spoken word battle league where battlers are given time to research and write about their opponent and then invited to deliver the ‘writtens’ in front…
Write on in Hastings – MARCIA WOOLF
Pete Donohue catches up with hastings author Marcia Woolf ahead of the imminent publication of her second novel Woolf confesses to being a late starter. Although she’s ‘always written’, it…
Hastings Creatives Relaunch!
Hastings Creatives launched a new website and email list on Wednesday 9 May with a celebration event at Hastings Arts Forum. Reviewed by Caf Fean Formed in 2002, the online networking…
HIP SHORT STORY – Toilet Ballet By Richard Lewis
I dreamt I won the lottery last night. I was in a public toilet far from home. My tatty trousers half-mast, I was listening to ‘Please Release Me, Let Me…
Hastings Arts Forum – Inclusivity and ambition
Being a working artist can be a very individual and isolated endeavour. The myth of the starving artist in the garret, although somewhat romantic and archaic, is ofttimes the lived…
Sausage Life
The column which looks a bit like Johnny Depp when the light hits it in a certain way READER: What did you make of this year’s Jack in the Green?…
///// REFLECTIONS – H… H… Hello Everyone
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss The Lantern Society opened its doors once again this month to some familiar favourites and welcome newcomers. Over…
Bookbuster Book Review – Poems for Grenfell Tower
Poems for Grenfell Tower Edited by Rip Bulkeley Published by Onslaught Press. Available at Bookbuster, £10 REVIEW BY KAT NIP I’m sure that Theresa May and her government would much…
HIP – LGBT LIT
We want to tell you how… A new anthology of poetry and prose written and edited by gay women features two of Hastings & St Leonards’ most celebrated lesbian print…
Titanic Arts Club
The Titanic Arts Club opens its doors next May Bank holiday for its inaugural art exhibition. Open: Sunday May 27th, Bank Holiday Monday May 28th and Tuesday May 29th from…
Peace, Poetry and Jeremy Birch Trees
It could not have been a better afternoon weather-wise to celebrate the civic life of a much-loved former Labour leader of Hastings Borough Council. Saturday 5th May saw the Peace…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
GRAMMATICA FANATICUS At a time of national educational crises, when under-maintained schools are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit dedicated teaching staff, the government has decided to invest £50 million…
Streets of Battle back for 2018
Streets of Battle returned in April after a team of local producers was granted Arts Council Funding for 2018’s event. The festival brings top-notch street performers and entertainers to public…
March, Sing, Celebrate
100 years of Women’s Suffrage, Julia Mortimer writes Women’s Voice Hastings are planning a rich and varied programme of events to celebrate 100 years since women began to get the…
“Hastings should be proud”
HIP’s Sophie Shaw talks to comedian Mark Thomas & HFS director Naomi Ridley as they prepare to bring their favorite comedians to the De La Warr for an outstanding night…
Children in East Sussex deserve a music service
Ros Donald reports Wooden sounds and smells echoed and deadened. Chairs thumped on worn parquet. ‘Cellos vibrated woodily as their metal spike was quickly deployed. We learned rhythms by beating…
The Cobra Effect
In 2003, Barbera Streisand became very alarmed when an aerial photograph of her Malibu beach home was published on an internet website. Subsequently she unsuccessfully attempted to sue Kenneth Adelman…
HIP READ: Quietly Occupied by Rose Miller
Artist, writer and long-time St Leonards resident Rose Miller has written a first novel set in Normandy under German military occupation in the Second World War. It chronicles the life…
HIP CLASSICS: The Athena Connection
“I wasn’t born of a mother. Apart from being physically female, I identify in every way with the masculine, and with my father.” This might be a line from ‘Lara…
RITE: On this pliant body we slip our WOW!
HIP talks to Florence Peake as she prepares for a performance of RITE: on this pliant body we slip our WOW!, the culmination of a three-year research project centred on…
Caravan of Love
Caravan of Love is the first play I wrote – if one conveniently forgets the real first play that I wrote. Which I do. Because it was awful. But I…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
A Smuggler’s Tale By Andy Clancy Published by Pegasus Imagine you are at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, with Sergeant Major Daniel Sibson and his lifelong friend Corporal…
From the Ashes of the Past
PICTURE: Max Neonlife Monaghan Caliban's Codex is a new monologue by the local writer John Knowles (Toby Belch is Unwell, Hitleria Pizzeria Parts I & II and Time Please), created with…
TOUCHED: Live – Hastings
“Hastings has never seen a line-up like it!” Japhy () Touched: Live takes place in Hastings on 19th May 2018. It will span two venues, Borough Wines and Printworks, featuring…
Face the Music
County proposals for school music cuts go forward despite petition backlash East Sussex Music Service (ESMS), which provides the major proportion of music tuition across the county, is in crisis…
Sausage Life
The column that doesn’t know anything about bigotry, but knows what it doesn’t like READER: Did you have a bet on the name of the Royal baby? MYSELF: I had…
///// REFLECTIONS – And Next Up is…?
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss. This month we welcomed a special guest to the Lantern Society, an old friend of mine, Trent Miller.…
Judith Charron sings Paris! Paris!
Barefoot Opera invites you to an evening with the French classical singer, Judith Charron, at the Music Room in St. Leonards. Thomas Denman reviews. Charron as Amor in Barefoot Opera’s ‘L’Incoronazione…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
WHAT A BOMBER The Tony Blair historical dustbin beckons for Theresa May. Couldn’t the bombing decision have been postponed until parliament reconvened? Or does political expediency trump democracy (no pun…
Creative Conditions
Simone Witney with Sam Kinch and Jon Dunham Mary Beard – a jackal? Throughout Mary Beard’s: ‘Women in Power, a Manifesto’, she represents Ancient Greek myth as proof of a…
Sausage Life
Bird Guano The column which cuts off its nose to spite its face and then complains that it can’t smell the coffee READER: 100 issues! Amazing. Did you get a…
BOOK BUSTER REVIEW – John Cornelius
REVIEW BY PETE DONOHUE Once you know the history of John Cornelius it’s difficult not to hear his poetry in your head, as you read it, with the deadpan wit,…
OPERA SOUTH EAST – Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky
White Rock Theatre, Hastings Friday 20th and Saturday 21st April 2018 This year marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Opera South East, then known as Hastings Opera, first performing at the…