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Solaris Print – Right Place, Right Time
Artist and fine art printer Alexandra Drawbridge has been operating Solaris Print from a shop on Norman Road since last August, and her accompanying exhibition space has brought the town…
Hastings Beatles Day In Pictures
Pete Prescott / Cliff Brooker Berforts Ltd, hardback, rrp £ Reviewed by TIM BARTON Sunday April 8th was Hastings Beatles Day, our annual celebration of The Beatles music. This year…
Poetry corner 100
local media gets hip PETE DONOHUE the day local media got hip was born out of disillusion with what a small group of us saw as blatant misrepresentation of tight-knit…
Sea, Sun and Classical Music
HIP talks to violinist Jane Gordon on what it has been like to move to St. Leonards and set up a new festival here one year on. PICTURE: Ben Borley…
Sausage Life
The column which, although it disapproves of what you say, defends to the death its right to punch you in the face. READER: I really can’t believe this Brexit thing…
Crowlianity – The Second Instalment
Richard Thomas No, it’s not 2018. It is the year 114. According to the calendar of Aleister Crowley, the ‘wickedest man in the world’, whose last years were spent in…
Politikal Pokes by Lobbytroll
L’ODEUR DU POISSON Some prominent Brexiteers (the usual bunch of half-baked stirrers as it happens) are now flapping about like floundering cod over the latest EU fishing quota news. Unsurprisingly,…
Bookbuster Book Review
What We Are Fighting For: A Radical Collective Manifesto Edited by Federico Campagna & Emanuele Campiglio Pluto Press, hardback, rrp £, Bookbuster price £ REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Compiled after…
LOCAL LITERARY HISTORY – Lewis Carroll
By GILLIAN METCALFE Who does not remember Jabberwocky, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, and the Mock Turtle? Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was, and still is, held in great…
Brandalism Comes to Hastings
On a billboard at the corner of Mount Pleasant Rd and Manor Rd is a monochrome image of a young woman cleaning a toilet. ‘Saint Shelley’ is the only text.…
Have Your Say in a new ‘People’s Opera’
Barefoot Opera is developing on an ambitious new ‘people’s opera’ called A Town. It is based on the lives and stories of people living on the South Coast in the…
New Chair for Hastings and Rother Cultural Leaders Group
Liz Gilmore, director of Jerwood Gallery has taken up the post of chair of the Hastings and Rother Cultural Leaders group. Paul Barnett, Liz Gilmore, Cllr Kim Forward, Cllr Peter…
Royal Delicacies
ADVERTORIAL Last November Jez Smith opened Queens Deli on Queens Road. Here’s what he has to say about his business and the area. Why a Deli ? I was brought…
Art on the Allotment
Rod Webb Residents of Hastings and St Leonards might be aware of the abundance of artists, musicians and other creatives in the town, but perhaps less sure of how they…
The Fringes are Back
Two Fringe Festivals return to Hastings – Hastings Fringe Comedy Festival, between June 13th and 17th, and Hastings Fringe Festival, throughout July. An explosion of laughter is promised from the…
AXIS: LONDON MILANO
By Judy Parkinson It was with some intrigue that St Leonard’s based artist Alan Rankle opened an invitation from Andrea Vento, former Director of Culture in the city of Milan,…
Festival 15
Dave Young meets Matthew Burrows – curator of the forthcoming Hastings Art Forum anniversary exhibition “A contemporary painting show, to demonstrate the work of significant artists living or connected to…
HIP CLASSICS – Art and Alchemy
If you had to invent a god of art, you could scarcely do better than the Greeks did in creating Hephaistos. It’s easy to identify with his story. He is…
Emmaus – Treasure Trove and Nirvana for the Homeless
Miranda Innes People come to Emmaus from far and wide, hunting for treasure among the miscellany of vintage, antique and up-cycled furniture and bric-a-brac. The warehouse in Whitworth Road, near…
Vincent Lines
By Anna King On 22nd April 50 years ago, Vincent Lines, Hastings resident, artist and former Principal of the School of Art, died. The anniversary is being marked by an…
It Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song?
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss The Lanterns seemed that much brighter this month, as did the sense of society, as a select crew…
Write on in Hastings – Andy Clancy
Local author and retired police officer Andy Clancy has always been a fan of historical fiction. His first novel Sullivan’s War became an amazon best-seller with a raft of 5-star reviews. Now he…
Jumble Sale & Daytime Rave!!
A local group of creatives, including artists, designers, DJs, poets, activists and fashion designers, are hosting a jumble sale and daytime rave on Good Friday at Mercatoria Business Centre Studios. You…
Danny Pockets: 5.11.64-12.3.18
Heartbreakingly, Hastings and St Leonards’ art community last week lost one of its favourite and most inspiring lights, Danny Pockets, to cancer. By Andy Fyfe A driving force of East London’s…
Bookbuster Book Review – Turbulent Sisters
Turbulent Sisters: Women’s Fight for the Vote in Hastings & St Leonards By Ann Kramer Circaidy Gregory Press paperback, RRP £, available at Bookbuster REVIEW BY KAT NIP Women today…
The Beast of Hastings – Aleister Crowley #1
Crowley in Ceremonial Dress Richard Thomas ‘The Wickedest Man in the World’, as the press called him, died in Hastings in 1947. There are people living locally who believe an…
Jerwood To Take Part in Nationwide PROCESSION
This June a major, nationwide, mass-participation artwork will celebrate 100 years since some women gained the right to vote, and Hastings and St Leonards will be represented. The Jerwood Gallery…
Write on in Hastings: Joan Taylor-Rowan
HIP literary editor Pete Donohue catches up with local author and creative writing course provider Joan to get her story When I was eight years old, I discovered that my…
Danny Pockets and Shuby at the St Leonards
Celebrated artists Danny Pockets and Shuby have worked together at the Artist Led Collective Compendium Studios in St Leonards for six years. A new exhibition at The St Leonards on…
HIP READ: Getting Headway
Enigmatic in title and content, Headway, the first novel by Kit Battenberg is many things An existential novel addressing – sometimes aggressively confronting - the human condition, whilst gesticulating dramatically…
Rebecca E Marshall – Fever of the Light
S J Lloyd Rebecca Marshall’s new installation at blackShed gallery is a thoughtfully layered piece that situates us between three simultaneous screens. One frames a hermit living alone deep in…
BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW
Struggle in a Time of Crisis Edited by Nicolas Pons-Vignon & Mbuso Nkosi Pluto Press, paperback, rrp £, REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Rooting the current crisis in the financial &…
Siberian weather suits Russian piano winner
Julian Norridge reports The snow, ice and freezing east wind flaying the outside of the White Rock Theatre last weekend found suitable echo inside the auditorium as this year’s Hastings International…
A Vehicle for Change?
L to R: Paul McGann, Paul Moriarty, Andy Roberts, Dorian Healy, Beverley Martin, Richard Oriel, Peter Løvstrøm, Antonia Bird, Robin Hayter, Malcolm Heywood PICTURE: Ravi juneja Actor and Independent filmmaker…
Giovanna Del Sarto and Bern O’Donoghue Present Another Crossing
Another Crossing by Giovanna Del Sarto Wednesday 28th February at Hastings Debates (Hastings Community of Sanctuary), The Printworks, Claremont, Hastings BY FELICITY LAURENCE Another Crossing is a collaborative artistic venture…
Achilles and Patroklos – Gay or ‘Just’ Close Friends?
HIP CLASSICS Achilles & Patroklus; Painted by Sosias c500 BCE Show me a conflict and I’ll show you a fence to sit on, though I like to think it’s a…
///// REFLECTIONS – Honesty is the Best Policy
A new monthly column, reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club BY TREVOR MOSS February’s exceptional edition of The Lantern Society saw one accomplished performer after another gracing…
HIP READ: Sussex Horrors
HIP READ Sussex Horrors By Jonathan Broughton, Mark Cassell & Rayne Hall Three Sussex authors…twelve horror stories. Long term Hastings resident Jonathan Broughton writes fantasy, horror, paranormal and urban stories. Two…
Oska Lappin’s Scary Vision of America
The American Scream By Oska Lappin If you visited Oska Lappin’s open studio during Coastal Currents last September, you will be familiar with the splashy and expressive red white and…
New Hastings-based Theatre Company Debuts with Hamlet
TOM DALDRY of Theatre Nation tells HIP about this production Patrick Kealey (Artistic Director) and myself (Writer/Producer) initiated Theatre Nation last summer. A(nother) theatre company, a local one; one that…