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Coastal Currents Goes Out of Season To Bring a Special Piece of Art to Silverhill by Tina Morris
Now seemingly a year-round venture, with new owner, Tina Morris, at the helm, Coastal Currents is still making the headlines. Here, she discusses a missing piece of the 2017 programme…
Teaming Up
Charlie McConnell in action with Hellbent For those who have never played nor taken any but passing interest in the game - most males in this…
Play It Again, Sam
The talents needed to succeed as a footballer are various: ball control, power and accuracy of passing and shooting, aerial ability, courage and tenacity in defending, speed of both thought…
Doing It For Charity
Run a half-marathon, climb a well-known mountain, cycle a long distance route. A lot of people will assume you're doing it for charity, or ought to be. From a charity's…
Letters I Haven’t Written
LETTERS I HAVEN’T WRITTEN Gwyneth Herbert Kino Teatr, Norman Rd Nov 29th St Leonards' Kino Teatr was lucky enough to be one of the hand-picked venues for a preview of…
It’s Halloween in Hastings and That Means Voodoo Fest! by Mark Curry
From the team that bring the town Fat Tuesday, this end of season event for Hastings is always on Halloween, always has amazing costumes, always features a parade with a…
The Rise of Independent Theatre
Hitleria Pizzaria Part I Sophie Shaw talks to John Knowles about how the independent theatre scene is on the rise in Hastings and St Leonards in advance of his latest…
Morgan Creative Bring Philip McDonagh’s Crime and Punishment to Kino-teatr, 1–5 November 2017.
Morgan Creative Preview by Simone Witney Everything points to this being a hugely exciting performance. Luke Morgan reads Crime and Punishment every January and his passion is clearly shared by…
Early Music Festival
Rautio Piano Trio, from left Jane Gordon, Victoria Simonsen and Jan Rautio Sophie Shaw talks to Jane Gordon as she launches Hastings Early Music Festival ‘We’re talking about historically informed…
L’incoronazione di Poppea, St Mary in the Castle by Thomas Denman
Judith Charron, Sara Parker, Lucilla Graham in rehearsal Barefoot Opera – Hastings and St Leonards’ very own opera company – for one night only, at St Mary in the Castle,…
LETTERS I HAVEN’T WRITTEN, Gwyneth Herbert at The Kino Teatr Nov 29th
reviewed by Colin Gibson St Leonards' Kino Teatr was lucky enough to be one of the hand-picked venues for a preview of Letters I Haven’t Written, the brand new…
Wind-Blown H & B Stay Realistic
Three years ago Hastings & Bexhill suffered a chastening winter in the London and South-East League, suffering regular wallopings from teams that were bigger, quicker and more experienced than them.…
Battlers of Hastings
Hastings United ended a winless sequence of seven league and cup games last Tuesday (3 October) by upsetting Carshalton Athletic, previously unbeaten in the Bostik League. The 2-0 scoreline at…
Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti – Stage Left Project’s First Major Production by Tom Clarkson from Stage Left Project
This month sees our new Hastings-based theatre company, Stage Left Project, present a live performance of Leonard Bernstein’s one-act opera, Trouble in Tahiti, at the Kino Teatr, before we embark…
Hastings Burlesque – Debuts, Empowerment and Boosting Self-Esteem
Mark Curry catches up with Alotta Piernas (aka Izzy Crouch), founder of Hastings Burlesque which made its debut at the White Rock Theatre, 23 September 2017 How did your debut…
Burning Bright: Gibson-Cowan’s Fearful Symmetry at the blackShed Gallery by Julia Mortimer
Ben Gibson-Cowan’s stunning photographic exhibition not only reveals to us a world of symmetry, but also allows us to see how it changes when our physical surroundings are viewed from…
Uncertain Start For New ‘U’s Boss Agutter
Hastings United's uncertain start to the new football season lurched into apparent crisis last week with the exit of further key players, resignation of manager Adam Hinshelwood after a tenure…
Plan B: Kids United?
It was on Match of the Day in August 1995 that Alan Hansen made his famous assessment - “You can't win anything with kids”. He was commenting on an early…
Emma Harwood at The Palace
Reviewed by Angelica Campion The refurbished Palace public house at the America Ground on Hastings seafront has a large parlour in the back where they have Americana nights reflecting the…
An Unhealthy Industry
AN UNHEALTHY INDUSTRY As reported, there is currently a campaign to stop the National Health Service being undermined - to the obvious probable detriment of people’s individual health. A large…
Energy hub initiative takes off
Energy hub initiative takes off The latest steering group meeting for 1066 Local Energy was sparking with ideas, initiatives and connections with one idea in particular evolving from vision to…
Roland Jarvis, an Artist at Play – Coastal Currents Open Studio by A. Vasudevan, The Literary Shed
Japanese Golfer by Roland Jarvis The late Anglo–French artist Roland Jarvis considered art ‘play’ not work. ‘Play gives you a tremendous amount of freedom,’ he said. An artist, printmaker, filmmaker,…
Everything Comes from the Egg: Stephen Turner at the Jerwood by A. Vasudevan, The Literary Shed
The Exbury Egg in situ at the Jerwood Gallery The Exbury Egg is a thing of beauty and, after a somewhat epic journey along Britain’s highways, byways and waterways, it…
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Reoccurring Undulation VI Interviewed by Thomas Denman
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva in front of her installation for Coastal Currents Nothing could be more fitting to the name and location of the Coastal Currents Arts Festival than Reoccurring Undulation…
Rowe Sees Red, United Battle In Vain
Forget the goal-fests of last season, the 4-4 draws, the seat-of-pants defending. Hastings United would settle for half the excitement in the current league campaign provided that it ends successfully…
Pete & the Poets
Speaking Out for the Homeless at the Hastings Fringe Pete Donohue HIP Literature is pleased to both support and be part of Hastings Fringe 2017. On Sunday 3 September 7-10…
Artists Recommend Open Studios: Lorna Crabb
With Coastal Currents’ Open Studios featuring so much to see, HIP has enlisted three local artists to help navigate the delights on offer. Lorna Crabbe, Sarah Lloyd and Alan Rankle…
Artists Recommend Open Studios: Sarah Lloyd
With Coastal Currents’ Open Studios featuring so much to see, HIP has enlisted three local artists to help navigate the delights on offer. Lorna Crabbe, Sarah Lloyd and Alan Rankle…
It Must be Love, Suggs answers questions on Our House and Hastings:
Suggs, James Tobias (actor) and Tim Firth (play write). Photo by The Umbrella Rooms Ahead of the arrival in Hastings (for one week only) of the Laurence Olivier Award-winning musical,…
Artists Recommend Open Studios: Alan Rankle
With Coastal Currents’ Open Studios featuring so much to see, HIP has enlisted three local artists to help navigate the delights on offer. Lorna Crabbe, Sarah Lloyd and Alan Rankle…
Sarah Lloyd interviews Rebecca Youssefi
Rebecca Youssefi, 'Infinity', 2017, oil and spray paint on canvas Rebecca Youssefi's new exhibition 'Origin' at Source Park opening 2nd September, from , is a selection of paintings and a…
The Imaginary becomes Real – In the Light of Surrealism #2 and Inverse Reflection A. Vasudevan, The Literary Shed
Hair Receiver by Jane Hoodless In the Light of Surrealism #2 and Inverse Reflection, the two exhibitions opening at the Arts Forum this week, draw, consciously or unconsciously, on tenets…
The House of the Man Who Painted the Sea by Hugh Byrant
The production I saw is on Friday is by 'Explore the Arch'. I had to look up 'arch' in my old dictionary. Arch : chief, accomplished, shrewd, pre-eminent, especially in…
Joan, Babs and Shelagh too, A tribute to Joan Littlewoo
Gemskii in character in front of Littlewood's statue HIP talks to Gemskii, the one-woman force behind Conscious Theatre and Glenys Jacques of Electric Palace about this production, coming soon…
Mind Over Matter: Hastings Tennis Coach Pete Farthing Goes Mental
Peter Farthing is a professional hypnotherapist, trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and advanced coaching skills. He offers solutions to problems such as anxiety, addiction, stammering, fear of flying and other…
Jada Prepares For Wimbledon Finals
Hastings tennis junior Jada Ani, 13, was attending the Costa Del Tennis camp sessions in Barcelona last week after qualifying to play in the finals of the HSBC Road to…
Hastings Open – 100 Not Out
It was in September 1911 that the first formal Hastings Bowls Tournament was contested. It was then known as the Hastings and St Leonards Bowls and Quoits Tournament and took…
Kicking off a bumper August for performance
Catch the next issue of HIP for a round up of the many interesting and unusual shows on offer in Hastings and St Leonards throughout August. Don’t miss out on…
Sporting Summer: Holiday Fare
We report elsewhere on the town's present sporting harvest at adult level. But with schools out until September, summer is also the time for junior sporting seeds to be sown…