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Sporting Summer: The Season So Far
It's been a mixed summer so far for the town's leading sports teams - some victories, some disappointments, and some wait-and-see. Hastings and Bexhill RFC's rugby players should take pride…
Rising Talent, Showcasing New Work by New Artists by Sally Meakins
Artwork by Helen O'Leary All artists – no matter the variety, musician, actor or visual artist – need that one important break that gives them the opportunity to show what…
Stables at Graze – a new show
Learning French by Anny Evason How does one convey the experience of relating to the environment: the visual and sensory stimuli, an awareness of its history and essential instability? Four…
The “Nearly on the” Beach Concert 2017, Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th July 2017 The Stade Open Space
The “Nearly on the” Beach Concert is now in its 29th year and is all set to once again launch Old Town Carnival Week. The best local bands will…
Hastings Pride Wants You
Artwork by Andre Pejic This year’s Hastings Pride is celebrating the Summer of Love; it’s been 50 years since people donned their flairs, dropped their weapons and celebrated love. It…
Dawn Horse by Nicholas Godsell
'Dawn Horse' is a film, made in Herne Bay about a little known, but significant, local scientific discovery. The film is attracting interest and acclaim around the world. In only…
Foraging: Pepper Dulse
Hastings isn't great for seaweeds. On a scale of one to ten for seaweed foraging, it just about manages a two. The main beach actually scores a minus one, because…
Roast White Fish with Fennel and Olives by Renee Lavin
This is one of our favourite ways to enjoy fish. Back home in Sydney I always use Blue Eye Trevalla or Barramundi, but you can substitute any moist, firm, white-fleshed…
West African Fish Stew by Lynda Murray
This recipe has been passed down my Guyanese family for several generations. It has 5 ingredients plus coarse sea salt and olive oil, nothing more and certainly nothing less. This…
Vegan Hastings- Ahead of the curve by Georgie Drake
It’s not exactly news that Veganism is on the rise. With over 542,000 people now following a vegan diet in the UK, that’s a 300% increase in the last…
Something Fishy by Ken Maitland
It’s time for the annual Midsummer Fish Festival here in Hastings, so what sort of wine should we be looking for to bring out the best in the catch? The…
Indoor Courts For Rye? Play Continues
Most tennis clubs, not just locally but up and down the country, have long abandoned grass for a variety of all-weather artificial surfaces. Exceptionally Rother Meads Tennis and Games Club…
Jeremy Rallies Hastings (Whilst Amber Goes To the Dogs)
By Pete Donohue It came as little surprise that Jeremy Corbyn chose Hastings to launch a series of campaigning rallies around the country in preparation for the next General Election.…
Public Notices – 23 June 2017
PLANNING APPLICATIONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following applications have been received by Hastings Borough Council:- Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (As Amended) The Town and Country Planning…
Opus: A new venue for Hastings
Polo Piatti at the Opus Theatre ⓒ Peter Mould With the widely-anticipated Opus Theatre on the verge of opening in Hastings, HIP interviews British-Argentinian composer Polo Piatti, the driving force behind…
Claudia De Grandi by Sarah J Lloyd
Claudia De Grandi's show at Graze gallery is concerned with the dynamic spaces between abstraction and expression, description and presence, looking at and feeling interconnected. From Sao Paulo in…
St Leonards Festival is coming, Emma O’Rourke, one of the festival organisers, outlines their plans
This year’s festival will take place on Friday 30th June (evening only) and Saturday 1st July (all day), with an electric line-up of not to be missed acts and entertainment!…
Three Inch Fools – Romeo and Juliet reviewed by Martin Allen
Three Inch Fools perform Romeo and Juliette on Hastings Pier Five Stars ***** 'For never before have I loved a show More than this, of Juliet and her Romeo' Hastings…
HIP bookshops
Bookshops with a novel approach by Kate Barnwell It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone in pursuit of a good book must be in want of a good…
TRANSCENDENTAL TRANQUILITY : DIRK ROSEPORT at GRAZE GALLERY interviewed by Sarah J Lloyd
Transcendental Tranquility by Dirk Roseport SJL: Dirk, can I ask you to say something first about whats important to you as an artist, and what you'd like people to know…
Sporting Twins: Orwell Got It Wrong
In November 1945, a few months after the end of World War II, the Dynamo Moscow football team were invited to make a supposedly goodwill tour of Britain. The Russians,…
In Vino Veritas? By Ken Maitland
No doubt most of you are by now tired of reading about politics and are currently either celebrating success, drowning sorrows or, like me, soberly wondering what on earth the…
The Reluctant Vegetarian
The sun is out, the BBQ is on and I’m being strong-armed into drinking fizzy alcoholic drinks. Well … that’s if ‘strong-arming’ now means being absolutely delighted at the sight…
The RH Experience by Judy Parkinson
L to R, Dan Attfield, Conor Jatter, Luke Spillane, Tom Webster, Pic Rebecca Need-Menear Judy Parkinson spoke to Conor Jatter, one quarter of the RH Experience “ We're a comedy…
Go back in time with Hastings Pier open air concerts: Boyzone and Ocean Colour Scene
Madness on Hastings Pier, 2016, pic George Palmer On Friday 25th August, Irish pop legends Boyzone will tread the boards of the Pier. Twenty-four years together with twenty-five million record…
It Is What It Is by Charley Bolding-Smith
Review of ‘Jean Cooke: Delight in the Thing Seen’ at the Jerwood Gallery Many readers of this article may not be familiar with the work of Jean Cooke (well, at…
Hastings Comedy Fringe : ‘The best small fringe in the country’
As Old Town gears up for the second annual Hastings Comedy Fringe Festival, HIP talks to the founders, Chris Young and Jake Alexander, about the festival’s origins, how it’s already…
Swimming More Like Fish
At the Moscow Olympics in 1980 Duncan Goodhew won the 100 metres breast stroke in a time of 1 minute seconds. Twenty-two years later his feat was included in Channel…
Hastings Seagull Club: Talent and Dedication
At am on a Thursday morning - every Thursday morning - over 30 local swimmers, mostly teenagers but many considerably younger, will start their competition training session at the Battle…
Don’t Frack with Sussex by Janey Moffatt
Don't Frack with Sussex funeral for fossil fuels, pic Zeroh Janey Moffatt describes the recent funeral for fossil fuels As Dad to two small children, my husband Mike has become…
JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL RETURNS Colin Gibson
Tony O'Malley and Mike Raxworthy Friday June 2nd sees the welcome return of The Hastings Winkle Club Jazz and Blues Festival at The Stade, which continues until Sunday June 4th.…
Compromised Perceptions, by Thomas Denman
Work by Annie Rae (left) and John Cole (right) This three-artist exhibition invites us to contemplate the value and fragility of our nervous system—the normal functioning of which many of…
Highly Inflammable – Poly Styrene in Hastings, by Cheryl White
Marianne Elliot-Said, AKA Poly Styrene by artist Paul Quinnell A play inspired by Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex is coming to St Mary in the Castle in June. Here Cheryl…
No Promotion – But ‘U’s Board Backs Players
Simon Johnson - contract renewed for 2017-18 ; pic Scott White So the bravura season of goals and more goals ended short of its promotion target. Agonising…
Long Live Danny Pockets by Thomas Bartlett
House of Pies by Danny Pockets Artist Danny Pockets’ latest exhibition at the blackShed gallery comes in the midst of a hard -fought battle with pancreatic cancer. Thomas Bartlett, fellow…
Rasheed Araeen artwork, proudly made in Hastings by Caf Fean
Phil Holden arranging Araeens fabricated cubes_ Rasheed Araeen is a London-based artist of Pakistani origin. His works are shown across the globe exploring the idea of ‘Art as a process…
Hastings Arts Forum’s ‘Rising Talent’ initiative provides a launch pad for new artists Charlotte Morris
Charlotte Morris talks to Sally Meakins I am a beneficiary of the first step of an initiative called ‘Rising Talent’. Last year I responded to an invitation to submit work…
Being Curious about Rachel by Charley Bolding-Smith
Occasionally – it doesn’t happen often – one comes across a ‘local artist’ whose technique and execution seem, even to the untrained eye, to transcend that label. Rachel Glittenberg, whose…
WRITE ON IN HASTINGS – Miranda Innes
Local author Miranda Innes tells HIP Literature editor Pete Donohue of her adventurous writing journeys and how she has ended up in St Leonards: I have written twenty books, four…
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.…