Power and Elegance as Stables Studios Adapts
The Stables Studio newsletter has adapted to the lockdown with all the grace and imagination that is characteristic of everything that the artists at Fairlight do. Photographs of them at work in their beautiful environment where town recedes and earth…
Silly Squad
Summer reading challenge for 4 to 11 year olds By Karen Bowls (ESCC) Young readers in East Sussex are being encouraged to join the Silly Squad for a summer of reading fun. A team of adventurous animals who love to…
The Hastings Arts Forum
Onwards and Upwards after Lockdown The Hastings Arts Forum was, like so many galleries, sadly forced to close its doors during the recent lockdown. In addition to the latter, the Arts Forum was also put in the unenviable position, of…
Hastings Musicians
A Lockdown Photo Project With months of live gigs and festivals cancelled, Hastings live music photographer Sara-Louise Bowrey has built a portfolio of portraits capturing the local music community in lockdown. Bowrey has over 20 years’ experience taking pictures of…
Does England’s Creative Coast Care About Racism?
The answer turned out to be an interesting balance of possibly and, well, no, not very much. I picked the organisation known as “England’s Creative Coast” as a sample rather than looking over Hastings’ galleries, because ECC says things like:…
Calling all BAME writers and artists
Submit to a new literary magazine By Rowena Price Writing Our Legacy is delighted to announce its new online literary programme, New Narratives: We Need to Change the Stories We’re Telling. Designed in response to the Covid-19 lockdown, Brighton-based organisation…
Online Art Shows Worth a Look
Tempo Arts Tempo Artsis delighted to be working with five international artists to present Your Place, a new digital online project which offers perspectives during the lockdown and beyond. Your Place launches in July and continues through November 2020 featuring…
The Alchemy of Unconscious Drives
By Gareth Stevens “Art is concerned with integrity, inner and outer … the resolution, at least symbolically, of the deep conflicts that occur in a creature condemned to inhabit two worlds at once, the natural and the symbolic.” Roger Woods It…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Resist the Punitive State Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and PrisonsEdited by Emily Luise Hart, Joe Greener and Rich MothPublished by Pluto Books, November 2019, paperback £ Review by Tim Barton From Keynesian mixed economy capitalism to the ultra-hard…
Everyman or No Man
Gareth Stevens speaks with theatre producer, writer, director and actor John Knowles. John and I meet on an under-promenade bench framed by a white arch that somehow seems perfectly designed for risk-assessed social distancing. You may not be aware of…