Robinson Crusoe Announced As Festival Book For #ATownExploresABook19
Almost three hundred years to the day after it was first published on 25th April 1719, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe will feature as the chosen text for A Town Explores A Book, the St Leonards based festival gearing up for…
Painting from the soul
An interview with Khadija Khan by Caf Fean ‘When words cannot express’ is the strapline for Khadija Khan’s first exhibition of her paintings in honour of her beloved partner in life, Bradford C Gross, who died in November 2017 of…
NOVEMBER: Arts News In Brief
Hastings is bursting at the seams with inspiring and offbeat cultural events. Hard to keep up with it all! Here is a round-up of some of the best recent offerings: • The Hastings Philharmonic’s 2018-19 season of concerts is well…
/////REFLECTIONS: Another depressing one
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss The clocks went back only a few nights before this month’s Lantern Society, so by the time the clock struck eight and we were due to start, The…
Billy Chainsaw Rips It Up At See Spray
By Tina Morris Big things are afoot artistically on the Queens Road, in fact, the Queens Road is so up-and -coming, it is hitting you square in the face, especially with this new show by Billy Chainsaw. See Spray Gallery…
Hastings Fat Tuesday Winners!
Our hearty congratulations to Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival for winning Event of the Year 2018 in the Celebration of Sussex Life Awards. Hailed as Hastings’ answer to SXSW in Texas. Hastings Fat Tuesday is one of the jewels in…
New Artwork Brings Lost Landmarks Back To Life
By Andrew Myers I am stumbling around my flat with my headphones on, pointing my iPad at a postcard. The cats don’t seem impressed, but they don’t know that what I am actually doing is time-travelling through local history, thanks…
Interactive audience influenced digital mayhem
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 11th November OUTLANDS PRESENTS DRIFT FT. KYOKA / GRISCHA LICHTENBERGER / YTAC By Tina Morris November 11th brings another of the cutting edge OUTLANDS events to the De La Warr Pavilion. If you have missed…
Power and Danger
David Francis reviews Nigel Green’s Dungeness Power Station Photographs at The Printworks Nigel Green’s photographs are every bit as quietly powerful as their subject. Cold, bright colour images of vast cathedral spaces, utilitarian grey panels, dials, switches, arc lights, arcane inscriptions…
Hastings Steels the Show
Mark Steel is back in town. This time he’s coming to Hastings. Mark Steel, St Mary in the Castle, Wed 10th October Review by Andrew Myers The BBC are coming to town! We’re going to be on telly! What’s that…