Just Do It!
Local film actor, writer and director Francis Saunders tells HIP about his extraordinary career which has included being a professional MMA – Mixed Martial Arts – fighter. And he offers some advice to aspiring movie-makers. HIP: Can you tell me…
HIP LIT NEWS
YOUNG WRITERS’ GROUP RELAUNCHES The Hastings Young Writers group is relaunching on 27th September and has places for new members. After having been unable to meet because of Covid, the group now has a new programme of events. It meets…
New Bohemians
Currently showing at the Hastings Arts forum is an exhibition running under the title New Bohemians. Photographer/Curator Ian O’Leary explains the thinking behind it. I’ve put together this exhibition that involves over 30 local creatives, artists, actors, and artisans that…
Un-Fairly Killed
Kent Barker looks at a new arts project celebrating Hastings’ historic Rock Fair. Imagine yourself standing by the fountain on Hastings’ Trinity Triangle. To your right, down Trinity Street, is the library in the stately Brassey Institute. South-west, along Robertson…
REVIEW: More than Revolting Children
White Rock Theatre’s Summer Youth Project returned last month for the first time since 2019 with ‘Matilda the Musical Jr.’ Ben Cornwell watched the opening night. I know Roald Dahl’s Matilda like the back of my hand. It is a…
Branching Out
Hastings Artist Sophie Shaw previews a major new exhibition in St Leonards to which she is also a contributing artist. Her company The House of Cultural Curiosity has also helped organise the exhibition which was curated by Colin Booth, director…
Small is Beautiful
Martin Bradshaw, Coordinator at Hastings Arts Forum explains the background to their latest exhibition at The Gallery in St Leonards’ Marine Court. It is said by some, that all good things come in small packages –and this can certainly be…
Bernard McGuigan: Sculptor
Aged 14, Bernard McGuigan accompanied his art student brother to his first art exhibition and had a ‘light-bulb moment’ when he saw some Modigliani sculptures – as a “poor working-class boy from a council estate”, fine art wasn’t part of…
New Gallery in St Leonards: Big Yin
By Amanda Knight Number one sign of a healthy exhibition preview: ‘ducking and diving’. Yes, the elbow-driven art of nudging and peering between heads and shoulders to get a glimpse of the paintings! So it was with the opening night…
FILM REVIEW
First Cow Review by Jamie Sellers What springs to mind when you think of buddy movies? The Odd Couple? Butch and Sundance? Thelma and Louise? Maybe one of those modern Hollywood comedies where Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell or Owen Wilson…