The AltPitch Platform
Part of the New Arts and Technology Festival coming to Hastings From the 18th to the end of March, AltPitch Arts and Technology Festival will explore the human aspect of technology, the relationship between the digital world and humanity, and…
Wunderkammer: Hastings’ Curiosities
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery’s exciting new exhibition continues into ; Wunderkammer brings together nearly 300 outstanding objects from the depths of the museum’s stores. The exhibition includes marvellous natural history specimens, ancient archaeological artefacts, local and social history objects…
Anne Ryan: Earthly Delites
This January, the Hastings Contemporary will hold the first major UK exhibition of work by Irish artist Anne Ryan. The show will be leading the gallery’s ambitious 2020 exhibitions programme, and feature alongside a retrospective of rarely seen work by…
HIP LIT NEWS – VOICE
Annual writing competition for children in care and young care leavers. Get published by a UK charity and/or in HIP. By Aneela Mahmood Coram Voice is excited to announce the return of Voices, the annual writing competition for children in…
Hastings Fat Tuesday Announce The First 50 Bands
Hastings Fat Tuesday can now announce the first 50 acts to play this year’s festival, already representing the most diverse line up in the event’s history. From Friday night’s indie pop headliner Baxter Dury and local heroes Kid Kapichi, to…
The Fringes Join Forces
A month of independent entertainment returns to Hastings this Summer with Hastings Fringe Comedy Festival (HFCF) which runs from 10th – 14th June, and Hastings Fringe Festival in June and ; The Comedy Fringe team will bring the best of…
Call for Entries: Hastings Open 2020
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is seeking visual artists and makers to enter its new open call exhibition: Hastings Open ; Hastings Open 2020 is an opportunity for UK and international visual artists working in the following artistic medias: painting,…
#Acoubomb – Round TWO!
By Andrew Myers HASTINGS Based Sax Legend Jason Yarde needs your help! Acoutastic Bombastic is a thirteen piece band of some of the top improvisers in the UK – all multi-instrumentalists. Exciting, cutting-edge music that deserves to be heard. I…
London Mozart Players Kick Off Opus Theatre Residency In Triumphant Style
Saturday 30th November Review by Andrew Myers @twoblackcats11 HIP readers don’t need me to tell them that there’s no shortage of outstanding home grown music talent on offer in Hastings. That said, the London Mozart Players (LMP) debut concert at…
Face Facts
Merlin Betts reviews a show of portraits at See Spray Gallery, Queens ; We’ve talked about Queens Road in HIP before. Like Kings Road in St Leonards it’s a unique take on the traditional High Street. A mix of thriving…