Mew Welch: Pot star
By Gareth Stevens Many of our best loved music icons came to us via Art schools, but it is less usual that successful musicians find fresh passion for the visual arts later on in their ; So who is Mew?…
ARTS DIARY
Black Magik Black Magik Fest is a new arts festival in St Leonards celebrating what it means to be Black and British. It’s devised and curated by resident Jack Kennedy who says: “Alongside an amazing line-up of artists we will…
Bunker Girls at the Stables
The Stables Theatre recently staged Bunker Girls – set in Berlin in 1945. Francis Saunders watched the opening and closing performances on Wednesday 19th and Saturday 22nd ; This was the first time I’d visited the theatre since the pandemic…
HIP READ
The Rare Metals War By Guillaume PitronPublished by Scribe, paperback 288pp, RRP £ Review by Nick Pelling In the future we will all glide silently in our self-driving electric cars and step out into the renewable sun and breathe…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Oil Be Damned: Part OneCrude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation By James Marriott & Terry MacalisterPublished by Pluto, 2021 Review by Tim Barton The borough I went to school in, Castle Point in Essex, voted a shade over 72%…
INTERVIEW
Lost and Found The curator of the new Hastings Contemporary exhibition speaks toKent Barker. “I was open-mouthed in wonder” James Russell told HIP. This was the moment he first laid eyes on the ‘lost’ Ravilious, Mackerel Sky. To be brutally…
HIP REVIEW
Let me be beside the seaside Kent Barker reviews the summer exhibition at the Hastings Contemporary Does anyone NOT have vivid childhood memories of visits to the beach? Images stuck fast – sand and sea, sun and skies, buckets and…
Old Town Outdoor Photo Gallery
More than forty of Hastings Old Town’s shop and bar owners are being celebrated as part of an ‘outdoor gallery’, which has just been unveiled in George Street. The portraits were shot by Sara-Louise Bowrey, a photographer who normally spends…
Semaphore: Sending out an SOS
On 17th May Hastings celebrated the relaxation of Lockdownwith its first large live event, Semaphore, a site-specific blend of live and digital, of sound, light, fire and performance on the beach. A sequence of seven choreographed performances wove together sound…
INTERVIEW
Carol Prior’s All Choired Up By Caf Fean Monday June 7th brought in a new high note to Hastings’ LGBTQ+ folk, heralding the first in-person meeting of All Choired Up, a community formed online during the first lockdown thanks to…