Arts based New Year’s Resolutions
New year, new you – we asked some of the Arts pages’ contributors and pals how they hope to kick off 2019 Sarah Gomes Harris, animator, art director, screenwriter:To draw more with less purpose Gail Borrow, writer, actor, director @ExploreArch:To…
Becky Beasley Tells It Like It Is – Part 2
A three-part interview with Hastings-based Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists 2018 Caf Fean Hastings-based artist Becky Beasley enjoys digging into all aspects of the human experience to inform her creative practice, expressing her discoveries through sculpture, installation and photography.…
Council Pulls Funding For Coastal Currents
After providing core funding of the town’s major arts festival, Coastal Currents, for the past 20 years, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has decided that it can no longer afford to continue in 2019. The festival has been managed by Tina…
V, Fetch Theatre
By John Knowles V is an epic modern poem set in the 1980s written by the highly acclaimed Tony Harrison. The Mary Whitehouse group tried to ban the poem, alongside a host of Tory MPs, due to the use of…
Major Arts Seedbed opens in Three Oaks
By David Burns What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or Henry Davies Driving through the red autumn…
The Arts Forum Grand Bazaar
Hastings Arts Forum Come and help support a much-valued local resource. The Arts Forum is experiencing a big financial crisis and needs help to ensure it continues giving the unique service provided to local artists. Two main fundraising events to…
Drawing Life: The Exhibition
By Julia Mortimer We here at HIP have written before about the Drawing Life project and the benefits it brings to people living with dementia in care homes in the Hastings and Bexhill area. However, those articles have appeared in…
Becky Beasley Tells It Like It Is
A three-part interview with Hastings-based Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists 2018 winner. By Caf Fean Hastings-based artist Becky Beasley enjoys digging into all aspects of the human experience to inform her creative practice. She expresses these discoveries through sculpture, installation…
The Circus is Back in Town
ExploretheArch Christmas show recalls the heyday of the big top. By Andrew Myers The dust has barely settled from experiential theatre company ExploretheArch’s extraordinary sell-out November production, The House of Armistice, and they are already setting up for their Christmas show,…
Sir David Hare at the National
HIP’s Tom Daldry secures an exclusive interview with playwright Sir David Hare in the press office at the National Theatre during the opening run of his latest play On the way to meet Sir David Hare – born in St…