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Agatha! A Continuing Inspiration
VICTORIA KINGHAM at the Stables Gallery As far as one can tell, Agatha Christie never lived ; Among other exotic locations, she lived variously in Devon, Oxfordshire, Cheshire, Egypt, and…
A Sense of Place
GARETH STEVENS talks to painter James MacKinnon Courtesy of the artist At times, the best visual artists I get to know are not always especially articulate about what they are…
Hastings Contemporary Director Leaves for Dorset
VICTORIA KINGHAM The Director of Hastings Contemporary is leaving to take up the post of Chief Executive Officer at The Sherborne in ; Liz Gilmore was the founding Director of…
An Operatic Salon for the Modern Age
VICTORIA KINGHAM The derivation of the word ‘opera’ is from the Latin opus – work, artwork, creation, realisation. This is indeed what local inspired company, Barefoot Opera, continue to achieve.…
Art, Angles, Adventure
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to photographer and documentary filmmaker Rod Morris Photohastings is a loose collective – a network of photographers who exhibit together and jointly publish their work. Supporting each…
Sweating, Rocking, Tender Moments
JUDE MONTAGUE Amy Rigby, US singer-songwriter, visits Hastings for her first ever local gig with husband and sometime-duo partner, Wreckless Eric. Eric (Goulden) is local, from Peacehaven. Amy was raised…
Sometimes it’s Nice to Be In Danger, With Friends
MERLIN BETTS gets in Harm’s Way Below the cliffs beyond Rock-A-Nore, it’s late afternoon and a boulder tumbles down the hillside, rolling into the sea. There are three people walking…
Get Rich or Try Sharing
MERLIN BETTS About four years ago, as the covid pandemic was spreading its wings, people started seeing eggs. On walls, on bridges, prominently displayed in locations across London and the…
Killer Herbs
EMILY HUMPHRIES at Hastings Museum Photo: JuanXanthe Gresham Knight as Medusa During the Hastings Storytelling Festival I treated myself to a spellbinding performance, Plants that Kill or Cure, at the…
Billy Childish Album Launch
ROD WEBB Hot on the heels of Sister Suzie’s Preview Album launch at the Henry Ward Hall (See HIP Issue 263, Sister Suzie Honesty in Mid-Life) comes the launch of…
Tuesday Grows Fat Again
Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival will return in its full form in 2025, running from 28 February to 4 March. The full five days of music and mayhem will launch…
Joy and Tragedy: Haydn & Vivaldi
Early in November, The Hastings Philharmonic Choir will perform two masterpieces, one baroque, Vivaldi’s Gloria, the other classical, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, accompanied by the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra, who will also…
Stand Up for Winter
Hastings Comedy Festival kicks off its winter stand-up comedy series at the White Rock Studio. The first show of t he season is on November 19th, and it promises to…
Blokes in Wonderland
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING The wonderful Rogue Gallery has moved. It is now to be found opposite the Kino-Teatr on Norman Road in St Leonards. The charismatic gallery owner,…
Samhain at The Beacon
KAT LEE-RYAN Think Halloween but going back to its pagan roots. There will be amazing music, from Bad Head Day, Hannah Dennard (from Message from the Ravens) and The Fabulous…
Sister Suzie: Honesty in Mid-Life
FIONA McGARRY It’s been six years since Susan Sims released her last album: Ain’t No Lady .“Life has been a little bit bonkers for me since then, so it’s taken…
From Cage to Stage: The Story behind Barred
VERA BELL talks to Dean Stalham about his latest venture Dean Stalham is a refreshingly complex character – cynical and passionately earnest, self-deprecating and self-publicising, humorous yet serious. He is…
The Eternal Triangle Flows On
Trevor Watts’ Eternal Triangle returns to the Kino Teatr in St Leonards on 1 November, to celebrate the release of two ;Studio album Gravity came out earlier this year, and has attracted rave reviews.…
Ambiguity, Paradox, Complexity, Eternity
VICTORIA KINGHAM on the new show at Hastings Contemporary Courtesy of the artistMarilyn Minter, Split, 2003, c-print Whatever else one can say about the latest show Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs…
Afterglow: Arts Forum
Rosa Leutchford, Do Not Answer A Fool According to His Folly, oil on canvas, 2024, 20cm x 20cm. One of the exhibits in ‘Afterglow’, Turps Hastings Alumni painting exhibition, on…
Artist Spotlight: Humming of the Sea
Gregory HeathThe Humming of the Sea, by Gregory Heath is part of a photo exhibition of that name curated by PhotoHastings at Hastings Arts Forum until 13 Oct. Gregory Heath…
Restoring Forgotten Brilliance
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to Carina Cosgrave about the Sabi Ensemble Going to a concert of classical music, we expect to see accomplished performers playing written music perfectly. We are often…
Kneecap Packs a Kick
EBM HUMPHREYS Rave reviews led me to expect polished and perfect mayhem from Kneecap. Actually it’s imperfect, but full-blooded, solid entertainment, made brilliant by its context, message and moment. It…
Read all about it
Hastings Book Festival gets off to a stellar start: CHRIS CONNELLEY reviews Patrice Milway with attendees at the Children’s Library This year’s Hastings Book Festival got off to a blistering…
Open Call Reminder
CHARLOTTE CHW Inner Nature is an invitation to explore the reflection of the human psyche through the natural world. The exhibition will be curated by Cerebellum, curatorial platform of artist…
The LastFive Years
EBM HUMPHREYS on the intricacies of a new play Romance, especially failed romance, is a universal story, but the form of The Last Five Years is unusual and interesting. These…
The Stimming Pool
SADIE PITCHER on a film created by a neurodivergent collective The camera moves, gets distracted, and moves again, becoming its own character in The Stimming Pool. The eye of the…
Top Khat
BEN THOMPSON describes a unique, apt ensemble Although I have never chewed the leaves of the flowering plant khat, I can testify to the addictive qualities of the band of…
Two Worlds Collide
FRAN PAINTER-FLEMING on Harmeet Rahal’s Contraband Zindabad Shorelines are habitats constantly in flux. Simultaneously advancing and receding, these malleable borders have a muddy temporal atmosphere. Rolling tides act as aquatic…
More Murals Help to Transform Town
TINA MORRIS With one more mural to come, and a selection of BT Boxes appearing, Coastal Currents has been leaving street art wherever they appeared in 2024. The Old Bathing…
Jarman in Hastings
BEN NEWELL This September, Hastings and St Leonards will host a series of events celebrating the life and work of Derek Jarman, the renowned artist, filmmaker, and activist who famously…
Sing Everything You See, or Vice-Versa:
Sono-Electro Goes Large VICTORIA KINGHAM ‘Sound art’ is one of those artistic concepts which has been in circulation much longer than most casual audiences would believe. The idea of making…
Smouldering Minimalism at Kino-Teatr
EBM HUMPHREYS on Delon’s Le Samourai (1967) An unexpected humour was injected into my first knowing foray into French New Wave when one of my companions innocently protested at the…
Defence of the Realm: Dymchurch
Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones at Solaris Gallery Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones spent over eighteen months prowling around the brutalist sea defences of Dymchurch. The resulting work is an oblique testament to the foolhardy human…
Animal Gods and Furry Friends
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING look into an unusual way to help animals There are few things more upsetting than stumbling across a wounded wild animal. A bird with a…
Bach to the Future – a Four-Part Invention
VICTORIA KINGHAM It seems to me exceptional the way that musicians in this part of the world seem happy to link up, be open to, and enjoy each other’s particular…
Getting Strange on Seaside Road
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING preview something a little unusual coming your way Alexander BrattellColin Booth: Joy, 2004 It may surprise you to know that we were not familiar with…
Chamber Music, Culture and Arts
JANE GORDON previews Hastings Chamber Music Festival Peter MouldRautio Piano Trio, left to right Jan Rautio, Jane Gordon, Victoria Simonsen. Hastings Chamber Music Festival takes place September 19 - 22…
Collapse! but hope for rebuilding
SADIE PITCHER As part of the programme of events occurring across the Coastal Currents weekend in Hastings, an exhibition curated by Rowan Corkill and Sharon Wylde will be on show…
An Odyssey of Painting
CAROLINE GEE & JUDY DEWSBERY Between 1985 and 1995, our St Mary’s Terrace neighbour Chris Chasey took to recording his daily walks in paint on a huge industrial roll of…