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We Are All Mothers
We Are All Mothers is a series of drawings and paintings that tell stories of the Gazan people over the past several months. The work, using charcoal and oils, focuses…
Arts Festival Succeeds against the odds
SADIE PITCHER Every year without fail Coastal Currents Arts Festival opens the doors to artists’ studios along the southeast coast with a programme of unique events, exhibitions and performances. The…
Meffs promote local gigs atthe Piper
Known for their raw energy and unyielding punk ethos, electrifying post punk duo The Meffs have taken a significant step in supporting the live music community by becoming Music Venue…
Concert at Hastings Castle
A group of local Hastings artists will be hosting a unique and captivating performance event in the ruins of Hastings Castle, bringing the historic grounds to life with an innovative…
Hastings Poet on the Pilgrim Path
ELIZABETH ALLEN In this time of violence and turmoil, we were granted an hour of peace and beauty in the calm space of Berwick churchwatching. Watching sunset light shimmer across…
Rod Youngs: New From Old
VICTORIA KINGHAM at Jazz Hastings It’s strange how musical appreciation changes over the course of half a century or more. What sounded to the majority uncompromising, unmelodic, on a first…
Notting Hill Carnival Comes to Hastings
JONNY THOMPSON on Reggae Room: The Summer Session Phizz Haldane Once a year, at the very special Hastings Fat Tuesday celebrations, a unique event takes place. Beginning quietly and almost…
A Place for Creativity and Friendship
VANESSA MARR This August, a group of local artists from the textile group unFOLD, will present the culmination of two years’ work with a show entitled Raft: A Place of…
Tymon Dogg Lights Up Electric Palace
PETE DONOHUE reviews the biggest small gig of the summer Walking into our Old Town fifty-seater, independent cinema music venue and bar for this extraordinary gig was like arriving at…
Coastal Currents Arts Festival
This year, this important South Coast Arts Festival has events stretching from Rye to Robertsbridge, having gained major support from a variety of local organisations, including Hastings Borough Council, and…
Jazz, Folk, and Forests
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to Rebecka Edlund ahead of her performance at Jazz Hastings Thomas W. Stephenson To talk to Rebecka Edlund about her music is to talk to her about…
The Last Princess
ELLEN ALPSTEN anticipates publication of her latest novel Following my Tsarina series, which sold in 20 languages and was nominated for numerous awards, my new novel The Last Princess is to…
unFOLD
Work by the unFOLD group on the theme of ‘Raft: a Place of Safety and Survival’ will be exhibited at Hastings Arts Forum gallery from Tuesday 6 August to Sunday…
Legendary Musician to Play Rare Electric Palace Gig
DAVID BRUMLEY reviews the career of Tymon Dogg, who appears in a one-off local performance at the Electric Palace Tymon Dogg’s career has spanned several decades. He initially recorded a…
Cowell at The Crown
Painter Ruth Cowell is the latest to be displayed at The Crown, which continues to provide vital exhibition support to artists. She has drawn and painted for as long as…
Artist Spotlight: Anchored in East
In 2013, after many years of working in wigs and make-up for the Royal Opera House and the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mel made the move south to Hastings Old Town.…
Jazz, Jamaica, Joy
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to legendary jazz pianist Monty Alexander Monty Alexander has lived and played in the US for more than sixty years, since being discovered as a young pianist…
Look Out, Cratediggers!
HARRY HAWKINS recounts a musical banquet to be had in just two of the town’s several record shops, Tough Love Records and Dayglo Studios Charles DaviesBorough Council at DayGlo Records…
Focus on Folk
VICTORIA KINGHAM explores the folk scene, local and visiting Bill and Steve’s Excellent Adventure: A celebration of fifty years of the Hayloft Folk Club Two stalwarts of the original British…
The Poets & Poetry of Hastings
OLI SPLEEN Hastings is connected with some of the biggest names in British poetry. The history of poets residing in, or writing about, this area is remarkable. From Edward Lear…
Coastal Currents builds Hastings Music network
Local arts festival Coastal Currents (CC) will receive Arts Council funding for 2024, having self-funded in 2023. CC say half the new money will allow the return of young and…
Palmerama’s Comedyrama
EBM HUMPHREYS explores a new regular stand-up comedy event On the last Friday of June, we headed down to Tin Tins – by now the longest-running bar in the Robertson…
Artist Spotlight: Living Light Summer Exhibition
After relocating to Hastings Arts Forum (HAF) earlier this year, international photographic exhibition Photopia wanted to collaborate on a new summer show. Over 160 images were submitted from 33 photographers…
The Gangster, the Window Box, and the Wardrobe
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to playwright Francis Saunders about his work and reviews his recent adaptation of Gangster No. 1 Gangster No. 1 was staged at the Kino, St Leonards, on…
Open Arms
GARETH STEVENS reflects on the new mural in Robertson Street Over a relatively short number of years Hastings and St Leonards has become a veritable treasure trove of high-quality street…
Here, Now and Next for Hastings
CAF FEAN considers The Hero’s Journey, an epic tale Join the crowd under trees adorned with glitzy streamers. Pick up a non-alcoholic cocktail, a box of popcorn, and receive a…
On the Edge of Nothingness
Hastings Museum presents an exhibition of works from Jo Israel’s After Image series. These works are sourced from the antiquated pages of illustrated Victorian books, collected by the artist over…
Barefoot in the Church
VICTORIA KINGHAM on the eternal appeal of Traviata Chris Parker PhotographyBeren Kader Fidan (Violetta) with Tylor Lamani (Alfredo) Where to begin writing about Barefoot Opera's production, La Traviata? Being staged…
Voices From The East
OLI SPLEEN Four trailblazers in the realm of klezmer music came together last Sunday at Hastings’ Henry Ward Hall. Two were from Brighton; Merlin Shepherd performed on clarinet and “telenka”…
Logie Baird: Wireless Visions
GARETH REES Last month, ‘The Spirit of Invention’ festival in Hastings saw more than 30 artists take part in a celebration inspired by John Logie Baird, who worked on his…
Inside Number 78
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING visit a new exhibition in St Leonards How do you like your horror? Spattered in innocent blood or something more like a demonic beast in…
Ways of Being
The exhibition at Hastings Arts Forum, Ways of Being, is an opportunity for Jill Hartman to bring together paintings of spiritual themes produced over the last 30 years. Hartman is…
Make a Film in a Day
Local charity The Bright Foundation is inviting young people between the ages of 11-19 to join the Benbow Youth Film Collective. During these weekly gatherings they will explore filmmaking techniques…
Tosca: the back story
VICTORIA KINGHAM looks into Anthony Flaum’s Prologue Opera and this year’s production Rik PenningtonAnthony Flaum, producer Suave, elegant Anthony Flaum is an opera singer whose professional career began in banking,…
A TouchToo Muche
BEN THOMPSON celebrates international free jazz stars appearing at The Pig Their name may conjure up images of a fictional Soviet space-station, but Hastings-based improvisational supergroup OBTRAM3 will truly be…
Voices From The East at The Henry Ward Hall
Klezmer Music, Yiddish Song and their cultural neighbours. Performed by Merlin Shepherd, Polina Shepherd, Sasha Lurje, Craig Judelman. Hear the songs and instrumental music of eastern Europe, mingled with modern…
Using Your Grief to Decorate Newspapers
MERLIN BETTS Becky StrongSalena Godden The title here is a line that sticks with me, especially as election time comes round, and don’t worry – the irony is not lost.…
Dynamism, Polymathy, Idealism
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to another of many exceptional women concentrated in this small area. Trisha Napier is currently exhibiting portraits at the St Leonard pub, but her talents and involvements…
Through a Lens Brightly
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING find out about an exciting new opportunity for young creativesin Hastings I suppose you could argue that we are all film makers now. You can…
Chantel McGregor Comes to Town
VICTORIA KINGHAM in conversation with a musical prodigy Chantel McGregor is genuine, unpretentious, and supremely talented. She is from Bradford – an important characteristic in my opinion, but probably only…