Archives for Arts - Page 14
Painting the Town: Stephen Coelho’s Portraits of Local Notables
VICTORIA KINGHAM Stephen Coelho loves jazz. His portrait exhibition is accompanied by jazz recordings, and the very first picture you see is of local saxophonist Jason Yarde, imposing, actively touching…
Norman Road Christmas Events
KATE SHAW The little section of Norman Road between Mercatoria and London Road has become an enclave of art and music. It is quite frankly, bursting with talent. So what…
Sharing Myths and Legends
ROD WEBB I first spotted Danny Horn and violinist Richard Moore sipping beers at the recent Give Peace a Chance gig; Danny’s presence and Richard’s fedora marked them out as…
From the Heart of Beethoven
VICTORIA KINGHAM hears Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at St John’s Church, St Leonards Peter MouldHastings Philharmonic Choir with conductor Marcio da Silva Once again, an excellent performance by Hastings Philharmonic Choir…
ARTS DIARY
BAREFOOT OPERA EXCLUSIVE EVENT Rye Art Gallery, 9 Dec, 6-8 pm Rye Art Gallery is joining forces with Barefoot Opera for a very special fundraising evening. There will be a…
Art for All, On Sea – Hastings Contemporary Fundraising Drive
Hastings Contemporary is fundraising for an ambitious programme of free creative activities for local families, including Family Days, artist-led workshops and a pilot lunch scheme offering free school meals during…
White Rock Theatre Under New Management
The Guildhall Trust, a charitable foundation which has run the Portsmouth Guildhall since 2011, is set to take over management of the White Rock Theatre from the beginning of February…
Bramah, Blue Orchids and 21st Century Etiquette
BEN THOMPSON As post-punk pedigrees go, Blue Orchids’ backstory is hard to beat – they formed when then partners Martin Bramah and Una Baines broke away from the original line…
Is it OK to Be Black?
VICTORIA KINGHAM on Hastings Contemporary’s latest coup Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane GalleryHurvin Anderson, Flat Top, 2008 ‘Is it OK to Be Black?’ is the title of one of…
Cold Night, Warm Sax
VICTORIA KINGHAM at Barnaby’s on a new jazz night Geoff Simkins and Liam Noble Storm-tossed nights in Hastings aren’t the best portent for an evening out. After a flood, on…
Zero Gravity
VICTORIA KINGHAM on Dorsay Alavi’s exceptional biopic of Wayne Shorter March of this year saw the death of an extraordinary musician, and another small piece of magic went out of…
Crowning it All…
TOM BLASS on the Cable Street Rag Band Jazz is a funny world. It has its deities of course: Coltrane, Miles, Bird, Monk, Billie and Ella et al, towering above…
Quiet Realism Makes a Noise
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING explore the David Tindle exhibition at the Kino Gallery. Nick PellingDavid Tindle: Blue Bed Sheets and Pillowcase (2006) When you think of British painters of…
Wreckless Eric plays the Pig
JUDE MONTAGUE On a dark October night, just before a storm, we stood on White Rock seafront watching for the main act to drive up. It’s a great moment before…
Voice, Community, Uplift
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to Day Levale about a life singing and building a community Ed Barrett Day Levale, choir leader, is deceptively slight and unassuming. Bundled against the rain in…
Mike Hatchard: How Music Became an Extreme Sport
ROD WEBB Peter Mould Mike Hatchard is at it again. He’s not only a renowned musician and composer, but full of ideas for raising money. To celebrate moving into his…
Pigfoot Play Ellington
BEN THOMPSON at EHSAA “They never dance, some of them don’t tap their feet, some of them are actually asleep… but still it’s full every month?!” Such is the bewildered…
Prehistoric Graffiti
KENT BARKER You might think that the use of stencils by street artists is a relatively modern phenomenon. Just look around Hastings and see our Banksys or Stewys, or the…
Repairing Vintage Audio Gear
JUDE MONTAGUE Recently, Hastings Independent Press featured a Supersound amplifier that was bought by Montague Armstrong and manufactured on Kings Road, St Leonards-on-Sea. It still worked – amazingly for a…
Community Uplift
VICTORIA KINGHAM muses on a growing choral phenomenon emanating from Bexhill. Lineker Photography In a recent issue we printed a list of local choirs who were to take part in…
Snow Cake
SERENA FERRARI A rare screening of the un-streamable but award-winning film, Snow Cake (2006), starring the late Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver will take place at the Hastings Centre on…
Arts Diary
Howerd’s End at The Stables Saturday 18 November, Stables Theatre Hastings, pm Award-winning actor Simon Cartwright plays Frankie Howerd and Mark Farrelly appears as Frankie’s lover, manager, and chauffeur. The…
Intersections: PhotoHastingsat St Andrew’s Mews
VICTORIA KINGHAM This small but perfectly-formed exhibition, Here, Not There, in a positively unrestored house on the first floor of St Andrew’s Mews did much to promote the Mews (as…
Sarah Milne at Hypha Studios
VERA BELL is drawn into a world of threads and patches. You may have noticed Sarah Milne’s work on our back page not long ago. Even more recently she has…
Hungarian Rhapsody
VICTORIA KINGHAM on Classical! A sold-out event at Crown House Max Baillie Those of you who have kindly read the music reviews here over the past year or so, will…
Wreckless Eric Returns to the Pig
JUDE MONTAGUE interviews Eric Goulden, AKA Wreckless Eric, about his new acclaimed album Leisureland out now on Tapete Records. JM: hat’s your connection to the South Coast of the UK? EG: …
Oneiropraxis –A Vision of Dreams
SARAH MILNE Oneiropraxis is a fascinating exhibition of oil paintings and drawings by visionary artists Melissa Shemanna and Orryelle Defenestrate Bascule, currently on show at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.…
Hastings Independents: Four Weeks of Grassroots Arts
KEITH RODWAY previews happenings at Electro Studios. The extraordinary wealth of creative arts talent in Hastings and St Leonards is becoming hard to keep pace with, with one source suggesting…
The Dance of People and the Natural World, The Fourth Wall, Ink
VICTORIA KINGHAM takes in three new exhibitions at Hastings Contemporary Nengi Omuku: Repose Nengi Omuku is an engaging character and there is great warmth and vibrancy about her works now…
Artist Spotlight: Patti Webb and Louise Whitham
Patricia Webb trained in classical ballet, worked in physical theatre, travelled. Directed festivals in Covent Garden, and photographed performers there. Went digital in 2002, learnt digital software techniques. Gathered images…
Dialogues, Escapes and Escapades
Cerebellum founder and Curator, CHARLOTTE CHW, invites open calls for a new interdisciplinary exhibition Cerebellum at the Hive in 2016 Art has the potential to be the ultimate escapade, and…
PhotoHastings: 13 years Supporting Contemporary Photographic Practice
GARY WILLIS Derek Cottrell Presenting exhibitions and events across Hastings and St Leonards with talks, workshops, events and exhibitions, PhotoHastings provides something for every aspiring photographer. This year, we extended…
Art Defends Nature –A Review
ROBERT RALPH There’s been something stirring in the Old Town the past few weeks, a kind of celebration of nature but with an ecologically aware edge to it. Local artists…
Here to There to Here
We’ve all crossed many rivers – physical and metaphorical – to get to where we are today. Here to There to Here: Hastings is the second iteration of a project…
Poets, Poetry, Performance
MERLIN BETTS reviews the Hastings poetry scene and a crowning literary night with Salena Godden and Friends on behalf of Hastings Book Festival Salena Godden S-Bars Oli Spleen It started…
Arts Diary
A MOMENT IN TIME: BURTONS’ ST LEONARDS SOCIETY: 8 OCTOBER, 3-6 pm A photographic exhibition using materials from Burtons’ St Leonards Society’s archives. Individual admission £3, families £5, members free.…
Artist Spotlight: Gary Willis
Photograph: Dancer, Kovalam In a former life, Gary Willis was an advertising Art Director. Since moving down to Hastings three years ago he has been taking his own photographs. He…
Stored Out of Sight: Disability and Society
VICTORIA KINGHAM 3D printing is now part of mainstream culture. A small ‘starter’ printer can be bought on Amazon for £99. A more advanced one that uses ‘all metal hotend’…
The Big Sing
Want to join a local choir? Start here 7 October this year sees a magnificent gathering of local choirs at St John’s Church, Brittany Road, St Leonards. If you love…
Anna Erhard to Play at Kino-Teatr
Swiss-born Anna Erhard will headline the Kino-Teatr in St Leonards-on-Sea on 30 September, bringing the curtain down on her UK tour. Sonja Stadelmeier 2023 has already been a big success,…