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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,…
Cindy Oswin’s Cell
ELIZABETH ALLEN on Cindy Oswin - writer, librettist, actor, academic - and her new one-act play showcasing and interrogating Julian of Norwich “All shall be well, all shall be well…
ARTS DIARY
Flatland Projects – My Assembled Selves 2 Sept-5 Nov Swelling clouds, aged turf and morphing figures populate the paintings and drawings of Martyn Cross. Within this presentation at Flatland Projects,…
Supersound: A Legendary Local Business
JUDE MONTAGUE Jude MontagueMatt Armstrong with the Supersound Amplifier Browsing the internet on the trail of local manufacturing history, Matt Armstrong discovered an interesting early 1960s amplifier. When he noticed…
Artist Spotlight: Suzanne Patterson
It’s Complicated: Encaustic transfer and oil on board, 83x 66 cm Suzanne Patterson Having left Central St Martins with a first-class degree, I carried on making my own work whilst…
The Ascension of Josephine Davies
VICTORIA KINGHAM meets Josephine Davies, saxophonist, bandleader, orchestrator, composer, psychotherapist, mountaineer, and anything else that takes her fancy. Monika Jakubowska Photography Josephine Davies has released two albums, called Satori and…
Ese and the Vooduu People, Kinsella
KATE SHAW I’ve been meaning to check out The Pig for months. So many people have told me it has a bit of a reputation as a music venue as…
Raising the rafters in Rye
TOM BLASS heard Laura Mvula at Rye International Jazz and Blues Festival last weekend What one wonders, did Laura Mvula think of her audience, the good burghers of Rye and…
Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2023
The organisers write: 2023 Coastal Currents is upon us and this year we have done it entirely without Arts Council funding! First, then, thanks must go out to our biggest…
The Studio Couch
ROBIN HOLTOM on Freud’s couch and the Art of Life drawing Some time ago I acquired a couch for my studio. My elegant couch is quite narrow and scarcely has…
News from the Front of Beyond
NICK PELLING & HELEN MURPHY review the exhibition, Succession, at the Kino Teatr in Norman Road All photos: Helen PellingRadford in Mid-Flow Have you ever felt like you were sort…
SALTY DOGS
JOHN COLE on his new book Sea Dogs: Hastings Fishermen and Their Companions When I first began laying out the photos for the book Generations: Hastings Fishing Families, my wife…
Keep Your Tenant in Mind
MERLIN BETTS on a new production at The Stables Imagine for a moment. Your art, your creativity, flushed down the drain. All your hopes of appreciation and success lost in…
Beethoven and Brahms! The Crocodile and the Mouse!
VICTORIA KINGHAM at another extraordinary concert from St. Leonards Music Charles Davies PhotographyMax Baillie and Guests If you think you don’t like classical music, if you think it’s boring, difficult,…
Music for Justice
GARETH STEVENS meets Suman Joshi, the mastermind behind Eparapo’s stunning new album. Suman Joshi, whose bass playing is very much in demand by a number of African and Latin bands…
A Hundred Years Ago in Hastings – the Invention of Television
JUDE MONTAGUE delves into the Logie Baird archives at Hastings Museum Jude MontagueJude Montague’s Interpretation It’s a hundred years since John Logie Baird first transmitted images, transferring the outline of…
Skinny Sunday: Hastings Local Youth Talent is on Fire
ROD WEBB is entranced by young bands of Hastings Rod WebbChimer at the Stade I first became aware of the Skinny Sunday music festival while watching the Fat Tuesday Second…
Laundry Day Reflections
KATE SHAW writes: July saw the first Laundry Day at The Piper, a positively Queer night (I am becoming comfortable with the Q word!) and if you missed it, here’s…
The pop-up Front Room
VICTORIA KINGHAM attends a Hastings Book Festival ‘pop-up’ event at Sugarpie Honeybun’s on London Road, St. Leonards, on Friday 11 August Thomas TruscottMichael McMillan with Tola Dabiri at Hastings Book…
The Festival that Keeps on Giving
NICK PELLING and HELEN MURPHY Wayne HerbertWayne Herbert, Festival organiser Some people don’t like book festivals: maybe they see them as chintzy affairs full of folding-chair types. Sort of a…
Miss Popplewell at Eastbourne
Having missed the Rude Mechanicals at Alexandra Park last month, our drama critic CHRIS VICARY caught the performance at Eastbourne Rude Mechanical Theatre Company The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company are…
There’s no place like Hastings! 20 years of The White Rock Summer Youth Project
SARAH MILNE writes: I fell in love with the Land of Oz and all its strange and wonderful characters from the first time I saw the film as a little…
Denise Franklin, Prize-winning Artist
SARAH MILNE Getting a piece accepted into the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition is a prestigious and transformative milestone for any artist. Winning one of the major prizes is…
Getting Reel (-to-Reel) with Alex Bryson
KATE SHAW The Alex Bryson trio is a jazz outfit made up of bassist Jeremy Brown, drummer Matt Fishwick, and, on keys, Bryson himself. Originally London-based, Alex has played internationally…
RESEARCH & Development
GARETH STEVENS talks to Anthony Elliott whose exhibition, RESEARCH, is currently being held at The blackShed Gallery. Anthony Elliott Sometimes, you come across art that has no recognisable precedent and…
An Art Event Rejuvenates Bottle Alley
In an exciting new venture, about 50 artists will display new work in a variety of formats against the glass bottle wall of Bottle Alley. The space will be transformed…
A New Art School Comes to Priory Meadow
MARK WALTER, a current student, highlights a new Art School in town. You may not have heard of Hastings Art School (HAS) as it’s still relatively new. They are of…
Hidden Beach? You could hear it for miles!
VICTORIA KINGHAM soaks up sun and sound on a Saturday afternoon I stand in the middle of a DJ competition – Nick Hosier grooves to his decks, and Hastings Dub…
Artist Spotlight
Sarah Milne: Persephone Sarah Milne is a fibre artist using contemporary embroidery, weaving, basketry and mixed media to produce wall hangings and sculptural work. Her art explores fragmentation and repair…
Why Patterns/Rustorm/Lazarus Lake & DJs at The Pig
J. G. OULD Lights are strobing, the floor and my skull vibrating. A six- or seven-stringed fretless bass and minimal drum kit are all a blur on stage. A singer…
The Multi-Dimensional Joe Stilgoe
RyeJazz JOE STILGOE, composer, singer, pianist, educator, all-round entertainer, takes time out of a hectic schedule to talk to VICTORIA KINGHAM about the upcoming Rye Jazz and Blues Festival, old…
Cinderella: The Eternal Story
VERA BELL is astonished, affected and humbled by a Barefoot Opera production of Rossini’s classic La Cenerentola in post-modern, post-covid Britain Chris Parker Imagine a classic farcical comedy: dressing up,…
Elijah! The Whole Story
VERA BELL at the triumphant finale of the Hastings Philharmonic 2023 season Peter MouldElijah! Audience at De La Warr Pavillion Whether or not you believe in the authenticity of the…
Alison Claire France and Visual Communication
MARK WALTER writes: I recently had the chance to interview Alison Claire France about her upcoming exhibition at The Rogue Gallery in St Leonards. We talked about her early artistic…
Rocking The Boat: The Presenceof Absence
MARK WALTER in conversation with Anne Lydiat A couple of weeks ago l was at Hastings Arts Forum gallery for the Changing Spaces exhibition. As I peered into and around…
Cinema Cats
JUDE MONTAGUE Cats have inspired worship throughout history. They are allegedly the second most popular search on the internet, and have been the focus of films that have been significant…
Diffident yet defiant – the individualism of Mike Farris
VICTORIA KINGHAM in conversation with the blues/rock/gospel singer about his music, his life, and his spiritual ; MIKE FARRIS made his first album as a vocalist with The Screamin’ Cheetah…
Primal Dreaming at Electro Land
NICK PELLING There used to be a time when the world teemed with deities. You couldn’t move for them. Messing with every aspect of your life. Bird-like or as beetles…
Laundry Day
KATE SHAW on washing, queerness, inclusivity and having a great night out. Laundry day – traditionally the day when you would wear your old clothes because the rest are in…
A New Gallery Takes Off
MARK WALTER interviews Tessa & Markus Thonett. Feadora by Tessa Thonett I first met Tessa and Markus at the Electro Studios earlier this year and straight away became interested in…