Archives for Arts - Page 18
Sensitivity, Passion, and Deftness
Tom Blass is enthralled with the gala piano concert Four perfectly curated pieces – plus the most charming of encores. Two young pianists whose careers we hope to follow through…
Burlesque Special: Sensuality For All
Hastings Burlesque performer and producer, PUPIN DEVERT, celebrates her ‘subversive’ art form. Pupin DeVert Burlesque is defined as, “absurd or comically exaggerated imitation, especially in literary or dramatic work; a…
Burlesque Special: Look But Don’t Touch
RICHARD FRYER tells HIP of his own personal reaction to an evening of Burlesque. I went to a Burlesque night at the Crown House recently. I had always been intrigued…
Consensual Objectification
JOANNA POULTON I was thrilled to be asked to participate in Pupin deVert’s The Gorgeous Show, held in its spiritual home, The Crown House in St Leonards. Pupin is a…
The Mystery of the Unfinished
MARK WALTER The space was rammed, but I had an invite, so I thought “I’m going in!”. Once inside the work leapt off the walls and smacked of six contemporary…
Classical Music Special: Les Frères Fritz
VICTORIA KINGHAM visits St Leonards' Crown House to review The Fritz Brothernspired jazz/classical ensemble featuring director, arranger, and violinist Max Baillie, Ewan Bleach on clarinet and tenor saxophone, Frank Moon…
Normal Not Normal
by HELEN MURPHY and NICK PELLING Obviously, someone called Henry Normal is not going to be normal. Henry is not dull, au contraire, Henry is quietly, blazingly brilliant. You may…
Jeb Takes the Biscuit
by MARK WALTERI was walking along Norman Road on a dark chilly Saturday evening when through the gloom I could see a light. It was coming from the Project78Gallery. I…
Classical Music Special: Classic Provision
Classical music in and around Hastings is burgeoning. But for some reason and for some people it has been a secondary interest compared to the rockier, jazzier, more raucous genres.…
Classical Music Special: Barefoot Opera – the beginnings
JENNY MILLER, director, singer, vocal coach, and general powerhouse, explains how the company came into being. My vision originated from my interest in theatre and dance, as well as singing.…
Let Them Call It Jazz
VICTORIA KINGHAM on Jerry Bergonzi (tenor), Jason Rebello (piano), Steven Keogh (drums), Mark Hodgson (bass) at the Hastings Jazz Club. Anybody who has read Jean Rhys’ magnificent, tragic, heartrending story…
Arts Diary
Cavern in the Town The Sussex Studio (downstairs White Rock Theatre) becomes the Cavern Club for the day on April 2 for the annual Beatles Day. More than 300 musicians,…
A Beautiful Chaos
Toby Barelli aka King Size Slim is a veteran of the Fat Tuesday music to explain the Hastings Fat Tuesday tour to an uninitiated musician can be quite difficult.“So, you’re…
Letters 219
St Mary Quite Contrary Dear HIP,Several years ago, there was a proposal to close the road behind the White Rock Theatre and extend the theatre backwards, with an opening onto…
No place like home
BY GARETH STEVENS Emily Allchurch’s upcoming show, ‘Closer to Home’, is a tenderly crafted love letter to the East Sussex countryside and the antecedent artists who have shared her preoccupation…
Art For Everyone
JULIA KOTZIAMANI, local artist and qualified further education arts teacher explains why she has taken the plunge and opened a new art school in Hastings, available to all. The new Hastings…
Fatuous Facts
FEASTINGMardi Gras – French for ‘Fat Tuesday’ – is a Carnival celebration culminating on Shrove Tuesday - the day before Ash Wednesday –beginning around the Christian feast of the Epiphany.…
Less is More
REVIEW BY RICHARD PRICE: part two of two In the first part of my review, I related how much of a revelation the book was for me, and in here…
Poetry corner: Old Roar Ghyll…haiku sequence
JOHN R PARSONS Old Roar Ghyllits ancient slabs still shedcreation’s trickle steep timber stepsrise and fall between gladeson the treacherous path clinging to vertical sidesold oaks convey networksof ivy into…
Arts Diary
Hubbard’s Cupboard Hastings’ blues supremo Roger Hubbard will be in concert once again at the Kino-Teatr, Norman Road, St. Leonards, Friday March 3 at He’ll be playing his own songs…
Is the Theatre Really Dead?
Kent Barker, HIP’s Arts Editor, asks how theatre provision in Hastings compares with some of the other arts. We are forever hearing what a thriving artistic environment Hastings is. Yes,…
Freight Train to Éire
VICTORIA KINGHAM enjoys a recent gig at Hasting’s jazz club containing more than a few notes of Ireland. A recent Sunday saw another full and enthusiastic house at Jazz Hastings…
We Have the Talent
Matt Hastings, one of the town’s most successful actors, says a dedicated professional theatre space is desperately needed. Hastings has long been awash with talented musicians and artists with plenty…
Shakespeare-on-Sea
In an interview with HIP, John Knowles, Hastings’ actor, director, producer and founder of Fetch Theatre, argues that radical action is urgently needed to revive the idea of theatre in…
A Room Somewhere
Patrick Kealey, Artistic Director of Hastings’ Theatre Nation, offers a personal manifesto, a provocation and a call to arms. Great theatre can happen anywhere in principle – a room, a…
Programming Juggling Act
Neil Sellman, chair of the Stables, outlines his vision for Hastings’ only independent theatre, and the dilemmas of mixing in-house amateur productions with those offered from touring or outside companies.…
Arts Diary
In With the Old A year after his triumphant Jazz Hastings debut last February, legendary American saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi is back on stage at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association…
St Mary in the Castle and Me
Glenys Jacques gives a personal opinion on why we need to defend St Mary in the Castle. Creative community passions run high in Hastings. Art and music flow through it…
Peace, Passion and Poetry on Hastings MLK Day
By Merlin Betts “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.” Martin…
Poetry Corner: My Ship
JOHN R PARSONS My ship’swake flows back to that momentwhen anchor, first pulled with so little effort lay there on the deck waiting until some mooring was acknowledged as safe…
An Inconvenient Apocalypse
Bookbuster Review of the above title by Wes Jackson & Robert Jensenby. Published by Notre Dame Press, rrp £, available to order from Bookbuster, £20 each. Review by Tim Barton."...and…
Can a Zap from Art History Wake Up Your New Year?
The Arts Society Rother Valley explains the appeal of its talks. As anyone knows who has enjoyed arts education at almost any level, there is something wonderful about being lectured…
Harbouring Dreams of Greatness
By Susan Desrosiers It’s mid-January 2023, so some of you may have already made and broken new year’s resolutions. But an opportunity arose for me to fulfil an old one…
Staying Focussed on the Image Trail
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling The prospects for young working-class people growing up in Hastings are often thought to be rather limited. But there are those who seem to…
Kino-Teatr’s ‘Affordable Art’ Auction
This article appeared in HIP Issue are unpredictable creatures. That is what makes them interesting. You can get yourself a real gem at a good price. And there is every…
Twists in the Paintwork
HIP explores the many lives of a real painter man. By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling. The Hastings-based artist Chris Roskell, has led an extraordinary life. In chatting to him…
Harry’s Game
By Mark Walter I must be honest, I didn’t know Harry McMorrow’s work until I saw a group of people overspilling from the Big Yin gallery in London Road, St…
Music is My First Love
A young performer recounts the extraordinary journey she’s taken to get on stage at the Stables. My name is Alaska Hilton, I am 20 years old and was born and…
St Mary on the Market, Opus to Close
St Mary in the Castle, the Grade II-listed church turned arts and music venue beneath West Hill, has been put on the open market for sale or lease. Freehold owners…
Young Arts, Run Free
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling The School of Art and Design in Hastings has quite a historical pedigree. For well over a century – at various locations and under…