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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…
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…
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…
VIEWPOINT: A Tale Of Two Towns
John Knowles visits the brand-new Shakespeare North Playhouse and decries Hastings’ lack of both theatres and vision. Fetch Theatre has just returned from a mini tour taking in Tunbridge Wells…
Arts Diary
Bodhran Art Jazz Hastings kicks off 2023 with “a unique musical collaboration between a major star of from the Irish folk/traditional music and two of the most sought-after UK jazz…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Cracking Humpty Dumpty By Tim Devlin Published by Susak Press, rrp £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton Of ‘Ring a Ring o’ Roses’, Tim Devlin, in his…
Painting and the Market
A personal view by Robin Holtom When I was training in painting, a common rebuke was that our work was ‘illustrational’ rather than ‘painterly’. Painters were expected to produce much larger…
Regrets – I’ve had a few
Kent Barker says a documentary about the venerable and venerated Hastings blues guitarist Roger Hubbard, reveals a musician ruefully aware of roads not taken during his career. In my rather…
Shadowlands
Mark Walter Explores an Alternative Photography Process Shadowlands was a collaboration between six artists and is part of the Photo Hastings festival that has run since 2010. This year the…
Art For HIP’s Sake
The Hastings Independent’s art auction at the Horse and Groom, St Leonards at the end of last month was a big success. More than 40 pieces of incredibly diverse art-work…
Rolling With Colden
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling The art world is a pretty baffling place: one person’s absurd joke is another person’s profundity. At one end you have chancers, grifters and…
Playing in the Potholes of Your Mind
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling The sheer number of potholes in the road fabric of this town is, let’s face it, bloody annoying. In this town you can basically go…
Flying with the C-Bombers
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling Here’s a tip: if you have ever had that feeling that maybe you could write a song, just do it. Do it while you…
Enfolded by Nature
Gareth Stevens engages with Stephanie Fawbert’s new exhibition Being in the natural world and forging a relationship with it, is vital for wellbeing and, for Stephanie Fawbert, it is the…
Into the Light
Ally Raftery visits The Memorial Studio Project in Hastings. It’s not the offer of a free portrait sitting, or the sign that says that pets and props are welcome, charming…
Getting in the Scrooge Groove
Kate Tym and John Knowles are back for what is, arguably, Hastings’ favourite Christmas Show. The Penny Pincher’s Christmas Carol is a hilarious and off-beat take on the Dickens Christmas…
Norman Road Goes Rogue
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling If dear old Noel Coward were still alive and, by some very odd twist, he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he would doubtless introduce…
BOOK REVIEW: The Long Covid Handbook
By Gez Medinger and Professor Danny Altman Published by Penguin, October 2022 Review by Viola von Harrach At last, a book that demystifies, that dispels the myths, offers practical advice and…
Killing Me Loudly
By Anja Petitto Hotly tipped to be the next big thing out of Hastings comes the local legends, ‘Murderers Are Optimists.’ They formed in 2020 during the pandemic, which gave…
Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the Wee Donkey
Susan Desrosiers reviews The Banshees of Inisherin. One of the great advantages of living in Rye is the Kino Cinema, tucked away in the heart of the town a few…
BOOK REVIEW: The Real Anthony Fauci
Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health By Robert Kennedy JrSkyhorse publishing Review by Robin Holtom At the beginning of the pandemic a friend…
Expectation Images
Kent Barker says JJ Waller’s latest collection ably demonstrates his fascination, respect and affection for our town. Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered by many to be the photographer’s photographer. His candid,…
The Poetic Image
Sarah Gomes Harris covered the Hastings Bookshop Poetry Festival for HIP earlier this autumn. Here are some of her sketches of those attending. I sketched poets sporadically between chunky intervals.…
Souls o’ the Drowned
Gareth Stevens visits a new exhibition with strong maritime undercurrents at the De La Warr. Can’t You See the Sea Changing? features work produced over the last 14 years by…
Carmen Unpacked
By Nick Pelling I need to start with a confession: I find opera a bit depressing. The beautiful women always seem to die in the final act. Usually by melodramatically…
Jazz Abate-ment
Victoria Kingham enthuses about the unpretentious Greg Abate quartet at the Hastings Jazz Club. Greg Abate has been on the American (and international) jazz scene since the 1970s, having spent…
The Snapper’s ‘ology
Alison Bettles, who has just curated the successful 2022 PhotoHastings festival, says local photography is thriving, and there is plenty of support for aspiring practitioners and artists. This was my…
Moving Pictures
Anything Cannes can do… Since its inception four years ago, The South Coast Film Festival has gone from strength to strength. Indeed, this year showings have moved out of the…
Arts Diary
Audacious Mo Mo El-Kadey has a mini exhibition in the Milk and Hustle café in St Leonards. Mo’s art is “bold, vibrant and captivating. The striking colours of the family…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The International Alt-Right By Hermansson, Lawrence, Mulhall & Murdoch Published by Routledge, rrp £23, available to order from Bookbuster. REVIEW BY TIM BARTON In the last month two major reports…
Trouble is Her Business
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling Raymond Chandler is surely the king of 1940s crime noir fiction, and his novels, such as The Big Sleep, have led to some iconic…
Black History Month
Race or Racist Card? A St Leonards exhibition prompted Kent Barker to consider what progress race relations have made in Britain over the past half century. There have been, please…
REVIEW: Let me tell You ‘bout the Manfreds
By Kent Barker The replacement of Paul Jones by Mike d’Abo as Manfred Mann’s lead singer in 1966 was, for many British teenyboppers, as cataclysmic an event as Dylan going…
Me and Dorothy Fields
Singer Suzanne Noble recounts her discovery of a long neglected female Broadway composer. I grew up in New York, listening to ‘Great American Songbook’ music performed by artists like Billie…