Archives for Arts - Page 20
Mistresses and Unrequited Love
Patrick Glass reviews a classical concert with rather racy undertones. Maestro violinist, Max Baillie, and world class pianist Ljubica Stojanovic played together for the first time at St Leonards’ Christ…
Who Immersion
On the night of the first moon landing, The Who played Hastings pier. 53 years later Mark Walter explores a multi-layered exhibition based around the iconic 1960s rock band. A…
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…
Down with High-Pitched Divas
By Erica Smith I’ll ‘fess up – I am not an opera fan. I can cope with most kinds of music as I scroll through the channels on my car…
Eyes to Die For
Nick Pelling on Natalie Haynes and the Myth of Medusa. Natalie Haynes is like a really passionate, erudite and gifted teacher who has accidentally imbibed way too many amphetamines. As…
Flipping the Card
A look at the current controversial exhibition, ‘Playing the Race Card’. It is not often that an art exhibition in Hastings can claim to be “an important and historic moment…
Even Legends Have Off Days
Victoria Kingham reviews Still Waters at the EHSAA jazz club on The Stade. Always competent, sometimes inventive, and occasionally powerful, trumpeter Henry Lowther has graced the UK jazz scene for…
Travels in the Exotic Kitchen
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling Fiona Denning is a painter and a gardener. So, you might expect her subject matter to be full of pretty petals, leafy shapes and…
BOOK REVIEW
Secret Orbit By Ken Edwards Published by Grand Iota, paperback 254pp, £ Review by Pete Donohue St Leonards author Ken Edwards will have his fourth novel Secret Orbit published on…
The Ephemeral Moment
The paintings of Ray McChrystal explored by Gareth Stevens After graduating from the Fine Art Course at Bristol Polytechnic in the 1970s, Ray McChrystal was offered a job painting sets…
Tough Loved Up
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling Something is stirring in and around Bohemia Road. It is coming over all bohemian. We don’t mean that bearded poets are arriving in rhyming…
Save Our Saint Mary
One of Hastings’ most iconic concert venues and arts facilities, St Mary in the Castle, is to close. HIP invited musicians, artists, creatives, venue users and its owner to comment…
Multicultural Resistance
By Mark Walter The cave-like vaults of the much loved, but under threat of closure, St Mary in the Castle, lend themselves perfectly to an exhibition space. As exemplified in…
Creating Strong Currents
Tina Morris, director of Coastal Currents, looks back at this year’s diverse arts festival. Coastal Currents has some sort of magic that permeates and populates the town in September, forged…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Protest: Stories of ResistanceEdited by Ra PagePublished by Comma Press, at £ Street Spirit: the Power of Protest and MischiefBy Steve CrawshawPublished by LOM Art, rrp £, available at Bookbuster…
Surely a ‘Shoe’-in
Barefoot Opera challenge the notion that opera is elitist by producing high-quality, inclusive and accessible work, usually mixing professional singers with amateurs. Here director Jenny Miller previews their latest production.…
ARTS DIARY
It’s a Steal Fine artist and illustrator Robin Elliott-Knowles has a new exhibition Everyday Stolen Artefacts – at The Nest – High Street, Old Town until 27 October. He says…
Your Writing Could be Published
Poems, stories and book reviews needed If you want to see your work published in these pages, here’s how. HIP Literature is always on the lookout for poems, short stories…
Site number: 102222
By Gareth Stevens Kenton Lowe, the director of blackShed Gallery is always keen to swerve from the script. He always does things a little differently. Site number: 102222 is an…
Booming Sonics
By Ben Thompson Starting in 2015 as Thee Sunday Sonics – the spontaneous, ad hoc brainchild of artist Danny Pockets – the event now known simply as Sonics has blazed…
BOOK REVIEW
NO AGA SAGA SUSAN DESROSIERS says the debut novel, Of No Consequence, a tale of modern slavery set in the seamier sides of Hastings should be compulsory reading in secondary…
Masked Truths
John Knowles, playwright, actor and impresario, explains the hidden world behind the latest play in his Twelfth Night ; I have found, late in life, my obsession – Shakespeare. He…
BOOKBUSTER ESSAY
On the Queen and Monarchy Essay by Tim Barton Milan Kundera said that ‘the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting’. Writing this month, Robin…
Controlling Your Piano
HIP’s reviewer Victoria Kingham is knocked out by a recent recital from daring debutant Daisuke Yoshidaat The Stables. On a seemingly ordinary Sunday afternoon approximately 60 people assembled, almost en…
ARTS DIARY
Tasters St Leonards Ceramic Studio celebrates its first anniversary of work by students and members, having taught more than 300 people in courses, tasters and workshops. They are taking part…
Jason Rebello Trio at Jazz Hastings
Review by Victoria Kingham The jazz club at EHSAA is privileged to host Jason Rebello, one of the most gifted and long-established British jazz ; Influenced by the best of…
Ghost of Hogarth
By Gareth Stevens Mark Spelman says that his exhibition is a conversation between him, a destitute drunk he saw in Elephant & Castle, and the ghost of William Hogarth who…
Baroque Reimagined
Jane Gordon, violinist and Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, is Artistic Director of the Hastings Early Music Festival. Here she explains the inspiration behind the event and what…
On Your Radar
MARK WALTER spends some enchanted evenings at new venue for performance artists – Off Radar – and meets the progenitor of this ‘un-ordinary’ platform. Ross Clifford, a tall, exuberant man,…
A Dream of Escape
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling Who hasn’t dreamed of getting on a motorbike and hurdling the barbed wire at Stalag Luft III to freedom? The dream of some form…
What are Words Worth?
A closer look at the forthcoming Hastings Book Festival The idea of a book festival can sound a bit stuffy. It is easy to assume a book festival is just…
D is for Demonology
A rare solo exhibition by Sexton Ming By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling I think it was the recent Royal Jubilee that prompted the question, where has the old punk…
BOOKBUTER REVIEW
The Solutions Are Already Here By Peter Gelderloos Published by Pluto Press, at £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton Gelderloos has published a few books. Tellingly, one was…
Becoming Carmen
By Richard Price If you ever go to an opera and try to make sense of it, you may find yourself wishing that you knew what they are warbling about.…
In Other News
Sometimes things just happen. On a fading Sunday afternoon in late summer in St Leonards, we discovered as we ambled along that ‘The Three Legs’ brewery had crawled up the…
ARTS DIARY
KINO IS BACK The arts centre on Norman Road has reopened, after a short break, and has a wide-ranging programme of films, music and other assorted outpourings and will host…
Love and Paint, Actually
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling There are some exhibitions that just seem to come and go, but occasionally an exhibition comes along that feels like an important cultural…
Rock Against Racism Rocks the Castle
HIP’s Rod Webb talks to Ruth Gregory co-curator of the Rock Against Racism Exhibition Tour. It may be the end of an era for St Mary in the Castle when it…
REVIEW: Through a Glass Darkly
For years after the war, my grandfather kept in his workshop, windows whose every pane of glass was criss-crossed by tape to prevent flying shards in the event of a…