Archives for Arts - Page 24
The Sisterhood
Sarah Jane Morris is a singer-songwriter. She has a back-catalogue of fifteen solo albums since establishing herself as a lead vocalist in the 1980s with bands such as The Republic,…
Going Back to Zombie School
By Sonny Levitt A young Hastings man considers what it means to get an education. I grew up loving books. I started reading by myself at the age of four,…
Landscaped Solitude
Alexandra Whatley ventures into the studio of local artist Adrienne Hunter and finds that some disorder helps reveal the individual. Gestural, raw, playful, these are the words that spring to…
HIP Congratulates Project Art Works as Runners Up in this year’s Turner Prize
Project Art Works Exhibition at the Hastings Contemporary We hope that the recognition of collective action, artists and activism so clearly articulated in the Turner Prize 2021, represents acceptance of…
Magnificent Madness?
Nick Pelling attends the St Leonards’ premiere of a documentary about the making of a film by the former Monty Python star Terry Gilliam. Have you ever thought that a…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We became Postmodern By Stuart Jeffries Published by Verso, 2021 hardback, £20 rrp Review by Tim Barton Jeffries is not seeking to give a…
Fat Tuesday Team get the Ball rolling for 2022
By Ben Cornwell Bringing the colour, costumes and carnival spirit of New Orleans, Hastings Fat Tuesday, the UK’s largest Mardi Gras celebration, is returning in 2022. The festival is made…
Calling all Art Hounds
As everyone knows, the art and popular culture market is a fickle one. Often seeming irrational. Why, for example, is George Formby’s banjo-ukelele worth more than Noel Gallagher’s hand-written lyric…
Travel writing begins at Home
A Youthful and Fearless Sonny Levitt begins a personal adventure. Nothing quite went right the morning of my first hike. I’d realised the night before I had the wrong type…
Will You Stay in a Lovers Story?
By Nick Pelling I have to admit that I tend to regard The Crown Pub in Old Town as somewhere to get a pint of stout. Forgetting that it is…
Just What is a Poetry Brothel?
An intrepid HIP reporter went to investigate I should admit to being rather a virgin when it comes to Poetry Brothels. To be honest, I had no idea what to…
Capturing Lives Up Close
By Ben Cornwell Documentaries are by no means a new form of film. But their popularity appears to have grown in recent years, particularly with streaming giants such as Netflix…
Beastly Dark Heart
Kent Barker reviews the latest work from Hastings playwright and director John Knowles. I’ll tell you something for nothing: the three people I would least like to be stuck in…
Hastings Musical Festival 2022
Entries Close 30 November 2021 Calling all amateur dancers, musicians, singers and spoken word enthusiasts in Hastings for the 2022 Musical Festival. Every year since 1908 there has been a…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
COP26 Part 3 Who Owns The Wind? By David McDermott HughesPublished by Verso, 2021 Paperback, £ rrp Review Tim Barton Here we are post-COP26, hopefully angry at the usual greenwash…
It’s back and it’s live: the Hastings Musical Festival
Francesca Barrett (10) explores an annual ; The Hastings Musical Festival is a music, drama and dance competition that helps young people develop a passion for any of the three…
Big Sparks at The Electro
Nick Pelling looks forward to a special exhibition. The current exhibition at the Electro Studios looks set to be quite something. It carries the title A Sense of Place, but…
Now give me money
How can a professional musician survive on the £10 per gig that some venues in Hastings pay? Now the company behind Coastal Currents and Audiotrope has produced a Charter to…
A Very Live Parrot
Gareth Stevens reviews ‘Parroting’, a multi-media exhibition by Josie Rae Turnbull and Kate Tipler currently at Zuzushi Art Laboratory. The significance of this exhibition is multi-layered and complex. A subtle…
Blooming Opera
Seventeen-year-old music student Tom Bruges reviews Barefoot Opera’s community production of BloomBritannia, having taken part as one of the choirs brought in to amplify to performance. As the final…
Magpie Logic
Nick Pelling meets local artist Daisy Clarke and finds in her work gardens of earthly delight – just round the corner from Lidl. Imagine a magical world without men. A…
Extracts from the Audiotrope Good Practice Charter
The charter is a set of principles that cover freelance musicians’ working conditions and sets out minimum terms and conditions for musicians working in the sector. Venues are encouraged to…
Gentrification and the Pub Landlord
Mike Willis, a singer songwriter and music promoter originally from Nashville, is now an evangelist for the Hastings music ; Here he reflects on Audiotrope’s charter for musicians. Most reading…
ARTS DIARY
Budding Butterworth Darling Buds of May actor Tyler Butterworth tells the funny, moving and unashamedly nostalgic story of his much-loved parents, the nation’s first female TV impressionist Janet Brown and…
Music for Wellbeing
The Music Well provides music therapy and musical activities in the community and educational settings in Rye, Bexhill, Rother and Hastings & St Leonards. The aim is to improve outcomes…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
COP26 Part 2 Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is not EnoughBy Holly Jean BuckPublished by Verso, 2021 Paperback, £ rrp Review Tim Barton Here is a warning, from Bill…
It’s a Kind of Magic
By Nick Pelling Some people say that working with clay is addictive. They have got a point but at least it is one of the few addictions that is actually…
Murderers Are Optimists: Old Friends with a New Sound
By Joshua Colgan Blasting onto the local music scene in the past year – merging sounds of old school rock and punk – comes the disconcertingly named group, Murderers are…
Yabba Dubba Do!
Review by Kent Barker What’s in a name? If it’s Montague or Capulet it may be obvious but when it comes to musical genres it quickly gets confusing. The band…
Taking Shots at Reality
By Nick Pelling Werner Herzog once said that “the documentary film is simply fiction films in disguise.” Certainly, the recent Kino Documentary Film Festival showed that the genre can unspool…
Gaining Ground
Women Claiming Space Photographic Exhibition at the Hastings Arts Forum. The forthcoming photography exhibition at the Hastings Arts Forum promises to be an intriguing affair. The gallery will be displaying…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
COP26 Part 1Losing Earth: The Decade we Could Have Stopped Climate Change By Nathaniel RichPublished by Picador, 2020 Paperback, £ rrp at Bookbusters Review of Tim Barton Put aside the…
And the Winner is?
By Nick Pelling By now, anyone with a vague interest in the art world, probably knows that our local art collective, Project Artworks, has been short-listed for the national Turner…
HIP POETRY READ
William McGonagall on speed? More Poems From The Boreen By Tom O’BrienPublished by tomtom-theatre, Paperback, £ Review by Pete Donohue Tom O’Brien is an Irish writer, playwright and poet who has…
14 Months of Solitude
Gareth Stevens previews an upcoming group show by four Hastings based photographers at Electro Studios Project Space. Many local artists from across the range of creative endeavours have alchemically developed…
From Skater to Curator
By Nick Pelling Street Art has come a long way – from Manhattan’s lower East Side via Shoreditch to Norman Road St Leonards. It has also become a rather more…
ARTS DIARY
Beginning Again The Wealden Consort choral singers are preparing for an ‘uplifting’ choral and classical music concert in Christ Church, Silchester Road, St Leonards on Saturday 30th October. The concert,…
Rest, Observe and Listen
By Gareth Stevens Many would forgive Nancy Odufona for politely declining the opportunity to prepare a one person show at BlackShed Gallery. After a tough academic year, she recently landed…
Aspirations Unveiled
Ross Fraser-Smith found an unpretentious nurturing of local talent in the return of the Hastings Literary Festival. This year’s Hastings Literary Festival boasted a wide variety of events, including publishing…
HIP LIT NEWS
Hastings Lit Fest anthology Literary Festival helps to fast-track new writers into print One of the many successes of this year’s Hastings Literary Festival has been Dateline Hastings: 23-09-21, an…