Archives for Arts - Page 26
Vox Salva
GARETH STEVENS reviews Juliet Russell’s breathtaking new album: Vox Salva. Like us all, I truly appreciate the depth and breadth of musical talent that we have in our town, but…
Pushing Boundaries at Hastings Art Forum
By Amanda Knight At the end of July, four Sussex artists collaborated to create a unique and dynamic exhibition: Pushing Boundaries at Hastings Art Forum, a focused bid to raise…
Goldberg Variations at the Holy Child
PATRICK GLASS went to see Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the Holy Child on 9th July, with String Trio: Laura van der Heijden (cello), Hélène Clément (viola) and Max Baillie (violin).…
Soliloquy for Sixteen Months
By Stephen John Scene 1 No Fog or Filthy 2nd July 2021 Bowler Crab is about to perform its second Friday show of the summer run. The clock strikes. I…
HIP LIT NEWS
The National Literacy Trust hub in Hastings and REY® paper launch summertime comic book initiative to help children catch up The National Literacy Trust Hub in Hastings and sustainable paper…
Look Through Any Window
Review by Kent Barker Is there just the hint of the peeping Tom in all of us? A nosiness that needs to know what’s going on behind drawn curtains? If…
An Afternoon Out with Cruella de Vil
FIONA MCGARRY is taken out by her mother and lavishly entertained at Hastings’ Posh Club. What is The Posh Club?The poster for the current season in St John the Evangelist…
In Bed with Mr Punch
Bianca Eichler experiences the rise of the angry white working class through the eyes of a recently unemployed Punch and Judy puppeteer. There’s something wrong. There are no shafts of…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Great Adaptation: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe By Romain FelliPublished by Verso, 2021, RRP £, £ at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton The last few decades, from the 1987 UN…
ARTS DIARY
Leaving the Circus India Blue, a St Leonards faerie-folk musician has launched a crowd-funder for her first album titled The Circus Came and ; • Rock On ‘LIVE!’ is…
ARTS DIARY
Literary Festival Competition Hastings Literary Festival is offering 12 writers the chance to see their work published 48 hours after a unique workshop with experienced editors. Winners of a competition…
Hastings Fringe at the Stables
Hastings Fringe Festival is the brainchild of Artistic Director, Heather Alexander. Francis Saunders recently had the chance to catch up with her. The festival normally runs for a month in…
Climate Art at Bridgepoint, Rye
Last weekend saw a surge of visitors to Rye Harbour, intrigued by the large yellow structure that has appeared on the shingle amidst the poppies. The installation is The Beacon,…
HIP POETRY READ
Swallowing Paregoric Babies By Pete Donohue Published by Uncollected Press (ML, USA)158 pp. $15 from publisher or £ from Amazon UKAlso available from local bookshops (signed) Review by Nick Pelling…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Oil Be Damned: Part three Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture By Dale Allen PfeifferPublished by New Society, 2006, £ at Bookbuster Review by Tim…
Sing, Sing, Sing!
By Jane Metcalfe Singing is good for you! That maxim has been around for as long as I can remember. It’s not rocket science. Singing is a positive experience for…
A ‘Spirited’ and Covid-safe performance
By Gail Borrow A 12th century adventure writer, a 21st century audience. ExploreTheArch reopens on Thursday 1st July with twelve performances of Spirited, an outdoor production inspired by the lai…
Concert at the Holy Child
Laura van der Heijden (Cello) and Max Baillie (Violin). Reviewed by Patrick Glass It’s difficult to do justice to this astonishing concert. The many messages the artists have since received makes…
ARTS DIARY
Underground Hastings Art Show This show opened on Wednesday 23rd June and pulls together seven artists with a variety of styles: Katie Ray, Susan Diamond, Ella Guru, Juliet Brando, Vince…
Notes from Underground Wonders of the Woods
The Wilding festival organised by Wood People Connective took place in Church Woods earlier this month. Fiona McGarry went there to see Notes from Underground perform. Approaching the performance area…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Oil Be Damned: Part TwoWhite Skin, Black Fuel: on thedangers of fossil fascism By Andreas Malm and the Zetkin CollectivePublished by Verso, 2021 Review by Tim Barton This is an…
For Better or For Worse
Be sure to visit the current show of photographs by the renowned artist Jane Hilton at Solaris Gallery in Norman Road, St Leonards. Gareth Stevens pays a visit and talks…
Sparkly Bird at the Fringe
By Pat Sweete ‘’How do you live after your sister dies by her own hand? You mourn. Then twenty years later, if you’re strong enough, you write a raw and…
Mew Welch: Pot star
By Gareth Stevens Many of our best loved music icons came to us via Art schools, but it is less usual that successful musicians find fresh passion for the visual…
ARTS DIARY
Black Magik Black Magik Fest is a new arts festival in St Leonards celebrating what it means to be Black and British. It’s devised and curated by resident Jack Kennedy…
Bunker Girls at the Stables
The Stables Theatre recently staged Bunker Girls – set in Berlin in 1945. Francis Saunders watched the opening and closing performances on Wednesday 19th and Saturday 22nd ; This was…
HIP READ
The Rare Metals War By Guillaume PitronPublished by Scribe, paperback 288pp, RRP £ Review by Nick Pelling In the future we will all glide silently in our self-driving electric…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Oil Be Damned: Part OneCrude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation By James Marriott & Terry MacalisterPublished by Pluto, 2021 Review by Tim Barton The borough I went to school…
INTERVIEW
Lost and Found The curator of the new Hastings Contemporary exhibition speaks toKent Barker. “I was open-mouthed in wonder” James Russell told HIP. This was the moment he first laid…
HIP REVIEW
Let me be beside the seaside Kent Barker reviews the summer exhibition at the Hastings Contemporary Does anyone NOT have vivid childhood memories of visits to the beach? Images stuck…
Old Town Outdoor Photo Gallery
More than forty of Hastings Old Town’s shop and bar owners are being celebrated as part of an ‘outdoor gallery’, which has just been unveiled in George Street. The portraits…
Semaphore: Sending out an SOS
On 17th May Hastings celebrated the relaxation of Lockdownwith its first large live event, Semaphore, a site-specific blend of live and digital, of sound, light, fire and performance on the…
INTERVIEW
Carol Prior’s All Choired Up By Caf Fean Monday June 7th brought in a new high note to Hastings’ LGBTQ+ folk, heralding the first in-person meeting of All Choired Up,…
A Summer of Queer Arts
By Emma Joliffe Queer arts have always enabled LGBTQ+ communities to deal with the particular bigotry of the age, either by creating visible, joyful acts of resistance or work which…
Cockroach from the Ashes
By Patrick Kealey – artistic director of Theatre Nation What does a rapidly emerging Hastings theatre company do when Covid stops it dead in its tracks? Forced, last Spring, to…
Music for Dementia
In Issue 172, HIP ran an article about the benefits of music for dementia sufferers: Astonishing Results with Silent Disco. In this issue we look at what St Leonards –…
Punk, Plastic and the Pier
Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché Film review by Martin Dickie A new film about punk icon Poly Styrene opens with a drone shot high above St Leonards before cutting…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy By Göran TherbornPublished by Verso, 2020Review by Tim Barton Therborn has written on the problems of democracy over many decades, and this book brings…
Musical Beacon
Soundcastle, a Hastings music group, has been awarded a grant from the Culture Recovery Fund to support their community music practice. Co-director Rachael Perrin tells HIP what life has been…
Caught by the Boggins
Jack in the Green may be a pre-lockdown Hastings memory, but many other weird and wonderful May Day events take place around the country … as Jamie Sellers discovered when…