Archives for Arts - Page 27
Cosily Creative Two-wheel Studio
Gareth Stevens visits The Mudworks in a repurposed St Leonards’ Garage When well-known Hastings singer Chantelle Duncan first met Graphic designer Isabella Campi at an out-of-town Winter Fair in December…
ARTS DIARY
The Kino Teatr in Norman Road St Leonards reopened with a short season of Oscar nominated or winning films including Nomadland. In June there’s a Coffee Concert: A Garden of…
HIP LIT NEWS
Take10ToRead Hastings joins 100,000 readers across the UK in support of mental health and wellbeing On Monday May 10th, over 1600 people from schools and businesses in Hastings took part…
Ogri, Ogri, Ogri …
Original artworks from the cult cartoon ‘Ogri’ by Paul Sample will be on show at blackShed Gallery from 17th May until 31st July. Forty works and associated merchandise will be…
May Day Tea Party
Most of the live Hastings May Day celebrations might have been cancelled this year, but Liz Emtage launched her new range of tea sets on 1st May to coincide with…
The Joy of Pylons
The latest book by Hastings-based author, Gareth E. Rees, has been longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Here he reveals why the subject matter of Unofficial Britain…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Privatized Planet By T J Coles Published by New Internationalist, 2019, rrp £, Bookbuster price £ Review by Tim Barton Over a decade ago, Cameron, then opposition leader, complained of…
HIP READ
Lost Odyssey By Richard FryerPaperback £ Review by Nick Pelling Richard Fryer is a Hastings man through and through. He loves a pint in the boozy gloom of the Horse…
Auction Winner to Commission Portrait
The successful bidder of an innovative art auction lot will win the rare chance to have a portrait painted or sculpted by a well-known Hastings ; Barefoot Opera is to…
Hastings signals to Earth as it emerges from Lockdown
An unusual and thought-provoking socially distanced event on Hastings’ seafront will herald the end of lockdown and the start of summer. Semaphore, a site-specific blend of sound, light and performance,…
Al Mitchell: A New Age for a New Born Sinner
By Joshua Colgan One of the hardest things for local musicians and bands is to get your name out there and to leave a mark to attract an audience. Al…
Book Choice for #ATownExploresABook22
Having explored Edward Lear’s Nonsense Songs, Stories Botany and Alphabets this April with the community of St Leonards-on-Sea, ExploreTheArch Theatre Company and its festival partners who oversee #ATownExploresABook are excited…
100 Paintings in 100 Days
By Gareth Stevens Khadija Khan considers her newly found passion for painting a gift from her husband. Tragically, Bradford Gross died suddenly in 2017. Known for his boundless energy, humour…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
No More Cakes and Ale? By Sophie NewtonPublished by Turned Brain Books, 2021, rrp £10 Review by Tim Barton I am lucky, my intolerance to gluten is not full-flung hospitalising…
Hastings Rock Radio Back Online
Hastings Rock Radio returns for 2021 on Saturday, 1st May, for another 28-day broadcast. But this year will, once again, be rather different to those that have gone before. Hastings…
Electric Palace virtual film quiz
As part of its reopening plans, The Electric Palace cinema in Hastings Old Town is holding an “energetic” online quiz via Zoom on Friday 30th April,at 8pm. The cinema has…
HPI READ
Always More New & Selected Poems By John D RobinsonHorror Sleaze Trash, paperback $, pp162 The Barbed & the Beautiful By John D Robinson & Marcel HermsPetrichor (NL), hand stitched…
A Summer of Festivals
In 2018, HIP Arts writer, Sophie Shaw, wrote: “You can’t throw a pebble in Hastings and St Leonards without hitting a festival”. Since then, most festivals have been battered by…
Summer Celebration at Hastings Contemporary
Following the news that Hastings Contemporary has been awarded a second significant grant from the Government’s ‘Culture Recovery Fund’, it has announced that it will re-open on 27th May with…
The Blind Girl at Pett Level
This year, the town celebrates Edward Lear who lived part of his life here. But not everyone knows about Lear’s connection with the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; according to Sarah Lodge author…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Diary of an MP’s Wife:Inside and Outside Power By Sasha Swire Published by Little Brown, 2020 Review by Tim Barton Sasha, born Alexandra Patrusha Mina Nott (a name change reminiscent…
Hastings Arts Forum Members’ Exhibition
Hastings Arts Forum is one of the first art galleries to open again this spring, with an exhibition featuring works by HAF members Like many local charities, they have had…
HIP READ
Empireland By Sathnam Sanghera Review by Nick Pelling The British Empire did not decline and fall; it is alive and well. Or, to be more accurate, a distorted dream of…
YOUR Art in OUR Windows
By Gareth Stevens Sometimes an idea so simple can be refreshingly elegant and complete. Such is the case with the current community-based exhibition hosted by the De La Warr Pavilion…
Edward Lear: An Introduction
As part of the exploration of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Songs Stories Botany & Alphabets, you can buy an anniversary copy of the book published by A Town Explores a Book.…
Grand Designs
The Awe-Inspiring Work of Neil Adam Mackay St Leonards-based artist, Neil Adam Mackay, is truly a talent to behold, one with seemingly limitless skill and creative innovation. Woefully unaware of…
POSTPONED Malcolm Glover
By Gareth Stevens Lockdown has meant the cessation of so many social events that, pre-pandemic, we had all taken for granted. It has made us all reflect on just how…
Ignition at Hastings Contemporary
Whilst Hastings Contemporary remains closed to the public, the Project Art Works collective of neurodiverse artists is holding a collaborative residency of workshops in the Contemporary’s Foreshore Gallery from 22nd…
Hastings Digital Museum Celebrates Alexandra Park
To celebrate the arrival of spring, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery has teamed up with local artist and ethical taxidermist, Jazmine Miles-Long, to create a virtual walk through Hastings’ Alexandra…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Capitalism and the Sea By Liam Campling & Alejandro ColásPublished by Verso, 2021 Review by Tim Barton As long ago as the Iron Age, Britain was exchanging goods for profit…
Nonsense Automata
By Lisa Finch With museums closed, Cabaret Mechanical Theatre has been reaching out to its audiences online, running automata-making workshops with people from across the world. But closer to home,…
Join the Opera and Help to Create ‘A Town that Sings’
In HIP Issue 169 Fiona McGarry wrote about the background and development of Barefoot Opera’s ambitious Bloom Britannia project. Now, with Lockdown easing, she looks at how their Bloom ……
Generations: Hastings Fishing Families
By Gareth Stevens It is always admirable when a creative person puts their craft at the service of people in the community - when they not only strive for aesthetic…
Arts Diary
Dates announced for England’s Creative Coast The landmark project, England’s Creative Coast, is shared between seven arts organisations – Cement Fields, Creative Folkestone, De La Warr Pavilion, Hastings Contemporary, Metal,…
AltPitch: Experiencing Art in a Different Space
You may have read the calls for entries for the AltPitch festival – but you may not be clear exactly what the festival involves or how you can watch this…
‘Crossing to Happier Times’ Art Gallery on a Footbridge
A new community initiative has been announced to transform the footbridge at Bexhill station. The footbridge is in constant use by the public to enter and exit Bexhill town centre…
Whistler’s Mother: The Arrangement
A famous resident of St Mary’s Terrace, Hastings, was Anna McNeill Whistler, mother of the artist, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and the subject of his most famous artwork. Gill Metcalfe…
Inside / Outside
Lifesize Experimental Film By Benji Thomas In the autumn of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, Hastings-based company Lifesize began to work remotely with seven young adults to produce…
Arts diary
EDGE – WE MADE IT is a contemporary craft exhibition created by East Sussex College BA Designer Maker students that runs online from 1st March. All students have had to…
COMPETITION NEWS
Poetry can be NonsenseChildren and adults love it By Erica Smith Education Futures Trust is currently sending out hundreds of copies of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets…