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Ready for the Next Act
Someone who has worked hard to keep theatre living and breathing is local writer, producer, performer and theatre-maker, John Knowles. Fiona McGarry spoke to him about what’s in store for…
National Literacy Trust celebrates children’s literacy in Hastings with launch of Connecting Stories
The National Literacy Trust’s Hub in Hastings was launched in January 2018 and is known as Hastings Stories. As part of the Hastings Opportunity Area programme it is a government…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? By Emma DowlingPublished by Verso, 2021, RRP £, £ at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton The care industry,…
Looking at Things: A virtual show to make you look closer
By Benji Thomas With the new year came the same old lockdown challenges for galleries and museums. To get people engaged with their collection from afar, Hastings Museum and Art…
Arts on the Horizon
When we finally get out of lockdown, there’s bound to be huge excitement and enthusiasm for the Arts – the same Arts that we took for granted until 2020. But…
HIP READ
The Last Gift and other Tales By Mary RothwellPublished by Scriptora on 6th January 2021 Review By Pete Donohue In 2019 HIP Literature favourably reviewed local author Mary Rothwell’s poetry…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
How to Blow Up a Pipeline By Andreas MalmPublished by Verso, 2021, RRP £, £ at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton Subtitled Learning to Fight in a World on Fire,…
HIP READs of 2020
The best of the year’s HIP Reads, in no particular order of merit,as chosen by Literature Editor PETE DONOHUE Dhanmondi Road By Young Early in the year HIP’s ELLY GIBSON…
Inside The Mystic Shed
By Joshua Colgan During early 2018 I started to truly discover the vibrant culture Hastings has to offer, and part of this offering were local bands; one of the first…
Zoo Motel
By Gareth Stevens At a time when lockdown has had a catastrophic effect on art forms that are normally experienced in public spaces, there has been a rush to make…
The Dirty Old Gallery
West Street Winter Fair By Benji Thomas In the heart of Hastings Old Town, The Dirty Old Gallery is displaying the best of local artists, makers and creatives in their…
A Spirited Adventure this Christmas
Spirited, is Explore the Arch theatre company’s magical new outdoor festive show, opening on Monday 21st December – an ingenious adventure for six spirited viewers at any one performance. Spirited…
Arts Diary
Hastings Contemporary has re-opened after Lockdown2 with two hugely anticipatedexhibitions – Lakwena Maciver’s Homeplace and Stephen Chambers’ The Court of Redonda. Lakwena Maciver, one of the UK’s most exciting contemporary…
Christmas Joy Around the World
Four local musicians will be bringing some joy into the lives of people around the world when they appear in an online concert organised from St ; Jazz maestro Liane…
Musical Extravaganza from Palestine
An online raffle and musical extravaganza held on Sunday 22nd November raised over £1,000 for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). The Hastings & Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign (HRPSC) organised the…
Ian Wood: Great Apes
Sussex-based photographer and writer, Ian Wood, presents a unique insight into some of the natural world’s most awe-inspiring inhabitants in his exhibition Great Apes (17th October - 17th December 2020)…
It’s Just Four Walls
Why Having an Art StudioIsn’t as Important as I Thought By Benji Thomas It’s the artist’s dream. To stand in your sprawling studio, shelves packed with top quality materials, ambitious…
Drawing Life – from sketchbook to screen
Sussex-based charity, Drawing Life, holds life drawing classes for people with dementia. Project Director, Judy Parkinson, writes about the challenges they faced in 2020. It is said that every cloud…
Hastings & St Leonards Big ADVENTure
Funded by HBC and Good Stuff in St Leonards, Hastings & St Leonards Big ADVENTure is a ‘living advent calendar’ that aims to bring people from local communities together in…
#LockdownLookingAtThings
By Erica Smith The objects we love to live with is the subject of an exciting new online collaborative project that has commenced in Lockdown 2, created by Explore The…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
A Little Light:20 ways the coronavirus response could make the world better Edited by Tom Whipple et al. Published by Sphere, September 2020,hardback rrp £ Review By Tim Barton This…
Clive Garland at Project 78 Returning After Lockdown
By Benji Thomas The second lockdown is now in effect, and once again we’re retreating back into our homes to weather the storm. Project 78 is one of the many…
Audiotrope Supports Local Musicians
By Gareth Stevens Musicians have suffered more than some other of their creative peers during the Covid-19 pandemic because so much of their ‘trade’ is dependent on live performances, but…
Live Before Lockdown
By Lucy Brown It was a rare night out for me; my first time at The Piper, and my first experience seeing live music in St ; There was nothing…
Ruby Colley: Music Making & Yoga Practice for Wellbeing
Ruby Colley, local classically trained violinist, composer and yogi, tells us about how music making and yoga combine to promote wellbeing for herself and for others. In conversation with Caf…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Automation and the Future of Work By Aaron BenanavPublished by Verso, 2020, hardback rrp £ Review By Tim Barton Wandering into town last week, a friend and I got chatting…
A Plague on Their Theatres
Kent Barker finds that the current vicissitudes of the theatre in Britain under Covid has parallels with the Elizabethan stage in Shakespeare’s time. “Actors have always had to juggle a…
Paid work for musicians!
The Trinity Triangle Heritage Action Zone is a four-year, community-led, regeneration programme supported by Historic England to breathe new life into an historic part of Hastings town centre, the Trinity…
AltPitch Online Arts and Technology Festival 2021 –Open for Submissions
AltPitch is inviting individual artists, groups and collectives to submit artwork to be considered for the AltPitch Online Arts and Technology Festival 2021. Curators will select a maximum of 18…
Jaye Ho: The Vanishing Act
Hastings-based artist Jaye Ho’s solo exhibition, The Vanishing Act (6th October-22nd November 2020), explores thought-provoking themes of sexual violence, gender discrimination and conflict, from both a personal and wider societal…
HPO Recital:The Shepherd on the Rock
Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra have been staging a series of recitals to raise money for their 2021 season. Patrick Glass reviews their performance of opera favourites and Schubert’s The Shepherd on…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures By Merlin SheldrakePublished by The Bodley Head, 2020, hardback rrp £ Review Tim Barton For Star…
HIP LIT LOCAL NEWS
Ambitious new bookshop coming to town Despite the current uncertainty of the economy and where Covid-19 restrictions might take us next, a new local independent bookshop is due to open…
HIP READ
Families of Spies By Brian LandersRedDoor Press, paperback, £ by Elly Gibson Families of Spies is the second installment in ‘the Dylan series’, a set of four spy novels by…
HIP LIT LOCAL NEWS
New poetry from Brian Docherty Local poet Brian Docherty, who has been a regular presence at events in Hastings, Eastbourne, Brighton and further afield for several years now, and is…
Project Art Works
Championing Neurodivergence On Screen By Benji Thomas Project Art Works is a collective of artists and makers based in Hastings, and is attracting national attention for its efforts in promoting…
Respire: Suspire Inspire
By Lucy Brown You’ve got your head down, maybe your mask on; quick glance to the side as you walk down St John’s Road in St Leonards and an arrangement…
Hastings Storytelling Festival Goes (mostly) Online
Sometimes fact is indeed stranger than fiction. From the devastation wreaked on the entertainment industry by Covid 19, bright shoots of creativity spring forth. Support from Arts Council England has…
Treatments: What We Find and What We Bring
Review by Benji Thomas In our last issue, I interviewed artist Sophie Shaw about her then upcoming show Treatments: What We Find and What We Bring . The show opened…
“Lockdown”
at Hastings Arts Forum By Benji Thomas Hastings Arts Forum, nestled within Marine Court and facing out to the sea, is currently playing host to Lockdown, an exhibition of works…