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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…
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 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…
Every Woman Every Man, Join the Caravan
Of love. Oh those old-fashioned rhyme schemes bumbling along there. So disarming. Local company Theatre Nation's excellent play Caravan of Love is soon to return from this year's socially distanced…
Ohm Boy at Stella Dore
So Hugo Farmer might not be a name you're familiar with, but you probably will be familiar with his work via a certain well-known street artist who, for legal reasons,…
Hastings Musical Festival is going Virtual!
By Jenny Griffiths Hastings Musical Festival has been going since 1908 – that’s 112 years! We are certainly not going to let Covid defeat us. However, because of the ongoing…
Stables doors open
A cash injection of £71k from the Government’s Cultural Recovery Fund is cause for celebration at Stables Theatre Hastings. The news comes as the volunteer-run venue prepares to open its…
Painting with a Needle
When Caroline Morris opened her bespoke millinery shop in Kings Road, St Leonards in 2019, she was keen to generate “a creative exchange” by collaborating with other local artists –…
HIP INTERVIEW
Should We Fall Behind By Sharon Duggal, Bluemoose Books, 2020 INTERVIEW BY LUCY BROWN Brighton author, Sharon Duggal, launches her latest book Should We Fall Behind on October 22nd. The novel…
A Spiralling Project
Interview with Sophie Shaw Treatments: What We Find and What We Bring opens on 10th October at Electro Studio Project Space. Benji Thomas talks with artist Sophie Shaw, who breaks…
Human Gatherings Exhibition
“No matter how artful the photographer, no matter how carefully posed his subject, the beholder feels an irresistible urge to search… a picture for the tiny spark of contingency of…
Time Is On Our Side – Despite Delay!
Southwater Area Community Centre is running a new comm-unity-based art show called Time Is On Our Side from 9th October. The show was originally planned for April as part of…
Bar Talk With Tim B’vard
The Bavard Bar has now been running for nearly three and a half years at the Kino in St Leonards and in ;Following its return to the Kino on 16th…
Hastings Live Music… an introspective
Is it as vibrant and as creative as we think it is? Gareth Stevens and Mike Willis assemble a small group of musicians and promoters to discuss this and other…
HIP READ
Awakening of Spies By Brian Landers RedDoor Press, paperback £, pp304 Review by Elly Gibson Awakening of Spies is the first book in ‘the Dylan series’, a set of four…
Public House at the Dirty Old Gallery
The canvas of carpet. The heaven of slots. The Khaos of blackboard. And one of the more depressing football games you've seen in years. England v. Germany 2010. We lost…
Streets of Style in Hastings & St Leonards
You could say that Sue Tilley knows a thing or two about style, having previously moonlighted as club kid in residence at performance artist Leigh Bowery’s legendary Taboo nightclub, whilst…
Story Time: at home on the pier
By Fiona McGarry We humans have a great need for narratives. An example is the way my three-year-old granddaughter asks for stories about all the happenings in her life. After…
An absurdist masterpiece
Andrew Myers reviews Avanti West Coast Online Booking Experience (Anonymous) In 1961, the avant-garde artist Piero Manzoni placed a metal pedestal upside-down in a field in Denmark, effectively turning the…
Seascapes
Although not directly on the coast, Rye Art Gallery is home to many living and now departed maritime artists. The Gallery’s Education and Outreach Officer, Louise Simkiss Day, describes their…
Back to the Bar
By Fiona McGarry It was good to see the return of the Bavard Bar to the Kino on Wednesday – the first live Bavard since lockdown. The event normally involves…
HIP AUTHOR INTERVIEW Things in Heaven and Earth
By Jane MetcalfePaperback, £ INTERVIEW BY LUCY BROWN St Leonards author Jane Metcalfe launched her book Things in Heaven and Earth at the town’s Funky art gallery on Sunday. A…
HIP OBITUARY Untimely death of an anarchist
Inspirational campaigner and long-time Hastings resident Stuart Christie has died aged 74 Although ultimately a proud Scot, Stuart Christie – writer, editor, publisher, translator, anarchist campaigner and a deeply humane…
Alessandro Raho: the making of an Artist
Alessandro Raho is one of the artists that recently took part in the Everyday Heroes Exhibition organised by the Southbank Centre to celebrate frontline workers during lockdown (read Local artist…
The Hastings Trawler
Set up in 2005 by local people disenchanted with the Council (not unlike HIP a decade later) this magazine spread its literary net far beyond politics to encompass history, poetry,…
HIP YOUNG WRITING
Get Hastings Reading Our passion for words goes viral By Stephen Ratcliffe Culture Shift, a key partner in the Get Hastings Reading campaign, has launched a series of short films…
Renewed talent and life expressed
Mo El-Kadey is a British-Egyptian Abstract Expressionist Painter and a proud Anglophile, now based in St Leonards-on-Sea. As a child Mo developed a powerful desire to communicate and tell stories…
South Coast Film Festival
On the 15th and 16th August, we saw the first South Coast Film Festival take place in Hastings Old Town. It’s an independent celebration and examination that will run annually…
Creative Alchemy in the Time of Pandemic
By Tom Daldry Recent events have put a great strain on theatre providers worldwide. We at Hastings-based theatre company, Theatre Nation have been no exception but are adapting to the…
Young writers publish lockdown book to raise charity cash
BY HYW A group of young writers have collaborated with young people in and around Hastings to produce an anthology of stories, poems and lockdown diaries. The group, Hastings Young…
Hastings Open 2020
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery (HMAG) is back celebrating some of the South East’s best artistic talent, alongside national and international work, in the inaugural Hastings Open. The exhibition will…
Vision of sound
By Rupert McAvoy What struck me first about Vision of Sound, a fortnightly podcast created by photographer and artist Georgina Cook, was the quality of the production. But the effort…
Art and Science Collide at the BakiiBak Gallery
Artist Benjamin Sean Lees relocated to Hastings from London in January of this year, having completed his studies in Fine Art at The London Metropolitan University School of Art, Architecture…
Online and Appointment-only Gallery Opens in Fairlight
Jason Michael Gallery was being developed prior to the Covid-19 virus outbreak but, given the restrictions that we all face, its owner – the eponymous Jason Michael – decided to…