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An Interview with Dr Haze
HIP talks to Dr Haze, the founder and inspiration behind Circus of Horrors who still runs the show as the fire-eating ringmaster. How long has the Circus of Horrors been…
Nature Fills a Vacant Space
A group of local artists have been offered a Vacant Space – a residency, in Priory Meadow Shopping Centre. The residency is supported by Axisweb, a network for artists in…
Your Place Arts Project
Hastings-based arts organisation Tempo Arts has developed Your Place, a new digital platform which features the work of five international artists: Greig Burgoyne (Hastings), Claudia Kappenberg (St Leonards), Tom Cardew…
Grounded: A Season of Screendance
Reviewed by Merlin Betts Screendance is a hybrid genre that does what is says on the tin: brings together the norms of screen, particularly cinema, and key elements of dance.…
ED’S PICK
Parasite (Monochrome Edition)Friday 14th August, , Kino-Teatr A 2019 South Korean dark comedy thriller directed by Bong Joon-ho, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Han Jin-won. It stars Song Kang-ho,…
Arts Diary
Premonitions A new mixed media exhibition is showing at Zuzushii Arts Laboratory until 29th August, featuring work by Fumico Azuma, Alexander Brattell, Ben Browton, Tim Can, Kathleen Fox, Jill Rock…
Government Arts Recovery Fund Too Limited?
The government recently announced how it plans to assist arts organisations through the £ recovery package announced last month. In a first round of funding distribution, Arts Council England will…
Ian Land Features In New Towner International Exhibition
The Editor of local art, photography and poetry publisher, Silverhill Press, will be featured alongside 23 other artists selected to participate in the Towner’s new biennial exhibition of contemporary art.…
Keep the Performing Arts Alive As Schools Return from Lockdown
Ellie Peacock responds to the idea that schools should focus primarily on core subjects, particularly English and Maths, from September. School should be a creative, positive, inclusive environment, where pupils…
Local Author Rides To Success On A Mobility Scooter
Back in HIP 148, Literature reviewer Elly Gibson reviewed Strange Exits from Hastings by local author Helena Wojtczak – and very favourably too. Since then Wojtczak has sold more than…
Katie Derham To Judge Music Competition
Following the launch of 2020’s Coro Nuovo Sussex Young Musician of the Year competition last week, the organisers are delighted to announce that broadcaster Katie Derham has kindly agreed to…
OAXACA to HASTINGS via NICE
By Harriet Macaree What am I doing showing paintings in Hastings? I’m not a Hastings woman, but moved here 5 years ago, not just a dreaded DFL (down from London)…
JJ Waller’s Lockdown: Informal Portraits of This Time
“When we look back at the spring and summer of 2020, I think this suit of images will be an iconic memory of this strange time we have all lived…
The Extinct Animal Show at The Dirty Old Gallery
The Dirty Old Gallery, which can be found hidden away in the nefarious backstreets of Hastings Old Town, re-opened its doors to arts-starved locals earlier this month. The Extinct Animal…
Creation in Isolation
It’s not easy being an artist in lockdown. Our worst enemy is isolation: not having something to create about. That can be terrifying, with or without lockdown. But it’s not…
Spirit of Youth
A unique virtual arts festival offers young performers and artists across the region an opportunity to showcase their talents. With theatres closed and many students at home, artists and teachers…
Power and Elegance as Stables Studios Adapts
The Stables Studio newsletter has adapted to the lockdown with all the grace and imagination that is characteristic of everything that the artists at Fairlight do. Photographs of them at…
Silly Squad
Summer reading challenge for 4 to 11 year olds By Karen Bowls (ESCC) Young readers in East Sussex are being encouraged to join the Silly Squad for a summer of…
The Hastings Arts Forum
Onwards and Upwards after Lockdown The Hastings Arts Forum was, like so many galleries, sadly forced to close its doors during the recent lockdown. In addition to the latter, the…
Hastings Musicians
A Lockdown Photo Project With months of live gigs and festivals cancelled, Hastings live music photographer Sara-Louise Bowrey has built a portfolio of portraits capturing the local music community in…
Does England’s Creative Coast Care About Racism?
The answer turned out to be an interesting balance of possibly and, well, no, not very much. I picked the organisation known as “England’s Creative Coast” as a sample rather…
Calling all BAME writers and artists
Submit to a new literary magazine By Rowena Price Writing Our Legacy is delighted to announce its new online literary programme, New Narratives: We Need to Change the Stories We’re…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Resist the Punitive State Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and PrisonsEdited by Emily Luise Hart, Joe Greener and Rich MothPublished by Pluto Books, November 2019, paperback £ Review by…
Online Art Shows Worth a Look
Tempo Arts Tempo Artsis delighted to be working with five international artists to present Your Place, a new digital online project which offers perspectives during the lockdown and beyond. Your…
The Alchemy of Unconscious Drives
By Gareth Stevens “Art is concerned with integrity, inner and outer … the resolution, at least symbolically, of the deep conflicts that occur in a creature condemned to inhabit two…
Everyman or No Man
Gareth Stevens speaks with theatre producer, writer, director and actor John Knowles. John and I meet on an under-promenade bench framed by a white arch that somehow seems perfectly designed…
The Latest #AtownExploresABook20 News
Back on the Street Soon! Having nestled up with viewers at home for the duration of the pandemic lockdown, just as the heritage books that the festival focuses on snuggle…
Festival by the Lake Online
By Gareth Stevens It was inevitable that the Festival by the Lake would be cancelled this year given the current situation. However a similar inevitability meant that Polly Gifford, the…
Artist Spotlight
Tim Riddihough Tim Riddihough is an artist like no other; he’s a builder of worlds, of grandiose totemic structures, fantastical creatures and mysterious motifs. I was first introduced to his…
Sussex Young Musician of the Year 2020
Applications for the Coro Nuovo Sussex Young Musician of the Year competition 2020 are now open, offering young musicians the chance to win up to £1,000 to help support their…
Stitch For Change
Pandemic Patchwork Stories Stitch For Change is a textiles and embroidery project, hosted by The Refugee Buddy Project, Hastings, in response to the current public health crisis. It aims to…
Virtual Spaces at the blackShed: Chris Milton
By Gareth Stevens It would take more than a pandemic to stifle or deter the ongoing creativity of artists and galleries. The blackShed Gallery is continuing to promote the work…
Drawing Life’s No-tech Solution to the Covid-19 Lockdown
Drawing Life, the Hastings-based charity, brings art to people living with dementia and other age-related conditions. Now they are releasing a lockdown-proof sketchbook so that their artists can continue drawing.…
Find a Place you Trust and then Try Trusting it for a While
A (postponed) solo show by Mew Welch My first-ever solo show was going to open at Stella Dore Gallery on July 3rd and this piece was going to be sandwiched…
Artist Spotlight
Susan Evans I was first introduced to Susan Evans’ work as a performance poet when I attended a Meet the Writer event hosted by Creative Future, as part of The…
HIP EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Sir Quentin Blake
HIP Co-Arts Editor , speaks to the iconic artist Sir Quentin Blake, about his illustrious career and new exhibition We Live in Worrying Times, running from May to September of…
Local Creatives Bring The America Ground’s Past To Life
A new set of creative works bringing to life a fascinating area of Hastings is now available to view online. The works were produced for Our Past, Our Future –…
A Word From The De La Warr Pavilion
In 1935 DLWP was designed as a place to bring people together, inside and out, and we will work hard to bring that back to you as soon as we…
Quentin Blake: We Live in Worrying Times
The Hastings Contemporary Review by Mia L Sir Quentin Blake’s new exhibition We Live in Worrying Times, currently on show at the Hastings Contemporary, is a marked departure from his…
Maya’s Time Machine Writing Challenge
Imagine your time-traveller self discovering a favourite building from now as it might look in the future! Inspired by the discovery of the Porcelain Palace in Wells’ The Time Machine,…