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The AltPitch Platform
Part of the New Arts and Technology Festival coming to Hastings From the 18th to the end of March, AltPitch Arts and Technology Festival will explore the human aspect of…
Anne Ryan: Earthly Delites
This January, the Hastings Contemporary will hold the first major UK exhibition of work by Irish artist Anne Ryan. The show will be leading the gallery’s ambitious 2020 exhibitions programme,…
HIP LIT NEWS – VOICE
Annual writing competition for children in care and young care leavers. Get published by a UK charity and/or in HIP. By Aneela Mahmood Coram Voice is excited to announce the…
Hastings Fat Tuesday Announce The First 50 Bands
Hastings Fat Tuesday can now announce the first 50 acts to play this year’s festival, already representing the most diverse line up in the event’s history. From Friday night’s indie…
The Fringes Join Forces
A month of independent entertainment returns to Hastings this Summer with Hastings Fringe Comedy Festival (HFCF) which runs from 10th – 14th June, and Hastings Fringe Festival in June and…
Call for Entries: Hastings Open 2020
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is seeking visual artists and makers to enter its new open call exhibition: Hastings Open ; Hastings Open 2020 is an opportunity for UK and…
Wunderkammer: Hastings’ Curiosities
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery’s exciting new exhibition continues into ; Wunderkammer brings together nearly 300 outstanding objects from the depths of the museum’s stores. The exhibition includes marvellous natural…
#Acoubomb – Round TWO!
By Andrew Myers HASTINGS Based Sax Legend Jason Yarde needs your help! Acoutastic Bombastic is a thirteen piece band of some of the top improvisers in the UK – all…
London Mozart Players Kick Off Opus Theatre Residency In Triumphant Style
Saturday 30th November Review by Andrew Myers @twoblackcats11 HIP readers don’t need me to tell them that there’s no shortage of outstanding home grown music talent on offer in Hastings.…
Face Facts
Merlin Betts reviews a show of portraits at See Spray Gallery, Queens ; We’ve talked about Queens Road in HIP before. Like Kings Road in St Leonards it’s a unique…
House of the Internal Combustion Engine
The eclectic team at ExploreTheArch are fine-tuning their Christmas production for its début run on 21st December, and this year’s model looks set to be a cracker. In what may…
O’Higgins and Luft Play Monk and Trane
Jazz Hastings Session 17th December An established giant of the UK Jazz scene and a young ‘firebrand’ will be coming together at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association to promote…
ARTS DIARY
Christmas Art Fair at the Old Gallery Merry Makers Xmas Shakers is a pop-up shop that will feature handmade items sold directly to you by local artisans, the majority of…
RX19 Art Exhibition
Merlin Betts reviews work inspired by the Fishermen’s Museum and Hastings Fishing Community I happened to have had a long day. Cycling along the seafront on that dark and stormy…
GIFTED: Christmas Arts Fair
By Mia L The Christmas Arts Fair is a definitive highlight in The Gallery at Hastings Arts Forum’s annual programme. This unique event is carefully curated to represent the wealth…
Jesus Jones
15th November, The Crypt Reviewed By Mia L Indie rockers Jesus Jones stormed the stage at their recent show in The Crypt, Hastings. Perhaps best known for their smash hit…
An Early Christmas Treat
Hastings Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra performed Benjamin Britten’s St Nicolas, Finzi’s Romance for Strings and Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, at Christ Church, St Leonards Reviewed by Ben Bruges No complaints about…
Hastings’ Two Week Celebration of World-class Artists
Press release provided by Hastings International Piano FestivalThe Hastings International Piano Festival will run from 26th February – 8th March 2020 at White Rock Theatre and St Mary in the…
Arts Diary
Lecture by the Arts Society Rother Valley - The Inventors of Christmas Monday 18th November 2019 at the Hastings Centre, The Ridge, Hastings TN34 2SA, pm. Everyone knows the ingredients…
Photohastings – Part 1
By Mia L Photohastings is a creative photographic umbrella, with a self-initiated remit to develop creative and cultural opportunities for photographers in Hastings and St Leonards. Photohastings – Part 1…
Bloom Britannia Sets Up for Act 2
It’s an exciting and busy season - and year - ahead, for Barefoot Opera. Hot on the heels of a sold out performance of just one act of a new…
Remi is the Vibes Man
Gareth Stevens interviews the indefatigable music promoter and community ; Many of you will already be acquainted with the perpetual smile and warm heart of Remi Vibesman. You may have…
THE CRYPT IS BACK!
Bigger and better than ever… For those who remember The Crypt at its sweaty peak, it’s now back on the Hastings live music scene. After closing in 2011, The Crypt…
Total Threshold
Richard Makin reviews Allan Grainger's “Downland Gloaming”Haiku poems by the artist Allan Grainger, Haystacks, 2018 Fresh mown black hayDusk pales the field’s memory Of past haycocks dry Allan Grainger has…
Project Art Works Asks How We Make Neurodiverse Artists More Visible
EXPLORERS conference: Art, Rights and Representation – November 20 / 21 at Milton Keynes Gallery Coming at a moment of political chaos and general uncertainty about the future in the UK, this…
Cole Moreton, Author of the Light Keeper, Will Host a Reading and Workshop at Birling Gap
Press Release provided by Rhoda Hardie PR The first ever live performance of music and words at one of the world’s great beauty spots will take place on Saturday November…
Opera for the Community Continues!
It’s an exciting and busy season – and year – ahead, for Barefoot Opera. Hot on the heels of a sold out performance of just one act of a new…
Mike Hatchard’s Jazz Workshop
Press Release provided by Soundwaves Community Choir On Saturday 16th November Sound Waves Community Choir are holding a one-day workshop with local singer Mike Hatchard. Mike is a fine jazz pianist,…
A Billion Ways – the Musical about Climate Change – to be Premiered in Hastings.
Press Release provided by the brand new musical on climate change will open in Hastings this month at the Kino-Teatr, featuring an impressive cast of local talent. Script writer Sally…
Photohastings Season of Photography 2019
Press Release provided by Photohastings. The Photohastings Season of Photography for this year is well underway. Two of the critically acclaimed ‘Photology’ photography talks at Printworks in Claremont, Hastings have…
Beloved Clara – A Tale of Love And Loss
Press Release from Hastings International Piano Concerto CompetitionSunday 10 November 3pmSt Mary in the Castle, HastingsAward-winning British actors Lesley Sharp and Sir Simon Russell Beale with pianist Lucy Parham. The…
But Pictures of Our Thoughts
The Edge group: Conversation Solaris Gallery, Norman Road, St Leonards on Sea12th October – 9th November Review by Andrew Myers In this age of information overload, it’s understandable that we…
Schneider’s Awkward Objects
Gareth Stevens reviews an exhibition of sculptures at The BlackShed Gallery Schneider’s work sets a heady spirallic mix of intertwining themes against a more quiet calm air of completion and…
Victor Willing: ‘Visions’
Mia L considers a new exhibition of Victor Willing paintings and sculptures at the Hastings Contemporary Visions is the first major retrospective of artist Victor Willing since his death in…
JAZZ HASTINGS
November 5th SessionJulian Norridge previews a performance of Jim Rattigan’s Pavillon Jim Rattigan is a rare thing in Jazz: a French horn player who for many years has also headed…
Passing of the Light
A quintet of Zoom Artists will meet in an eclectic exhibition that goes well off the beaten tracks. Including photography, fused glass, embroidery, calligraphy and digital imagery, a good selection…
The Selecter 40th Anniversary Tour
Press ReleaseThe Selecter will be playing an extended, hit-rich set with some added live favourites and surprises. Iconic frontwoman Pauline Black returns, co-fronted by original member Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson. They…
Arts Diary
Hastings Arts Forum Big Fundraising Bazaar and pop up cafe!Saturday 26th October 11am-5pm, 36 Marina (under Marine Court) St Leonards TN38 0BU. Art materials and books, quality clothes, plants, material, wool…
Crowley Calling
By Mia LAs I made my way to the outskirts of town on an overcast autumnal night, the scene was well and truly set for an exhibition dedicated to one…
Announcing #ATownExploresABook’s book choice for 2020
St Leonards will be catapulted 800,000 years into the future, and 125 years into the past next Spring during #ATownExploresABook festival. The organisers of one of the region’s most diverse…