Archives for Arts - Page 33
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…
End of Year Exhibitions at the De La Warr Pavilion
Renee So and Mikhail Karikis have taken up the DLWP’s two substantial exhibition spaces until early January 2020. While continuing to integrate thematically with the DLWP’s broader Bauhaus celebration, these…
For The Love Of Sound: Bass, Beat And Family
By Anna Arnone “It was always the sound and the bass that I love. It just gets into you. The first Sound System that I actually went to was Jah…
An exhibition Of Erotic Art at Zuzushii Art Laboratory
Eleven artists from around Hastings join together a compelling mix of styles to produce an exhibition on one theme and one theme only: eroticism. Amazons by Chris Milton This is…
Arts Diary
Beacon Jazz Fans of avant-garde music are in for a double treat at the Beacon in October. Free jazz trio Somersaults are touring their new album ‘Numerology of Birdsong’ (West…
The Hastings Early Music Festival Lowdown
HIP catches up with Festival Artistic Director Jane Gordon, who has deftly been drawing together world-class musicians (with extremely busy international touring schedules) to converge on Hastings and St Leonards…
Let’s Eat Paint!
Paintings by Oliver Crowther at Graze On Grand By Michael Smith The monumental paintings in Oliver Crowther’s latest show might be physically nailed to the tall, white walls of this…
Clash of the Titans
Luke Brabants and Tom Bartlett joint art show4th October to 31st October 2019 • Private View 4th October 6pm – 9pmSee Spray Gallery, 153-154 Queens Road, Hastings Luke Brabants is…
The Sussex Guild Contemporary Craft Show
19th-20th October, 10am-5pmDe la Warr Pavilion For the fourth year running, over fifty Sussex Guild designer-makers will be exhibiting their spectacular and beautifully made crafts in the ground floor auditorium…
Rebel For Life Art Exhibition & Outreach Event
Hastings & St Leonards Extinction Rebellion activists will be holding pop-up art event at “A Wave of Dreams Arts Lab.” 48 Kings Road, St Leonards TN37 6DY on Saturday 5th…
Sister Suzie: A Musical Journey
We often hear about musical journeys, but for Hastings-based singer Sister Suzie it has been a literal and cultural journey as well as metaphorical one. Brought up in a small…
The Weir by Conor McPherson
Showing at the Stables Theatre, Friday 20th September – Saturday 28th September; Director Andrew Bruce Preview by Merlin Betts Sitting in the Cutter with a bundle of friends and sipping…
Bette Davis Supports Ethiopian Dance Centre?
Over at the Electric Palace, Glenys Jacques is hosting a fantastic weekend to kick off October, with a performance of Bette Davis On The Edge on Saturday 5th and then…
Return Of The Sierra Leone Music Quiz – Today Friday!
By Rod Webb Hastings Sierra Leone Friendship Link’s ever popular Music Quiz returns to St Paul’s School, Horntye Road for the fourth time at on 20th September. Regularly attracting large…
Two Of A Mind
Jazz Hastings’ October Session By Julian Norridge Two brilliant saxophonists, Chris Biscoe and Allison Neale, will revisit two classic albums first recorded 50 years ago by jazz legends Gerry Mulligan…
Blindfolded and Bloody
On Saturday 14th September a selection of volunteers from local XR groups took to the streets in an unconventional protest: an arts performance. Taking a new tack, rather than the…
AfriKàBa Arts and Culture Festival 2019
Come, discover something new and hear Africa's musical Lion King in concert, supported by the UK's favourite Congolese band, Kasai Masai. The festival of African and Caribbean heritage, arts and…
Coastal Currents: Favourites
Open Studios at Six The GreenEarlier this year the house hosted a production of the play, Price On Application (by Lisa Harmer-Pope) and it will now be holding open studio days…
Observer Building Opening Its Doors With ‘People and Place’ Exhibition
The landmark Observer Building (OB) is set to open its doors to the town for the first time since its closure in 2016 as a proud partner of the prestigious…
Marie White Lands Keane Support Slot
By Poppy Prescott Hastings singer-songwriter Marie White has been chosen to support pop-rock band Keane on their September/October 2019 ; The 23-year-old is due to tour with the band around…
DANNY POCKETS: Houses of the Holy
Solaris are very proud to present a bold re-staging of the late artist Danny Pockets’ exhibition The Houses of the Holy, which took place at the Royal Albert Hall in…
Crossing the Screen
By Anna Arnone Eastbourne’s International Film Festival, Crossing the Screen, is now into its fourth year, screening a diverse range of features and shorts from around the globe. The festival…
The Art Of A Natural Home
Ben Fenton will be showing his work at Reste, 58 High Street, Hastings, and various other venues over the course of Coastal Currents Festival. Talking about the show at Reste,…
New Queers On The Block National Tour Visits Hastings
NQOTB comes courtesy of Brighton’s Marlborough Theatre and travels around the UK, developing relationships with venues and showcasing a local artist alongside touring performers. Performers Marikiscrycrycry and Adam Frost will…
Milestones Play The Music Of Miles Davis
Kino TeatrSaturday 17th August By Andrew Myers Well, this is embarrassing. I had every intention of reviewing the Milestones: Kind of Blue 60th anniversary show at the Kino. I went…
Rising Talent 4
By Mia L ‘Rising Talent’ is a yearly exhibition held at The Gallery in Hastings Arts Forum in St Leonards. Now in its fourth consecutive year, this highly innovative show…
Salad Daze
Rock’n’roll legend – Wayne Hussey – will be playing an intimate solo show at the Black Market, Hastings on 1st September. Touring in support of his recent autobiography ‘Salad Daze’,…
Relaunch of The Hastings Contemporary
By Mia LThe newly revised gallery space, formerly known as The Jerwood, reopened its doors on Saturday 6th July 2019. I was eager to see how The Hastings Contemporary would…
ARTS DIARY
Terry Seabrook’s MILESTONES Play Kind of Blue KoBIn 1959 Miles Davis and his sidemen (Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Jimmy Cobb and Paul Chambers) made musical history when they recorded…
Painting The Personal And Political
It’s often been tough but making art has been equalled only by political passion in the life of David ; By Dave Young His current exhibition The Cancer Works –…
Known And Unknown
Go down an alley off the main George Street drag and you’ll stumble into West Street, which now has its own book and Instagram space (George Street may have the…
Gathering Atoms
Fresh from shows at Saatchi’s ‘Other Art Fair’ and the legendary Pikes hotel in Ibiza, renowned DJ, record producer and artist Justin Robertson will be in Hastings for the weekend…