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White Liars and Black Comedy
Merlin Betts Previews the Peter Shaffer double-bill Directed here by Leigh Shine, to be performed at the Stables Theatre Now, the word “farce” doesn’t always get the respect it deserves. Apart…
Arts diary
The Laughing Stag Returns!On Friday 19th April, the Stag Inn, Hastings, is proud to present comics William Stone, Mel Byron, John Rands and Emily Kennedy-Barnes, compered by Mistress of Ceremonies…
On Life, Peril, Community And Photography
A conversation with Cathy Teesdale By Caf Fean I cheated death in the summer of my second year while studying English Literature at Exeter. I was trying to scramble down…
A Town Explores A Book
Exploring Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe4th – 22nd April 2019 Full content: What happens when a community explores its literary heritage?We bring inter-community literary conversations out on the value all…
Trevor Watts @80 – Musical Pioneer, Part 3
Trevor Watts, long-time Hastings resident and globally renowned pioneer of improvised music, turns 80 this year. Andrew Myers caught up with him for a couple of pints at the Jenny Lind.…
Constructed Geographies
ROWENA PRICE tells us about a new visual arts exhibition celebrating the rich and untold diversity of Sussex Constructed Geographies – a touring visual arts exhibition featuring seven acclaimed local…
Exploring A Book Outdoors
St Leonards’ #ATownExploresABook festival comprises a multitude of community explorations and one of the best-loved aspects of this emerging two-week spring holiday festival is the outdoor art. Andrew Myers caught…
Bloom Britannia: Take Part In Barefoot Opera’s Thrilling New ‘People’s Opera’
Barefoot Opera’s new ‘people’s opera’ - inspired by and involving people in the towns of Hastings, St. Leonards and Bexhill - began development in 2018 with a vibrant research and…
HIP TRAVELOGUE
A ruin, a black cat, a talking sheep and a yew treeBy Roz Cran We are walking to Fore Wood. We head along the path between Crowhurst church and an…
Trevor Watts @80 – Musical Pioneer, Part 2
Trevor Watts, long-time Hastings resident and globally renowned pioneer of improvised music, turns 80 this year. Andrew Myers caught up with him for a couple of pints at the Jenny…
The Printworks Slam Sandwich
Maya Ostle reviews the Printworks’ regular poetry and spoken word competition or “slam” night On Thursday, February 28th at the Hastings Printworks, Slam Dunk poetry returned – back on the…
Community Investigation of Solitude
Explore the Arch tell us about their involvement in the upcoming #ATownExploresABook19 festival A Town Explores A Book is back and, in its third year, this most innovative and creative…
Trevor Watts @80 – Musical Pioneer, Part 1
Trevor Watts, long-time Hastings resident and globally renowned pioneer of improvised music, turns 80 this year. Andrew Myers caught up with him for a couple of pints at the Jenny…
Hastings Calling!
Barefoot Opera, Hastings Fringe and the Observer Building need you! Barefoot Opera’s new ‘people’s opera’ was created through engagement with the people of Hastings, St Leonards and Bexhill. The creative…
He Said, She Said
By Gareth Stevens Many artists stand back from the subject that fascinates them to view it in its entirety and to best record what they see and feel from a…
PREVIEW: Royal Audience in the Stables
Merlin Betts previews The Audience, showing at the Stables Theatre from 8th-16th March Did you know that most weeks the Queen has a private meeting with the current Prime Minister,…
DocFest 2019
By Gareth Stevens For Olga Mamonova, artistic director at Kino-Teatr and DocFest 2019 curator, the allure of the documentary film is its inherent ability to intertwine human stories with political…
Becky Beasley Tells It Like It Is – Part 3
A three-part interview with Hastings-based Paul Hamlyn Foundation, winner of the Award for Artists 2018 By Caf Fean Becky draws our attention to some pressing personal and local concerns –…
DocFest 2019: Nae Pasaran
By Gareth Stevens Slanted propaganda would have us believe that the British Trade Union movement did little but “bring the country to its knees” during the 70s as it fought…
Arts diary
Hastings and the surrounding area is teeming with inspiring and offbeat individuals, cultural events and activity. Here’s what’s on our radar. Zoe Sim, Cotswolds Way at Lucy Bell GalleryPICTURE: Zoe…
/////REFLECTIONS: Milestones and Shackles
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss A trio of special occasions befell the Lantern Society over the last two months. December saw our second…
Jason Yarde – #AcouBomb
Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer Jason Yarde is one of Britain’s foremost jazz musicians and will be familiar to Hastings jazz heads as one-sixth of supergroup Hexagonal. He talks to…
If Music Be The Food Of Love, I’m Out Of Luck
I haven’t got any musical talent and I don’t mind. Which reminds me of a programme I saw about overweight kids. They asked a girl whether she was concerned about…
Arts diary
Hastings is busting at the seams with offbeat and unusual cultural events. Here’s a few of the things on our radar for the next few weeks! Hastings has been hitting…
Carla Wright In Conversation
By Caf Fean I’ve never run a creative studio before. Using a kiln, being the guardian of other people’s work: it’s scary! Every time I come in here, I just…
Eden Kotting: Ahoy There
See Spray Gallery, Hastings. Eden Kotting shows a range of vivid drawings, some that playfully jam with iconic song lyrics, poignant small table sculptures and two short animations 'Dog ate…
Arts based New Year’s Resolutions
New year, new you – we asked some of the Arts pages’ contributors and pals how they hope to kick off 2019 Sarah Gomes Harris, animator, art director, screenwriter:To draw…
Becky Beasley Tells It Like It Is – Part 2
A three-part interview with Hastings-based Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists 2018 Caf Fean Hastings-based artist Becky Beasley enjoys digging into all aspects of the human experience to inform her…
Council Pulls Funding For Coastal Currents
After providing core funding of the town’s major arts festival, Coastal Currents, for the past 20 years, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has decided that it can no longer afford to…
V, Fetch Theatre
By John Knowles V is an epic modern poem set in the 1980s written by the highly acclaimed Tony Harrison. The Mary Whitehouse group tried to ban the poem, alongside…
Major Arts Seedbed opens in Three Oaks
By David Burns What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long…
The Arts Forum Grand Bazaar
Hastings Arts Forum Come and help support a much-valued local resource. The Arts Forum is experiencing a big financial crisis and needs help to ensure it continues giving the unique…
Drawing Life: The Exhibition
By Julia Mortimer We here at HIP have written before about the Drawing Life project and the benefits it brings to people living with dementia in care homes in the…
Becky Beasley Tells It Like It Is – Part 1
A three-part interview with Hastings-based Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists 2018 winner. By Caf Fean Hastings-based artist Becky Beasley enjoys digging into all aspects of the human experience to inform…
The Circus is Back in Town
ExploretheArch Christmas show recalls the heyday of the big top. By Andrew Myers The dust has barely settled from experiential theatre company ExploretheArch’s extraordinary sell-out November production, The House of Armistice,…
Sir David Hare at the National
HIP’s Tom Daldry secures an exclusive interview with playwright Sir David Hare in the press office at the National Theatre during the opening run of his latest play On the…
Vocal Explosion
By Gareth Stevens Juliet Russell’s music has been both heard and sung by over 40,000 people in over 30 countries. Closer to home she leads the ‘Gospel Soul Choir’ in…
Musical treasures on our doorstep
Hastings Philharmonic (Chamber Ensemble) perform Schubert, Dohnanyi and Brahms with polish and verve Christ Church St Leonards-on-sea, Saturday 1st December 2018 By Andrew Myers If, like me, you have fallen…
Hastings Independent Art Auction
Browse our auction brochure ahead of the auction on Tuesday, click here Support your independent press.
Creative Christmas shopping at the Arts Forum
By Fiona McGarry If you’re looking for interesting local arts or crafts for Christmas presents, Hastings and St Leonards are bursting at the seams with Christmas fairs and bazaars this…