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HiFest… Catch It While You Can!
Anyone who’s been to The Printworks on Claremont knows that it’s an extraordinarily versatile space. Not just an atmospheric bar, concert hall or private function venue but, this weekend, host…
Six of the best: Hastings-based Jazz Sextet in Tribute to Two Greats
By Andrew Myers September 2018 saw ten years since the death of the South African musician Bheki Mseleku and Hastings-based sextet Hexagonal will be performing his music at a brace…
Arts News in Brief
Hastings is bursting at the seams with inspiring and offbeat individuals, cultural events and activity. As Christmas draws near, some more traditional events appear alongside the usual counter-culture. Here’s what’s…
Painting a Different Story
By Gareth Stevens When the Lord was dishing out one-pointedness she missed a few of us and gave the motherload to Siobhan Stanley. Amongst other things in her time, she…
Robinson Crusoe Announced As Festival Book For #ATownExploresABook19
Almost three hundred years to the day after it was first published on 25th April 1719, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe will feature as the chosen text for A Town Explores…
Painting from the soul
An interview with Khadija Khan by Caf Fean ‘When words cannot express’ is the strapline for Khadija Khan’s first exhibition of her paintings in honour of her beloved partner in…
NOVEMBER: Arts News In Brief
Hastings is bursting at the seams with inspiring and offbeat cultural events. Hard to keep up with it all! Here is a round-up of some of the best recent offerings:…
/////REFLECTIONS: Another depressing one
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss The clocks went back only a few nights before this month’s Lantern Society, so by the time the…
Billy Chainsaw Rips It Up At See Spray
By Tina Morris Big things are afoot artistically on the Queens Road, in fact, the Queens Road is so up-and -coming, it is hitting you square in the face, especially…
Hastings Fat Tuesday Winners!
Our hearty congratulations to Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival for winning Event of the Year 2018 in the Celebration of Sussex Life Awards. Hailed as Hastings’ answer to SXSW in…
New Artwork Brings Lost Landmarks Back To Life
By Andrew Myers I am stumbling around my flat with my headphones on, pointing my iPad at a postcard. The cats don’t seem impressed, but they don’t know that what…
Interactive audience influenced digital mayhem
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 11th November OUTLANDS PRESENTS DRIFT FT. KYOKA / GRISCHA LICHTENBERGER / YTAC By Tina Morris November 11th brings another of the cutting edge OUTLANDS events…
Power and Danger
David Francis reviews Nigel Green’s Dungeness Power Station Photographs at The Printworks Nigel Green’s photographs are every bit as quietly powerful as their subject. Cold, bright colour images of vast cathedral…
Hastings Steels the Show
Mark Steel is back in town. This time he’s coming to Hastings. Mark Steel, St Mary in the Castle, Wed 10th October Review by Andrew Myers The BBC are coming…
A Glimpse into Hidden Worlds
Two new exhibitions explore, in their very different ways, themes of hidden worlds and seclusion By Andrew Myers, Roger Hopgood, John Stezaker In Search of Something at St Mary in…
Eleven is the Number – Explorations of #Armistice100
Poppies, silence, rows of still people clutching orders of service – the country is preparing for #Armistice100, drawing to a close four years of events to mark the centenary of…
/////REFLECTIONS: This One Has A Chorus
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss The summer doldrums appeared well and truly over, as a mighty wind of Lanterneers made it standing room…
Emerging Jazz Festival Puts Hastings On The Groove Map
By Andrew Myers ‘We do like to groove beside the seaside’ was the tagline for the first Emergence festival last weekend (28-30 Sept 2018), but it could equally well have…
Raw Refinement
The RAW Show at Omega Studios 28th September to 28th October, curated by Tessa Sambrook Review by Simone Witney This is a truly extraordinary show; not just for the quality…
A Shaman at the BlackShed
Chris Milton’s Show Reviewed by Gareth Stevens Chris Milton approaches painting and drawing with a stoic resolve. He is the real deal, no word of a lie. His mission and…
Hastings Early Music Festival
By Jane Gordon and Caf Fean Hastings Early Music Festival returns this Autumn, featuring world-renowned choir, THE SIXTEEN. One of the newest festivals in the area, the line-up presents established…
Nostalgia for Early Plugins….
by James Weaver At the moment it feels like I encounter or hear about new music-related occurrences in this town on an almost weekly basis: people relocating here, connections made,…
Coastal Currents – Looking Back and Looking Forward
by Jilliene Sellner As we move through mid-September we have so far experienced an impressive first half of Coastal Currents. It seems to me as though the curated program has…
/////REFLECTIONS: Back In The Room
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss. At the beginning of each Lantern Society, after darkness descends and the flickering flame is ignited, my wife Hannah-Lou…
Zeroh Studios presents MOTHer
By Sophie Shaw We ran an article in the last issue of HIP by local author Gareth E Rees that spoke of strange happenings on the beach in St Leonards.…
An interview with Becky Beasley
By Jilliene Sellner Artist and guest curator of this year’s Coastal Currents, Becky Beasley, describes her involvement with the festival with humble enthusiasm, excited both about her work and the…
Making a Mark
By Tina Morris, director of Coastal Currents I’m proud to say that by the time you read this, four new pieces of street art will have been installed in Hastings.…
Olly’s Studio Smells Of Paint
By Michael Smith Olly’s studio smells of paint, and not the Farrow & Ball kind. It smells of actual oil paint, the type that artists paint with. I loved the…
“FREAK STORM BAFFLES LOCALS”
By Gareth E Rees At approximately 2am on 7th August, residents on the South East Sussex coast reported a freak storm on the English Channel. Sudden gusts of wind, rain…
The West Marina Diving Tower Project and Memorial Device Exhibition
Built in 1933 and demolished in 1989, the celebrated St Leonards on Sea Lido has left a legacy of memory and desire. By Colin Booth Almost everyone over the age…
///// REFLECTIONS – Songwriters Takeover The Stade
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss On Saturday 11th August, the Lantern Society emerged from its candlelit home, blinking, into the sunshine for the…
Project Art Works turns Premier Inn Walls into Exhibition Space
By Tim Corrigan At Project Art Works we collaborate with people who have complex needs, their families and circles of support. Our mission is to change lives through art by…
100 years and what have we got?
by WOMEN’S VOICE Following its big event to celebrate women winning the vote in 1918 which took place in June, Women’s Voice is now turning its attention to women’s lives…
COUNTY MUSIC SERVICE – Funding Issue Escalates
We have reported previously on ESCC’s plans to cut their funding for the East Sussex Music Service hub (ESMS) so that teaching of musical instruments on an individual basis or…
Idling in India
Miranda Innes responds to a new book of photographs photographs taken by Annie Owen Annie Owen has a hunter’s vision and skill, tracking and capturing singular, extraordinary moments. She doesn’t…
Garden of Cultural Delights
A rich array of talent will be on display in St Leonards Gardens on August 12th as the 8th annual Garden of Delights takes place. Acrobats, dancers, singers and musicians…
Brimming with Life
A rainforest has appeared in St Leonard’s. Artist Lawrence Hosannah tells HIP about the town’s newest mural My brother Aaron Hosannah and I were commissioned to create a large-scale mural…
Stars of stage and screen come to Fairlight Hall
Shakespeare’s As You Like It will be performed by a talented cast in the stunning gardens of the East Sussex stately home on 17-19th August 2018. Forget treading the boards,…
A Gap in Local History
Launching the West Street Chronical. By Tom Daldry Neoliberal political economy and academic research have one thing in common: the non-negotiable need to uncover (and then nail shut) a ‘gap…
Hanging on by a thread
Mark Wallinger at the Jerwood Gallery Review by Jilliene Sellner Mark Wallinger, known for his droll installations and winner of the 2007 Turner Prize, brings his thoughtful witticism to the…