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Solaris Print – Right Place, Right Time
Artist and fine art printer Alexandra Drawbridge has been operating Solaris Print from a shop on Norman Road since last August, and her accompanying exhibition space has brought the town…
Sea, Sun and Classical Music
HIP talks to violinist Jane Gordon on what it has been like to move to St. Leonards and set up a new festival here one year on. PICTURE: Ben Borley…
Brandalism Comes to Hastings
On a billboard at the corner of Mount Pleasant Rd and Manor Rd is a monochrome image of a young woman cleaning a toilet. ‘Saint Shelley’ is the only text.…
Have Your Say in a new ‘People’s Opera’
Barefoot Opera is developing on an ambitious new ‘people’s opera’ called A Town. It is based on the lives and stories of people living on the South Coast in the…
New Chair for Hastings and Rother Cultural Leaders Group
Liz Gilmore, director of Jerwood Gallery has taken up the post of chair of the Hastings and Rother Cultural Leaders group. Paul Barnett, Liz Gilmore, Cllr Kim Forward, Cllr Peter…
Art on the Allotment
Rod Webb Residents of Hastings and St Leonards might be aware of the abundance of artists, musicians and other creatives in the town, but perhaps less sure of how they…
The Fringes are Back
Two Fringe Festivals return to Hastings – Hastings Fringe Comedy Festival, between June 13th and 17th, and Hastings Fringe Festival, throughout July. An explosion of laughter is promised from the…
AXIS: LONDON MILANO
By Judy Parkinson It was with some intrigue that St Leonard’s based artist Alan Rankle opened an invitation from Andrea Vento, former Director of Culture in the city of Milan,…
Festival 15
Dave Young meets Matthew Burrows – curator of the forthcoming Hastings Art Forum anniversary exhibition “A contemporary painting show, to demonstrate the work of significant artists living or connected to…
Vincent Lines
By Anna King On 22nd April 50 years ago, Vincent Lines, Hastings resident, artist and former Principal of the School of Art, died. The anniversary is being marked by an…
It Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song?
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss The Lanterns seemed that much brighter this month, as did the sense of society, as a select crew…
Jumble Sale & Daytime Rave!!
A local group of creatives, including artists, designers, DJs, poets, activists and fashion designers, are hosting a jumble sale and daytime rave on Good Friday at Mercatoria Business Centre Studios. You…
Danny Pockets: 5.11.64-12.3.18
Heartbreakingly, Hastings and St Leonards’ art community last week lost one of its favourite and most inspiring lights, Danny Pockets, to cancer. By Andy Fyfe A driving force of East London’s…
Jerwood To Take Part in Nationwide PROCESSION
This June a major, nationwide, mass-participation artwork will celebrate 100 years since some women gained the right to vote, and Hastings and St Leonards will be represented. The Jerwood Gallery…
Danny Pockets and Shuby at the St Leonards
Celebrated artists Danny Pockets and Shuby have worked together at the Artist Led Collective Compendium Studios in St Leonards for six years. A new exhibition at The St Leonards on…
HIP READ: Getting Headway
Enigmatic in title and content, Headway, the first novel by Kit Battenberg is many things An existential novel addressing – sometimes aggressively confronting - the human condition, whilst gesticulating dramatically…
Rebecca E Marshall – Fever of the Light
S J Lloyd Rebecca Marshall’s new installation at blackShed gallery is a thoughtfully layered piece that situates us between three simultaneous screens. One frames a hermit living alone deep in…
BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW
Struggle in a Time of Crisis Edited by Nicolas Pons-Vignon & Mbuso Nkosi Pluto Press, paperback, rrp £, REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Rooting the current crisis in the financial &…
Siberian weather suits Russian piano winner
Julian Norridge reports The snow, ice and freezing east wind flaying the outside of the White Rock Theatre last weekend found suitable echo inside the auditorium as this year’s Hastings International…
A Vehicle for Change?
L to R: Paul McGann, Paul Moriarty, Andy Roberts, Dorian Healy, Beverley Martin, Richard Oriel, Peter Løvstrøm, Antonia Bird, Robin Hayter, Malcolm Heywood PICTURE: Ravi juneja Actor and Independent filmmaker…
Giovanna Del Sarto and Bern O’Donoghue Present Another Crossing
Another Crossing by Giovanna Del Sarto Wednesday 28th February at Hastings Debates (Hastings Community of Sanctuary), The Printworks, Claremont, Hastings BY FELICITY LAURENCE Another Crossing is a collaborative artistic venture…
///// REFLECTIONS – Honesty is the Best Policy
A new monthly column, reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club BY TREVOR MOSS February’s exceptional edition of The Lantern Society saw one accomplished performer after another gracing…
Oska Lappin’s Scary Vision of America
The American Scream By Oska Lappin If you visited Oska Lappin’s open studio during Coastal Currents last September, you will be familiar with the splashy and expressive red white and…
New Hastings-based Theatre Company Debuts with Hamlet
TOM DALDRY of Theatre Nation tells HIP about this production Patrick Kealey (Artistic Director) and myself (Writer/Producer) initiated Theatre Nation last summer. A(nother) theatre company, a local one; one that…
Fat Tuesday 2018
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK RICHARDS
A Brush With Violence Ghosts, Hamlet and The Art of Butoh
Butoh is an art form which is at the same time instantly recognisable, but extremely elusive of description or definition. Like the paintings of Francis Bacon, the way one is…
Fever of the Light
blackShed Gallery, 17th February – 31st March HIP talks to filmmaker and Electric Palace cinema owner, Rebecca E Marshall, as she prepares to unveil her latest project, Fever of the…
Kevin at the Kino
Thursday 15th February, BY EMMA HARWOOD His guitar playing has accompanied some of the greatest rock stars of our time, his songwriting credits appear on albums by the likes of…
Kino Teatr – Sunday Coffee Concert Series
January 21st Jane Gordon, violin, Jan Rautio, piano REVIEWED BY ANDREA CORSO The Sunday coffee concert series at Kino has been steadily growing in popularity and it is easy to see why such…
My Dad, Gerald Campion
BY ANGELICA CAMPION The first memory I have of my father Gerald Campion (who played Billy Bunter in the TV series 1952 - 1961), was on Christmas day 1963 at our…
Festivals
You can’t throw a pebble in Hastings and St Leonards without hitting a festival – in fact most articles in this supplement contain details on at least one. Here is…
Theatre
BY THOMAS DALDRY Although it’s often under the radar, Hastings has a thriving theatre scene. It is stocked with a wealth of venues, projects and professional theatre makers that operate…
Participation
BY CAF FEAN Delight in a glitzy cabaret strictly for the over 60s, encounter Great Expectations on the streets of St Leonards or play a part in an opera inspired…
Exhibitions
THOMAS DENMAN Earlier this month at Hastings Station, Judy Rogers and Nigel Sinden, the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Hastings, opened ‘Welcome to Hastings’, a lively, multimedia exhibit brought to us…
Classical Music
CHRIS CORMACK REPORTS: Hastings has a wealth of classical music talent, making 2018 a year splendidly rich in events that should enthuse us all. Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition (HIPCC)…
Arts and Culture: The Latest Waves
ERICA SMITH There is so much going on in Hastings and St Leonards that sometimes I dream of moving to London for a quieter life. 16 years ago, I moved…
Music Month – 13 February – 17 March
SALLY LAMPITT REPORTS: Do you love great music? The music scene across Hastings and Rother gets hotter every year and we want to celebrate that. Music Month shines a light…
Live Music
EMMA HARWOOD As home to a vast array of talented musicians and with a reputation for its rich and diverse arts and music scene, it is hardly surprising that the…
Literary Hastings – A Unique Expression
Hastings and St Leonard’s has inspired poets and authors for centuries, some mainstream but most alternative. Today’s local literary creatives offer impassioned insights into our town, together with national and…
A Town – A New Arts Council-Funded Opera Project, by Thomas Denman
Barefoot opera presents Clash. Sussex Coast College, Hastings Barefoot Opera – ‘Hastings and St. Leonard’s very own opera company’ – has been awarded an Arts Council Research and Development Grant…