Archives for Arts - Page 41
Fill Her Up Mate
Why not spend a Christmassy Sunday down at Borough Wines, making your own modern felt Christmas stocking with Michelle, from Merchant and Mills, whilst supping on warm mulled wine and…
Tense art and Performance Poetry in St Leonards
Local artists Kate Gritton and Valerie Grove brought “Surface Tension" to St. Leonard's in an exhibition expressing the power of the tangible and intangible forces around us. This Hastings Arts…
Lost Magic at the Stables – Ed Boxall and Brian Moses.
By Laurie Taylor. (more…)
Poetry Corner
Pebbles of Life Dave Hempshall Written while co-facilitating Poetry for Recovery course for Hastings Recovery College Pebbles of life move. Shifting brown and grey. Gulls transcend, lifting, preying Struck dumb…
Write on in Hastings: Gavin Martin – Talking Musical Revolutions
Pete Donohue introduces: Hastings & St Leonards based music critic and performance poet, Gavin Martin, has interviewed or reviewed just about any artiste worth knowing about in the music industry…
Get Creative This Christmas
The festive season stalks us once again, presenting the usual difficulty of coming up with interesting and exclusive gifts for family and loved ones. Here in Hastings and St Leonard’s,…
The Jerwood Score a Glorious Century
Charley Bolding-Smith Century, the current exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, brings together the work of 100 modern British artists. It’s a vibrant mix of paintings, sculpture, and works on…
A Callout to all Experienced and Budding Filmakers
Keith Adams Whether an actor, a cinematographer or one of those people who holds a big fluffy microphone on a long stick we want you all. A new, dynamic and…
Hastings Story Telling Festival
Two Clowns Trapped in a Cardboard World was played out in a set made entirely of cardboard at St Mary in the Castle as part of the Hastings Story Telling…
ARTISTS PROFILE: Maika Crampton – Paper Couture
Maria Holme-Slater Originally from Hamburg in Germany, Maika studied then worked for a record company before moving to London in 1995, where she began making children’s clothes in linen for…
Artistic tension in St Leonards
By Neil Partrick A tense art show is taking place at Hastings Arts Forum in St Leonards. Local artists Kate Gritton and Valerie Grove are jointly exhibiting in ‘Surface Tension’,…
Brookes & Leal bring an icon of contemporary literature to Hastings
Review: ‘An Evening with Irvine Welsh’ plus support from Andrew Grainger, Richard Heslop, Michael Smith and David Quantick. By Pete Donohue Recently relocated back to Hastings, arts event producers and…
To the ghosts of 1066
By Sophie Shaw Jane Packman and Ben Pacey, cofounders Dens and Signals The Feast of the Dead is nearly here, but what can we expect from this most unusual of…
Irvine Welsh hits Hastings – An exclusive HIP interview
Ahead of ‘An Evening with Irvine Welsh’, local promoters Simone Brookes & Rossana Leal caught up with the internationally acclaimed Edinburgh author for an intimate chat about Hastings, music and…
The Frackers: the Outrageous Inside Story of the New Energy Revolution – by Gregory Zuckerman
Portfolio Press, 2013. Available at Bookbuster £ Review by Tim Barton For those of you that remember the 'Jett Rink' in the movie Giant, or the TV soaps Dallas and…
The argument for DIY poetry
By Pete Donohue If you want to get your message across you need to get up, stand up. No one else will do it for you. Speak up, speak…
Revised Observer Building planning consultation ending soon
OB planning consultation The consultation for the revised plans post University of Brighton plan to withdraw from Hastings, closes in the next week or so (one source says this Thursday…
Trainspotting in Hastings
By Pete Donohue Not an article on currently invisible Southern rail carriages, this is a good news heads up for Irvine Welsh fans. The celebrated Edinburgh author is coming to…
THE KIDS’ TAPESTRY UNVEILED
THE KIDS' TAPESTRY UNVEILED TO MARK 950TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS Photo credits: David Parry/PA Wire Children help to create sequel to the Bayeux Tapestry featuring Shakespeare, Queen…
Well blow me down!
By Pete Donohue As an introduction to playing music when a little one, recorder lessons were hard to beat. Sure, potential percussionists might have favoured the triangle, marimba or shaky…
The Great Survey
THE GREAT SURVEY As part of the ROOT1066 International Arts Festival, Hastings Council has commissioned WildWorks Theatre Company to come to Hastings to make a show about us… and they…
Marcus Harvey – HipCast
Marcus Harvey INSELAFFE Kate Renwick, the Arts Editor of Hastings Independent gets an exclusive interview with Marcus Harvey at Jerwood Gallery a day before the launch of INSELAFFE, his largest UK public…
The resurfacing of the enigmatic Mr.Fudge
So I went to meet Nicholas Fudge, the Goldsmith’s graduate who notoriously threw his work in the bin two days before his degree show. One might think another gimmick to…
Light Fantastic
the iy_Project:The nature of sound and light Tracy Jones A spectacular immersive sound and light installation is set to become one of the iconic events that form the Root 1066…
Sublimation of the Tattoo
Kate Renwick Twenty-two years ago whilst completing my Foundation course, I was embarking on an introductory project set by the University I was to attend that September on the subject…
Pause ll Play
Bargainstudio, St Leonards Sarah Lloyd PauseIIplay makes exceptionally rewarding viewing, by deftly questioning what we lose touch with when we become more coupled to images, social networks and machines than…
Rams
Director: Grímur Hákonarson Winner Cannes: Un Certain Regard 2015, Golden Eye at Zurich 2015 Reviewed by Simone Witney Will watching an elderly Icelandic sheep farmer make coffee in his lonely…
Young artist impresses HIP
By Pete Donohue The HIP editorial team were so impressed with Izzy Henson’s artwork that we gave her the prestigious full back page local artist’s showcase in Issue 54. Describing…
The Revival of Labour – a Bookbuster book review
The Revival of Labour: Comrade Corbyn by Rosa Prince & Being Red: A Politics for the Future by Ken Livingstone Review by Tim Barton Rosa Prince's timely biography of Jeremy…
Hospice benefits from Mooney Madness
By Pete Donohue Good News Hastings comes together again this week in yet another high-profile community spirited collaboration. The People’s Pier was officially opened by our new mayor, Judy Rogers,…
How to be a loser – a short story by Pete Donohue
Tom Bowler was a gambler. He took his chances wherever and whenever he could. Every day was an adventure, a matter of subsistence or increased debt. He twisted responsibilities into…
ROOT 1066 Visual Documentation Brief
ROOT 1066 International Festival - Visual Documentation Brief Content: To mark the 950th Anniversary of the most famous date in English history, Hastings Borough Council has commissioned the ROOT 1066…
RIP John Merriman
HIP remembers John Merriman By Pete Donohue Age 54 is far too young to shed this mortal coil for other realms that may lie beyond, especially for such a talented…
RUFF
RUFF Performance artist Peggy Shaw brings her solo show RUFF to Hastings, in the build-up to her three-night run at the Barbican Centre this April. Ruminating on life before and…
Swan Lake and slug men: the Lord Nelson’s Calendar
The first calendar, for 2015, was inspired by a regular coming into the Lord Nelson and letting his hair down out of its usual ponytail, writes Paddy Boyle. Immediately, the wisecracks started…
Are you a Norman?
Are you a Daigle or a FitzRolf? Do you know a Devereaux, a Morton or a Duffey? If so, two local photographers want to hear from you. Photographers Nigel Green…
A taste of Honeysett (Review)
Celebrating Hastings’s most loved cartoonist By Pete Donohue (resident HIP cartoonist) The Hastings area has attracted quality artists for decades, if not centuries. Amongst them number a string of legendary…
HRAEN ‘Root 1066’ artist project brief
Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network is looking to commission an artist to create a school based Root 1066 project. On 14 October 1066 the path of English and European history…
The Further Adventures of Holmes & Watson
The Golden Earwig of Rangapanga With a respectful nod to the great Myles NaGopaleen (The Da) Patrick Carabine Watson sulked moodily as he flicked through the 1875 edition of Simpson's…
A taste of Honeysett
Hastings and its surrounds has become a creative base for a string of legendary cartoonists over the years. How many can you name? I’m not going to tell you here.…