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Christmas, Crime and Crooning
The festive season is not for sissies. Pressures of gift-giving, invitations or lack of, family dynamics, expenses, cold weather and bugs – even existential crises triggered by a life-size Santa…
Crown House and the Meeting Tree
VICTORIA KINGHAM The revival of Folk Music began in the UK with musicians and musicologists like Cecil Sharp, Vaughan Williams and Ewan McColl, who faithfully collected, wrote down, unearthed broadside…
Snapped Ankles, but Furious Dancing Anyway
DAN MCCARTHY What do you get when you cross Jack in the Green with synthesisers, a drum kit and a group of mates keen to upset the apple cart? Snapped…
Sussex Spotlight at Hastings Contemporary
The gallery has recently launched Sussex Spotlight, a new series of free-to-visit exhibitions celebrating the vibrant creativity of local artists and the rich cultural landscape of Sussex. The first exhibition…
Love Letter inOrange
HELEN MURPHY and NICK PELLING There is a tender and rather poignant lovers’ story behind the exhibition The Stolen Orange, off Bond Street in Brighton. The tale begins back in…
Kay Iris: New Single
Hastings-based band Kay Iris have recently released a new single, The Other Side. Kay’s signature sound incorporates Country, Americana and Rock. Formed in 2024, the band has played Big Feastival…
Warm Glows and Polar Bears
Hastings Arts Forum is hosting a warm winter salon this year. Besides a curated exhibition of affordable prints, artists books, cards, poetry, small paintings, textiles and ceramics, this his year…
Spooky Hastings Picture Returns Yet Again
A new film, presently under production, is based on a true Hastings happening in the summer of 2023 which was widely covered in the media, as in the following example:…
Modernist Pavilion Reaches 90
Herbrand Sackville, otherwise known as the 9th Earl De La Warr, was a socialist and chair of the Labour Party in Hastings. In 1934 he suggested an architectural competition to…
Electric Christmas
The Electric Palace, Hastings Old Town’s volunteer-run community cinema, has released details of its 2025 festive programme. Dubbed ‘Electric Christmas’, the run of shows aims to balance traditional Hollywood crowd-pleasers…
Hastings Pier: Bring Back the Glory Days
Hastings-based punk/skiffle band Fear of Last Orders have released a new song in support of the campaign to bring back the glory days to the town’s pier, as the future…
Wicked: For Good?
SAMUEL ANGUS-SCHOFIELD While not quite as enchanting as the first movie, Wicked, this film still has a lot of charm, and once again, is carried by its two main leads.…
Human Exploration: Grace Lau
HANNAH LOUISE SAMPSON Grace Lau has had a unique and adventurous four decades working with portrait photography, and she doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Recently she exhibited her body…
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Continuing the domestic scene, the pleasant and rather cosy ceramics gallery at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery has recently been rearranged. In what they call a ‘special intervention’, a newly-kilned…
The Power of Household Objects
SoCo (South Coast) Artists have returned to Hastings Art Forum for their Autumn Exhibition, with an exploration of what a household contains and what it means. Sinéid Codd, Animals House,…
Singers & Songs Unlimited
Tenors Unlimited, the ‘Rat Pack of Opera’ will perform a Christmas Concert at St John the Evangelist church, St Leonards, with ‘Let’s Sing’ Junior Choir winners and special guest Pete Prescott, on…
Terrarium invigorate FILO
HARRY HAWKINS Jo Stout leads his sextet Terrarium through nine songs that span funk, fusion, bebop and music of Africa. The group comprises Jo on alto sax, Rob Leake on…
Love Music Hate Racism
The LMHR team have been busy putting this fundraising social together at The Pig. It looks like it will be a great night. Volunteers are needed to steward and take…
Puttingon some SLAP
(St Leonard’s Art Party) brings together a bold, eclectic mix of 11 local artists whose work captures the creative pulse of the South Coast. Curated by Michelle Mildenhall and Susan Diamond, this dynamic group…
Uninvited: The Language of Cancer
The Peripheral Space Project would like to remind you all that this coming weeken d you are invited to, ‘Uninvited’, a series of paintings by Helen Slater expressing and exploring…
Betty Parsons: Abstract Expression, Spiritual Intervention
VICTORIA KINGHAM The 1913 Armory Show in New York was an exhibition which brought to America, for the first time, the Modern Art that we now see as seminal: Matisse’s…
Fabian Willmann Trio at Jazz Hastings
VICTORIA KINGHAM There’s a rare band coming to Jazz Hastings in December, one which reveals just how far the Jazz world extends, both musically and internationally. The trio is led…
Judging the Brilliance ofthe Brilliant
VICTORIA KINGHAM “Competitions”, once said the great composer Béla Bartók, “are for horses, not artists.” Flamboyant pianist Glenn Gould has said that he regards piano competitions as ‘blood sports’. Chopin…
Paul Gunn at The Stables Theatre
Pianist and Composer Paul Gunn returns to The Stables Theatre to play his unique multi-genre music combining Baroque, Classical, Latin and Rock influences. He is joined this time by Brazilian…
Hastings Rocks to the Dark Side
TOBY BULA-EDGE and VERA BELL A shift is happening at Hastings Rocks International Film Festival: a shift into the scary, the anxiety-ridden and the dystopian. Their call for entries is…
Anti-Folk, bleak but memorable
NEIL KING Screaming and kicking its way into the world, Marshall Star’s debut album The Starry Messenger can be considered the very definition of anti-folk, to which you can easily…
A Krapp Life
JOHN COLE Academy Award Director nominee Stockard Channing (remember Grease?) brings her production of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape to the Kino Theatre on 13 November. The monologue is a journey…
PhotoHastings Celebrates 15 Years
VERA BELL This rapidly-curated, ephemeral exhibition was held last weekend at Unit 2 gallery in Norman Road. The space is completely plain and many of the prints were unframed and…
Beethoven Rocks
Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra are celebrating their 10th season. When they were founded in 2016, their opening concert included two magnificent pieces: Beethoven’s iconic Choral Symphony (The Ninth), and a specially…
The Mozart of Basin Street, Cable Street, and Rotherhithe
VICTORIA KINGHAM Sometimes it’s difficult to know where to even begin talking about music which is so good that it takes your breath away quite literally, and unexpectedly. Photo: Peter…
Electro Studios: Non-conforming universe
Sexton Ming and Jason Williams’ show this December is at Electro Studios in Seaside Rd, St Leonards. Sexton Ming (left) and Jason Williams Sexton and Jason have been at the vanguard of the…
Liane Carroll Trio Supreme at Jazz Hastings
VERA BELL Liane Carroll is a Hastings Legend. Anyone even marginally interested in the local music scene will know that she plays at Porters in the High Street almost every…
A Day In The Life
In case you didn't know of Hastings' unique and varied Arts scene, here's what was on offer on just one day. I chose the Hastings Philharmonic Ensemble, but there was…
The Ellen Terry Theatre Haunts The Stables
ELIZABETH ALLEN Following their recent witty and joyful production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Ellen Terry Barn Theatre company returns to the Stables with an altogether darker prospect. This…
‘Tis the Season to be Scary
SAM SCHOFIELD Halloween is fast approaching, and consequently scary movie season is upon us. One of the best of these, still, is John Carpenter’s 1978 classic: Halloween. Set in the…
Mark Walter at Electro Studios
Confront the Silence Without Light is Walter’s largest solo exhibition to date, and will feature an opportunity to see him painting live, in a show at Electro Studios Project Space…
Ummagumma IV
HARRY HAWKINS AND PAVEL FOLEY Ummagumma is best known as an eccentric double album by Pink Floyd, but The Piper’s version is a recurring live celebration of music on the…
New Play from(the) Old
On Saturday 25 October film history will be made when a screening of Lindsay Jayne’s debut play A Spectacular Interview will be held at the White Rock Hotel. Lindsay’s film features…
The Science of Dub
KATE SHAW This Halloween, prepare for an electrifying journey into the depths of dub as The Scientist graces the stage at Hastings’ historic Henry Ward Hall. Expect a night pulsating…
Fun in the Post-Apocalyptic Slime
VICTORIA KINGHAM Along with T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, W. B. Yeats’ Second Coming must be one of the most-quoted poems of the past hundred years. Things Fall Apart…