Lost Magic at the Stables – Ed Boxall and Brian Moses.
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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 by growling wind. The sinking sun creates Zinc light. Jet…
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, with its arty, bohemian outlets, we’re luckier than most other…
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 paper selected from the Gallery’s own collection and drawn from…
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 inclusive film-making group is starting, based in St Leonards 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 Festival. The play featured two clowns, Dik and Adam, who…
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 her own daughter and the retail market. Deciding that she…
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’, an exhibition reflecting their mutual fascination with the tangible and…
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 promoters Simone Brookes and Rossana Leal have built on their…
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 banquets? HIP puts this question to Dens and Signals co…