Archives for Arts - Page 8
The Last Hurrah
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to a local legend It’s impossible to classify Linda King, or her work. Performer, homemaker, gardener, sculptor, ceramicist, drawer, painter, crafter, storyteller, creator of dreams, maker of…
Apples From the Bohemia Tree
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING take a look at a dynastic exhibition Sophie Parkin, The Ever-Growing Cat Inside My Head The current exhibition at the marvellous Rogue Gallery on Norman…
Sex and Success in Sussex
JUDE MONTAGUE A group exhibition brought together by friends, beneath this controversial but playful title, follows last year’s Spirit of Invention show which responded to John Logie Baird’s inventiveness. These…
Womanhood at The Stables Theatre
EBM HUMPHREYS Kicking off the upcoming Scene & Heard festival at the Stables theatre, which this year is led by women, two short but important plays go back-to-back for four…
James Burton Meets Marlene Dietrich
Writer/performer Patricia Hartshorne brings her new show With A Bit Of A Swagger to The Regency Rooms at Crown House on 20 June. Based on her recently published memoir of…
A Reunion to Remember Hastings Prom Returns After Five Years
After a five-year break, one of Hastings’ most cherished musical traditions is making its grand return. The Hastings Prom will take centre stage once again at the Hastings Beer and…
An Improvised Exchange
EBM HUMPHREYS & CHARLIE HAWLEY “Could be chaotic or sublime, but guaranteed to massage the synapses” said the call-out on Hastings Creatives for a new mix-up night of visual art…
Bottle Alley Art Market
The Biggest Beach-Side Art Event in the UK The 2025 edition of BAAM will once again fill the historic and iconic lower deck prom bridging at Hastings and St Leonards,…
TUFT: the Strange, the Magical and the Messy
CHARLOTTE TINGLEY Bold new performance company TUFT, who brought you Concert At The Castle and Concert In The Caves, is thrilled to announce the launch of a new ongoing series…
Hotting It Up at Henry Ward Hall
VICTORIA KINGHAM The name of the Hot Club de France is well known to most jazz lovers. It’s associated with such quintessential geniuses as Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli, whose…
Indian Flute Music for the Soul
Deepak Ram, an internationally-recognised Bansuri Flute player, returns to Hastings, this time for a concert at Christ Church St Leonards, and again accompanied by Sanjay Jhalla on tabla. Ram studied…
Hastings Philharmonic Perform Stabat Mater
STEWART RAYMENT Easter might have arrived early this year, with Dvořak’s Stabat Mater performed at Christ Church, St Leonards on 5 April. But Bach’s Easter Oratorio saw its first outing…
Hastings Hosts Mechanical Marvels
Get ready for a magical weekend filled with mechanical marvels at AutomataFest 2025 in The Observer Building, Cambridge Road, Hastings. Gormenghast castle by artist Keith Newstead This highly anticipated event,…
Electro Studios: The Artist that Never Was
JUDY PARKINSON Lights All Awry in the Sky brings together works by artist and film-maker Daniel Hartlaub, from Frankfurt, and musician Keith Rodway, from Hastings. The centrepiece of the exhibition…
All Us Women
VERONIQUE LEPLAT All Us Women is an arts and wellbeing project exploring violence against women. During 2024 we worked with 51 women, supporting them in producing textile artworks that were…
The Colours of Sprung
GARY WILLIS It’s Sprungtime at Barnaby’s! Introducing a joyous explosion of colourful art to celebrate the season, complementing the atmosphere at Barnaby’s Lounge. Sprung! is the inaugural curated exhibition by…
Like a Soap on Stage
SADIE PITCHER The final instalment of the staged drama DFL is set for an explosive ending at Ladies’ Parlour on the West Hill on Saturday 3 May. With romance, fights,…
Gilbert & Sullivan Gala 2025
JOHN RYCROFT Gilbert and Sullivan are possibly the most famous musical partnership of all time. Their operatic creations have delighted audiences and performers worldwide for well over a century and…
Saxony Blues
ELIZABETH ALLEN Each performance in Max Baillie’s programme of St Leonard’s Concerts has offered a fascinating extension of musical possibility in terms of unusual instrumentation and juxtapositions of the familiar…
Oh Mykki, You’re So Fine
NICK PELLING The artist Mykki Blanco defies easy categorisation. I could shuffle and deal–poet, photographer, performer, glam-rapper, trans-gender activist and so on. But, let us leave labels to one side;…
Mews News
VICTORIA KINGHAM Those of you lamenting the sudden disappearance of the small museum Bizarre But True in St Andrews Mews will be pleased to know that there are plans afoot…
Local Artists Selected for National Touring Exhibition
Two artists from Hastings and St Leonards-On-Sea have had artwork selected for a high profile, upcoming national touring exhibition organised by award-winning arts charity, Outside In. They will have their…
Hastings Comedy Festival Number 10
The Hastings Comedy Festival is back from 9 to 15 June, celebrating its 10th anniversary with an exciting lineup of performances across Hastings and St Leonards. This year’s festival promises…
Braga, Portugal, and Brazil
JUDE MONTAGUE and VICTORIA KINGHAM The association between Brazil and Portugal dates back to the 16th century, when Brazil was colonised for its plentiful trees (Brazilwood), then later used for…
New Queers on the Block
EBM HUMPHREYS As a big fan of local performance-art powerhouse, Home Live Art, I was delighted to learn that their latest venture Giddy Up is being curated by independent producer…
Topographical Prints at Hastings History House
VERA BELL This unique exhibition is accompanied by a beautifully produced catalogue/booklet, designed by Annie Lawson, in which this picture caught my eye. Pelham Arcade was built between 1823 and…
Away Withthe Fairies?
VERA BELL During the forty years or so surrounding the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, there was an upsurge of interest in fairies, magic, mysticism, and the…
Nominate a Female Hero
The first of The Stables’ Scene & Heard festivals brings together a programme of work centred around stories driven by ;The festival runs from 5-21 June 2025, offering three weeks…
Sun and Sea at the Contemporary
SADIE PITCHER The building of Hastings Contemporary was just one of many challenges facing the Hastings fishing fleet in its 1,000-year history. In view of the gallery’s proximity and architectural…
The Two Faces of Mickey
EBM HUMPHREYS In Bong Joon Ho’s latest screwball sci-fi adventure, the eponymous Mickey has unwittingly signed up to be an ‘expendable’ – an employee on a space mission whose job…
Chantel McGregor Announces New Album
Broken Heartless Liar is the first single from Chantel’s upcoming third studio album The Healing due to be released on 23 May Over the last 15 years, the Yorkshire-born guitarist,…
Confessional and Understated: Hayley Savage
The new, eponymous album by Hayley Savage is a collection of songs written between 2011 and 2021. Due for release on 11 April, it’s a minimalist and organic mixture of…
When Objects Start to Speak
NICK PELLING previews an up-coming exhibition at a new art space in St Leonards Picture this: Samuel Beckett hobbling about painfully in Phoenix Park in boots that don’t fit. Why…
Hastings Philharmonic to perform Dvořák’sStabat Mater
VERA BELL It’s difficult to describe the depth, complexity, and intensity of this work, comprised of ten phases, of which only the first and last are melodically related. It’s lush,…
Feast of Fiddles 30th Tour
2025, and Feast of Fiddles set out on their Spring Tour once again. Two storming performances at the New Forest Folk Festival and Fairport’s Cropredy Convention in 2024 promoted what…
Folk at Fairlight Cove
STEVE GREEN Last year saw two revival folk evenings at the Cove in Fairlight, commemorating the Hayloft Folk Club during the 70s and 80s. We brought back two original performers,…
A Town Explores a Book
GAIL BORROW The A Town Explores a Book festival (ATEAB) will connect people to the heritage of the Cretaceous period when the place was a riverbed rather than a coastal…
Neurodiversity in Focus
ANNIE WAITE The Electric Palace Cinema is proud to present its first ever Neurodiversity Film Festival, a weekend dedicated to showcasing autistic and neurodiverse film characters, actors and narratives. Running…
Hastings Rocks–life as we know it
JAMES ROWLINS The 4th Annual Hastings Rocks International Film Festival will run from 11-12 April at the Printworks this year, and will showcase 60 films made in this region. This…
Poets, protest, and Pepsi-Cola
VICTORIA KINGHAM What did punk mean? And what does it still mean? Is it a term that transcends time, or was it a movement peculiar to its 1970s moment? ‘One…