Archives for Arts - Page 9
International Piano Fundraiser
VICTORIA KINGHAM Sir Stephen Hough has been called one of twenty living polymaths: a brilliant piano soloist, he also composes and teaches music, has published poetry, novels and memoirs, and…
Motherhood: The Real Story
Simon Anthony Hobson MU Books is proud to announce the release of Motherhood Uncensored: 35 Authors Explore Things Left Unsaid About Motherhood, a powerful and thought-provoking anthology curated by Beverley…
Folk, Baroque, and Beyond
Since launching Sounds St Leonards in 2024, Holly Harman has brought a fascinating variety of eclectic, folk-influenced, but unique music to the town; the duo Fran and Flora (see page…
Life, Rhymes, and a Lot of Hats
EBM HUMPHREYS Billed as ‘like Kafka, but funnier’, I had high hopes for The Life and Rhymes of Archy and Mehitabel, after days of abysmal technology failures and endless loops…
Fran And Flora: Transylvanian Rhapsodies
VICTORIA KINGHAM They have just returned from a trip to Transylvania, but there’s nothing remotely Gothic about Fran and Flora, the duo who played at Crown House on 27 February.…
The Psychoshadowery of John Logie Baird
MARK WALTER I met Jude Montague on a sunny but chilly January morning at the door of the Hastings Museum, and her beaming smile radiated from the entrance hall. I…
The Sun Feeds The Wind
A ground-breaking new partnership and exhibition that will collect and display the living histories of the fishing community of Hastings, Sussex for the first time will open in spring 2025…
Inspiring the Imagination
The award-winning theatre company, Spun Glass Theatre, is celebrating its first year as managers of Stade Hall Hastings. During that time, the building has welcomed over 10,000 people for theatre…
The musical power ofgenre-fluidity
VICTORIA KINGHAM “I’ve heard it said before,” began Max Baillie at Crown House, “that composing is slow improvisation, and improvisation is fast composing.” A unique evening at Crown House followed.…
Tell-Tale Fantasy
BECCA ROSE A groundbreaking immersive VR experience, The Tell-Tale Rooms, comes to OBX at Hastings Commons in Hastings, from 13 to 18 March. The film and exhibition invite audiences to…
A Time to Shine
The Hastings Musical Festival has been captivating audiences for over 100 years. Every year, children and adults from 4 to 84 take the stage to showcase their talent in the…
Drawing Life for Carers and Cared-for
SUSAN JANE MURRAY When Drawing Life was established ten years ago by Hastings resident Judy Parkinson, it offered free, regular, artist-led, creative sessions for people living with dementia and their…
The Art of Tattoo, and After
VICTORIA KINGHAM Imagine an extraordinary body of work by a dedicated tattooist, essentially an artist, a man who became, through illness, unable to use a tattoo marker, and turned to…
The Individualism of Throwing Muses
SEAN KITCHING Formed in 1980 in Newport, Rhode Island by Kristin Hersh and stepsister Tanya Donelly, Throwing Muses deserve to be mentioned alongside the vanguard of what later became known…
The Soundtrack and the Fury
EBM HUMPHREYS and VICTORIA KINGHAM From its description, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a feature documentary by Johan Grimonprez, which showed at Kino last Wednesday, sounds as though it might…
Kazoos in the Cornet
BEN THOMPSON Named in honour of the trumpet-like instrument they both play (rather than the wafer-based ice cream receptacle young children are traumatised by dropping), French experimental duo C(or)N(e)T make…
Virtuoso Bluesman Plays The Piper
Luckily for Hastings and St Leonards, the very accomplished blues rock guitarist Laurence Jones will play at The Piper on 21 February. Thirty two years old and born just outside…
Ammonites atthe Museum
NICK PELLING There are certain subjects that baffle the human mind. For example, I do not know what a proton or a quark is. And I know this is embarrassing,…
Miss Julie then and Now
PATRICK KEALEY As a seasoned actor and director, I often reflect on why I’ve chosen the projects I have. I often think that the plays one arrives at for unconscious…
A Film of Substance
EBM HUMPHREYS If you don’t like gory horror movies you won’t enjoy this film – unless you’re anything like me. I’m not normally drawn to the genre, but I knew…
Others’ Stories–Peacemaking & Reconciliation
CAZIMI A simple two-seater sofa sits quietly waiting at The Beacon on West Hill – the blankets on it are ready to catch words in their knit, its fabric prepared…
Domestic Theatre as Future Hope
VICTORIA KINGHAM At the present time, the ‘value’ of education appears generally to be measured in literal financial terms: it ceases to be about learning to think, argue, or evaluate.…
Goosey Goosey who?
VICTORIA KINGHAM There are a fair number of books in print about nursery rhyme; mostly collections with commentary, occasionally delving into the background and origins of this unfortunately diminishing genre.…
International Clash Day Comes to Hastings
Hastings has been chosen as the key UK location to mark International Clash Day on the 1st February 2025 with a major show at the Pig on the seafront. The…
Stories Become the Muse
GARY WILLIS A favourite for those seeking atmosphere, cocktails, drinks, and live music, especially jazz, Barnaby’s Lounge has firmly established itself on the local map. For over a year it…
Hope Springs Eternal, Site-specifically with Oranges
VICTORIA KINGHAM Archer Lodge is one of various lovely, un-reconstituted houses situated within St Leonards and Hastings, designed a couple of hundred years ago to offer well-proportioned and elegant living…
January Films
EBM Humphries If you thought you were full to the brim with Christmas films and box-set binges and couldn’t possibly consume another minute of moving pictures, wait till you see…
DEEP TIME at Hastings Museum
Stories from DEEP TIME, the latest exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, sees 18 local artists respond to the museum’s fossil collections through the creation of paintings, textiles, sculptures,…
Annie Soudain – Life, Art, Landscape
DAVID BENTLEY The Marsh, The Sea, and The Sky started life as a lockdown memoir for grandchildren, but now, published, will be welcomed by all those attracted by exceptional art,…
Interim Director for Hastings Contemporary
Arts powerhouse Kathleen Soriano is to become the Interim Director of Hastings Contemporary, taking up her new role in January 2025. She is an independent curator, strategic consultant and broadcaster.…
Piper Hosts pip
BEN THOMPSON Every now and again, you see something that’s different and special. At pip’s first gig - appropriately enough, at the Piper (supporting El Khat back in October) -…
The Discreet Charm of the Disturbingly Brilliant
VICTORIA KINGHAM Coruscating is perhaps an overused word in the context of jazz writing, but it’s easy to see why. It’s rhythmic, internally balanced, sibilant – an onomatopoeic description of…
St Leonards Steam Ahead
VICTORIA KINGHAM Though this may sound like the gratuitous praise of a faithful follower, in fact there are excellent reasons for Max Baillie’s centrality in our local music scene. First,…
A Christmas Carol, in the Tradition
VICTORIA KINGHAM watched A Christmas Carol at Rye Creative Centre Rye is a bit far afield for our very local newspaper. However Duke’s Theatre Company are always an exception and…
Flatland Developments
Flatland, an artists’ space and project in Bexhill, are currently completing the first phase of works reconfiguring their gallery space. They are preparing for the launch of BARC (Bexhill Artist…
Red, Blue, Up
De La Warr Pavilion is pleased to present Red, Blue, Up, a major new exhibition of paintings and drawings by Bexhill-based artist, Michelle Roberts, in the First Floor Gallery this…
Stand up for White Rock
Hastings Comedy Festival presents the second night of their winter stand-up comedy programme at the White Rock Studio, on 11 January. There will be live comedy from Suzi Ruffell and…
A Magical Pantomime Adventure
SARAH MILNE Some of my most treasured childhood memories are of Christmas in Hastings with my grandparents, going to see the pantomime at White Rock Theatre. I loved the thrill…
They May not Mean to, but They do
VICTORIA KINGHAM Short Stories about Mothers and Fathers isn’t at all what you would expect from the title. I expected condensed, pointed fiction but instead was surprised with two dozen…
The Art That Will Not Fit
EBM HUMPHREYS Home Live Art are celebrating their twenty-fifth birthday this year, so there was cake all round at an auspiciously thirteenth Salty cabaret last Thursday at the White Rock…