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Many Threads – One Fabric
Reweaving the story of Black Britons Hastings Museum & Art Gallery will host a touring exhibition of Tapestry of Black Britons this autumn. The exhibition, created by Jamaican/Haitian/British artist and…
Doing the Timewarp Again
Dani Turner and The Studio 68! will be turning the clocks back to 1968 at The Piper on Friday 16 October. The band, whose debut album together, Rollin’, achieved rave…
A Dublin Story, in St Leonards
A hilarious and poignant one-woman show steeped in the wit, warmth and energy of Dublin, A Dublin Story comes to Ritual Bar in St Leonards-on-Sea on Wednesday 14 and Thursday…
Maddie Morris – Transformative and Personal
Join BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award winner Maddie Morris, described by Jim Moray as “leading the next generation of socially conscious songwriters” on their autumn tour for an intimate…
Art to Gladden Your Heart
A new digital platform is set to transform the local art scene by breaking down barriers between artists and art lovers in Sussex. Art Lending Library introduces an innovative rental…
Day, Month & Year of the Norman Events!
2027 marks the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror, and Norman fever is raging across the country. In Hastings and across the channel in Normandy, there are…
Hastings Castle on YouTube
A New Chapter for Hastings Castle and the West Hill Visitor Centre is the title of a newly created YouTube channel, dedicated to documenting the transformation of the West Hill…
Bayeux Around Britain
Bayeux Around Britain is a nationwide programme supported by WorldQuant and designed by the British Museum, bringing the story and significance of the Bayeux Tapestry to audiences across the UK.…
Big Sing Returns
St Michael’s Hospice will shortly bring a weekend of big voices and brilliant live music to St Leonards on Sea. Music lovers and fans of live entertainment are invited to…
Edith Festival: A Tale of Two Daughters
Edith the Fair – or Edith Swanneck as she is also known – was Harold Godwinson’s consort for twenty years and bore him seven children. She was also one of…
Comedy Festival New Season
Hastings Comedy Festival nights return this month for their autumn/winter first show of the season is Saturday 26 September, at Stade Hall in Hastings OldTown. It’s a mixed bill of…
An Evening of Fun and Laughter
If you’re up for an evening of fun and laughter while raising money for a good cause, how about some classic comedy, daft songs and theatrical nonsense? This is what…
Gruffalo Granny comes to Hastings Storytelling Festival 2026
Hastings Storytelling Festival returns this October in celebration of the National Year of Reading with a vibrant programme of storytelling, music, literature and performance for all ages. Produced by 18…
Dawn Walk for Samaritans
JAN TOMALINDirector of Hastings and Rother Samaritans Following the success of last year’s inaugural Dawn Walk, Hastings and Rother Samaritans is delighted to be doing it again this October –…
Moonlight Walk – Get One Place Free
St Michael’s Hospice is encouraging people to gather their friends and family and sign up for the Moonlight Walk this September with a special 4 for 3 ticket offer, available…
B&T Music
JUDE MONTAGUE Gazing longingly into the window of B&T Music at seductive guitars, cymbals, pedals… is part of Hastings life for budding musicians. So it was a blow to our…
Architecture, Culture, and Community
Being Modern: Bexhill is a day-long event educating participants and celebrating the story of the Grade 1 listed De La Warr Pavilion, from its bold modernist beginnings through to its…
Hidden History in Heritage Open Days
Over 20 local venues will be opening their doors for free events during Hastings Heritage Open Days this year. Residents and visitors will be able to explore stories of the…
Ronnie Scott’s Story comes to Hastings
Direct from London’s world-famous Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars – led by the club’s artistic director - take audiences behind the scenes of one of the …
Explore The Arch Latest Project
GAIL BORROW In the latest exploration of trailblazing women who travelled great journeys around 1000 years ago, Explore The Arch Theatre explores Agatha of Hungary at Pevensey Castle. Early-career team…
Mettle: Arts, Domesticity, and the Rise of the One-Man Show
VICTORIA KINGHAM It’s well known around these parts that some of the finest artists, musicians, and creatives of all kinds make their home in the area. It also seems unusual…
Twins, Cancer, and Comedy
People are often quite curious about what it’s like to be an identical twin. Local sisters Anna and Georgina Lewis have been asked this question many, many times, and decided…
XMTR AudioArts Festival
JUDE MONTAGUE Sound tells stories. Lucia Scazzochio from Social Broadcasts (Resonance FM) has settled in St Leonards-on-Sea and set up an international festival, XMTR – a standard tech abbreviation for a radio…
Project Art Works Exhibition
studio INstall: Luke Bebb is open until the end of this week at the Project Art Works gallery. The space recreates the Project Art Works studio in Braybrooke Terrace where…
Hiroshima Day 2026
JOHN ENEFER On 6 August, the annual Hiroshima Day commemoration will take place in Alexandra Park, Hastings, as local people remember those who died from the first use of nuclear…
Activities for Young and Old
Active Hastings have a bumper calendar of low-cost or free sport sessions running throughout the town for young people this summer. Activities include: Ultimate Frisbee, Street Sport Roadshow, gym and circuit sessions,…
Mobile Upgradeand TV Interference in St Leonards
Mobile network services are currently being upgraded in St Leonards to boost speed, performance and coverage – but there is a chance these improvements may cause interference to TV received through an…
Trunks & Hunks in Hastings
MEL STEEL Cold-water men’s swimming group Trunks and Hunks will be taking their first Hastings dip this Sunday 2 August, meeting at 7am on Rock‑ A‑Nore beach. Trunks and Hunks…
Bexhill Art Weekender
A special weekend returns for 2026: a Town-Wide Celebration of Art, Performance, Film and Community Bexhill Art Weekender returns on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 August 2026, featuring artists’ open…
Not Lost but Gone Before
KENT BARKER There is endless fascination in using real historical figures as the inspiration for works of fiction. Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell and Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet are just two distinguished…
Singing in the Rubble
FELICITY LAURENCE As a music educator, I have been honoured to help a little from afar in the current work of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (ESNCM), which…
Art and Craft in Priory Meadow
A new initiative, Mosaic Malarky, is expanding access to arts and community creativity in Hastings, bringing local people together through hands-on workshops, inclusive making sessions and event-led activities at Hypha…
Classical Music this weekend
Mozart and Chausson at Christ Church St Leonards Max Baillie’s St Leonards Concerts series hosts this weekend The Kleio Quartet, rising stars in the music world here and abroad. Since their formation in…
Wertico One-off at Jazz Hastings
VICTORIA KINGHAM Soft-spoken and unassuming, Paul Wertico becomes, behind his kit, a force to reckon with. You can hear why he remained for many years the lynchpin of the Pat…
BLAST Reopens as The Thonett Gallery
The art gallery run by Markus and Tessa Thonett, hitherto called ‘BLAST’ has now changed its name to the more literally descriptive Thonett Gallery, which they feel is more representative…
St Leonards Festival Returns
TOBY BULA-EDGE Warrior Square Gardens will come alive on 11 July from with the annual St Leonards Festival and Community Parade along the seafront at It promises to be an energetic and…
Old Town Boating Lake Makeover
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN The Old Town Boating Lake has been a popular feature of Hastings seafront for almost a hundred years. Opened in 1933 to plans drawn up by Borough Engineer…
Life, Love, Lyrics
JUDE MONTAGUE talks to fellow-songwriter Anna Page Some artists have a powerful and positive impact on Hastings culture even though the spotlight has not fallen on their profile. One of…
Project Art Works Returns to Comic Con
Comic Con is returning to Hastings, and this year you will also meet there Daniel Wells, Ellen Prebble, and Lucy Walker. Daniel and Lucy will be presenting works in progress…
Year of the Normans
FIONA MCGARRY To commemorate the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror, there will be events across Hastings and the rest of the country from this summer into…