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Refugee Week Food Festival: Couragein Practice
A key aspect of this year’s Refugee Week programme is the Food Festival. Between 13 and 21 June, local restaurants, cafés and safe havens across Hastings and surrounding areas are…
Walking on Water: A Celebration of Water, Wildlife and Community
FIONA MCGARRY Walking on Water is a community celebration and guided waterways tour involving various local groups such as the Care for Creation, Clean Water Action (CWAG), Standing Up 4…
Refugee Week Celebrates Courage Across Hastings & Bexhill
Refugee Week 2026 takes place from 15 to 21 June, bringing communities together across Hastings, Rother, and Wealden under this year’s national theme: Courage Refugee Week 2026 will spotlight the…
An Exhilarated Octogenarian
Lindsay Jayne on life, survival, and bad grammar FIONA POWERS Lindsay Jayne is exhilarated by the knowledge that, as a newbie octogenarian (“How did that happen so quickly?!”), she has…
Get it Together & Dance
For the end of May Bank holiday, the world of dance music is showcased and brought across the town by Let’s Get It Together Festival, featuring 30 DJs playing across…
The Phoenix of Gaza
A remarkable film, the winner of numerous awards at film festivals, including the London Independent Film Awards and the Edinburgh Film Awards, will soon be screened in Hastings. 'The Phoenix…
Hastings, Take the Mic!
SARAH MILNE A fresh burst of comic energy is heading for Hastings as Laugh-Able Comedy Cavalcade: Hastings Edition rolls into town. This taster workshop will offer an exciting introduction to…
Guided Walk to the Amsterdam
For over two hundred years, during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, much of the world’s international trade was carried out by great sailing vessels, known as East Indiamen. These…
The Hastings Project Opens Up
HARRY HAWKINS On a balmy (well, balmy for March) afternoon, a new watering hole for St Leonards opened its doors for the first time. It’s 5pm and the pub is full (I’m…
Foxtrot Echo: ComfortablyOut of Stepwith the World
NICK TUCKER Less than three minutes into my interview with the roguish, counter-culture iconoclast, Foxtrot Echo, I realise that the word ‘interview’ isn’t going to contain what is clearly going…
The Night Swimmer novel on Hastings: the poetry of the tide
JOSHUA GEER In The Night Swimmer, Simon J Houlton casts his debut novel into the restless dark and grit of the Hastings coastline, a place he knows not simply as…
Celebrate Heritage at the Edith Festival
HANNAH-LOUISE SAMPSON The Edith Festival, a vibrant highlight of this year’s Hastings Week, promises an evening where ancient legend meets modern fun with a generous dash of Anglo-Saxon spirit. Organised…
Guitar Virtuoso Enchants at the Kino-Teatr
SUSAN DEMUTH The Kino-Teatr’s popular Coffee Concert series served up a special treat for local music lovers when classical guitar virtuoso Eleanor Kelly took to the stage. Eleanor Kelly at…
Horizon at The New French’s
KATE SHAW I was excited to see what Seb Hipperson and his team had done to the old French’s wine bar. So when I was invited to DJ there by…
Roland Jarvis, Polymath
Roland Jarvis was a multi-talented printmaker, painter, sculptor, horologist, film maker and engineer who hosted many exhibitions from his Hastings Old Town studio in Tackleway (Tackleway Hall) until his death in 2016.…
Iago Banet Returns to Kino
Described as “a master of the guitar” by Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3 In Tune; as “nothing short of phenomenal” in a recent review; and as a “highly recommended artist”…
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…
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…
Boxing Sisters
Yazidi women are boxing their way back to health. Local radio producer Jodie Taylor has produced a documentary that has just come out on BBC World Service. Jodie is a…
Meet Men’s Shed at the Park
The Hastings and St Leonards Men’s Shed will be running a stall at a wood-themed market hosted by the Alexandra Park Greenhouse to celebrate World Wood Day on 22 March.…
International Women’s Day Festival at the OB promises to be a roaring success
CHRIS CONNELLEY Hear Me Roar 2025 is a day-long community festival celebrating International Women’s Day and the many inspiring women and women-led organisations in our town. Erica SmithKin Choir at…
Hastings International Piano hosts Hough
Hastings International Piano is delighted to announce that its patron, the internationally-renowned concert pianist Sir Stephen Hough, will give a fundraising recital in support of the organisation at Fairlight Hall…
A Cockroach in The Stables
VICTORIA KINGHAM That most engaging of local actors, Patrick Kealey, will finally perform his action-packed version of Archy and Mehitabel to The Stables Theatre on 26 February. Some of you…
Poetry, punk, plays
Between the couple of miles that constitute downtown Hastings and St Leonards, it isn’t just that there are a great number of talented people joyfully making art and writing poems,…
XED Le Head: After tattooing, what?
VICTORIA KINGHAM Imagine an extraordinary body of work by a dedicated tattooist, essentially an artist who, unable to use a tattoo marker, turned to something completely different. Ruby’s Rooms on…
Tea Party with Angels, Demons & Other Friends
Sussex based artist ElĪna Rudzīte brings her eclectic range of paintings and sculpture to Hastings in a special exhibition that runs throughout the month of March, entitled Tea party with…
Sounds of Creativity
Hastings International Piano is launching Sounds Of Creativity for 2025: a free workshop series combining live classical piano with guided creative art sessions. The workshops have been designed to harness…
Poet Town
OLI SPLEEN Hastings poets are coming together to celebrate 200 years of poetry in our town. Poet Town: The Poets & Poetry of Hastings & Thereabouts is in production, edited…
‘Poetry for Palestine’ Open Mic Fundraiser
Hastings is hosting its very first ‘Poetry for Palestine’ open mic night to raise funds for a community in Gaza. Local poets are invited to join the line up at…
Back to Life
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING try out life drawing with your clothes on A Drawing in Progress Sometimes it is important to think about things a little differently. And that…
Blue – Kind of
VICTORIA KINGHAM Kind of Blue inevitably conjures up the sound of the seminal, sublime Miles Davis album from way back in 1959, that besides the trumpeter featured John Coltrane and…
Advertorial: Cumbia Kitchen: Celebrating South American Culture & Cuisine
Since moving to St Leonards in early 2023, I have seen Cumbia Kitchen develop into a well-loved community hub. It is dedicated exclusively to South American food and culture, with…
Putting theatre in the spotlight
SADIE PITCHER on a new theatre project “What's the point of Theatre if it’s not able to be as open as possible?” says Dan Hutton, Theatre Director and Co-Artistic Director…
In Every Shadow
Gareth Stevens In his wildly imaginative novel ‘Lanny’, Max Porter describes The Green Man in this way: “Dead Papa Toothwort leaves his spot and wanders off, chuckling, jangling in his…
The True Story of the Burglars of Archer Lodge
An exhilarating performance about the daring people who were not invited to ExploreTheArch’s venue ExploreTheArch is a unique theatre collective exploring domestic life. It is situated opposite Markwick Gardens at…
Beach of Dreams Launch
This year’s Coastal Currents festival launches the MSL Beach of Dreams Programme on 31 August. In 2025, the UK-Wide coastal festival will feature a new Hastings commission, and the local…
Chlorophyll & H2O at St Andrew’s Mews
HARRIET MACAREE on her new exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages The title hints at recurring themes in my work, either celebrating our planet’s green oases or marvelling at the…
Free Family Sunset Screenings at DLWP
Sunset Screenings return this summer, in association with Bexhill College, with support from McPhersons Chartered Accountants. The De La Warr Pavilion celebrates with three outdoor screenings of family favourite films…
Old Town Celebrations
Old Town week gets going in the first week of August and is officially opened with the raising of the flag at the flagpole next to The Shipwreck ; Set…
Hiroshima Day
JOHN ENEFER Tuesday 6 August will see the annual Hiroshima Day commemoration in Hastings. It will be exactly 40 years since it was first marked in Hastings by the local…