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Festival for the Whole Town
The website for A Town Explores A Book (ATEAB) describes the festival as: “A reader-led festival of creative responses to a heritage book in St Leonards-on-Sea delivered by ExploreTheArch theatre company.” The emphasis…
Arts Diary
Last Word Max Baillie leads a String Quartet performing Hayden’s The Seven Last words of Christ as part of the St Leonards Concert series at Christ Church in Silchester Street.…
Happy Birthday Gensing Gardens!
Sunday 3 July is the150 anniversary of Gensing Gardens, bought for the town in 1872. The site was originally known as Gensing Wood. Like other gardens of the period it…
Iron in the Soul
The artistic director of this year’s A Town Explores a Book (ATEAB) festival, Gail Borrow, shares the insights of two of the key artists involved. The artist known simply as…
Exploring The Diddakoi
The 2022 A Town Explores A Book festival centres around Rumer Godden’s The Diddakoi on the 50th anniversary of its publication. Festival director, Gail Borrow outlines what’s in store. A…
Keep Growing This Summer At St Leonards Own Community Garden
By Sherry Clark Covid-19 has provided us all with ample opportunity to think about how we use our time, and for some, how we can spend more time outdoors, getting…
Welcome to HIPCAST
Andrew Colquhoun of the Friends of Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve reflects back over the pleasures nature provides during the difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing his early morning…
Artist Spotlight
Peter Quinnell Hastings-based artist, Peter Quinnell is, as his website so rightly suggests: ‘The original and best’. His prolific series of collage and 3D assemblages are characterised by a zany…
A Town Explores A Book
Exploring Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe4th – 22nd April 2019 Full content: What happens when a community explores its literary heritage?We bring inter-community literary conversations out on the value all…
Community Investigation of Solitude
Explore the Arch tell us about their involvement in the upcoming #ATownExploresABook19 festival A Town Explores A Book is back and, in its third year, this most innovative and creative…