Tag archives for Arts Council England
Pizza and Plays
Spun Glass Theatre launches Pizza and Plays, an incredible new writing project backed by Arts Council England, and in partnership with Hastings Museum, set to open at home venue Stade…
One Hundred Demons
Those of you who saw Kim L Pace’s whimsical, but very unsettling pottery at Hastings Museum last year will be pleased to know that there is now a chance to…
Reflections on Fat Tuesday
JOEL CHESHIRE & HARRY HAWKINS FRIDAY ‘Unconvention’ kicked off Fat Tuesday: a one-day grassroots music conference held at the White Rock Theatre Studio. This brought together musicians, industry professionals, promoters, educators…
Refugee Week 2024
The Refugee Buddy project announces that it has been awarded a Small Project Grant from Arts Council England to support Refugee Week 2024 and what this ; Courtesy of Hastings…
Arts Funding Snakes & Ladders
POLLY GIFFORD The hugely disappointing news that Hastings Fat Tuesday Festival didn’t get its funding from Arts Council England (ACE) for 2024 highlights one of the long running problems with…
Fat Tuesday Crowdfunder
Following the rejection by Arts Council England of their funding application for the 2024 festival reported in HIP 240, Hastings Fat Tuesday set up a crowdfunder. It’s aimed at raising…
Refugee Week 2023
GARETH STEVENS This year’s Refugee Week in Hastings, Rother and Wealden will launch on Sunday 18 June at at the Hastings Contemporary. The sheer span of the events and activities…
Tell Your Story for Hastings Refugee Week
This year marks the 25 anniversary of Refugee Week. To celebrate Story Time are accepting submissions of stories from refugees and people from migrant backgrounds on the theme of Compassion.…
Council Tax hikes, budgets approved
by PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Hastings Borough Council (HBC) agreed to raise the local council tax by the maximum amount allowed without holding a local referendum at a fiery meeting of the…
Refugee Buddy Project Receives ACE funding
The Refugee Buddy project has been awarded a Small Project Grant from Arts Council England to support their Refugee Week 2023. This funding will allow them to build on the…
Is the Theatre Really Dead?
Kent Barker, HIP’s Arts Editor, asks how theatre provision in Hastings compares with some of the other arts. We are forever hearing what a thriving artistic environment Hastings is. Yes,…
Arts Diary
In With the Old A year after his triumphant Jazz Hastings debut last February, legendary American saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi is back on stage at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association…
St Mary on the Market, Opus to Close
St Mary in the Castle, the Grade II-listed church turned arts and music venue beneath West Hill, has been put on the open market for sale or lease. Freehold owners…
Local Arts Cash Boost
Arts Council England has announced its 2023 to 2025 investment commitments, which include eight organisations in East Sussex who will receive a total of £ million – a 25% increase…
Arts Diary
Jazzing Up the Stade On Tuesday 5 July, award-winning saxophonist, Gilad Atzmon, will be headlining at the Jazz Hastings July monthly session at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association on…
Bexhill Comes Alive with Light
A brand new free light art festival comes to Bexhill on Saturday 29 January Bexhill After Dark, produced by local events company, 18 Hours, will feature 11 light-art installations around…
Time To Show Hastings Rocks
BEN CORNWELL discovers that Hastings’ Fat Tuesday organisers are getting involved in a raft of new events over the coming months. You remember that feeling of the bass hitting your…
HIP LIT NEWS
Take10ToRead Hastings joins 100,000 readers across the UK in support of mental health and wellbeing On Monday May 10th, over 1600 people from schools and businesses in Hastings took part…
Culture Recovery Fund Round 2
Music, arts and theatre venues across the country are due to hear by the end of this month whether they will receive grants under Round 2 of the Arts Council…
Inside / Outside
Lifesize Experimental Film By Benji Thomas In the autumn of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, Hastings-based company Lifesize began to work remotely with seven young adults to produce…
Hastings Storytelling Festival Goes (mostly) Online
Sometimes fact is indeed stranger than fiction. From the devastation wreaked on the entertainment industry by Covid 19, bright shoots of creativity spring forth. Support from Arts Council England has…
Paying The Piper
Arts Council England (ACE) has announced funding awards totalling £257 million for 1,385 venues, theatres, museums and cultural organisations across the ; The awards are administered by ACE on behalf…
Government Arts Recovery Fund Too Limited?
The government recently announced how it plans to assist arts organisations through the £ recovery package announced last month. In a first round of funding distribution, Arts Council England will…
Creation in Isolation
It’s not easy being an artist in lockdown. Our worst enemy is isolation: not having something to create about. That can be terrifying, with or without lockdown. But it’s not…
A Platform For Young Readers’ Voices
By Gail Borrow Catch this year’s biggest public display of young people’s art locally as ATownExploresABook20 gears up for its final weekend of exploration of H G Wells’ The Time…
Dot Dash Explores the America Ground Online
MSL responds to the lockdown with an online cultural programme Dot Dash which runs from April to September. Margaret Sheehy, Director of MSL Projects explains: “Dot Dash, a largely digitally-hosted…
Hastings Literary Festival –2020 Statement
By Alison Steel Hastings Literary Festival 2020, due to take place at the end of August, has been cancelled following suspension of the Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants…
Exciting New Works Emerge at streetsmART
On 22nd-23rd February Hastings’ Observer Building opened its doors for streetsmART, a unique celebration of graffiti and street art. Over 300 visitors took part in a five-hour ‘slam’ event on…
HIP Lit News
Seaside shorts By Joan Taylor-Rowan The Solstice Shorts festival coming to Hastings on 21st December was started by award-winning independent publisher Arachne Press in Greenwich on the shortest day of…
Bloom Britannia Sets Up for Act 2
It’s an exciting and busy season - and year - ahead, for Barefoot Opera. Hot on the heels of a sold out performance of just one act of a new…
Patrick Altes: TOLERANCE
An exhibition by international artist Patrick Altes, curated by Middle Eastern art specialist, Janet Rady (formerly of Sotheby’s and Lisson Gallery) Previewed by Judy Parkinson Transcultural influences web The international…
East Sussex Writers Triumph in International Competition
By Alison Steel Writers from Bexhill, Hastings and St Leonards fought off stiff international competition to pick up key prizes in Hastings Literary Festival’s 2019 competition, which featured short story,…
Hastings Contemporary: Meeting Expectations
Merlin Betts discusses the new gallery’s place and plans I went to a coffee and chat at the Jerwood last week for the locals: us, the Hastings Observer, the Council…
The Mother Lode Project
Creative writing and photography workshops designed for motherhood and mental health I conceived and coordinated The Mother Lode Project as a means to channelling my experiences as a mother with…
Polari on Sea – Back by Popular Demand
Three and a half weeks on from the successful – albeit rain-washed and eventually diverted to drier venues – second Hastings Pride festival, HIP Literature welcomes the return of celebrated…
Coastal Currents set to make a Bigger Splash
Tina Morris We are pleased to announce that Coastal Currents Arts Festival has been successful yet again with their Arts Council England funding, so we can all breathe a sigh…
A Town – A New Arts Council-Funded Opera Project, by Thomas Denman
Barefoot opera presents Clash. Sussex Coast College, Hastings Barefoot Opera – ‘Hastings and St. Leonard’s very own opera company’ – has been awarded an Arts Council Research and Development Grant…
Uncovering the stories of West Street by Lorna Crabbe
Artist Lorna Crabbe tells us about an exciting new project, ‘Rediscovering West Street: A meandering and forgotten past Duo Bogof and a white rabbit 'family portrait’, Duo Bogof will be…