Tag archives for Arts Council
A Song as Lovely as a Tree
Bev Lee Harling is a disarmingly innocent-looking singer, songwriter, musician and actor with a lightness and naturalness to her performances which belie the care, originality, and thought with which they…
Jack In The Green wins Lottery Award
Hastings Traditional Jack in the Green is delighted to have been awarded £30,000 through Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants. This will cover many of the costs of staging the…
Romeo And Juliet In Today’s World
BAREFOOT OPERA, an opera company for our times, has again been awarded Arts Council funding to take Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor on an extended tour of London and the South…
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…
Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2023
The organisers write: 2023 Coastal Currents is upon us and this year we have done it entirely without Arts Council funding! First, then, thanks must go out to our biggest…
Stables Theatre Rides the Storm
By contrast with the travails of the Electric Palace cinema, the Stables Theatre in The Bourne – less than 400 yards up the road – seems to be surviving the…
Now give me money
How can a professional musician survive on the £10 per gig that some venues in Hastings pay? Now the company behind Coastal Currents and Audiotrope has produced a Charter to…
Extracts from the Audiotrope Good Practice Charter
The charter is a set of principles that cover freelance musicians’ working conditions and sets out minimum terms and conditions for musicians working in the sector. Venues are encouraged to…
ARTS DIARY
Budding Butterworth Darling Buds of May actor Tyler Butterworth tells the funny, moving and unashamedly nostalgic story of his much-loved parents, the nation’s first female TV impressionist Janet Brown and…
Cockroach from the Ashes
By Patrick Kealey – artistic director of Theatre Nation What does a rapidly emerging Hastings theatre company do when Covid stops it dead in its tracks? Forced, last Spring, to…
Culture Recovery: Round Two
Local arts, music and theatre organisations are bidding this month for a second round of awards to be offered under the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. The formal deadline for submission…
Everyman or No Man
Gareth Stevens speaks with theatre producer, writer, director and actor John Knowles. John and I meet on an under-promenade bench framed by a white arch that somehow seems perfectly designed…
Bohemian Rhapsody
Council votes funds for feasibility study The Labour-controlled cabinet of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) voted on Monday evening to pursue a feasibility study for the development of a combined sporting…
The Tenth Anniversary – Tuesday gets fatter
At the time of going to press, the main musical event of Fat Tuesday, 5th March, had yet to get under way. But already a schedule of gigs, parades, workshops…
Who Doesn’t Love A Story?
Eight years since its first appearance, Hastings Storytelling Festival returns once again for a diverse series of events happening all over town between 5th and 11th November. There’s something for…
Streets of Battle back for 2018
Streets of Battle returned in April after a team of local producers was granted Arts Council Funding for 2018’s event. The festival brings top-notch street performers and entertainers to public…
Participation
BY CAF FEAN Delight in a glitzy cabaret strictly for the over 60s, encounter Great Expectations on the streets of St Leonards or play a part in an opera inspired…