Tag archives for arts
Up in Arms
“Claudine and Tracey” Image Credit: Anna Maria Nabirye and Annie Saunders, Greenhalf Studios, Home Live Arts, St Leonards, 2023. Removing boundaries to create meaningful dialogue on topics of race, gender…
Get Hastings: More than Lifestyle
ROD WEBB talks to Mel Elliott, Editor-in Chief of Get Hastings, about the new quarterly arts, culture and community magazine that was launched two weeks ago. If you haven’t noticed…
Art For Everyone
JULIA KOTZIAMANI, local artist and qualified further education arts teacher explains why she has taken the plunge and opened a new art school in Hastings, available to all. The new Hastings…
Shakespeare-on-Sea
In an interview with HIP, John Knowles, Hastings’ actor, director, producer and founder of Fetch Theatre, argues that radical action is urgently needed to revive the idea of theatre in…
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…
Can a Zap from Art History Wake Up Your New Year?
The Arts Society Rother Valley explains the appeal of its talks. As anyone knows who has enjoyed arts education at almost any level, there is something wonderful about being lectured…
Twists in the Paintwork
HIP explores the many lives of a real painter man. By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling. The Hastings-based artist Chris Roskell, has led an extraordinary life. In chatting to him…
Harry’s Game
By Mark Walter I must be honest, I didn’t know Harry McMorrow’s work until I saw a group of people overspilling from the Big Yin gallery in London Road, St…
Thrillers, Killers, Cats and all That
Advertisement feature: Hastings Book Festival has just announced the line-up for this year and there’s a fantastic and diverse range of events for anyone interested in books or writing. Both…
Ohm Boy at Stella Dore
So Hugo Farmer might not be a name you're familiar with, but you probably will be familiar with his work via a certain well-known street artist who, for legal reasons,…
Hastings’ Two Week Celebration of World-class Artists
Press release provided by Hastings International Piano FestivalThe Hastings International Piano Festival will run from 26th February – 8th March 2020 at White Rock Theatre and St Mary in the…
Project Art Works Asks How We Make Neurodiverse Artists More Visible
EXPLORERS conference: Art, Rights and Representation – November 20 / 21 at Milton Keynes Gallery Coming at a moment of political chaos and general uncertainty about the future in the UK, this…
Opera for the Community Continues!
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…
Passing of the Light
A quintet of Zoom Artists will meet in an eclectic exhibition that goes well off the beaten tracks. Including photography, fused glass, embroidery, calligraphy and digital imagery, a good selection…
AfriKàBa Arts and Culture Festival 2019
Come, discover something new and hear Africa's musical Lion King in concert, supported by the UK's favourite Congolese band, Kasai Masai. The festival of African and Caribbean heritage, arts and…
Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou with Special Guest Hayley Savage + Film Screening
Press Release Friday June 14th – (film screening at ) Kino-Teatr St LeonardsTickets are £10 available from Kino-Teatr box office and online through Ticketsource Following the release of their fifth…
Hastings Tapestry Brought Out of the Basement
Merlin Betts looks at an embroidery, an arts centre, and Britishness Commissioned in 1965 by Group Captain Ralph Bagshaw Ward, the Hastings Embroidery was imagined along somewhat similar lines to…
Midsummer Fish Festival – Support Hastings’ Fleet!
What follows is a press release from Hastings Borough Council. Hastings Midsummer Fish Festival is back for a fifth year. The event takes place on 23 and 24 June on…
Help bring Paula Rego to Hastings by Caf Fean
Dame Paula Rego is a Portugese-British artist whose work centres around themes of feminism, folk and fairy tale. An adept storyteller, she has used her discipline to exact revenge upon…
Poetry Corner
connelley’s noir Pete Donohue Twitter: @petedonohuepoet wry raw restless & risky just how i like my women & whiskey die poor feckless & frisky leave your heart in san franciski.…
A Callout to all Experienced and Budding Filmakers
Keith Adams Whether an actor, a cinematographer or one of those people who holds a big fluffy microphone on a long stick we want you all. A new, dynamic and…
Hastings Story Telling Festival
Two Clowns Trapped in a Cardboard World was played out in a set made entirely of cardboard at St Mary in the Castle as part of the Hastings Story Telling…
ARTISTS PROFILE: Maika Crampton – Paper Couture
Maria Holme-Slater Originally from Hamburg in Germany, Maika studied then worked for a record company before moving to London in 1995, where she began making children’s clothes in linen for…