Tag archives for De La Warr Pavilion
Ronnie Scott’s Story comes to Hastings
Direct from London’s world-famous Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars – led by the club’s artistic director - take audiences behind the scenes of one of the …
MASS Observations
DAVID MILTON One of the many kiss-of-death committees which blight the lives of all small towns decided at the planning stage that De La Warr Pavilion could do without a…
Shouting for Bexhill
TOBY BULA-EDGE Bexhill will come alive on 15 and 16 August for the Bexhill Art Weekender which HIP spotlighted in the last issue. This time, we sat down with Flatland…
Art for Carers and Cared-for
Drawing Life will be able to continue delivering art classes for carers and those they care for until mid 2027 thanks to funding from The National Lottery Community Fund. Judy…
All us Women 2026
VICTORIA KINGHAM Tucked away in the Rooftop Gallery of De La Warr Pavilion is a small but intriguing exhibition underlining societally-nurtured patterns of violence, emotional imbalance and trauma against women.…
Opportunities at Bexhill Jobs and Apprenticeships Fair
The Bexhill Jobs & Apprenticeships Fair will be back at the De La Warr Pavilion for the 10th time on Friday 6 March between and The fair, in association with…
Bexhill Art Weekender 2025
Flatland Projects, De La Warr Pavilion and the Bexhill Cultural Network are pleased to announce the launch of the Bexhill Art Weekender 2025, a new two-day festival celebrating contemporary visual…
Project Art Works Opens its Doors
This summer take a trip to Hastings to visit Project Art Works and experience their newly reopened Arches and Trinity Hall on one of their Open Studios weekends. Explore an…
Coming Home with Purpose: Kid Kapichi
KATE SHAW AND VERA BELL Kid Kapichi played their last big concert at De La Warr Pavilion earlier this year, having announced that Ben Beetham and George Macdonald were leaving…
Conflict Spills onto Local Streets
A female supporter of Hastings Friends of Al-Mawasi (HFOAM) was physically attacked outside the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sunday 20 July as she waited to greet the…
Active Arts get Even Louder
LIANNE BUTTREY This July, prepare for a truly unforgettable evening of talent, creativity, and community spirit as over 60 performers from Active Arts – a flagship visual and performing arts programme…
No Favours from Rother DC for Colonnade Traders
HUGH SULLIVAN The Bexhill Colonnade, which accommodates a parade of independent shops and cafes along the seafront promenade immediately below the De La Warr Pavilion, is to undergo extensive renovation…
All Us Women
VERONIQUE LEPLAT All Us Women is an arts and wellbeing project exploring violence against women. During 2024 we worked with 51 women, supporting them in producing textile artworks that were…
Red, Blue, Up
De La Warr Pavilion is pleased to present Red, Blue, Up, a major new exhibition of paintings and drawings by Bexhill-based artist, Michelle Roberts, in the First Floor Gallery this…
The Hub and the Pavilion
HUGH SULLIVAN The distance between Sidley Recreation Ground and the De La Warr Pavilion (DLWP) on Bexhill seafront is around a mile and a half. Historically and culturally, it has…
Laetitia Yhap
An Ending to a Beginning Now over 80, Laetitia Yhap is something of an institution in Hastings and St Leonards. The opening of her recent exhibition, on 6 April at…
Arts Diary
Howerd’s End at The Stables Saturday 18 November, Stables Theatre Hastings, pm Award-winning actor Simon Cartwright plays Frankie Howerd and Mark Farrelly appears as Frankie’s lover, manager, and chauffeur. The…
A Garden Full of Cultural Delights
JOHN ENFER Tim MillerPicture features Acromax from a previous ‘Garden of Delights’ It will be all-change with this year’s Garden Full of Cultural Delights with the popular event moving to…
ARTS DIARY
CENERENTOLA 2023 The Barefoot Opera Production of La Cenerentola (Cinderella) is on tour this year. The initial date is 27 July at St John The Evangelist Church, Pevensey Road, St…
Feeling Connected
TOM FORDE (of Hastings Radio Podcast) is emotionally fortified by the Colours Festival debut all-women day in De La Warr Pavilion As the train zooms past beach huts looking out…
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…
World Blues
VERA BELL meditates on Eric Bibb’s performance at the De La Warr Pavilion on 9 May. The blues is a universal phenomenon. The relatively simple chord progression of many blues…
No Comparison
In early May, two leading singers performed locally on the same evening – Katie Melua at the De La Warr Pavilion, and British jazz diva Norma Winstone at the EHSAA.…
Eric Bibb Comes to Bexhill!
by ED FRITH Two-time Grammy Award nominee Eric Bibb will come ridin’ on to DLWP very soon. The world renowned Blues Troubadour and his band will perform the classics he…
Arts Diary
Take a Seat This spring, Tschabalala Self’s first public sculpture, Seated, comes to the De La Warr Pavilion, outside on the lawn, facing the sea. According to the DWP: “Standing three…
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…
St Mary in the Castle and Me
Glenys Jacques gives a personal opinion on why we need to defend St Mary in the Castle. Creative community passions run high in Hastings. Art and music flow through it…
Santas on the run
Resembling a hallucination following one mulled wine too many, over 200 sponsored Santas dashed along Bexhill seafront on Sunday 4 December to fundraise for the local Lions club’s charitable causes.…
Killing Me Loudly
By Anja Petitto Hotly tipped to be the next big thing out of Hastings comes the local legends, ‘Murderers Are Optimists.’ They formed in 2020 during the pandemic, which gave…
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
KINO IS BACK The arts centre on Norman Road has reopened, after a short break, and has a wide-ranging programme of films, music and other assorted outpourings and will host…
Bob in Bexhill
As the De La Warr Pavilion celebrates the 50th anniversary of Bob Marley’s appearance there, Kent Barker looks at the events in 1972 that led up to the ; Bob…
Hastings Refugee Week
This year, Refugee Week (20-26 June) will see a unique series of creative actions and events taking place in multiple locations across Hastings & St Leonards and beyond which highlight…
Calling out around the world
Welcome to the International Composers Festival 2022 The International Composers Festival – the only event of its kind in the world – will be returning between May 20 and 22,…
Covid, Mother of Invention?
By Gareth Stevens It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention. Whilst lockdown has had a catastrophic effect on art exhibition schedules, and led to all galleries…
Eunice Exposes Electricity Reliance
Storm Eunice left an expected trail of destruction as it hit the East Sussex coast last Friday and lingered on through the weekend. Unlike the 1987 hurricane, when trees were…
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…
Youth Social Media Channel launched
Young people from across Sussex have been collaborating on a new social media channel, using creative ideas to raise awareness of issues such as mental health, racism, and body positivity.…
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…
Talking Loud
Talking Loud is a series of free online talks aimed at people currently working in the creative industries in the South East and presented by both the De La Warr…