Tag archives for Electric Palace Cinema
Community News in Brief
Walk for Al-Mawasi Hastings has had links with Al-Mawasi, a fishing community in Gaza, for several years. Last year, Hastings Borough Council agreed to make it one of our Friendship…
Caribbean Cinema Comes to Hastings
Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings is to host Crossroads, a ground- breaking new screening series bringing contemporary Caribbean cinema to South East England for the first time. Running this May…
Electric Christmas
The Electric Palace, Hastings Old Town’s volunteer-run community cinema, has released details of its 2025 festive programme. Dubbed ‘Electric Christmas’, the run of shows aims to balance traditional Hollywood crowd-pleasers…
Neurodiversity in Focus
ANNIE WAITE The Electric Palace Cinema is proud to present its first ever Neurodiversity Film Festival, a weekend dedicated to showcasing autistic and neurodiverse film characters, actors and narratives. Running…
The Stimming Pool
SADIE PITCHER on a film created by a neurodivergent collective The camera moves, gets distracted, and moves again, becoming its own character in The Stimming Pool. The eye of the…
ARTS DIARY
THE SPIRIT IN THE DUST Kino-Teatr, St Leonards, 20 February, Original dance/music performance featuring Japanese Butoh-influenced dancer Yumino Seki, with music from Afrit Nebula and images by Mark French. Seki…
Cinema Cats
JUDE MONTAGUE Cats have inspired worship throughout history. They are allegedly the second most popular search on the internet, and have been the focus of films that have been significant…
People of Hastings and St Leonards
Lara Alvarez and Alvaro Lois This week Kathryn Sutter met Lara and Al, owners of Spanish-on-Sea, an accessible and friendly Spanish language school in Hastings Town Centre. Lara and Al…
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…
Arts on the Horizon
When we finally get out of lockdown, there’s bound to be huge excitement and enthusiasm for the Arts – the same Arts that we took for granted until 2020. But…
Electric Palace Pleads For Support
The Electric Palace cinema in the Old Town is warning that it may have to let the end credits roll after an 18-year run. Closed between March and August due…
Storytelling by sea: Another chance to join in
A dynamic documentary filmmaking workshop took place in St Leonard’s and Hastings this August under the mantle Storytelling by the Sea. Local filmmakers Ross Domoney and Rod Morris taught an…
Local Playwrights Show Their Talent Through ‘First Heard’
‘First Heard’ is a monthly play -reading event featuring new works by local playwrights, performed by professional actors. The readings are hosted at Electric Palace Cinema on the High Street.…
To B Movie or Not to B Movie
Thrills and spills at the Electric Palace Cinema By Andrew Myers Melodramatic acting, dodgy special effects and plot holes you could fly a badly realised spaceship through – all music to…
Rebecca E Marshall – Fever of the Light
S J Lloyd Rebecca Marshall’s new installation at blackShed gallery is a thoughtfully layered piece that situates us between three simultaneous screens. One frames a hermit living alone deep in…
Derek Jarman’s jubilee at Electric Palace
by Sarah J Lloyd Performance artist Emilia Telese hosted a screening of Derek Jarman's 1978 punk movie Jubilee last week, and afterwards a lively Q and A with Jordan, the…