Tag archives for Erica Smith
Visual Responses to Grief
The aim of this special exhibition, shown for the duration of the festival at Electro Studios, was to showcase local artists’ reactions to their own personal grief. These were depicted…
In service of all the dead: World AIDS day
VICTORIA KINGHAM Erica Smith, founder of Hastings Creatives, is herself a maker. The evening of 1 December (particularly stormy) was an opportunity to display her recently-finished quilt and hear the…
All Stitched Up
ERICA SMITH encourages readers to visit the Hastings in Stitches quilt at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery James Matthew ThomasDenise Franklin of Carbon picture framing with the community embroidery laid…
Hastings in Stitches: a Work in Progress
ERICA SMITH If you’ve ever visited Hastings Town Hall, you might have noticed a wall hanging in the ground floor corridor. The framed piece includes 68 individual embroidered squares celebrating…
A New Way of Learning Which is Right Up Your Street
ERICA SMITH Hastings Commons is currently running a programme of courses tailored to suit people who have never felt comfortable in formal learning situations. Geometric patchwork cushion workshop with tutor…
Bright Future Planned for Ginseng
By Erica Smith Gensing Gardens was officially opened by the Mayor of Hastings on 3 July 1872. 150 years later, the community celebrated the Gardens’ ‘birthday’. Artist Emma Harding explained…
Jeremy Birch celebrated
By Rachel Holtom On Saturday 11 June 2022 an enthusiastic crowd of people gathered in The Stade Hall to remember former Hastings Council leader Jeremy Birch. The event welcomed the…
Collect your Cereal Packets: March is for Model Making!
By Erica Smith The great joy in 1970s households was the cereal packet. Vouchers and gifts could be found inside them, and when you had finished munching their edible contents,…
COMPETITION NEWS
Poetry can be NonsenseChildren and adults love it By Erica Smith Education Futures Trust is currently sending out hundreds of copies of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets…
Exploring A Book Outdoors
St Leonards’ #ATownExploresABook festival comprises a multitude of community explorations and one of the best-loved aspects of this emerging two-week spring holiday festival is the outdoor art. Andrew Myers caught…
St Leonards Post Office
Smiling bravely The sell-off one year on. By Rod Webb As Britain madly shops in the dark of winter streets, illuminated shop windows lure us in with music and bright…
100 years and what have we got?
by WOMEN’S VOICE Following its big event to celebrate women winning the vote in 1918 which took place in June, Women’s Voice is now turning its attention to women’s lives…
Hastings Creatives Relaunch!
Hastings Creatives launched a new website and email list on Wednesday 9 May with a celebration event at Hastings Arts Forum. Reviewed by Caf Fean Formed in 2002, the online networking…