A Giant Leap to Addiction
Gareth Stevens talks to the filmmaker Ben Cole whose feature length documentary Talking Addiction is being screened at the Electric Cinema on Friday 8 July. Despite starting his professional life in film and theatre in front of the camera, or…
Rules for Radicals
It is fifty years this June since the American leftish activist Saul Alinsky died. Gareth Stevens revisits his classic handbook of pragmatic advice for those organising positive social ; I found out about Saul D Alinsky’s incredibly important book Rules…
Jazz Experience
By Gareth Stevens Near Jazz Experience were never a consequence of premeditation. Like the improvised set that they performed at Kino-Teatr on a March Saturday, the band just happened. Just over ten years ago experienced musical peers Terry Edwards, Mark…
Meeting the Old Master
Gareth Stevens spends an afternoon with avant garde composer George Newson. Stone-in-Oxney sits atop an ‘island’ hill in the otherwise relentless flatland of the Romney Marsh. The village is the home of the composer George Newson, who despite his 89…
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 being closed; as restrictions have eased and public spaces have…
Witchcraft on the Stade
Review by Gareth Stevens It is always a ‘pinch yourself’ moment to sit in the East Hastings Angling Association club at The Stade and to realise that in such a humble, out-of-the-way venue you get the chance to enjoy the…
Shadows from the Durbar Hall
Gareth Stevens previews an exhibition of works by Monika Veriopoulos at the blackShed Gallery, Robertsbridge - 12 February - 5 March. Monika Veriopoulos was born in Athens in ; She moved to London where she studied Fine Art at the…
Are Animals Necessary?
Gareth Stevens profiles Hastings’ musician Keith Rodway and his new album Despite having always been obsessed with music, Keith Rodway tells me that he only really became actively involved in the arts at the relatively late age of 26 when…
A Very Live Parrot
Gareth Stevens reviews ‘Parroting’, a multi-media exhibition by Josie Rae Turnbull and Kate Tipler currently at Zuzushi Art Laboratory. The significance of this exhibition is multi-layered and complex. A subtle symphony of different themes and ideas, it left me intellectually…
14 Months of Solitude
Gareth Stevens previews an upcoming group show by four Hastings based photographers at Electro Studios Project Space. Many local artists from across the range of creative endeavours have alchemically developed innovative new ideas and produced great work out of what…