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Legacy & Disorder: A Look at Jake Wood-Evans
HIP's Merlin Betts considers local artist Jake Wood-Evans in advance of his latest exhibition Legacy & Disorder, opening at Unit London on the 21st May. Jake has lived and painted…
Picnic On A Platter
Longer lazy days make for longer lazy ways. Gone are the soggy sarnies and eggs boiled to blue oblivion. Eating outdoors is such a treat, especially if it is happy…
Hastings Care Home Wins National Award For Its “First Class” Dementia Care
By Lisa Pettifer A Hastings care home has scooped a national award for its “first class” dementia care. Hastings Court on The Ridge beat off stiff competition from five other…
Help End Hygiene Poverty in Hastings
Press Release from Chris Knott Insurance and the Hygiene Bank An insurance broker working in the not-for-profit sector has partnered with a national charity to co-ordinate the donation and distribution…
Choose a Celebrant for Your Civil Ceremonies
By Laurence Flood, Independent Civil Celebrant. Nowadays, more than 60% of couples who marry in a register office then go on to have wedding celebration ceremonies performed by independent civil…
Polite Pets at the Vets
Polite Pets at the Vets is a 4 week tailored workshop for both dog and owner. It will be providing the tools to help you know what to expect from…
Hastings Pride 2018
By Natasha Scott This year’s theme of Space & Aliens may seem a little bit out there, literally, but there is an underlying important reason. In the last twelve months,…
Local Business Group to Give Boost to Hastings Foodbank
This release was submitted by Chris Knott Insurance. A collection of Hastings and St Leonards businesses are securing donations to the local foodbank to help them meet increased demand. Members…
Hastings Beer and Music Festival Hosts This Year’s Seaside Zumbathon Party
St Michael’s Hospice is delighted to announce the return of the Seaside Zumbathon Party, which is taking place at Hastings Beer and Music Festival on Saturday 7th July, 9am –…
Day Centres Closure Confirmed
Leaders of East Sussex County Council have agreed to cease day services at the Charter Centre in Bexhill and the Isabel Blackman Centre in Hastings. The two day centres for…
Share the Journey – Local Walkers Support Refugees
Local church-based walking group The Amblers are joining with other church groups, friends and anyone wanting to show their solidarity with or reflect on the plight of the many tens…
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…
Volunteer to Help Futureproof Beautiful Fairlight Church
This is a press release from St Andrew's Church, Fairlight. If you didn’t know it was there, blink and you would miss St Andrew’s Church with its majestic tower, historical…
Innovative Land Management Harnesses Traditional Methods
What follows is a short press release from Hastings Borough Council. Frankie Woodgate and her heavy working horses Yser and Tobias returned to Hastings Country Park last week. Their traditional…
Planting Fruit Trees to Fight Cancer
What follows is a press release from Hastings and Rother Cancer Awareness Project. The Project works with local people to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of cancer. Local people…
The More Radio Hastings Awards 2018
On Friday 13th July 2018 More Radio will be hosting their 2018 Awards ceremony at the Azur Marina Pavilion. The Awards are sponsored by Crowhurst Park and Pelham Gates, and…
Volunteers’ Week
Hastings Voluntary Action (HVA) Almost all charities and community groups rely on volunteers. Volunteers’ Week, running from 1st to 7th June, is an annual opportunity to celebrate the contribution that…
Streets of Battle back for 2018
The festival of Sussex street art will return to the heart of Battle this Saturday, 28th April. Loved by all ages, Streets of Battle has charmed visitors to Battle's High…
Worth the wait – Central Library opens
DAVE YOUNG REPORTS Long awaited, and a little more expensive than envisaged, Hastings Library has reopened. Located in the Brassey Institute in Claremont, the listed Victorian structure has been sensitively…
More Trains, More Seats, Better Connections
So say Southern as RMT Union prepare to strike again Hugh Sullivan reports In a Which survey published in January this year, Southern Rail was identified as providing the worst…
Giovanna Del Sarto and Bern O’Donoghue Present Another Crossing
Another Crossing by Giovanna Del Sarto Wednesday 28th February at Hastings Debates (Hastings Community of Sanctuary), The Printworks, Claremont, Hastings BY FELICITY LAURENCE Another Crossing is a collaborative artistic venture…
Hastings piano competition attracts a world-class field
BY JULIAN NORRIDGE This year’s Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition is under way. It began on Thursday February 22 at the White Rock Theatre and will culminate in ten days…
Café des Arts to close at end of month
BY ROD WEBB This much-loved café in Robertson Street, Hastings is set to close on 28 February. During the past eight years, it has provided much needed employment opportunities for…
Fat Tuesday 2018
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK RICHARDS
Participation
BY CAF FEAN Delight in a glitzy cabaret strictly for the over 60s, encounter Great Expectations on the streets of St Leonards or play a part in an opera inspired…
Music Month – 13 February – 17 March
SALLY LAMPITT REPORTS: Do you love great music? The music scene across Hastings and Rother gets hotter every year and we want to celebrate that. Music Month shines a light…
A Town – A New Arts Council-Funded Opera Project, by Thomas Denman
Barefoot opera presents Clash. Sussex Coast College, Hastings Barefoot Opera – ‘Hastings and St. Leonard’s very own opera company’ – has been awarded an Arts Council Research and Development Grant…
Want to join the Mardi Gras Monarchy? Fat Tuesday wants to know what you’re made of
Have you got what it takes to join the Hastings Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Monarchy? Hastings Fat Tuesday means colour, costume, creativity and carnival spirit in abundance, and in…
Laetitia Yhap Celebrates Fifty Years in Hastings
Shattered Window Pane, Laetitia Yhap The sandstone walls of Undercliff House have, for the last few months, been adorned with scenes of Hastings and South London. They are large, delicate…
Alexandra Wonderama
Autumn Flowers by Kim Batty At Dragon Bar, George Street from 1 December Local artist and longstanding member of the HIP family, Kim Batty is opening an exhibition of limited…
David Thomas Broughton, Saturday 18 November 2017, Printworks
David Thomas Broughton, photo by Greg Butler David Thomas Broughton – folk singer/avant-garde performer and man with a guitar, a loop pedal and a seemingly longstanding desire to be punched…
It’s Halloween in Hastings and That Means Voodoo Fest! by Mark Curry
From the team that bring the town Fat Tuesday, this end of season event for Hastings is always on Halloween, always has amazing costumes, always features a parade with a…
Early Music Festival
Rautio Piano Trio, from left Jane Gordon, Victoria Simonsen and Jan Rautio Sophie Shaw talks to Jane Gordon as she launches Hastings Early Music Festival ‘We’re talking about historically informed…
L’incoronazione di Poppea, St Mary in the Castle by Thomas Denman
Judith Charron, Sara Parker, Lucilla Graham in rehearsal Barefoot Opera – Hastings and St Leonards’ very own opera company – for one night only, at St Mary in the Castle,…
Artists Recommend Open Studios: Lorna Crabb
With Coastal Currents’ Open Studios featuring so much to see, HIP has enlisted three local artists to help navigate the delights on offer. Lorna Crabbe, Sarah Lloyd and Alan Rankle…
It Must be Love, Suggs answers questions on Our House and Hastings:
Suggs, James Tobias (actor) and Tim Firth (play write). Photo by The Umbrella Rooms Ahead of the arrival in Hastings (for one week only) of the Laurence Olivier Award-winning musical,…
Joan, Babs and Shelagh too, A tribute to Joan Littlewoo
Gemskii in character in front of Littlewood's statue HIP talks to Gemskii, the one-woman force behind Conscious Theatre and Glenys Jacques of Electric Palace about this production, coming soon…
Kicking off a bumper August for performance
Catch the next issue of HIP for a round up of the many interesting and unusual shows on offer in Hastings and St Leonards throughout August. Don’t miss out on…
Vegan Hastings- Ahead of the curve by Georgie Drake
It’s not exactly news that Veganism is on the rise. With over 542,000 people now following a vegan diet in the UK, that’s a 300% increase in the last…
Opus: A new venue for Hastings
Polo Piatti at the Opus Theatre ⓒ Peter Mould With the widely-anticipated Opus Theatre on the verge of opening in Hastings, HIP interviews British-Argentinian composer Polo Piatti, the driving force behind…