Tag archives for June 2016
Winter In Calais – Part 2: Survival and Escape
HIP Issue 55 carried a first hand account of the experience of a 22-year-old Iranian refugee entering the Calais Jungle camp last November. She, along with her mother and brother…
Children will go hungry due to Tax and Benefit reforms
Richard Price In 2014, child poverty in Hastings was the highest in the South-East, 30 per cent (after housing costs). The figure is likely to rise. The latest Institute for…
Newly Privatised Ambulance Service In Chaos
News from UNISON Ambulances repossessed, more ambulances blockaded by a horse box, mobile phones out of credit and staff unpaid – that’s the shocking state of a patient transport service…
Traditional Blessing of the Sea
Ben Hamilton For over a hundred years the blessing of the sea has taken place in Hastings and this year has been no exception. On Wednesday the Revd. Robert Featherstone…
Rocklands “Bunker” Appeal Won and Lost
Kent Barker Hastings Borough Council may have partially won a planning appeal but it appears to have lost the main battle over the controversial ‘bunker’ development at Rocklands caravan centre…
The resurfacing of the enigmatic Mr.Fudge
So I went to meet Nicholas Fudge, the Goldsmith’s graduate who notoriously threw his work in the bin two days before his degree show. One might think another gimmick to…
Light Fantastic
the iy_Project:The nature of sound and light Tracy Jones A spectacular immersive sound and light installation is set to become one of the iconic events that form the Root 1066…
Winter in Calais Part 1: Entering the jungle
A refugee who fled Iran last autumn following a crackdown on her Christian group gives a first hand account of her arrival in the Calais Jungle camp in November last…
Wine not?
Kim Batty discovers Borough Wines Beers and Books It was only a whisper of time ago that going to the America Ground and White Rock area, was surviving the ever-giving…
Clothesline at the Beacon – Real Clothes for Real Women
Judy Dewsbery and Belinda Cockburn The debut collection of the Clothesline emerged last Thursday, 28th April at the Beacon, Hastings, worn by women aged between 23 and 70, of sizes…
University U-turn?
University of Brighton in Hastings Robert Joyce The University of Brighton have seemingly withdrawn their decision to close their operation in Hastings following growing legal pressure over the way their…
Pause ll Play
Bargainstudio, St Leonards Sarah Lloyd PauseIIplay makes exceptionally rewarding viewing, by deftly questioning what we lose touch with when we become more coupled to images, social networks and machines than…
Drinking Fountain Restoration
Janet Langdon (centre red coat) together Mayor of Hastings Cllr Judy Rogers and the leader Hastings Borough Council Cllr Peter Chowney (right of fountain). Press Release by Tracy Hobden The…
Midsummer Fish Fest Returns
Tracy Hobden Hastings Midsummer Fish Fest is back for a third year. This free event takes place on the 25th and 26th June on the Stade open space. Introduced by…
Buddha Triangle at Smallworld
Welcome home, welcome back, welcome to Smallworld. An inter-dimensional portal to a world in which everything and nothing is real. A place to go to lose your mind and find…
The Wall Goes Up – Bohemia Nets Major Heritage Lottery Grant
The Bohemia Walled Garden Association The Bohemia Walled Garden Association has been awarded a grant of £97,000 to complete its restoration and development of the unique Victorian garden situated in…
Hastings Thrives Sky Parade
Ed Boxall Friday 10th June was The Hastings Thrives Sky Parade. 2,000 children from 14 schools paraded along the seafront to the pier. Parents, school staff, councillors and artists joined…
Rams
Director: Grímur Hákonarson Winner Cannes: Un Certain Regard 2015, Golden Eye at Zurich 2015 Reviewed by Simone Witney Will watching an elderly Icelandic sheep farmer make coffee in his lonely…
In Response to the Orlando Massacre
Oliver Speer In 1999 I was in Comptons, a gay bar in Soho when the news spread that a bar across the road The Admiral Duncan has been the target…
Methodical Empathy – ‘The soul that can see itself can see the world’
Yehuda Tagar Empathy is a new word for a new phenomena. Everyone thinks that it is an ancient Greek word like sympathy and antipathy. It is not. Coined in 1909 by…