Tag archives for Kino Teatr
Perello Duoat the Beacon
Perello, the Liverpool-based guitar and vibes duo who enchanted their Kino-Teatr audience last summer, are back in Hastings on 7 August – this time at The Beacon. The Perello Duo:…
Grief Encounter
HELEN MURPHY AND NICK PELLING The artist Georgie Wheeler wanted to make one thing very clear: “This is not a misery show.” What she was articulating is that her new…
The Beat Goes On
HELEN MURPHY AND NICK PELLING On 20 February, the polyrhythms of Afro-beat are coming to the Kino-teatr, in the form of the band Samaki. The band has a jazz-infused style…
All Kinds of Everything
NICK PELLING and HELEN MURPHY It’s not unusual for galleries to have a café or for restaurants to chuck some quirky art on the walls, but at the Kino-teatr on…
Getting Your Flicks Fix
ELIZABETH ALLEN When I moved ‘down from London’ to Hastings twenty years ago, I found much to enjoy and cherish. But, oh, did I miss my weekly fix of cinema:…
A Dickens Christmas
JOHN KNOWLES A (One Man) Christmas Carol, presented by Jud Charlton and directed by Paolo Serra, will show at the Kino Teatr on 11 December, the Hot Tap Theatre in…
Christmas, Crime and Crooning
The festive season is not for sissies. Pressures of gift-giving, invitations or lack of, family dynamics, expenses, cold weather and bugs – even existential crises triggered by a life-size Santa…
A Day In The Life
In case you didn't know of Hastings' unique and varied Arts scene, here's what was on offer on just one day. I chose the Hastings Philharmonic Ensemble, but there was…
The Eternal Triangle Flows On
Trevor Watts’ Eternal Triangle returns to the Kino Teatr in St Leonards on 1 November, to celebrate the release of two ;Studio album Gravity came out earlier this year, and has attracted rave reviews.…
From Cage to Stage: The Story behind Barred
VERA BELL talks to Dean Stalham about his latest venture Dean Stalham is a refreshingly complex character – cynical and passionately earnest, self-deprecating and self-publicising, humorous yet serious. He is…
Irish Film Week at the Kino
VICTORIA KINGHAM on a new film by Irish Director Pat Collins This afternoon 45 or so people went to the Kino-Teatr in St Leonards to see a major film premiere.…
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…
Elegance, Modernism, Romance – Ulucan and Roberts at a Kino-Teatr Coffee Concert
VICTORIA KINGHAM The late-morning stage at St Leonards Kino-Teatr looks plain and elegant, a vase of flowers placed on a small table to the right, a grand piano, a music…
Iago Banet – aStar Still Rising
Described as “a master of the guitar” by Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3 In Tune, as “nothing short of phenomenal” in a recent review, and as a “highly recommended artist”…
Anna Erhard to Play at Kino-Teatr
Swiss-born Anna Erhard will headline the Kino-Teatr in St Leonards-on-Sea on 30 September, bringing the curtain down on her UK tour. Sonja Stadelmeier 2023 has already been a big success,…
News from the Front of Beyond
NICK PELLING & HELEN MURPHY review the exhibition, Succession, at the Kino Teatr in Norman Road All photos: Helen PellingRadford in Mid-Flow Have you ever felt like you were sort…
Fusion – Sounds, Cultures, Worlds
Deepak Ram defies limits at Kino-Teatr and Jazz Hastings VICTORIA KINGHAM Deepak Ram One of the earliest highlights of my auditory education was a 1966 album called Indo-Jazz Suite, an…
Little Richard is Everything at the Kino
VICTORIA KINGHAM In the words of musicologist Fredara Hadley: “Black music is the wellspring of American popular music, but at the same time there are industries and societies that often…
Kino-Teatr’s ‘Affordable Art’ Auction
This article appeared in HIP Issue are unpredictable creatures. That is what makes them interesting. You can get yourself a real gem at a good price. And there is every…
Me and Dorothy Fields
Singer Suzanne Noble recounts her discovery of a long neglected female Broadway composer. I grew up in New York, listening to ‘Great American Songbook’ music performed by artists like Billie…
Eyes to Die For
Nick Pelling on Natalie Haynes and the Myth of Medusa. Natalie Haynes is like a really passionate, erudite and gifted teacher who has accidentally imbibed way too many amphetamines. As…
Hastings Literary Festival rebrands to Hastings Book Festival
The Hastings Literary Festival was founded 2017 as a celebration of the written word under the strapline of “writing for writers”, but provided events catering both for readers and writers…
Five Glorious Years of the Bavard Bar!
It’s a fairly unique format. Every month, on the third Wednesday at the Kino-Teatr in St Leonards, three people take to the stage and share their passions for around 15…
Riding the Zig-Zag Horse into Town
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling What is it that attracts so many creative people to Hastings? Is it the long arc of white sandy beach, the soft impressionist light…
Art Diary
Ivory Tinkling The Hastings International Piano Competition is running at the White Rock Theatre until March 5th. The promoters say that it has quietly become one of the most prestigious…
A saga of Norman Road: Kino Teatr loses court battle to Arigato
A claim made by Yuka Yoshii-Viellefon, owner of Japanese restaurant Arigato, for a little under £5,000 owed by the Kino Teatr was upheld last week in Hastings County Court after…
Magnificent Madness?
Nick Pelling attends the St Leonards’ premiere of a documentary about the making of a film by the former Monty Python star Terry Gilliam. Have you ever thought that a…
Punk, Plastic and the Pier
Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché Film review by Martin Dickie A new film about punk icon Poly Styrene opens with a drone shot high above St Leonards before cutting…
ARTS DIARY
The Kino Teatr in Norman Road St Leonards reopened with a short season of Oscar nominated or winning films including Nomadland. In June there’s a Coffee Concert: A Garden of…
Back to the Bar
By Fiona McGarry It was good to see the return of the Bavard Bar to the Kino on Wednesday – the first live Bavard since lockdown. The event normally involves…
ED’S PICK
Parasite (Monochrome Edition)Friday 14th August, , Kino-Teatr A 2019 South Korean dark comedy thriller directed by Bong Joon-ho, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Han Jin-won. It stars Song Kang-ho,…
Arts Diary
Glitterbug A fundraiser screening of Derek Jarman’s Glitterbug – a lovingly compiled montage of Jarman’s Super 8 footage fused with a multitextured Brian Eno score, posthumously assembled by his friends.…
A Billion Ways To Save Our Planet
Kino Teatr, St Leonards Rod Webb went along to see the musical A Billion Ways and was blown away. A Billion Ways is a massive achievement; an idea sparked off…
A Billion Ways – the Musical about Climate Change – to be Premiered in Hastings.
Press Release provided by the brand new musical on climate change will open in Hastings this month at the Kino-Teatr, featuring an impressive cast of local talent. Script writer Sally…
Bette Davis Supports Ethiopian Dance Centre?
Over at the Electric Palace, Glenys Jacques is hosting a fantastic weekend to kick off October, with a performance of Bette Davis On The Edge on Saturday 5th and then…
It’s Not Hard To Love The Bavard
Wed 21st August, Kino Teatr Review by Andrew Myers Full disclosure – I am a Bavard addict. The third Wednesday of the month has been a highlight of my (admittedly…
Milestones Play The Music Of Miles Davis
Kino TeatrSaturday 17th August By Andrew Myers Well, this is embarrassing. I had every intention of reviewing the Milestones: Kind of Blue 60th anniversary show at the Kino. I went…
ARTS DIARY
Terry Seabrook’s MILESTONES Play Kind of Blue KoBIn 1959 Miles Davis and his sidemen (Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Jimmy Cobb and Paul Chambers) made musical history when they recorded…
Archy And Polyamory?
Merlin Betts previews two productions from Theatre Nation Last week I met up with Tom Daldry and Patrick Kealey, founders of Theatre Nation, an innovative Hastings-based theatre company that works…
HASTINGS LITFEST UPDATE Have a chat with Sarfraz Manzoor
You may know him as a journalist in The Guardian, documentary presenter on Radio 4, or a cultural commentator on Newsnight Review or Saturday Review. You may not know him…