Hastings Independent Art Auction
Tuesday 11th December The Printworks, Claremont, TN34 1HA Video featuring a selection of the art on offer. Live Music from Roger Hubbard and Marie White, Food available in Gotham Alley from Southside Wrappers (Christmas Meal or Vegetarian Wraps) Mmmmmm Support…
HiFest… Catch It While You Can!
Anyone who’s been to The Printworks on Claremont knows that it’s an extraordinarily versatile space. Not just an atmospheric bar, concert hall or private function venue but, this weekend, host to a remarkable international artistic gathering. HiFest – Hastings Illustration…
/////REFLECTIONS: Another depressing one
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss The clocks went back only a few nights before this month’s Lantern Society, so by the time the clock struck eight and we were due to start, The…
Power and Danger
David Francis reviews Nigel Green’s Dungeness Power Station Photographs at The Printworks Nigel Green’s photographs are every bit as quietly powerful as their subject. Cold, bright colour images of vast cathedral spaces, utilitarian grey panels, dials, switches, arc lights, arcane inscriptions…
Polari on Sea – Back by Popular Demand
Three and a half weeks on from the successful – albeit rain-washed and eventually diverted to drier venues – second Hastings Pride festival, HIP Literature welcomes the return of celebrated LGBT+ Polari Literary Salon to our town. Based at London’s…
Calais Children – A Case To Answer
The refugee crisis in Calais has not gone away. Indeed destroying the ‘Jungle’ has arguably made the situation worse. Felicity Laurence of Hastings Supports Refugees reports on an extraordinary film to be shown at the Printworks which documents the abject…
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 by documentary photographer Giovanna Del Sarto and visual artist Bern…
Live Music
EMMA HARWOOD As home to a vast array of talented musicians and with a reputation for its rich and diverse arts and music scene, it is hardly surprising that the first half of 2018 promises a glittering calendar of live…
Literary Hastings – A Unique Expression
Hastings and St Leonard’s has inspired poets and authors for centuries, some mainstream but most alternative. Today’s local literary creatives offer impassioned insights into our town, together with national and global perspectives, whether through romanticism or stark realism. Explore or…
HiFest 2017
Now in its fourth year, HiFest (Hastings Illustration Festival) will be taking place on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd December 2017. Visitors can expect guests from the world of illustration and over 75 stalls selling unique illustrated goods from books,…