Tag archives for Tina Morris
The Great Big Cultural Survey
Tina Morris is probably best known in Hastings as the director of Coastal Currents, the annual festival that she’s been running since 2017. But she’s been involved in the creative…
More Murals Help to Transform Town
TINA MORRIS With one more mural to come, and a selection of BT Boxes appearing, Coastal Currents has been leaving street art wherever they appeared in 2024. The Old Bathing…
Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2023
The organisers write: 2023 Coastal Currents is upon us and this year we have done it entirely without Arts Council funding! First, then, thanks must go out to our biggest…
Hastings, Are You Curious?
KATE WATTS There’s a new festival in town on a mission to put Hastings on the map as the world’s first ‘Curious Town’. New local social enterprise Curious Agenda CIC…
Creating Strong Currents
Tina Morris, director of Coastal Currents, looks back at this year’s diverse arts festival. Coastal Currents has some sort of magic that permeates and populates the town in September, forged…
Now give me money
How can a professional musician survive on the £10 per gig that some venues in Hastings pay? Now the company behind Coastal Currents and Audiotrope has produced a Charter to…
Extracts from the Audiotrope Good Practice Charter
The charter is a set of principles that cover freelance musicians’ working conditions and sets out minimum terms and conditions for musicians working in the sector. Venues are encouraged to…
Audiotrope Supports Local Musicians
By Gareth Stevens Musicians have suffered more than some other of their creative peers during the Covid-19 pandemic because so much of their ‘trade’ is dependent on live performances, but…
Bread
We asked queen of Coastal Currents Arts Festival, Tina Morris, to give us tips on breadmaking as we’ve heard it’s ‘a thing’ for her. Tina takes us on a culinary…
Making a Mark
By Tina Morris, director of Coastal Currents I’m proud to say that by the time you read this, four new pieces of street art will have been installed in Hastings.…
Coastal Currents set to make a Bigger Splash
Tina Morris We are pleased to announce that Coastal Currents Arts Festival has been successful yet again with their Arts Council England funding, so we can all breathe a sigh…
Coastal Currents Goes Out of Season To Bring a Special Piece of Art to Silverhill by Tina Morris
Now seemingly a year-round venture, with new owner, Tina Morris, at the helm, Coastal Currents is still making the headlines. Here, she discusses a missing piece of the 2017 programme…