Tag archives for TOBY BULA-EDGE
Shouting for Bexhill
TOBY BULA-EDGE Bexhill will come alive on 15 and 16 August for the Bexhill Art Weekender which HIP spotlighted in the last issue. This time, we sat down with Flatland…
Read to the Beat
TOBY BULA-EDGE The ever-popular Summer Reading Challenge returns this month for children aged four to eleven. This year the theme is Read to the Beat and explores the connection between…
Umbrella Sussex Needs Your Help!
TOBY BULA-EDGE A new Community Eco Hub is the next aim of Umbrella Sussex – the group behind the Library of Things, Make and Mend, and Save the Convent Campaign.…
Gamechanging Futures
TOBY BULA-EDGE As we sweat our way through the third heatwave of the year, it’s impossible to ignore that the climate is changing. That’s why Hastings United FC and Bexhill…
Counselling Plus Community Relocates to St Leonards
TOBY BULA-EDGE Local mental health charity Counselling Plus Community (CPC) will be relocating to the St Nicholas Centre from 1 September. The collaborative move was announced by long running charity…
Tea Museum Hosts Telly Event
TOBY BULA-EDGE Free cups of tea, and a retro feel, will be on offer at two exciting Tea and Telly pop up events on 8 and 22 August. They will…
St Leonards Festival Returns
TOBY BULA-EDGE Warrior Square Gardens will come alive on 11 July from with the annual St Leonards Festival and Community Parade along the seafront at It promises to be an energetic and…
Unconventional…but Still Music
TOBY BULA-EDGE Shifting in style and sound over a two hour performance, Sonics’ Spin Cycle returned on Sunday 7 June for its fifth edition. The experimental brainchild of James Weaver…
The Special Effects of Ben Wheatley
Toby Bula-Edge A full house came out in force to see Ben Wheatley’s new film Bulk at the Electric Palace on Thursday 14. The screening was accompanied by a Q&A…
Film-makers of the Future
Toby Bula-Edge Local schools have been hard at work producing their entries for the Children’s International Film Festival (CIFF), which comes to Hastings on 18 June, helped by CIFF partners…
Put the Kettle on, Grab a Biscuit and Pop on the TV
TOBY BULA-EDGE I like to imagine that when John Logie Baird invented the television exactly a century ago, it was a bit like Frankenstein and his monster – in a…
Sonics Boom
TOBY BULA-EDGE Emanating from French’s on 14 and 15 February will be a selection of unusual and surprising sounds. That is, very different noises to those that normally exude from…
Love Calling!
TOBY BULA-EDGE Calling all lovebirds! Channel 4’s hit dating show First Dates is looking for new participants from the Hastings ; Hastings - and let’s face it, anywhere - can…
Wise Mamas
TOBY BULA-EDGE A new wellness studio for mums has launched in Hastings. Wise Mamas is the first wellness studio in Hastings to cater for and support mothers - and they…
Blur in Focus
TOBY BULA-EDGE A never-before-seen snapshot of Blur in their early years is now available thanks to drummer Dave Rowntree’s new book No One You Know. He will be talking about…
Checkmate by the Sea: the Battle of Minds Returns to Hastings
Schach. Шахи. Sjakk. Fichille. Tàileasg. Schaken. Şah. Échecs. Skak. Satranç. Call it what you will - it’s still Chess in any language - and as TOBY BULA-EDGE and KENT BARKER…
Left in the Cinema: Films to Educate and Empower
TOBY BULA-EDGE is a journalism student and HIP intern When you have something to say, “speak loud and clear”, says a paper sign blue-tacked to the wall of the Hastings…
Hastings Rocks to the Dark Side
TOBY BULA-EDGE and VERA BELL A shift is happening at Hastings Rocks International Film Festival: a shift into the scary, the anxiety-ridden and the dystopian. Their call for entries is…