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HIP REVIEW: The Eyes Have It
Cancelled Confessions, by Claude Cahun Translated by Susan De MuthThin Man Press, new edition 2024, £27VICTORIA KINGHAM The first image inside the new edition of Claude Cahun’s Disavowals, more literally…
Mews News
VICTORIA KINGHAM Those of you lamenting the sudden disappearance of the small museum Bizarre But True in St Andrews Mews will be pleased to know that there are plans afoot…
Braga, Portugal, and Brazil
JUDE MONTAGUE and VICTORIA KINGHAM The association between Brazil and Portugal dates back to the 16th century, when Brazil was colonised for its plentiful trees (Brazilwood), then later used for…
International Piano Fundraiser
VICTORIA KINGHAM Sir Stephen Hough has been called one of twenty living polymaths: a brilliant piano soloist, he also composes and teaches music, has published poetry, novels and memoirs, and…
Poets, protest, and Pepsi-Cola
VICTORIA KINGHAM What did punk mean? And what does it still mean? Is it a term that transcends time, or was it a movement peculiar to its 1970s moment? ‘One…
Fran And Flora: Transylvanian Rhapsodies
VICTORIA KINGHAM They have just returned from a trip to Transylvania, but there’s nothing remotely Gothic about Fran and Flora, the duo who played at Crown House on 27 February.…
The musical power ofgenre-fluidity
VICTORIA KINGHAM “I’ve heard it said before,” began Max Baillie at Crown House, “that composing is slow improvisation, and improvisation is fast composing.” A unique evening at Crown House followed.…
The Art of Tattoo, and After
VICTORIA KINGHAM Imagine an extraordinary body of work by a dedicated tattooist, essentially an artist, a man who became, through illness, unable to use a tattoo marker, and turned to…
The Soundtrack and the Fury
EBM HUMPHREYS and VICTORIA KINGHAM From its description, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a feature documentary by Johan Grimonprez, which showed at Kino last Wednesday, sounds as though it might…
A Cockroach in The Stables
VICTORIA KINGHAM That most engaging of local actors, Patrick Kealey, will finally perform his action-packed version of Archy and Mehitabel to The Stables Theatre on 26 February. Some of you…
XED Le Head: After tattooing, what?
VICTORIA KINGHAM Imagine an extraordinary body of work by a dedicated tattooist, essentially an artist who, unable to use a tattoo marker, turned to something completely different. Ruby’s Rooms on…
Domestic Theatre as Future Hope
VICTORIA KINGHAM At the present time, the ‘value’ of education appears generally to be measured in literal financial terms: it ceases to be about learning to think, argue, or evaluate.…
Goosey Goosey who?
VICTORIA KINGHAM There are a fair number of books in print about nursery rhyme; mostly collections with commentary, occasionally delving into the background and origins of this unfortunately diminishing genre.…
Hope Springs Eternal, Site-specifically with Oranges
VICTORIA KINGHAM Archer Lodge is one of various lovely, un-reconstituted houses situated within St Leonards and Hastings, designed a couple of hundred years ago to offer well-proportioned and elegant living…
The Discreet Charm of the Disturbingly Brilliant
VICTORIA KINGHAM Coruscating is perhaps an overused word in the context of jazz writing, but it’s easy to see why. It’s rhythmic, internally balanced, sibilant – an onomatopoeic description of…
St Leonards Steam Ahead
VICTORIA KINGHAM Though this may sound like the gratuitous praise of a faithful follower, in fact there are excellent reasons for Max Baillie’s centrality in our local music scene. First,…
A Christmas Carol, in the Tradition
VICTORIA KINGHAM watched A Christmas Carol at Rye Creative Centre Rye is a bit far afield for our very local newspaper. However Duke’s Theatre Company are always an exception and…
They May not Mean to, but They do
VICTORIA KINGHAM Short Stories about Mothers and Fathers isn’t at all what you would expect from the title. I expected condensed, pointed fiction but instead was surprised with two dozen…
Agatha! A Continuing Inspiration
VICTORIA KINGHAM at the Stables Gallery As far as one can tell, Agatha Christie never lived ; Among other exotic locations, she lived variously in Devon, Oxfordshire, Cheshire, Egypt, and…
Hastings Contemporary Director Leaves for Dorset
VICTORIA KINGHAM The Director of Hastings Contemporary is leaving to take up the post of Chief Executive Officer at The Sherborne in ; Liz Gilmore was the founding Director of…
An Operatic Salon for the Modern Age
VICTORIA KINGHAM The derivation of the word ‘opera’ is from the Latin opus – work, artwork, creation, realisation. This is indeed what local inspired company, Barefoot Opera, continue to achieve.…
Blue – Kind of
VICTORIA KINGHAM Kind of Blue inevitably conjures up the sound of the seminal, sublime Miles Davis album from way back in 1959, that besides the trumpeter featured John Coltrane and…
Ambiguity, Paradox, Complexity, Eternity
VICTORIA KINGHAM on the new show at Hastings Contemporary Courtesy of the artistMarilyn Minter, Split, 2003, c-print Whatever else one can say about the latest show Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs…
Restoring Forgotten Brilliance
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to Carina Cosgrave about the Sabi Ensemble Going to a concert of classical music, we expect to see accomplished performers playing written music perfectly. We are often…
Sing Everything You See, or Vice-Versa:
Sono-Electro Goes Large VICTORIA KINGHAM ‘Sound art’ is one of those artistic concepts which has been in circulation much longer than most casual audiences would believe. The idea of making…
Bach to the Future – a Four-Part Invention
VICTORIA KINGHAM It seems to me exceptional the way that musicians in this part of the world seem happy to link up, be open to, and enjoy each other’s particular…
Rod Youngs: New From Old
VICTORIA KINGHAM at Jazz Hastings It’s strange how musical appreciation changes over the course of half a century or more. What sounded to the majority uncompromising, unmelodic, on a first…
Jazz, Folk, and Forests
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to Rebecka Edlund ahead of her performance at Jazz Hastings Thomas W. Stephenson To talk to Rebecka Edlund about her music is to talk to her about…
Focus on Folk
VICTORIA KINGHAM explores the folk scene, local and visiting Bill and Steve’s Excellent Adventure: A celebration of fifty years of the Hayloft Folk Club Two stalwarts of the original British…
Farce with Attitude: Bowler Crab Tames Shrew
VICTORIA KINGHAM Bowler Crab’s presentation of The Taming of the Shrew was set in the meadow of a beautiful old farmhouse at Three Oaks, staged in a position where the…
The Gangster, the Window Box, and the Wardrobe
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to playwright Francis Saunders about his work and reviews his recent adaptation of Gangster No. 1 Gangster No. 1 was staged at the Kino, St Leonards, on…
Barefoot in the Church
VICTORIA KINGHAM on the eternal appeal of Traviata Chris Parker PhotographyBeren Kader Fidan (Violetta) with Tylor Lamani (Alfredo) Where to begin writing about Barefoot Opera's production, La Traviata? Being staged…
Dynamism, Polymathy, Idealism
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to another of many exceptional women concentrated in this small area. Trisha Napier is currently exhibiting portraits at the St Leonard pub, but her talents and involvements…
From Commedia to Tragedy
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to Jenny Miller about Barefoot Opera’s new project, La Traviata Jenny Miller is taking Barefoot Opera from strength to strength. She is also taking it from comedy…
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.…
Eregata
VICTORIA KINGHAM at Hastings Contemporary’s new Spring show The spring and summer seasons at Hastings Contemporary promise to be the best yet both in terms of exhibitions and participatory activities.…
Hastings International Piano Concerto Finals and Results
VICTORIA KINGHAM So it’s done. A whole year of organisation, ten days of one-after-another performances by some of the world’s finest young pianists. An extraordinary event, a glittering array of…
The Politics of KABARETT
VICTORIA KINGHAM takes in Kabarett, a one-night-only presentation at The Stables The word cabaret (meaning ‘small room’) has been used since the thirteenth century. It has eventually come to describe…
Virtual Storytelling
Over the summer of 2023, MSL led people in Hastings and Medway on a detective hunt, delving into the towns’ archives and interviewing residents to find out about the past…
Concerto Competition
VICTORIA KINGHAM at the inception of the 2024 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition Alice DennyCompetition judges Vanessa Latarche (Artistic Director) and Pascal Escande (centre) With a splendid reception at the…