ATY DIARY
ROSSETTIS IN LOVE A small semi-permanent exhibition entitled Rossettis in Love begins in St. Clement’s Church on Saturday, 26 March at 11 am. It will be opened by Jenny Ridd, author of A Destiny Defined: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth…
Piano competitors bridge political divide
The Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition (HIPCC), being held for the first time in three years after abandonment to Covid-19 restrictions in 2021, opened on 24 February, the same day as first news reports of the full-on military invasion of…
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 piano competitions in the world. So much so that the…
Storytelling Festival emerges from the Zoomiverse
Hastings Storytelling Festival is back in the physical world this October with stories for all ages: it will be popping up in libraries, parks, cinemas, theatres, schools, pubs, halls and fishing clubs across Hastings and St Leonards, kicking off on…
REVIEW: More than Revolting Children
White Rock Theatre’s Summer Youth Project returned last month for the first time since 2019 with ‘Matilda the Musical Jr.’ Ben Cornwell watched the opening night. I know Roald Dahl’s Matilda like the back of my hand. It is a…
Matilda Junior Set to Rock Hastings
By Ben Cornwell The White Rock Theatre’s Summer Youth Project is back for its eighteenth production. This year the local theatre group will be performing a junior production of the award-winning West End musical ; Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical…
Cockroach from the Ashes
By Patrick Kealey – artistic director of Theatre Nation What does a rapidly emerging Hastings theatre company do when Covid stops it dead in its tracks? Forced, last Spring, to cancel an Arts Council funded tour of Waiting for Godot…
Culture Recovery Fund Round 2
Music, arts and theatre venues across the country are due to hear by the end of this month whether they will receive grants under Round 2 of the Arts Council England (ACE) Culture Recovery Fund. The stated aim is to…
Hastings Musical Festival is going Virtual!
By Jenny Griffiths Hastings Musical Festival has been going since 1908 – that’s 112 years! We are certainly not going to let Covid defeat us. However, because of the ongoing restrictions and uncertainty we have decided to run the 2021…
Paying The Piper
Arts Council England (ACE) has announced funding awards totalling £257 million for 1,385 venues, theatres, museums and cultural organisations across the ; The awards are administered by ACE on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as Round…