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ARTS & CULTURE celebrates our overflowing creativity, and reviews some of the worderful things we can enjoy in and about Hastings.

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It’s That Month Again

Coastal Currents, Open Studios, DLWP at 75, Fish, Food and Wine, Art in Romney Marsh: a jampacked month of world-class events and creativity coming up

Coastal Currents kicks off with a grand opening in Alexandra Park on Friday 27 August at 6 o’clock. Get hold of a programme to carry with you AT ALL TIMES. Details on their website too. Above, one of Alex Leadbetter’s thrilling sea images, showing in Open Studios. Left, roving performance artists Small-Murray will be at the Opening, with Ian Sinclair and lots more.

A sad farewell to Sid Beynon

We are shocked to hear of the sudden death of Sid Beynon, the soul of the Arts Forum and the cheeky smile of the beach. We really loved him. He literally worked his guts out for Hastings arts and had a profound belief in it being everyone’s birthright, and it’s hard to imagine the town without him. Friday 27th at the Arts Forum happens to be the opening of Sid’s big exhibition, now a launch-cum-wake. Come and drink to his life.

Art, Graffiti and Planning permission

The town’s been buzzing with the Tubman saga (evidently the Pirates of the Caribbean style skeleton didn’t please the local residents and HBC officialdom reached for the nearest blunderbus), then it turned out Banksy (or someone who does or doesn’t look like him/her) has struck at our sea wall near the Royal Victoria, and that’s going to be nothing compared to the hoo-ha over Ben Eine’s Big-Ears mural at Love market in Norman Road. And is it art? See Home Ground

Showing at Lucy Bell’s in Norman Road (to Aug 31) is an intriguing set of 1970s pop icon photos by Elisabeth Lewis. She writes in Photography about she came to take them.



Where’s Tina been to?