Archive: Month: <span>July 2014</span>

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Jerwood drawings

The Jerwood Gallery, Hastings celebrates twenty years of the Jerwood Drawing Prize with a Drawing exhibition. It highlights drawing as a medium in its own right and features some eminent artists who in the past have been on the panel of the selection committee of the Jerwood drawing competition. Looking around the exhibition, HOT reporter Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was impressed by the diversity of the work – figurative, abstract, conceptual, collage, painting – but was also confused.

Posted 15:12 Thursday, Jul 31, 2014 In: Visual Arts Tags: Anita Taylor, Avis Newman, Cornelia Parker, Emma Talbot, Hastings, Jerwood Drawing Ehibition, Jerwood Gallery, Ken Currie, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Lisa Milroy, Michael Craig-Martin, Quentin Blake, Timothy Hyman RA, Victoria Howarth

Armada than you! Horrible Histories Part II at De La Warr Pavilion

The De La Warr Pavilion has been lucky enough to play host to The Birmingham Stage Company’s production of Horrible Histories. British history was deftly telescoped into sixty minutes as two quick-change artistes, Neal Foster and Alison Fitzjohn, managed to portray entire armies, Boudicca, Dick Turpin, Esmerelda the traffic warden and many more. “All against a backdrop of more severed heads and loud farting noises than I’ve ever heard in one performance,” reports our shy, retiring Cathy Simpson.

Posted 21:23 Wednesday, Jul 30, 2014 In: Performance Tags: Alison Fitzjohn, Bexhill, Birmingham Stage Company, Cathy Simpson, children's education, De La Warr Pavilion, history, Horrible Histories, musical theatre, Neal Foster

Art sale for Gaza this weekend

This weekend Hastings Palestine Solidarity Campaign has organised a sale of art to raise funds for medical aid in Gaza, as Rachel Lever explains on behalf of the group.

Posted 15:44 In: Campaigns

Heart to heart (3)

In part three of ‘Heart to heart’, Sean O’Shea concludes his account of his journey through the NHS, and describes some of the lessons he has learned.

Posted 15:23 In: SOS Tags: doctor, heart, nhs, pills

Where have all the newts gone?

Concerns about the fate of newts displaced by the construction of the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road have been raised by Combe Haven Defenders. However, attempts to get a satisfactory answer – or any answer – from the responsible body, Natural England, have so far failed. CHD’s Andrea Needham reports.

Posted 14:47 In: Campaigns Tags: A27 Action, Andrea Needham, Badgers, bats, Bexhill Hastings Link Road, Combe Haven Defenders, dormice, East Sussex County Council, environment manager, Glovers farm, Mark White, mitigation strategy, Natural England, newts, PC Nick Marriott, Scate, wildlife

The Big Bike Party

The Labyrinth Community Bike Workshop are excited to be holding the ‘Bottle Alley Bike Bomb’, following The Big Bike Party day event held outside The Lab on Saturday 6 September as part of Coastal Currents and they’re looking for biking enthusiasts to take part, spectators to watch and encourage – and volunteers to help them out with the organisation.

Posted 10:25 In: Home Ground Tags: Bottle Alley Bike Bomb, High Tide Cycles, Labyrinth Community Bike Workshop, The Big Bike Party

Peace in the park

To commemorate the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and in remembrance of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, Hastings Against War invites you to attend their annual memorial event at Alexandra Park. HOT’s Zelly Restorick contacted Rona from Hastings Against War to find out more about the event.

Posted 10:21 In: Campaigns Tags: Alexandra Park, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, commemoration, Fukushima, Hastings Against War, Hiroshima, Little Boy. Fat Man, Nagasaki, nuclear bombings, remembrance event, rona against war, Zelly Restorick

Local call to oppose new colonialisation of Africa

On Sunday 3 August campaigners from the Bexhill and Hastings World Development Movement (WDM) group will once again be active participants in St Leonards Gardens Festival, this time highlighting the government’s support for what they see as a new colonialisation of Africa. The group’s Christina Lucey reports.

Posted 20:31 Sunday, Jul 27, 2014 In: Campaigns Tags: Africa, Barbara Echlin, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cargill, Christina Lucey, colonialisation, Cote d'Ivoire, Denis Lucey, Ethiopia, Friends of the Earth, Ghana, La Via Campesina, Malawi, Monsanto, Mozambique, New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, Nigeria, Oxfam, Senegal, Tanzania, UN International Year of Family Farms, Unilever, United Nations Association, War on Want, World Development Movement (WDM)