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Drew Copus

Metamorphosis

St. Leonards based street artist Drew Copus’ first solo show, Metamorphosis is showing now at The Dragon Bar, 71 George Street TN34 3EE

Posted 19:47 Saturday, Jul 12, 2014 In: Public Arts Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
HFS pillowcase

How do you sleep at night?

To raise awareness of the consequences of cutting Local Welfare Assistance, Hastings Furniture Service, winner of the BBC Community Heroes Award 2013, is delivering a pillowcase to every MP in the country, screen printed with the question: ‘How do you sleep at night?’

Posted 15:44 Tuesday, Jul 8, 2014 In: Campaigns Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Old work, new beginnings…

Inspired by a recent studio move, Danny Mooney’s Looking back @ 50 exhibition reviews many years of his work. Brought together for the first time in public are key works from every stage of Mooney’s artistic development. HOT’s Erica Smith takes a backwards look…

Posted 10:17 In: Visual Arts Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Wembley to Soweto to Brazil

The World Cup is almost over and England is once again home disappointingly early. But for HOT’s John Cole, the World Cup has been a huge success.

Posted 18:09 Sunday, Jul 6, 2014 In: Photography Tags: , , , ,

Rude awakening

Last night two old friends came down from Birmingham and, on the suggestion of a neighbour, we went to see the Rude Mechanical Theatre Company in their open-air performance of ‘The Wife’, on Crowhurst Recreation Ground. Hastings Battleaxe, aka Stephanie Gaunt, recommends. 

Posted 14:44 In: Performance Tags: , ,

The well-tempered piano put through its paces

This Saturday evening, 5 July,  Hastings’ piano champion returned to delight us at Fairlight Hall and put the piano through its paces again with something old, something new… writes HOT’s Chris Cormack.

Posted 13:30 In: Music & Sound Tags: , , , ,

Young producers plan St Leonards Festival

Meet Will Baxter, one of the young producers who are responsible for programming this year’s St Leonards Festival. Will grew up in St Leonards and has attended nearly every festival – either as an audience member, on stage or working on one of the stalls. HOT’s Erica Smith asked him why he wanted to get involved behind the scenes this year…

Posted 16:55 Wednesday, Jul 2, 2014 In: One Long Party Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Opera garden party fulfils a dream

At the Way Forward meeting last night, Mandy Curtis from 18 hours told local residents about this year’s extended St Leonards Festival and why she wanted to add a ticketed opera garden party to the existing one-day, free community Saturday. HOT’s Erica Smith wanted to find out more and caught up with Mandy whilst she and her team of organisers set the finishing touches to the schedules.

Posted 16:39 In: One Long Party Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
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