In case you hadn’t noticed, Hastings is currently saturated with photographic images. From John Cole’s tarpaulin-sized portraits of fishermen hung around the Stade, the ‘Edge’ group show along the footbridge at Hastings station, all the way to Dan Bass’s trestle mounted prints next to St Leonards station, the town is awash with established and developing photographers. HOT’s Erica Smith embraced the Photo Hastings festival and reports back…
The Hastleons theatre company, which combines the talent of Hastings and St Leonards in both its name and its performances, is currently rehearsing a much-loved show: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. HOT’s Zelly Restorick went along to meet the Hastleons team.
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This is a money-can’t-buy opportunity for young, talented songwriters. Battle Festival patron Tim Rice-Oxley of Keane will provide one-to-one mentoring sessions for eight emerging songwriters aged 10-22.
As the campaign continues over damage to Hastings Country Park, the major eyesore that is the two-storey bunker on the East Hill is still there, a continuing blott on the landscape. There are other issues too, as Bernard McGinley found out when he attended a recent public meeting.
Table Talk III: Wednesday 15 October 7.30pm Pomegranate Restaurant, George Street, Hastings Tel: 01424 429221
Filmmaker and photographer David Jackson recently photographed and made a film about his father before he moved from his home in Malta back to England. This is David Jackson’s account of This is not my House: On making a film with my father.
A local photographer was so inspired by the week he spent on a fishing trawler in the North Sea during his final year at uni that he decided to move back to Hastings in order to pursue his continuing passion to document the fishing industry. Hastings photographer Chris Mammone’s exhibition is one of many PhotoHastings shows currently on display in Hastings and St Leonards, and HOT reporter and photographer John Cole went along to the preview night to speak to Chris about his work.
In April 2014, HKB Finn, with the help of a host of amazing talents, developed a new poetry based opera known as AMPLiFiER, the world’s first spoken-word opera, which is due to be performed in Hastings this Friday as part of the AfriKàBa Festival.
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