Archive: Month: <span>September 2015</span>

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Adult Animated Revolution

The Adult Animated Revolution is the brainchild of local film programmer, Robin Elliott-Knowles, the guy behind The B-movie Fan Club, now well into it’s second year at The Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings.

Posted 08:13 Thursday, Sep 24, 2015 In: Film Tags: animation, Bakshi, cartoons, comics

Jez we can

Hot’s Sean O’Shea reports on the aftermath of the Labour Leadership Election, some of the challenges facing newly elected Labour Party Leader, Jeremy Corbyn and the East Hastings Labour Party’s victory celebration.

Posted 03:34 In: Politics,SOS Tags: Diane Abbott, Guardian, Hastings Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour party, Labour Shadow Cabinet, Lazarus, Lord Falconer, Polly Toynbee, red flag, Tom Watson, Tony Blair, White Rock Hotel

Local Greens call on Rudd to act over refugees

As the refugee crisis in Europe mounts, local Greens have called on MP Amber Rudd to support action for the widespread resettlement of refugees in Europe. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 16:57 Wednesday, Sep 23, 2015 In: Campaigns Tags: Amber Rudd, David Cameron, EU, Greens, Hastings and Rye Green Party, Migration Observatory, Nick Terdre, Peter Chowney, Refugee Studies Centre, refugees, Syrian Refugees, UNHCR, University College London

Saving solar

Transition Town Hastings have circulated a request to sign a petition asking the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to urgently review the current approach to the solar feed-in tariff, which it plans to drastically cut.

Posted 13:00 In: Energy Wise Tags: Department of Energy and Climate Change, Friends of the Earth, Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Save our Solar, solar feed tariff, Transition Town Hastings

Ready for the Big Sleep

This Friday evening the Seaview Project will throw the spotlight on the growing problem of homelessness in Hastings with an evening of music in the Stade Open Space followed by the Big Sleep, when some 150 fund-raising volunteers will bed down in the open to experience the reality of sleeping rough for a night. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 12:08 In: Home Ground Tags: Big Sleep, Candie Forshaw, Carlisle, Foreshore Trust, homelessness, King Size Slim, Lisa Harmer-Pope, Mighty Sounds, Park Lane Group, Pissarro’s, Seaview, Simply Italian, Stade Open Space, Stamco, Sue Burgess, Undercliffe House

Library plans on display at open days

You can get a sneak peek at the new plans to provide Hastings with an improved and enhanced library at two open days next month.

Posted 11:13 In: Home Ground Tags: Brassey Institute, Cllr Chris Dowling, East Sussex County Council, Hastings library, Lead member for Community Services, library

Return of the prodigal…clock!

Almost 80 years after it was first installed and 40 after it left the modernist landmark of Marine Court in St Leonards-on-Sea, one of the original electric clocks designed exclusively for the apartments in the building has finally returned home. Clive Gross tells Nick Terdre how it happened.

Posted 21:05 Tuesday, Sep 22, 2015 In: Hastings People Tags: Chisel & Mouse, Clive Gross, coastal currents, Marine C ourt, Nick Terdre, St Leonards Central

Kettle’s Yard comes to Hastings

Kettle’s Yard is the home of a great modern art collection in Cambridge. However, while the gallery is undergoing a major development, it is working with various organisations to house the exhibits in different places – like the Jerwood. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went along to see how the forty Cambridge artworks worked with the Jerwood’s own collection.

Posted 13:05 In: Visual Arts Tags: Ben Nicholson, Brancusi, Braque, Cambridge, Christopher Wood, Hastings, Henri Gautier Brzeska, Henry Moore, Jerwood Gallery, Jim Ede, Kettle's Yard, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Picasso, William Scott, Winifred Nicholson