Dave McKean exhibition
Rye Creative Centre are delighted to present a solo exhibition by internationally renowned illustrator, graphic artist, film maker and musician, Dave McKean.
Rye Creative Centre are delighted to present a solo exhibition by internationally renowned illustrator, graphic artist, film maker and musician, Dave McKean.
Karma Gedden is a new and exciting fashion label being launched this year by Caragh Jane Logan. Caragh, a resident of Hastings, has been busy the last ten years singing and song writing. She studied textiles at university and, having always been interested in fashion, she wanted to rekindle her passion for design and so, dipped her toe in the water by showing and selling some of her work at The Brighton Designers’ Market last year. Enjoying this experience she decided to create her very British eccentric brand the wonderfully named, Karma Geddon. HOT Style writer, Bev Francis, reports.
If you have any doubts, come to Hastings Arts Forum on either Saturday or Sunday, 24-25 October and give it a try, writes HOT reporter John Cole.
Jessie Normanschild of Campaign Against the Arms Trade, will be speaking in Hastings on Thursday 29 October at 7pm in the White Rock Hotel. With many others who took time off from work, study and daily lives she recently protested at the London Docklands arms fair. It is one of the largest in the world and featured 1,500 exhibitors. It was disrupted by hundreds of imaginative campaigners – but the arms trade continues.
Peter Jones, former leader of East Sussex County council, has lost his job as chairman of the South East Local Enterprise Partnership following a decision by directors not to extend his contract. New specifications have been drawn up for the chairman’s role. Nick Terdre reports.
Hot’s Sean O’Shea interviews Clare Walton, Political Organiser, Red Pepper Magazine regarding their recent interactive evening (Sunday 27th September 2015) held at the BMECP Centre (Black and Minority Ethnic Community Partnership) Brighton.
Local resident, mother and peace and environmental campaigner, Andrea Needham, is putting the finishing touches to her book, The Hammer Blow. Coming up on 29 January 2016 is the 20th anniversary of the action, in which four women disarmed a Hawk warplane bound for Indonesia, to stop it being used in illegally-occupied East Timor. After six months in prison awaiting trial, they were acquitted of all charges. HOT’s Zelly Restorick reports.
In the entrance to the De La Warr exhibition space is a soundscape of taps, slurps and strokes – of paint moving across canvas and paper. In front of that are large shelves stuffed full of an archive of canvases and paper. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was intrigued.