Archive: Month: <span>September 2016</span>

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Lib Dems first out of the election traps

Faced with the possibility of a snap general election, the local Lib Dems have stolen a march on their political rivals by selecting their parliamentary candidate. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 08:44 Friday, Sep 30, 2016 In: Politics Tags: Amber Rudd, Andrew Michael, Bernard Rayner, Brexit, David Cameron, Green Party, labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Perry, Nick Terdre, Paul Barnett, Sarah Owen, Theresa May, ukip

The Queen of Crumble returns to St Leonards

This Friday Lorraine Bowen (winner of David Walliams’ Golden Buzzer on ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent) presents her eccentric comedy and quirky songs for an evening of cabaret at Kino-Teatr. HOT’s Erica Smith caught up with Lorraine to see what she’s been up to.

Posted 22:51 Wednesday, Sep 28, 2016 In: Comedy Tags: Britain's Got Talent, Cabaret, Chalkwell Ladies Drum’n’Bass League, Crumble Song, handbells, Karina Townsend, Kino-Teatr, Lorraine Bowen, Sandra Winter

He saw, he swam, he cone-quered

A few days ago, William The Cone-queror, aka William Stevens, he of the famous ice-cream bicycle who literally peddles his wares (Di Paulo’s ice cream from Bexhill) along our seafront promenade and at local events, achieved his goal of swimming from Royal Sovereign Lighthouse to St Leonards’ beach by Azur. All in the name of charitable goodWill, raising money for The Seaview Project and FSN. HOT’s Zelly Restorick asks him some questions about himself and his successful but exhausting mission.

Posted 18:18 In: Hastings People Tags: Andy Francis, Annie Whelan, children, Dick Hogg, FSN, HSL Sailing Club, Hugh Ashford, Illuminated Bike Ride, The Lions Club, The Seaview Project, The Sovereign Lighthouse, The Time To Shine Project, William Stevens, William The Cone-querer

Don’t pay taxes to support illegal wars!

Both international and national law make waging war and the funding of war illegal, says local peace activist Chris Coverdale. If tax is used to pay for illegal war, taxpayers may be complicit in the illegality. But armed with this knowledge, it is also in their power to compel governments to uphold, obey and enforce international law and bring a permanent end to war and mass murder.

Posted 17:41 In: Campaigns Tags: Chris Coverdale, David Cameron, Magna Carta, Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal, Rome Statute, taxation trust, Teresa May, Terrorism, Tony Blair, Treaty for the Renunciation of War, UN Charter, UN Declaration on Principles of International Law, UN Security Council, war

When cultures collide: new opera links 1066 with modern-day themes of invasion and loss

Themes of invasion, loss and the redeeming power of human goodness are explored in PUSH, a powerful new opera which has its world premiere this weekend, Saturday 1 October, at the De La Warr Pavilion. Cultures collided when William conquered England, and they still do today as people move around, whether displaced by war and poverty or enjoying their freedom to roam as EU citizens. Preview by Nick Terdre. Photos by Pat Pope.

Posted 17:00 In: Music & Sound Tags: Auschwitz, Battle Festival, De La Warr Pavilion, Education Futures Trust, Ele Slade, Glyndebourne, Howard Moody, James newby, Matthew Stiff, Nick Terdre, Pat Pope, Push, Root 1066, Rye Studio School, Sally Lampitt, Simon Gronowski, Simon Iorio, Tereza Gevorgyan

King Size Slim storms the Stade

“King Size Slim – you must see him”, said a friend to me. “Great voice and a good guy.” High praise from this particular friend. So I wandered down to the Stade when he was performing earlier in the summer in front of the deck chairs – he was just as she said – and now he’s returning to play at The Big Sleep Hastings 2016, helping people “find their way out of the storm”. Zelly Restorick writes.

Posted 13:33 In: Music & Sound Tags: Andy Gunton, Slim Size Slim, The Big Sleep 2016, The Stinger

This week! Rough sleeping for Seaview

This Friday, it’s The Big Sleep Hastings 2016 – with the goal to raise more funds for the Seaview Project than last year (£23,000) – and simultaneously raise awareness of homelessness. HOT’s Zelly Restorick takes up the HOT Big Sleep baton from last year’s cardboard citizen, Nick Terdre. She’ll be joining up with the many other one-night-insomniacs who’re taking part in the experience, united by spending the night in a cardboard city at the Stade.

Posted 12:45 In: Hastings People Tags: Annie Whelan, King Size Slim, Seaview, Steve Furst, The Big Sleep 2016, The Rufus Stone Band, The Seaview Project, Zelly Restorick

Sea Crossing

Boats. There is something about boats. From children playing in the bath with them, sailing them over ponds, boats frustratingly lost from being becalmed or capsizing. Then there are more grown up connotations; travel, exploration, trade, slaves, war and invasion. And the vulnerability of mass migration in less-than-seaworthy vessels. At the Folkestone Triennial 2011, HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths walked into a church and was entranced by Hew Locke’s motley fleet of boats sailing in the knave above her. Magical and thought provoking.

Posted 20:11 Tuesday, Sep 27, 2016 In: Visual Arts Tags: Bern O’Donoghue, Electro Gallery, Folkestone Triennial, Hew Locke, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Murmurations Gallery, Peter Quinnell, Refugees Crossing, Root 1066 Festival, SoCo Artists