Archive: Month: <span>May 2014</span>

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Jennifer Baird: Jungle Spirits and Humming Bird

Hastings IS the ideal landscape

Hastings Arts Forum is currently showing two exhibitions: The Ideal Landscape (Nigel Oxley and Claudia de Grandi) and West Indies to West Hill (Jennifer Baird). The images in each are very different – but they are nevertheless linked by the common theme of ‘journey’. West Indies to West Hill charts Jennifer Baird’s spiritual and geographical transition from the wild rain forests of Tobago to the quirky eccentricity of Hastings; The Ideal Landscape provides a visual documentation of Nigel Oxley’s journey to Snowdonia following a family bereavement. Claudia de Grandi celebrates the journey from pure painter to intaglio printer.

Posted 22:04 Thursday, May 29, 2014 In: Visual Arts Tags: abstraction, Art, Cathy Simpson, Claudia de Grandi, drypoint, etching, exotic art, Hastings Arts Forum, intaglio, Jennifer Baird, mixed media, Nigel Oxley, St Leonards, tribal art, Visual Arts

Meet: Sally and Marina

Street Style by Bevali Francis and Jessica Parker

Posted 17:47 In: HOT Style Tags: Bev Francis, Goth Style uk, Jess Parker, Sussex Coast College, UK Style. Hastings online times style

Steve Danks, champion of medical cannabis use

The Healing Weed

This Saturday afternoon, 31 May, Steve Danks is talking at The Roomz, St Leonards, about cannabis and its miraculous medicinal powers. Steve has always been a fan of the drug, but he is an all-out champion for medical use of cannabis. HOT’s Erica Smith asked him about his relationship with the mighty weed.

Posted 09:09 In: Hastings People Tags: cannabis, cannabis sativa, hemp, hemp works, hempworks, Hepatitis C, liver cancer, medicinal use, regenerative, skunk, Steve Danks

Country Park anger

There have been some strange developments down by the Hastings Country Park… Bernard McGinley gets his wellies on to investigate some slippery territory.

Posted 00:50 In: Home Ground Tags: Ecclesbourne Glen, landslide, planning department, planning permission, retrospective

The Party’s over: making sense of the day after

HOT writer Chris Connelley stood unsuccessfully for a council seat in last week’s local elections. Here he reflects on the experience.

Posted 23:49 Wednesday, May 28, 2014 In: Home Ground Tags: Chris Connelley, conservatives, Graham Crane, James Bacon, John Knowles., labour, local elections, Maze Hill, Rob Lee, Tony Blair, ukip

Colourful abstraction

Through a creaky garden gate, past a bed of herbs and vegetables; studios line one side of the garden, silent and inactive on this dreary grey Bank Holiday Monday. Then HOT reporter Lauris Morgan-Griffiths stepped out of the splodgy, cold rain into a vibrantly colourful exhibition of colourful abstraction. It couldn’t have been a more perfect time to see Ruth Wurzburger’s riot of colourful paintings, collages and assemblages.

Posted 16:51 In: Visual Arts Tags: Beacon, Hastings, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Ruth Wurzburger

Yoga with a twist!

Long-time yoga enthusiast Siobhan O’Hanlon has finally found the approach that suits her. Hidden away on the West Hill in the heart of Hastings is Chris Elam’s energy cottage Shakti Kutir, a place to relax, retreat, refresh, reflect and replenish.

Posted 22:14 Saturday, May 24, 2014 In: Home Ground Tags: Ayurvedic, Chris Elam, pranic healing, Scouse Yoga, Shakti Kutir, Siobhan O''Hanlon, Swami isa, yoga

Part of the Family

This week’s Get a Life takes a peep into a family themed project for young people, hosted by BBC 1Xtra’s hip-hop DJ and producer, Skitz. As part of Small Green Shoots projects, Hastings becomes the host town for one of eight family themed events taking place, supporting young people with family life. Jessica Parker speaks to DJ Skitz and PR to Small Green Shoots Adam Webb in preparation for the event.