The Coastal Currents arts festival hit new peaks this year, with the Open Studios programme proving immensely popular and the final participatory event on the beach last weekend also drawing the crowds, as the organisers report.
In its fourth year and described as relaxed, chilled and intimate, not big or brash, the Big Green Cardigan festival held in early September delivered again. Siobhan O’Hanlon was there to drink it all in.
The Wright stuff: HOT’s Chris Connelley gets immersed in a new novel by Mel Wright set so close to home that one of its characters could be a neighbour.
Hastings-based Penny Pepper – performer, singer and political activist on behalf of disabled people – has recently aired her latest show, Lost in Spaces. Witty, gritty and subversive, the performance charts her life to date. Based on the journals she has kept so meticulously since childhood, the spoken word blends seamlessly with poetry and music, while photos provide a visual narrative. Cathy Simpson was lucky enough to attend the première at the Soho Theatre, London.
‘Dolphins Keep Me Safe In Dreams’, written and illustrated by Ed Boxall.
Live music venues across the country are under threat from noise regulations, as some venues in Hastings know only too well. A campaign to persuade the government to amend legislation so that all parties can co-exist in peace is now under way, as Andy Gunton reports in the latest issue of The Stinger. HOT reprints the article with their kind permission.
Forty years after he began painting, Roger Blaker has his first show, at the The Fleet Gallery in St Leonards. Siobhan O’Hanlon went to see it and spoke to the artist.
Sussex-based author Sharon Zink takes us to a world of her own in her first novel, Welcome to Sharonville, reviewed here by Leigh Kennedy.
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