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Archives for 2014 | Page 13 of 47

CONVERSING WITH CLOUDS

A Butoh magical night

Last year Yumino Seki performed her exhilarating Butoh show Hyakki Yakou, A Night Walk of a Hundred Demons, to sell-out houses out at the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery; loads of people were turned away but HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was lucky enough to see it.

Frank’s feat ends Coastal Currents on a high

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.

Big Green Cardigan hits the spot

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.

Kitchen-sink drama in recession-era Hastings

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.

Photo © Penny Pepper

Lost in Spaces

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 by Ed Boxall

Dolphins rescue child from nightmare!

‘Dolphins Keep Me Safe In Dreams’, written and illustrated by Ed Boxall.

The noise issue: an update

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.

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