CONVERSING WITH CLOUDS
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.
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.