The Big Lunch was top of the menu last Sunday, with two separate events in St Leonards. A big fan and never one to turn down the chance for good food and good cheer, HOT’s Chris Connelley helped to host the Christ Church edition and explains the recipe. Down below James Bacon reports on the fare at Sonrise Church.
The Red Cross is looking for volunteers in the Hastings area to boost the numbers in its Fire and Emergency Support Service, which provides support to victims of fire in the immediate aftermath of an incident. Nick Terdre reports.
Ansel Krut’s, Verbatim, the latest exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery, will either have you smiling or curious and scratching your head. HOT reporter, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, found she was doing a bit of both.
I love a good cup of coffee and a nice piece of cake. Philosopher and I indulge most days. Hastings Battleaxe, aka Stephanie Gaunt, lists her favourites.
It’s hard to miss artist Ben Browton around town. These days, he is sometimes known as Agent Orange, the persona behind the TOXIC project. He has also been Sister Bendy on Eurotrash, and a member of a tranny punk band called Candy Darling. But back in the heady days of punk, Ben was the singer with a legendary band called The Shapes. They have reformed and are currently touring the country on the You’ll Do Yourself A Mischief tour, which ends at The Union Bar on Saturday 14 June. HOT’s Erica Smith gets the back-story, and advises us to get along because this might be the last ever opportunity to see The Shapes on stage…
… and pay like a pauper. Next Saturday make St Mary in the Castle your drawing room for the evening to listen to the most exquisite chamber music played by the best local talent that ‘musically sophisticated’ Hastings has to offer… all at the pauperly price of £10/£7 concessions, writes HOT’s Chris Cormack.
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.
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