Susan Lelliot from the aGender project is organising a fundraising auction and raffle – the Auction of Art and Queer Curios – on Friday 17 July at the White Rock Theatre. Here she explains more about what aGender does and how we can all help it keep running exciting projects.
Make a note in your diary for the unique Sotto Voce Arts festival which will take place in Hastings and Bexhill from 12 to 26 July, bringing 15 Italian artists, musicians and actors from south-east Italy to collaborate with 15 professional artists in south-east England . Director Glenys Jacques explains the background and the events lined up for the festival.
HOT’s Erica Smith sings the praises of an exhibition where the tables are turned, and men at work are the subject of the female gaze.
The Hastings Philharmonic Choir is presenting more contemporary classical choral music with a strong spiritual impetus. After Arvo Pärt last Autumn, the choir put on an enormously well received Christmas concert which, together with the old favourites, included brand new works from Chilcott and Rutter. This week, the choir again presents some deeply religious modern music to move the soul. HOT’s Chris Cormack argues that this resonates with a growing need to revive true spirituality in an increasingly confusing world, where religious dogma lies behind some horrific acts of barbarity.
HOT’s Sean O’ Shea talks with The Stings, a talented and popular local folk group, which started as a ceilidh band and currently delights audiences with their own unique blend of folk, jazz, blues and world music.
Buoyed by their performance in the general election, Hastings and Rye Green Party have decided to contest the by-elections for the three seats which have recently become vacant on the local and country councils, as they explain in this statement. Nick Terdre reports.
The latest update from the solar powered plane, Solar Impulse and her pioneering pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, is a second attempt to fly from Japan to Hawaii. Five days and five nights non-stop air-time. This will be the longest leg of their Round The World mission to promote clean energy. HOT’s Zelly Restorick celebrates the new technology and the beautiful brains of the team behind it’s creation.
Whether it be Buxton or Bust or Opera South East’s Divas, we can do a whole lot of celebrating women in opera this weekend – and don’t forget the beautiful Thomasin Trezise and Midsummer Melodies at St John the Evangelist in St Leonards this Saturday! We are spoilt for choice here in 1066 country, writes HOT’s Chris Cormack.
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