Jazz for breakfast
HOT’s Sean O’Shea talks with Mike Hatchard, the acclaimed jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and entertainer about his journey in music, his current breakfast jazz tour and other passions.
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Around and about (XIV)
Some updates from the Combe Haven Defenders* on their efforts to protect local green spaces – and some things we can do to support them.
Hastings Shanty Festival Returns
The Hastings Shanty Festival is now a much prized hardy perennial in the Hastings festival calendar and has now gained widespread acclaim in the world of shanty singing.
Fipple Consort – free concert
The Fipple Consort is a group of adults from Hastings who love playing recorders. Some have been playing since childhood, whilst others have come back to this beautiful instrument over the past year after a break of many years. The group’s Chris Green reports.
A near jazz experience at The Kino
The new cinema/theatre performance space behind Baker Mamonova continues to push artistic boundaries after its sell-out opening play last weekend. This Friday (17th July) brings The Near Jazz Experience to Hastings & St Leonards for the first time. HOT’s Erica Smith gets excited about the prospect…
By-elections results: as you were
There were no surprises in the outcome of last week’s by-elections, with both Labour and Conservative holding the three seats in play, but both the Green Party and an independent candidate were pleased with their showing. Nick Terdre reports.
Quentin Blake – celebrating Hastings
Mention the two words ‘Quentin Blake’ and a smile of recognition appears on the faces of both adults and children. Happy memories of childhood books. It is always a pleasure spending time in the company of Quentin Blake’s imagination, so HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was delighted to go and see his exhibition, Life Under Water – A Hastings Celebration.
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Latest HOT Stuff
- Traffic controls at Queensway Gateway Road junction suspended
- Kathleen Soriano appointed interim director of Hastings Contemporary
- Cuckoo Hill decision overturned by Planning Inspector
- All the fun of the Christmas fair at the Alexandra Park greenhouse
- Plan to house asylum seekers at Northeye scrapped
- Hastings: UK’s ‘Grinch capital’
- Claude Cahun at the Electric Palace
- ‘Standing Up For Nature’ – Community meetings to discuss housing crisis
- White Rock Theatre – ‘Non User’ survey
- Liz Gilmore steps down from Hastings Contemporary
- HBC website brought down by cyber attack again
- It’s a wrap for Alley Way Learning
- Unthanks at White Rock Theatre
- Baton of Hope comes to Hastings
- One donation, double the impact during St Michael’s BigGive week
- Christmas carols with Hastings Philharmonic Choir
- Museum event to mark UN’s day of disabled people
- JJ Waller’s Frost Fair 2024
- Much to enjoy at the greenhouse group’s Christmas market
- Sound Waves and Acapella Bellas feature in Christmas concert at All Saints
- Sunday Service – singing the praises of writing courses at Hastings Contemporary
- Free Hastings Energy Champions training
- ‘Winter Fuel Payment drop-in’ in Bexhill
- Kate Meakin wins ‘Community Energy Champion’ award
- World Climate Day screening @ Electric Palace
- Sophisticated jazz from Empirical at Jazz Hastings’ December gig
- HBC backs Climate and Nature Bill
- Award for Hastings Museum
- Whelan’s Weaving
- Snowy divestment protest at County Hall
- Southern Housing tenants community get-together in Ore
- Rogue landlords gallery created in town centre
- The Broad Oak oak trees
- It’s the end of the pier show!
- HBC finally takes action on Gaza
- Local Community Energy Co-op shortlisted for two awards
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