HiFest – Hastings Illustration Festival returns to Sussex Coast College Hastings this Saturday for yet another jam-packed day of illustration fun, for all ages. With last year’s event labeled “a triumph” by special guest Quentin Blake, HiFest 2015 is set to be an even bigger and better celebration of all things illustration!
The Channel 4 programme Come Dine With Me is coming to the Hastings/ Bexhill / Rye / Hawkhurst / Battle and surrounding areas in February and the production team are “looking for brilliant people to take part” – like those in a past show pictured above.
Aino Konkka, a lyric mezzo-soprano with a passion for drama and good stagecraft, movement and language skills, will delight us in St Leonards this Friday with songs from Finland’s greatest composers all inspired by the Finnish landscape, writes HOT’s Chris Cormack.
Do have a keen interest in the performing arts? Enjoy meeting the public? Would you like to be involved in helping to make Hastings Fringe Festival a roaring success? This exciting and innovative multi-art programme is taking shape. If you have some free time during the first week of September 2016, then the Fringe team need your help!
On Sunday 6 December Opera South East presents an evening of Christmas delights in the old town with audience participation and a welcome performance by the Claremont Preparatory School Chamber Choir. The pupils of Claremont School were invited to join in a carol composing competition and some of their carols will be performed by the chorus of Opera South East.
HOT’s Zelly Restorick attended The People’s March in London on Sunday – and would like to share her photographic record of the event with you. An estimated 50,000 people marched, along with thousands of others around the world. Will our collective non-violent action make a difference to the outcomes of the Paris Climate Change talks? After decades of debate, will this be a turning point for humanity – and all the other residents of planet earth?
A few days ago, Jeremy Leggett, ex pupil of William Parker School, climate change activist and carbon awareness raiser, gave a talk at The Observer Building. Here he sends a message from the Climate Summit in Paris.
Irrespective of religious beliefs, culturally at this time of year many are reminded of childhood Christmas stories and hymns, writes Hilda Kean
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