Archive: Month: <span>October 2016</span>

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Hastings links with UK divestment campaign

Campaigners from Hastings and East Sussex joined fellow activists from across the UK in Herefordshire last weekend for the first UK-wide gathering of fossil fuel divestment groups. Nick Terdre reports.

Send in the clowns

Clowns have been making headlines for all the wrong reasons recently, but Hastings Storytelling Festival redresses the balance with a riotous two-man show, Coulrophobia – aka ‘fear of clowns’ – at St Mary in the Castle. Naomi Robinson writes.

Posted 07:59 In: Performance Tags: 18 hours, Arts Council England, Coulrophobia, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Hastings Storyteling Festival, Mandy Curtis, Midnight Run, St Mary in the Caste, Talking Lampposts, White Rock Theatre

Trash Cannes tonight and beyond!

The Trash Cannes phenomenon of Hastings returns for 2016. Zelly Restorick speaks to organiser and initiator, Keith Rodway about what’s happening the year.

Posted 13:18 Saturday, Oct 22, 2016 In: Arts News Tags: arts festival, electric palace cinema, International Times, Keith Rodway, Penny Panagi, Trash Cannes

A Tribute to Hastings 2016

By Bruce Nicol

Posted 18:32 Thursday, Oct 20, 2016 In: Poetry Tags: Bruce Nicol, James Bacon, old town poetry competition

The booby’s progress

Two or three weeks ago, an unusual red-footed avian arrived on our local beach and was synchronistically discovered by local resident, Gail Cohen. The red-footed booby, way off its expected flight path, has been slowly recovering its strength. HOT’s Chandra Masoliver,

Posted 17:00 Wednesday, Oct 19, 2016 In: The HOT Planet Tags: Chandra Masoliver, Fairlight, Gail Cohen, Mallydams Wood Wildlife Centre, Pelican Rescue Centre, red-footed booby

Tools launched for fossil fuel divestment

Campaigners from around East Sussex have launched a new brochure and web tool to help members of the East Sussex Pension Fund (ESPF) lobby the county council to reinvest the £172 million it currently has invested in the coal, oil and gas industries. Fossil Free Hastings reports.

Posted 17:00 In: Campaigns Tags: divestment, East Sussex Pension Committee, East Sussex Pension Fund, Fossil Free Hastings, Glasgow University, Hastings Borough Council, Julia Hilton, Mark Carney, Oslo, Oxford, Richard Stogdon, Seattle, Waltham Forest Pension Fund, World Council of Churches

People’s tapestry inaugurated in St Clement’s

The Hastings 950 People’s Tapestry was inaugurated at the weekend with a blessing in St Clement’s church in the Old Town. Launched in April, the initiative has proved enormously popular, and many panels have still to be returned and mounted. Nick Terdre reports. Photos by Simon Hennessey.

Posted 16:54 In: Community Arts Tags: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Archdeacon Edward Dowley, David Furness, Hastings Celebrates 950, hastings week, Heather Leech, Heinrich Böckelühr, High Sheriff, Judy Rogers, Keith Leech, Michael Foster, Nick Terdre, people's tapestry, Reflection, Schwerte, Simon Hennessey, St Clements

Chess archery challenge at Horntye

With the Battle of Hastings firmly in mind, chess and archery have joined forces to present a new sporting challenge: chess archery. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 16:51 In: Sport Tags: Bayeux Bowmen, Ben Power, chess archery, Francis Rayner, Hastings International Chess Congress, Nick Terdre, Nigel Sinden, Pam Thomas, Pestalozzi, Rasa Norinkevicuite, Rohit Sahu, Stewart Reuben