After the Jack-in-the-Green parade this year, Erica Smith found herself in the Royal Standard having a pint of Festival Ale, when a band of raggle-taggle musicians swept in, set up and played a blinding acoustic set. They were Matilda’s Scoundrels and if you haven’t seen them perform yet, then you are missing out on one of Hastings most exciting bands.
Last week saw the much anticipated resumption of teacher exchange visits between Hastings, UK and Hastings, Sierra Leone, when two teachers flew in from Sierra Leone as guests of their twinned schools here in Hastings UK.
Straight from the weirder heart of, that there London, comes Idle Eye presenting a brand new event for Hastings: Broken Biscuits. Broken Biscuits is an evening of spoken word, music, poetry, and films. Featuring David Quantick, Idle Eye, Kate Tym with short films from Dan Laidler and music from the ever eclectic ‘The Ingrid Pitt Orchestra’.
This Saturday, (June 11) heralds the first of the Free Summer Stade Saturdays, with a performance by Circus Geeks, presenting Project Vee at the Stade.
The open gardens season organised by St Michael’s Hospice in Hastings and Rother is upon us – in the Old Town the gates are thrown open on Tuesday 14 June, as Judy Parkinson explains.
News that the Yella store in central St Leonards was seeking a licence to sell alcohol aroused widespread protests from local residents. In the event the application failed, as Bernard McGinley reports.
Dementia Support East Sussex, which promotes communal singing as a tool for helping dementia sufferers break through their isolation, has extended its activities with the formation of several new clubs across the region. Nick Terdre reports.
The local higher education campaign group is to host a public consultation on the threatened closure of Hastings university campus. It will be held on Friday 10 June from 2 to 6pm at the Observer Building, when scores of attendees are expected to discuss the past, present and re-imagine the future of the University of Brighton campus in Hastings. A representative of the group explains.
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