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Hiroshima Day 2017
Hastings Against War will commemorate those who lost their lives in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 with a ceremony at the boating lake in Alexandra Park on Sunday 6 August. An estimated 185,000 people perished when US airforce planes bombed the cities, dying as a result of the initial blast, due to fires sparked by the bombs, and as a result of radiation-sickness caused by the explosions. John Enefer writes.
‘First Heard Shorts’ script-writing competition
If you have ever had a desire to be a script writer, or you already are and have a short play script idea you think is a winner, if you fancy hearing your words read by professional actors, or you just have a story to tell, then ‘First Heard* Shorts’ is a competition with your name on it. The competition has been organised by local writer and script developer, John Knowles, in support of The Hastings Fringe Festival. John is a prolific writer and producer and despite his busy schedule, continues to support local writers and theatre projects.
Hastings Green Flag Award
Hastings is flying the flag with some of the UK’s very best green spaces. HBC’s Barbara Browning writes. Hastings ‘Alexandra Park, St Leonards Gardens and the Country Park have been recognised by the Green Flag Award Scheme as three of the very best green spaces in the world.
For Lambchop Often Turns Us Still
On Friday 18 August, the De La Warr Pavilion will be charmed by the gentle tones of Kurt Wagner’s band, Lambchop. HOT’s Erica Smith goes all fan-girly.
The House of the Man who painted the Sea
ExploreTheArch’s summer show opens on Friday 4 August in St Leonards celebrating the act of painting the sea and a marine artist largely unknown in this corner of the world. Erica Smith investigates the background to this project which marks the UNESCO 200th anniversary of Armenian Ivan Aivazovsky’s birth.
Community presence to be felt at the Post Office Customer Forum on Thursday 3 August
The Save St Leonards Crown Post Office Campaign is concerned that Post Office Ltd are not taking account of local views on the future of St Leonards Crown Post Office. The Post Office is holding a ‘customer forum’ on Thursday 3 August they have specified that: ‘the decision on the way we operate the branch, so it is run by our new retail partner, is not a matter for public consultation’. Rod Webb and others from the campaign group talk to HOT about the plans for a mass gathering outside the Royal Victoria Hotel where the ‘customer forum’ will be held.
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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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