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Multi-instrumentalist to guest at Jazz Hastings

Posted 15:21 Tuesday, Aug 1, 2017 In: Music & Sound Tags: Andy Panayi, Darren Beckett, Jazz Hastings, Julian Norridge, Nigel Thomas, Terry Seabrook

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.

Posted 09:17 In: The HOT Planet Tags: Admiral William Leahy, Alexandra Park, Hastings Against War, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Day 2017, John Enefer, Nagasaki, nuclear weapons, President Truman, Quaker Meeting House

‘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.

Posted 09:09 In: Arts News Tags: First Heard, Fringe Festival, Hastings fringe Festival, John Knowles., script, theatre, Writing

Preview Corner: What’s HOT in August

Posted 09:03 In: Hastings Life Tags: De La Warr Pavilion, Dennis Potter, Electric Cinema Hastings, Kino-Teatr, Odeon Hastings, peter mould, The Stables Theatre, The White Rock Theatre, Toby Sargent

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.

Posted 08:55 Thursday, Jul 27, 2017 In: Home Ground Tags: Alexandra Park, Green Flag Award, Hastings Country Park, International Green Flag Award, Paul Todd, St Leonards Gardens

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.

Posted 07:56 In: Music & Sound Tags: Ashley Beedle, Darren Morris, De La Warr Pavilion, DLWP, Flotus, Kurt Wagner, Kurte, Lambchop, Mavis, Morcheeba, North Street Studio One, Paul Godfrey, St Leonards, The Gangs of Rome

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.

Posted 19:57 Wednesday, Jul 26, 2017 In: Performance

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.

Posted 19:34 In: Campaigns Tags: campaign, community, consultation, Crown, forum, London Road, post office, Royal Victoria Hotel, sham, St Leonards