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1066 Cycling Festival

The 1066 Cycling Festival is a FREE two day festival celebrating everything cycling. Now in its third year, the festival will take place on Saturday 9 June in Hastings and Sunday 10 June in Bexhill.

Posted 20:15 Monday, Jun 4, 2018 In: Sport Tags: 1066 Cycle Club, 1066 Cycling Festival, Active Hastings, Classic Cycle Group, Cllr Andy Batsford, Cllr Jim Carroll, Handsome Bicycles, Historic Half Hundred, ProBike, Savage Skills Stunt Team, Source Park, Stade Open Space, sustrans, Zigi Bicycles

Seaview Project receives prestigious GSK Impact Award

Huge and hearty congratulations to the team at Seaview Project for winning – and recently being presented with – the prestigious GSK Impact Award ‘for improving the quality of life for homeless and insecurely housed people in Hastings and St Leonards’. HOT’s Zelly Restorick writes.

Posted 14:22 Sunday, Jun 3, 2018 In: Home Ground Tags: Annie Whelan, GSK IMPACT Awards, Sue Burgess, The King's Fund, The Seaview Project

Hastings residents shine on cancer awareness

Earlier in May, around fifty local residents participated in a night time lantern parade between Ore Community Centre and Downs Farm Community Centre, including the Mayor of Hastings, Councillor Judy Rogers. The event was organised by Hastings and Rother Community Cancer Awareness Project to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of cancer and involve local people in sharing the message. Chris Cooper writes.

Posted 13:08 In: Health Matters Tags: Chris Cooper, David Holloway, Hastings and Rother Community Cancer Awareness Project, Mayor Judy Rogers, Public Health England

Mrs Pankhurst’s voluptuous purple feather

Printed Matter Bookshop in Hastings has invited local writer, Tessa Boase to give a talk on her new book, Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather : Fashion, Fury and Feminism – Women’s Fight for Change. Owner Lee Humphries writes.

Posted 10:20 In: Literature Tags: Emmeline Pankhurst, Etta Lemon, Fury and Feminism - Women's Fight for Change, Lee Humphries, Mrs Pankhurst, Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather : Fashion, Tess Boase, Tessa Boase

The Summer Prizewinner’s Picnic Recital

The last time the brilliant young Russian pianist Roman Kosyakov played in Hastings in early March the town was covered in snow and ice and being lashed by a bitingly cold wind generated by the Beast from the East. Dominika Hicks writes.

Posted 10:14 In: Music & Sound Tags: Dominika Hicks, Fairlight Hall, Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition 2018, Liszt’s Spanish Rhapsody, Moscow State Conservatory, Roman Kosyakov, Schubert’s 4 Impromptus D899 op.90, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1., Tchaikovsky’s Piano Sonata in G major, The Summer Prizewinners Picnic Recital

World artists to the fore in Opus concert series

Opus Theatre is launching an exciting series of concerts featuring artists from all over the world, with British soprano, Carly Paoli first up. Nick Terdre reports. Photos by Jonathan Bruce.

Posted 11:35 Saturday, Jun 2, 2018 In: Music & Sound Tags: Blato Zlato, Carly Paoli, Jonathan Bruce, Marcelo Bratke, Nick Terdre, Nina Kotova, Oliver Poole, Opus Theatre, Pedro Gomes, Phoenix, Polo Piatti, Ramtin Ghazavi

Steve Strange on the Door at the Blitz © Terry Smith/BlitzClub /LucyBellGallery

Blitz kids at Lucy Bell

Lucy Bell Gallery is exhibiting some rarely seen photographs by Terry Smith of the Blitz Kids era. This was a club hosted by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan on Tuesday nights in Covent Garden and went some way in launching the New Romantics Movement. This is a personal report by Janet Lyon about the time she worked there with Steve, “a young guy from Wales with a huge imagination”.

Posted 17:18 Thursday, May 31, 2018 In: Photography Tags: Ashes to Ashes, Blitz Club, Boy George, David Bowie, GeorgeO'Dowd, Janet Lyon, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Lucy Bell Gallery, New Romantics, Rusty Egan, Steve Stange, Terry Smith

Stade Saturdays return!

Beginning this weekend! Summer’s coming and Hastings is hotting up – it’s time for the return of Stade Saturdays!

Posted 19:51 Wednesday, May 30, 2018 In: Music & Sound Tags: stade saturdays