The Fringes are back!
Two Fringe Festivals return to Hastings – Hastings Fringe Comedy Festival, between 13 – 17 June and Hastings Fringe Festival throughout July. Steve Scott writes.
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Park Beck owners seek five-storey rebuild
The previous proposed eyesore for the Park Beck building on Upper Maze Hill was eventually withdrawn. Now a new blot is proposed. Bernard McGinley looks around the conservation areas.
Latest Transition Town news
Transition Town Hastings, committed to community, sustainability and a fairer place to live for everyone, is linked to many different groups and individuals locally who are working for and connected with the issues TTH cares about: their latest news concerns creating a fairer food system, the planet, green energy, reducing fuel poverty, community connection, permaculture, clean beaches, wild writing, re-fillable water bottle scheme and the next Green Drinks gathering.
Here Casts No Shadow
Here Casts No Shadow is the latest novel by local author, Bronwen Griffiths. HOT’s Zelly Restorick asks about her deep connection with the written word, her motivation and the inspiration for her latest book, which she will be talking about at two events in May.
Blowing her own trumpet
Alexandra Ridout was crowned the winner of the BBC Young Musician Jazz Award 2016 at the age of 17. Despite her youth, she is a remarkably mature musician with her own quintet. You can hear her for yourself when she plays Jazz Hastings this Tuesday (10 April) with local musicians Simon Thorpe (bass) and John Donaldson (piano) and Darren Becket (drums). In order to encourage more young people to attend, tickets for under-18s and students are only £2 for this gig! HOT’s Esme Needham caught up with Alexandra to ask her about all that’s jazz…
Automata on the Pier: a visit
HOT’s Vanessa Alves received an email from a friend telling her there was an Automata exhibition on at Hastings Pier and suggested it would be great for her boys. Here she writes up her experience of this fascinating exhibition.
British abstract artist celebrated with posthumous show at Hastings Arts Forum
Born in London 1921, Anthony Pyke was an intensely private person but in spite of himself, he gained an international reputation. His brilliant and uncompromising work is in private ownership throughout the world.
Concrete Soldiers: free film screening and discussion
When it comes to issues like gentrification and social cleansing, it is a good idea to learn from past experience to help stop it happening again. HOT’s Erica Smith talks to Rossana Leal from Heart of Hastings about a film which explores the housing crisis which is being screened at The Bridge Community Centre on Saturday 14 April.
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