La Traviata staged against a background of impending war
HOT’s music correspondent Brian Hick reviews Opera South East’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata at White Rock Theatre on Saturday 13 April. Photos from rehearsal by Mark Duncan.
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Self-Publishing with Amazon – is it for you?
You’ve finished your book. Hurrah! But how are you going to get it published? Angela Phillip chats to Roger Povey, former literary agent, who talks of his experience and provides a self-publishing how-to guide.
My Beautiful Laundrette screens at The Pigs Palace
Following last month’s screening of Querelle, the Pigs Palace will be showing the 1985 comedy-drama My Beautiful Laundrette on Thursday 18 April. All proceeds will go to local charity Seaview. HOT’s Jordan Dixon writes.
Opera South East presents Verdi’s popular La Traviata
Opera South East brings Verdi’s immensely popular opera La Traviata to the White Rock Theatre this weekend, in a production set in the run-up to World War One, when the world will be changed for ever. Nick Terdre reports. Photos by Mark Duncan.
Celebrate Easter with music and art at the Stade!
Now in its third year, the Hastings Easter Festival is a vibrant music and arts festival to celebrate Easter on the Stade Open Space and Hall. HOT’s Vanessa Alves the delights that await.
Celebrations at St John the Evangelist, Hollington
On Sunday 28 April the Bishop of Lewes, Rt Revd Richard Jackson, will celebrate Holy Communion at St John the Evangelist, Hollington, to bring to a close the church’s 150th anniversary celebrations.
Writing about injuries from fights, stabbings and shootings
This is the first in a weekly series of blogs in which Angela J. Phillip will take us with her on a journey to explore the town’s wealth of literary offerings in Hastings and St Leonards: writers based in Hastings and their books and journeys, writing courses, books set in Hastings, booksellers, and so on. Here she attends her first meeting of the Hastings Writers’ Group.
It all goes in waves…
This week, two new exhibitions in the #ATownExploresABook festival open. HOT’s Erica Smith talks to the artists involved.
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