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Strandliner: cleaner beaches, cleaner seas
Andy Dinsdale, initiator of Strandliner, would like to say a huge thank you to all the wonderful volunteers who have been able to give their time and energy for the clean ups and recordings.
Fund raising challenge: Race To The Stones
Education Futures Trust (EFT) volunteer, Emily Mitchell (19), has taken on the epic challenge, Race To The Stones, in July in a quest to raise funds for the Hastings based charity.
World Listening Day 2019
You are invited to participate in World Listening Day 2019, an annual global event held every 18 July.
21 June: Youth Strike 4 Climate in Hastings
This coming Friday (21 June 2019), Youth Strike 4 Climate in Hastings and St Leonards have organised another action for Climate Justice. Your presence and support are needed. HOT’s Zelly Restorick reports.
Celebratory production at Stables opens Friday
On Friday the curtains will open on one of the highlights of the Stables Theatre’s 60th anniversary celebrations, a production by its American exchange partners, Chicago Heights Drama Group. On Sunday a lunch was held to mark the day the theatre opened its doors for the first time in 1959. Publicist Lynda Foy writes, photos by Colin Foy.
Bookchat: Writing is dangerous (and events June 18 onwards)
“No, don’t do it,” they said. “It will have terrible consequences,” and I started to think about how some people might use my story for their own purposes. Bad purposes. “Yes, you must write what you want,” somebody else said, “whatever the consequences.”
Best Bookshops: Bookbuster, Queens Rd, Hastings
That’s right – not Blockbuster (past and gone), it’s book …book … Bookbuster (alive and exciting)! Tim Barton talks to Angela J. Phillip about what it’s like to run a small independent bookshop promoting poetry and offering book selections and interesting additional services to meet local needs.
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- Countdown to Hastings Beer and Music Festival
- Public Image Ltd at the White Rock. Outrageous!
- An afternoon of classical guitar with Kianush Robeson at Blacklands Church
- Community Energy Fortnight (1 – 14 July) is coming!
- Holistic Health Event
- Giant casting revealed for Jack and the Beanstalk
- New directors for Hastings Fat Tuesday
- Hastings Philharmonic Choir sing works by living composers
- DJ Wendy May’s Summer Music Meltdown
- Let’s Get Loud! Active Arts presents an evening of inclusive performance and creativity
- The Cove at Hastings Contemporary
- Full House at the Hot Tap Theatre
- Sea view vs a tree’s view
- Hastings Comic Con 2025 review
- The sun feeds the wind
- Tuba maestro Oren Marshall on Jazz Hastings stage
- Mindful drawing course at Alexandra Park greenhouse
- Robert Rotifer at Barnaby’s Lounge
- FREE feminist film night for Refugee Week
- Hastings residents join ‘red line’ protest against UK arms sales to Israel
- Poet Town fundraiser for Refugee Buddy Project
- Support community energy at the national climate lobby on 9 July!
- Extraordinary Odyssey at the Electro Studios
- Green-led Council under fire for siding with developers
- ‘Ethical Bailiffs’ serve eviction notice on Hastings arms factory
- Florescent at the Jenny Lind
- Sex and Success in Sussex – Electro Studios Project Space
- Mango Ritual, immersive, multi-genre performance, comes to Hastings Museum
- Hastings Sinfonia back at the De La Warr for Fiesta concert
- A cheerful show at Hastings Arts Forum
- Migrant workers speak out event
- Don’t slash spending on the Warm Homes Plan
- Butterflies and more on the agenda at Alexandra Park greenhouse
- Open market information is still secret says Council. Really?
- Have your say on local government reorganisation (and the abolition of HBC)
- Local Lib Dems add to voices deploring situation in Gaza
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