Archive: Month: <span>July 2019</span>

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Enchanting summer theatre celebrating a remarkable forgotten female artist

Following on from their acclaimed Windrush production, ExploreTheArch, Sussex’s experiential and most unconventional theatre company, are back with a hauntingly beautiful inter-European migration story. The House of Marcelle is inspired by the love letters of an extraordinary Belgian painter, Marcelle van Caillie. Marcelle settled in London in 1955, one of many restless Europeans shifting around the continent after the trauma of WW2. The show opens on Monday 29 July and runs into August. HOT’s Erica Smith enters the turbulent world of a remarkable woman.

Posted 10:13 Thursday, Jul 25, 2019 In: Performance Tags: Archer Lodge, Artist, Belgian, ExploreTheArch, Gail Borrow, Marcelle van Caillie, painter, st. leonards on sea, theatre

Buzz Aldrin on Moon with reflection in helmet.

Moon landing in St Leonards

It is the 50th anniversary of the first moon landings. So it is not surprising that there has been wall-to-wall radio and television coverage of the event. Even St Leonards is marking the occasion. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths wandered, earthbound, down the King’s Road to see St Leonards’ own celebration of the first American space exploration in a surprising exhibition.

Posted 15:31 Tuesday, Jul 23, 2019 In: Photography Tags: Alastair Fairley, Apollo XI, Buzz Aldrin, Edward H White II, Fairley Achive of Space Explorations, FASE, First moon landing, first space walk, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. A Wave of Dreams Arts Lab, Mercury 7, Neil Armstrong, Peter Fairley

Bookchat: You tell the stories your way – life writing as only you know how (and events July 23 onwards)

Is it about writing a whole life story? No, not really. What then? It’s about hundreds and thousands of stories. All yours and only you can do it. That’s what it is. The stories of your life. Little ones, big ones, other people’s stories seen through your eyes. Your opinions on things. Think of Phoebe Waller-Bridge with Fleabag. Think of Karl Ove Knausgaard. The stories will be there for your children or other people’s children. For everyone. You can make us laugh and cry and wonder at the life you’ve led. Angela J. Phillip has a look at how to do it.

Posted 09:00 In: Hastings Bookchat Tags: Angela J. Phillip, Hastings Literary Festival, Hastings LitFest 2019, Life writing, Papua New Guinea

Theatre Nation at Hastings Fringe 2019

Theatre Nation’s Patrick Kealey and Tom Daldry bring two dynamic productions to Hastings this month, writes A. Vasudevan. Part of Hastings Fringe 2019, Kealey’s one-man show, The Life and Rhymes of Archy and Mehitabel, opens at The St Leonards Pub, and Daldry’s self-penned black comedy Polyamory? at The Pig’s Palace.

Posted 19:06 Sunday, Jul 21, 2019 In: Performance Tags: A Vasudevan, Archy and Mehitabel, fringe theatre, Hastings Fringe, Hastings Fringe 2019, Hastings theatre, Patrick Healey, Pig's Palace, Polyamory?, St Leonards Pub, The Life and Rhymes of Archy and Mehitabel, The Literary Shed, Theatre Nation, threatre, Tom Daldry

Anti-Fossil Fuel campaign on the home stretch

Last Saturday, Divest East Sussex campaigners took their message to Bexhill as part of the Swinging Sixties event on the seafront. HOT’s Erica Smith donned her glad rags and picked up her protest placard.

Posted 20:26 Tuesday, Jul 16, 2019 In: Campaigns Tags: Divest East Sussex, DLWP, East Sussex County Council, Erica Smith, ESCC Pension Scheme, Gabriel Carlyle, Simon Elford, Stewart Drew

‘Demain’ (Tomorrow): a crucial film for now

What are people already doing around the globe practically and economically, that could alter the way we care for the Earth and each other? Watch ‘Demain’ (Tomorrow) and find out. Probably THE most crucial film for living generations and those to come. Kendal Eaton has organised another showing of this vital film on Wednesday 17 July 2019 at The Pig’s Palace.

Posted 16:19 In: Film

Bookchat: Top five children’s books in East Sussex (and events July 16 onwards)

A total of 620 children from 36 schools in East Sussex voted to choose their favourite books in a competition organised as part of a series of events where authors read extracts of their work to children across the county. Angela J. Phillip looks at The Jewelled Jaguar by Sharon Tregenza which came first and the other four top books suitable for 9 – 11-year-olds (and upwards to about 95 or so).

Posted 09:00 In: Hastings Bookchat Tags: Ally Sherrick, Angela J. Phillip, children's books, Creative Writing courses, CWP and New Writing South, Hastings Literary Festival, Ross Welford, Sarah Lean, Sharon Cohen, Sharon Tregenza, The Literary Shed

Springwatch star Lucy lifts the lid on animals’ hidden lives in hometown show

TV presenter and author Lucy Cooke will be demolishing the myths and mystique surrounding some of the world’s best-loved creatures in a funny and fascinating show as part of the Hastings Literary Festival, reports Angela J. Phillip.

Posted 17:22 Monday, Jul 15, 2019 In: Hastings Bookchat Tags: Angela J. Phillip, Hastings Literary Festival, Hastings LitFest, Lucy Cooke