“Come and take part in TIME TO STAND AND STARE”: an invitation issued by RUNWAY artists Roz Cran and Sharon Haward during the recent Coastal Currents Arts Festival. This was an art walk from Hastings Pier along the coast to De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on a beautiful sunny day in September. HOT asked Roz Cran to tell us more about the project.
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Coinciding with simultaneous well-planned actions around the world on every continent, The Global Strike happened in Hastings and St Leonards. Youth Strikers 4 Climate Action united with Extinction Rebellion, other groups, families, friends and individuals, taking time out to take action on behalf of our threatened future on this planet David Bruce, local photographer and earth activist, took photos so you can see for yourself who was there – and why. Zelly Restorick, who participated, reflects on the action.
The Reekie Collection of paintings is back home in St Leonards after an 18-month tour. Part of Coastal Currents, it will be on display until early November. Nick Terdre reports.
St Mary in the Castle is excited that James Bloomfield, a local documentary photographer, will be having an exhibition of new photographs in the Crypt Gallery. The free exhibition ‘Steps to the Sea’ will be on show in the Crypt Gallery from 22 September until 23 October.
Iconic neighbourhood The America Ground is set to receive £2 million of public funding for an exciting four-year programme to rejuvenate this historic part of Hastings beginning in April 2020.
The Pledge Project is a simple idea – to get as many people as possible in Hastings, St Leonards & surrounding areas to sign a one sentence pledge saying how they will, in some way, reduce their impact upon the environment.
The Seaview Project’s annual sponsored sleep takes place on Friday 27 September, raising awareness and vital funds for some of the town’s most vulnerable people and there are still some boxes left for more sleepers to take part. Sue Burgess writes.
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