As the coronavirus works its way towards peak effect, HOT is providing a regular (no longer daily) update of the statistics for our region and the country provided by the public health authorities and other official sources. Fuller information on deaths has been made available by the Office of National Statistics, including a figure for those occurring in care homes. Text and charts by Russell Hall.
An appeal to promote buying art direct from the artist that began in Hastings four weeks ago has gone global. At a time when exhibitions have been cancelled and galleries closed, #artistsupportpledge is bringing income to artists who are struggling as the result of the global pandemic. Meet artist Matthew Burrows who created the hashtag which gives creatives a new way to sell their work.
HOT’s Zelly Restorick recently bumped into a friend and her little daughter when at the local farm shop for supplies – and was told about Charles Eisenstein’s insightful and thoughtful vision for a post Covid world. Eisenstein is the author of books such as Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible.
St Leonards-based artist Rachel Glittenberg is one of several creators who have taken to running art classes online during the Covid-19 lockdown. Erica Smith caught up with Rachel to see how she has adapted from teaching painting classes at her studio to teaching an online drawing class every Monday morning.
Come and join Vocal Explosion & Juliet Russell for a live online singing and instrumental session for the whole of our community from the comfort of your home. All of us, from singles to families, singing with each other in the virtual room!
HOT’s Zelly Restorick asked Spike Warwick – local evidence-based mind body practitioner specialising in pain, stress, trauma and anxiety relief – to write a few words about self-care in these challenging times. We are – as so often in the past – being fed a hugely overwhelming diet of fear. We – and puzzlingly, also the fear-propagators – are fully aware of the depleting effects on our physical and mental health of fear, stress, anxiety and depression. Here are some words of wisdom from Spike to help us counteract this bombardment.
John D Robinson has five books out already this year, but here are two of his, as yet unpublished, poems on the effects of Coronavirus. These two poems are understandably stark, but love and its continuation stays strong, writes HOT’s Chandra Masoliver.
Hastings International Piano continues its series of short online concerts this Friday with a recital by Fumiya Koido, winner of the 2019 piano concerto competition. Nick Terdre reports.
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