Poems for Hastings Foodbank
Carole Benton found plenty to interest her, and a good cause to support, in Dee Howard’s Foodbank Britain – a poetry pamphlet produced to raise funds for the Hastings Foodbank.
Menu
Hastings & St. Leonards on-line community newspaper
Archives for June | 2020 | Page 4 of 7
Children reading their way through lockdown
The Read Your Way initiative, which wants to get more children reading in Hastings and St Leonards, continues to thrive despite the lockdown restrictions; a great example of the amazing community spirit in Hastings. HOT’s Vanessa Alves reports.
Modest active travel measures proposed for Hastings
With a first-round allocation of £479,000 from the transport ministry’s active travel fund, East Sussex County Council is now awaiting approval from the ministry for the measures it has proposed. Nick Terdre reports.
Find out how you can stitch for change with Janey Moffatt
With Refugee Week – “the UK’s largest festival celebrating the contribution of refugees and promoting understanding of why people seek sanctuary” – approaching next week, Janey Moffatt, crafter-in-chief of the Craftimation Factory, writes about a project she is working on, together with Chilean textile artist Jimena Pardo of Bordando por la Memoria, for the Refugee Buddy Project. She also gives details of an exciting Zoom session coming up on Friday.
Oversize Bunker cries out for HBC action
Rocklands Caravan Park and controversy seem to be inseparable bedfellows. Can Rocklands ever be a good neighbour to Hastings Country Park? It’s not impossible. But there’s no sign of it yet, as Bernard McGinley (a Friend of the Country Park) finds as he looks into the latest breaches of planning permission, and calls for firm action by the council.
Tories purged from Cabinet at behest of council leader
HBC council leader Kim Forward has made her mark by removing Tory representation on the Cabinet, in an unexpected move that has drawn criticism not just from the Tories but from Liberal Democrats and elsewhere. Nick Terdre reports.
“The Sea of Curiosity” stories from the exhibition of paintings by Keith Waller
Artist Keith Waller recently appealed for writers to respond to a series of his paintings by writing a short narrative. He was overwhelmed with responses. This is the first short story, by a writer simply known as Spike.
Trevor Jones, classical guitarist, teacher, ex-rock singer
Trevor Jones talks with HOT’s Chandra Masoliver about his life, music, sport and, in a second article, his ideas about where Britain is heading.
More HOT Stuff
-
Latest HOT Stuff
- Songwriting #1 – Mike Willis
- Schoolkids’ artistic skills on display at Hastings Contemporary
- Open Call Photopia
- Brightling lambs
- Bach to eternity
- Active travel hustings identifies many failings for councillors to tackle
- BUOY at Barnaby’s
- £40m of levelling up monies for Hastings and Rother
- Gary Willis – Spirit of Invention artist
- Trash Cannes winner: Louise Whitham
- Opera South East present Donizetti’s Elixir of Love
- Most unpredictable local elections in years loom on 2 May
- Sunken Lands with Author Gareth Rees
- Neville Dickie Plays Boogie-Woogie
- Column 258
- Remi Harris, the Hot Club Trio, and every kind of music
- 10 HOT facts
- Listen for gentrification in St Leonards
- Councillors dodge public debate on fossil fuels
- ParkinSongsters mark World Parkinson’s Day
- JJ Waller’s weekend
- Hastings Sinfonia tunes up for spring concert
- Jazz Hastings welcomes John Law and Re-Creations
- 25th Hastings Beatles Day
- Zestful writer E Nesbit celebrated in Bohemia this Sunday
- Easter holiday happenings
- ‘Hastings 3’ plead not guilty
- Max Baillie and Suntou Susso
- Kim Wan at Electro Studios
- Sunday afternoon Music Hall at the Pig
- ESCC has spent £200k resisting climate action
- Gaza ceasefire motion blocked again
- The Funny Hole
- Oli Spleen – A Brush with Death
- Archipelago, Sinéid Codd exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
- Music Hall in Hastings
In Arts & Culture
- Arts News (378)
- Comedy (16)
- Community Arts (105)
- Festivals (45)
- Film (130)
- Literature (117)
- Music & Sound (636)
- Performance (308)
- Photography (143)
- Poetry (57)
- Public Arts (33)
- Visual Arts (225)
SUPPORT HOT
HOT is run by volunteers but has overheads for hosting and web development. Support HOT!
ADVERTISING
Advertise your business or your event on HOT for as little as £20 per month
Find out more…
DONATING
If you like HOT and want to keep it sustainable, please Donate via PayPal, it’s easy!
VOLUNTEERING
Do you want to write, proofread, edit listings or help sell advertising? then contact us
SUBSCRIBE
Get our regular digest emails
Follow our Facebook page and keep up with the latest news from HOT
If you have any complaints or believe HOT to be acting out of turn please contact us in the first instance and explain the issue as clearly as you can.
Click here to find out more about our complaints procedure.
X @HOTnewsHastings
