Gen Li gives us Chopin and Brahms
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Full online programme for Refugee Week
It’s Refugee Week and the Refugee Buddy Project, Hastings, Rother and Wealden, has a full programme of artistic, cultural and educational events to offer, all online of course. Nick Terdre reports.
Kitty loves Ms Kitty’s lullabies
Beautiful tabby, Oscar, has a thing about The Fabulous Red Diesel. Every night at 9pm, when Ms Kitty, singer from the band plays her lullabies over Facebook Live, Oscar’s owner, Susanne, goes onto the stairs, calls “Oscar, come listen to Kitty”and he comes rushing into her
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.
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.
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