A new pressure group, Hastings Rental Health, is inviting residents to show their concerns about the housing crisis by gathering in the town centre this Saturday – 9 October. Erica Smith looks at the worrying housing statistics.
The government’s Nationality and Borders bill promises dire consequences for refugees if it becomes law. Hastings Community of Sanctuary has convened an online public meeting to help publicise the threat. Nick Terdre reports.
The Lucy Bell Gallery has staged a very different exhibition from the often-featured pop icons which regularly populate her walls. This exhibition is fresh, vibrant, immersive. all about the sea. Like so many others before her, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was drawn here through her love of the the ocean, and was bowled over by these extraordinary images when she went to talk to the photographer Tim Nathan.
Given the weather warning for today, Hastings Greenway Group has postponed today’s walk in the Country Park until Saturday 30 October. Here is the original article publicising the walk.
With the Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill such a hot topic at the moment there will be a timely talk on Tuesday 5 October by Rossana Leal of the Refugee Buddy Project. The talk has been organised by Hastings Against War and the Hastings and Rother Interfaith Forum. John Enefer of Hastings Against War fills in the background.
Hastings International Piano starts the countdown to next year’s Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition with a launch concert featuring former prize-winner Maxim Kinasov on Friday 8 October at the White Rock Theatre. Nick Terdre reports.
Seaview’s sponsored mass sleep-out returns as the Big Sleep Bubble on Friday 1 October, raising awareness and funds for some of the town’s most vulnerable people. Josie Barnes tells us how we can all support Seaview by spending the night in our own cardboard city.
John Holroyd is marking his membership of Zoom Arts with an exhibition of ink work at Oscar’s on the Square starting on Friday. Maxine Simmonds introduces this new member of the community arts group.
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