Local professional artist, Thom Kofoed appeared recently on Sky Arts ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’. HOT’s Zelly Restorick celebrates seeing a local face on an international programme and asks Thom some questions about his experience.
Jazz Hastings host award-winning jazz guitarist and composer Rob Luft, along with his quintet, at their May session on Tuesday 3rd. Julian Norridge has the details, photos by Dave Stapleton.
Project Art Works’ Illuminating the Wilderness is being screened at the British Film Institute along with No Church in the Wild and Tessellate, as part of the BFI Experimenta programme. Experimenta celebrates artist films and alternative moving-image culture; works that break with convention.
Twenty six candidates for the 5 May local elections in Hastings & St Leonards have signed a pledge backing accelerated climate action, including divesting the East Sussex Pension Fund from fossil fuels. As of 10am on Monday 25 April, 26 candidates from Hastings & St Leonards had signed the ‘ABCD Climate Action Pledge’ created by the South East Climate Alliance (SECA): all of the Green candidates (16), seven Labour candidates, 2 Liberal Democrats and 1 Conservative [1]. Divest East Sussex reports.
Dr Jane Padmore has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, having been interim CEO since January 2022.
Our tree correspondent, the aptly named Joan Taylor-Rowan, rings in the spring with the majestic beech tree.
Have you heard about Just Stop Oil? Who are they? What do they want? And why are so many of their members prepared to be arrested in support of their goals? Robert Ralph explains what they are all about.
Brahms’ German Requiem was the centrepiece of Hastings Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra’s sell-out concert at Christ Church in late March. Patrick Glass was among the appreciative audience.
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