Deadly Dames. A 1940s cabaret with a female twist
HOT’s Judy Parkinson, all glammed up in a pencil skirt, high heels, red lipstick and matching nails, stepped back in time for an appointment with acclaimed local author Helen Jacey.
HOT’s Judy Parkinson, all glammed up in a pencil skirt, high heels, red lipstick and matching nails, stepped back in time for an appointment with acclaimed local author Helen Jacey.
This weekend will be the last chance to see the Rock Against Racism Research’n’Archive Project exhibition at St Mary in the Castle. The exhibition, originally planned for the De La Warr Pavilion, celebrates the international grass roots movement which began 46 years ago with a gig in an East London pub. Erica Smith reminds you to check out the classic graphics before St Mary in the Castle closes its doors this weekend.
James Roseveare is in the woods where he is possibly happiest, amongst the trees he loves. As a tree surgeon his work is to sculpt and shape trees to keep them healthy, so it is completely logical that he was always going to work as an artist with and within the natural world. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was delighted to find James Roseveare’s new sculptures in a wooded glade in Springfield Wood near Robertsbridge as part of blackShed’s exhibition Site number: 102222.
Hastings Community of Sanctuary are holding an event on Sunday 30 October, called ‘Fill The Skies With Hope’. Co-chair Polly Gifford writes.
Details released by Stagecoach of changes in its East Sussex bus network show a re-ordering of several routes and a reduction in frequency on several local services. County council funding has ensured the continuance of parts of the service for six months which otherwise would have ceased . Nick Terdre reports.
The biggest exhibition of Black artists on the south coast opens this Friday, 21 October and promises to spark debate and challenge racism. Opening during Black History Month, Playing the Race Card, features the work of 25 Black artists responding to their perceptions or experiences relating to the intentionally undermining term ‘playing the race card’. HOT’s Erica Smith looks forward to an empowering show.
The PhotoHastings Festival is definitely underway with more exhibitions scheduled at Electro Studios and Hastings Arts Forum as well as another few weeks of Photology at The Pig. Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went to see the latest Electro show Echoes:visualising thoughts and puzzling material (which can amount to the same thing) by Tracy Jones and Lucinda Wells.