Hastings Rocks Film Festival is back 14, 15 and 16 April! This year we are screening no less than 60 short films and 6 feature-length ones. The festival programme is online here and tickets can be bought here. James Rowlins writes.
To the west of the Old Town is the town centre, to the west of that is St Leonards. Further on is West St Leonards, which many visitors and even borough residents don’t really know. A new and free exhibition puts that right: ‘GO WEST: A History of West St Leonards’ at the Electro Studios, 5 Seaside Road, TN38 0AL, shows people what they’re missing. Bernard McGinley was impressed.
Willy Russell’s classic musical play about rivalry and misunderstanding, nature and nurture, a gun and a girl, is on at the White Rock Theatre until Saturday 8 April. The play has been nationally and internationally successful for decades. One production achieved the rare feat of 10,000 performances in the West End of London. Russell, whose other works include Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, can clearly reach audiences. Bernard McGinley reviews the show. All photos by Jack Merriman.
The Hastings Easter Festival, a live music and arts event celebrating this high point in the Christian calendar, will be held as usual over this coming weekend, as the organiser describes.
Last Friday the trans flag was hoisted above Hastings Town Hall. The flag marks the Trans Day of Visibility and the launch of the first official Trans Pride Hastings. Erica Smith reports.
On Saturday afternoon, between 150 and 200 local people gathered at the site of the former Northeye Prison, to the west of Bexhill. They were there to object to government plans to turn the site into a housing solution for asylum seekers. The proposal is in response to concerns that too much money is spent housing asylum seekers in hotels. Erica Smith reports.
The Hastings Philharmonic Choir launches its 2023 season on 15 April at Christ Church in St Leonards with two classical masterpieces: Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor and Haydn’s Te Deum. They will be accompanied by the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra, which will also perform Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto. Press officer Gareth Simpson reports.
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