Local residents have become increasingly worried about pollution in Old Roar Gill, as Richard Price discovered when he walked the stream down into Alexandra Park. Southern Water denies it, but Environment Agency testing points to it. Meanwhile Hastings Borough Council seems not to know what to do.
Hastings Art School are hosting a talk/panel event as part of our upcoming show at ESPS ‘The Old is Dying’ on ‘The Future of Creative Education’. They already have a very exciting line-up shaping-up with various speakers and input from local (and not-so local) organisations, and it will be a really dynamic and exciting event. They are looking to diversify the voices and would love to hear from anyone involved in some way with local creative education who would like to be part of the discussion. Julia Kotziamani writes.
A new exhibition in the Town Centre shows what a profusion of talent flourishes in Hastings and St Leonards. The local residents portrayed show that. So does the artist of Painting the Town. Bernard McGinley reports.
Written by Shain Shapiro, This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better. This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed and governed. On 29 November, The Hastings Bookshop welcomes Shain Shapiro for his book launch and Q and A. Hannah Deeble writes.
The recent Hastings floods have led to some deep questions about what exactly is going on under the streets of the town… and why storm water doesn’t seem to want to stay where it is put. Jude Montague wants to know more about what we can expect, and talked to John Bownas, manager of Love Hastings (the town’s Business Improvement District).
MP Sally-Ann Hart has responded to concerns raised by the Hastings & Rother branch of Amnesty International over the conflict in Gaza, which, she said, she would take to the Foreign Secretary. However it is clear that both sides have very different positions over what is happening in Gaza. Nick Terdre reports.
MSL Projects wants to work with hundreds of local people to make art all about our beautiful stretches of beach. Art that will go on to be part of Beach of Dreams 2025, a huge celebration of our national beaches, cliffs and rockpools.
Care for the Carers, the East Sussex carers centre, celebrated the wonderful contribution of volunteers at their annual Volunteer Celebration Event at the beautiful Lansdowne Hotel at the Eastbourne seafront recently. Cally Emerson writes.
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