Make (Good) Trouble is facilitating 14 free art based workshops for young people across East Sussex, funded by East Sussex County Council to evaluate whether art has a positive impact on their emotional wellbeing. The project is called The Catalyst. Jane Keating writes.
Back by popular demand! Hastings’ immersive history experience, Tressell’s Children, returns for another limited season in the lead-up to Christmas at St Andrews Mews, Hastings. Earlier this year, MSL, local artists and the people of Hastings and St Leonards created Tressell’s Children, an immersive history experience that told the stories of Hastings people. The limited run in St Andrews Mews was a sell-out, and highly acclaimed success, so we’re doing another limited run, writes Kate Hodges.
John Logie Baird was inventing ‘seeing by wireless’ or television here in Hastings 100 years ago. In 1923 and 1924 he was living on the south coast and developing experiments, with some success, here in the town. Jude Montague writes about plans for 2024 to be collectively inspired by his spirit of invention.
HOT’s Judy Parkinson visited the Baker Mamonova Gallery to ask curator Russell Baker about the new exhibition reflecting on the work of David Tindle.
Trevor Jones, guitarist, thinks about the recent performance of the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marcio da Silva and their next concert on November 11.
The Home Office’s decision to promptly turf out asylum-seekers given leave to stay from the accommodation provided while their claims were being considered is creating destitution on a potentially mass scale, Felicity Laurence reports. Stepping into the breach are Refugees at Home, a hosting charity, and Hastings own Links project.
As outrage over the carnage in Gaza continues to mount, demonstrations and protests have been taking place around the world to demand an immediate ceasefire. Gabriel Carlyle reports on what’s been happening locally and what’s happening next.
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery (HMAG) has a new temporary exhibition, celebrating Mary Anning and fossils. The local theatre group ExploretheArch is also involved. The exhibition runs from early November 2023 till the New Year. Bernard McGinley reports.
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