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.
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.
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