Cobalt birds flying with Marnie Collyer
Hastings-based artist Marnie Collyer talks to Jude Montague about her work for the Extraordinary Odyssey Exhibition at Electro Studios Project Space
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White Rock Summer Youth Project presents The Addams Family
The White Rock Summer Youth Project is thrilled to present The Addams Family, a delightfully dark musical comedy celebrating the quirks and chaos of family life. This full-scale production will take centre stage at Hastings White Rock from 14–16 August, brought to life by a talented cast of local young performers. This preview from the White Rock Publicity Dept.
Hastings extended reality artist goes to Edinburgh
Ornagh is a contemporary, immersive artist who is off to Edinburgh this weekend for the world premiere of The Ode Islands – a collaboration between Ornagh XR Studios and Immersiv.es. The six-person creative team behind the production are all based locally. Erica Smith dons her headset and enters their world of extended reality.
Palestine Action ban: more arrests of Hastings residents
Two peace activists from Hastings were arrested on Saturday (19 July) afternoon at the Gaza March in central London for holding placards saying: ‘Oppose Genocide. Ban Starmer not Palestine Action’. Erica Smith writes.
Hastings MP pressed on retrofit shortfall at UK climate lobby
Residents of Hastings & Rye joined thousands from across the UK at a mass lobby of Parliament on Wednesday 9 July. Energise Sussex Coast’s Gabriel Carlyle reports.
Stables Theatre’s world premiere of The Turn of the Screw
Henry James’s The Turn Of The Screw has been through many manifestations. It was written in Rye at the author’s Lamb House as a Victorian novella, and serialised in an American magazine. Book, film, TV, radio, ballet and opera versions followed. Now the Stables Theatre in Hastings Old Town is staging a new dramatisation by Timothy Blackwell, who also directs. Bernard McGinley reports on a classic horror story.
Care about Alexandra Park? Come to the Friends’ AGM
The Friends of Alexandra Park have reformed and now invite all to attend their annual general meeting on 12 August where the group’s future direction will be decided. The meeting will be held in the restored greenhouse, which recently hosted a successful cacti and succulents show. Alexandra Park Greenhouse Group’s press officer Lynda Foy reports, photos by Colin Foy.
Hastings council passes ceasefire motion, backing town’s friendship links with Al Mawasi in Gaza
Hastings Borough Council passed an historic motion on Wednesday (16 July), voting to back an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, an end to all arms sales to Israel and to support the town’s deep friendship links with the people of Al Mawasi. Katy Colley from Hastings & District Palestine Solidarity Campaign reports.
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