A packed Sunday Afternoon at the Mint House
A Summer Sunday extravaganza at The Mint House
Say farewell to summer with a once in a lifetime coming together of musicians artists writers photographers, potters and off-duty tattooists. Erica Smith looks forward to an afternoon of exceptional entertainment.
The Mint House in Pevensey High Street has hosted some remarkable events, and this Sunday’s collection of music, literature, performance, ceramics, ghosts and more promises to be no exception. Booking your ticket in advance is advised because capacity is limited to 50.
Oak Room music stage schedule promises:
2.15 Serious jazzman Olie Brice solo double bass set (20 mins)
2.50 Slapp Happy eminence gris Anthony Moore and Fritz Catlin of 23 Skidoo present C sound and saz… +bongos (20 mins)
3.25 BAFTA nominated soundtrack artist and improvisational wildcard Hutch Demouilpied + composer Vlad Miller get it together on trumpet, flute and keyboard (20 mins)
4pm Otti Albietz + Hutch + Olie play the marvellous songs of Otti (40 mins)
4.55pm Anthony + Resonance FM founding father Ed Baxter (35 mins)
5.40 lute-led folk improv free for all
Ghostly books schedule in the main entrance hall
2pm Divisive East Sussex scenester Southcoast DonArden reads from a never to be published memoir by Evel Knievel’s son (15 mins)
3.10 Faber author Richard King on fascism and the countryside from his book The Lark Ascending
4.20 Antony Clayton, author of Netherwood: Last Resort of Aleister Crowley will talk about a remarkable Hastings guesthouse that around the middle of the last century was home to visiting politicians, scientists, intellectuals and radicals. It was also where Aleister Crowley spent his final three years, playing chess, injecting heroin and receiving an impressive cast of visitors.
5.10 Owen Hatherley – Architectural visionary reads from his new book The Alienation Effect – How Central European Emigres Transformed The British Twentieth Century
Visual arts (in the minting chamber and other back rooms):
Folk acid landscapes from St Richard’s School, Bexhill’s very own head of art and resting Balearic Assassin Ade Peachment
Ceramics causing panic – stunning early career pots by Suzanne Osborne
Animation installation – Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan and Lamprini Loukaidi present
Title: Ladybeat
Year: 2023
A multi-layered animated collage: clap your hands everybody, and everybody clap your hands.
Photography – The new age of protest
Every Jeff Pitcher photo tells a story
Debbie Antonowicz installations inhabit the Minting Chamber – a room so haunted musicians won’t play in it.
Last but not least… durst ye enter Betty Davies’ Chamber to sea what ye may find there?
Refreshments
Mr Tea is Jack Peachment who will be wrangling cakes from Bullet Coffee House
Crossing the road to get a pint from the pub is also encouraged.
The Mint House is only a ten minute scenic walk through the Castle from Pevensey and Westham station (half hourly trains to Hastings Brighton and London). By road it’s just off the A27.
Admission £20 (+ bkg) via Eventbrite 50 tickets only
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