Celebrate John Logie Baird in his hometown with a weekend of special TV-focused screenings and events, including guest Q&As and a children’s puppet workshop at the Electric Palace cinema in Hastings Old Town. See some small screen gems on the big screen from 19-22 September, says Annie Waite.
Two DIY art cinema initiatives in Hastings will mark the anniversary of the invention of television in the town, Spirit of Invention and Exploding Cinema. Jude Montague explains why she wants to celebrate Logie Baird.
Spirit of Invention 2 comes to the Electric Palace Cinema with an open call for artists to make movies and stills pictures about their own work.
Jude Montague talks to Curious Agenda founder and director of imagination, Miia Forbes, about what we can expect from this year’s festival, A Curious Town Grows.
Artists inspired by John Logie Baird the Hastings-based inventor who was working on ‘seeing by wireless’ one hundred years ago exhibit at the Electro Studios Project Space for the Spirit of Invention festival. Chris Simpson came down from London to co-curate the show with Jude Montague who talks about the preparations for the festival show and talking to BBC South East Television about the inventor of television.
As the industrial estate in St Leonards-on-Sea approaches 60 years of age, Jude Montague wonders what was built there, and what were the experiences of those who worked there in the early days.
Andrew Hemsley, writer and journalist for the Hastings and St Leonards Observer, talks with HOT’s Chandra Masoliver about the writers who have influenced his own writing. This will be followed by a second article with his own writing and the blog he will launch.
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