The Dear Future festival at the Electric Palace climaxes this Sunday morning, 6 November, with a multi-media event including live music, short films and a time-travelling performance that begins in Doncaster and ends at the lost spring in St Helen’s Woods. Erica Smith takes the plunge and books her ticket.
This weekend will be the last chance to see the Rock Against Racism Research’n’Archive Project exhibition at St Mary in the Castle. The exhibition, originally planned for the De La Warr Pavilion, celebrates the international grass roots movement which began 46 years ago with a gig in an East London pub. Erica Smith reminds you to check out the classic graphics before St Mary in the Castle closes its doors this weekend.
The biggest exhibition of Black artists on the south coast opens this Friday, 21 October and promises to spark debate and challenge racism. Opening during Black History Month, Playing the Race Card, features the work of 25 Black artists responding to their perceptions or experiences relating to the intentionally undermining term ‘playing the race card’. HOT’s Erica Smith looks forward to an empowering show.
Who are you? HOT’s Chris Connelley dusts off his parka for a new show spotlighting The Who on Queens Road, a first contribution to Hastings’ cultural life from the Digital Hastings project.
After the success of Bloom Britannia, Barefoot Opera returns to St Mary in the Castle to tell the tale of Cinderella – with added bling. Erica Smith sings the praises of this local company that brings high opera to the streets of Hastings.
Runway – aka Sharon Haward and Roz Cran –have been leading their art walks for 12 years and are planning a celebratory walk from St Leonards to Galley Hill on Sunday 16 October at 10am. Roz Cran invites you to dress in black and join in.
HOT’s Sharon Rhodes will reveal artist Ella Guru’s latest paintings for the first time this Sunday evening in a live broadcast. Here, she shares her passion for this international artist who happens to live in our coastal town.
This weekend, Saturday 21 and Sunday 22, is the second and final weekend of the Silverhill Press Presents exhibition at Electro Studios Project Space. Erica Smith sings the praises of a perfect exhibition in the perfect setting.
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