After a year of Covid closure, Hastings Fat Tuesday is back with a bang, launching its new showcase for emerging local talent and opening ticket sales for February’s Mardi Gras ball. Nick Terdre reports.
Artistic director of Barefoot Opera, Jenny Miller, sings the praises of the Seaview Choir, one of many groups of singers participating in Bloom Britannia – the community opera running from Friday 22–Sunday 24 October at St Mary in the Castle.
Hastings Arts Forum is once again the local host for The Big Draw on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 October, from 10am to 4pm…and it’s FREE!, writes HOT reporter John Cole.
The White Rock Theatre has now re-opened with an impressive range of live entertainment for the people of Hastings, St Leonards and beyond. You can find details of all their shows and make bookings on their website. There’s also a brand new online brochure covering shows from now until December. HOT’s Paul Way-Rider takes a look at some of the acts coming up soon.
If you think you’re a poet but possibly don’t know it, how about entering the Hastings Week Poetry Competition run personally by the mayor? Nick Terdre tells you how.
The Lucy Bell Gallery has staged a very different exhibition from the often-featured pop icons which regularly populate her walls. This exhibition is fresh, vibrant, immersive. all about the sea. Like so many others before her, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was drawn here through her love of the the ocean, and was bowled over by these extraordinary images when she went to talk to the photographer Tim Nathan.
Hastings International Piano starts the countdown to next year’s Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition with a launch concert featuring former prize-winner Maxim Kinasov on Friday 8 October at the White Rock Theatre. Nick Terdre reports.
John Holroyd is marking his membership of Zoom Arts with an exhibition of ink work at Oscar’s on the Square starting on Friday. Maxine Simmonds introduces this new member of the community arts group.
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