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.
Hastings Arts Forum is holding the last show of the 2020 PhotoHastings Festival. The season has been excellent, introducing new work and techniques to fresh audiences. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went along to see the latest exhibition of two new PhotoHastings members, Agness Clark and Dan Percy, in an aptly named show, Balance in Opposition.
Some photographers decide early on that that is their passion, others evolve and develop over time. JJ Waller tried out a variety of things before picking up a camera seriously and taking to the streets. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was delighted to learn that he is just publishing another book of his St Leonards and Hastings photographs: the characters, the Festivals, the town all with a kind eye and sense of fun.
Centre stage at Jazz Hastings’ session on Tuesday 8 November will be American saxophonist, flautist and composer Greg Abate, one of the hardest working musicians on the international jazz circuit, reports Julian Norridge.
With immediate effect, the charity Hastings International Piano is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Vanessa Latarche as Artistic Director. HIP has also appointed Paul Hughes, formerly Director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and BBC Singers, as a consultant acting Managing Director to build on the success of the 2022 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition and develop future strategy while the search is on for a permanent successor to Ian Roberts.
Featuring a collection of films and special events, hosted by Clare Whistler and Rebecca E Marshall, the second annual Dear Future Film Festival at The Electric Palace cinema celebrates ways of future thinking, fusing themes of ecology, wonder and love, says Annie Waite.
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.
James Roseveare is in the woods where he is possibly happiest, amongst the trees he loves. As a tree surgeon his work is to sculpt and shape trees to keep them healthy, so it is completely logical that he was always going to work as an artist with and within the natural world. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was delighted to find James Roseveare’s new sculptures in a wooded glade in Springfield Wood near Robertsbridge as part of blackShed’s exhibition Site number: 102222.
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