FROM Fat Tuesday’s musical extravaganza in February through to Bonfire in October, Hastings usually thrives on its fun-packed calendar of festivals and cultural events. It is perhaps not surprising then that in true Hastings spirit this difficult year of cancelled celebrations is being rounded off with a pop-up nine-hole crazy golf course at The Observer Building in Cambridge Road.
Jazz legend Liane Carroll is one of a group of local musicians who are performing as part of an international concert this Sunday. Hastings-based composer and musician Frank Moon and talented sisters Alice and Juliet Beadle from St Leonards are also among 30 artists from seven countries performing in the Christmas Joy online concert for the Calcutta Rescue charity.
The objects we love to live with is the subject of an exciting new online collaborative project that has commenced in Lockdown2. Erica Smith casts her eye over this project created by ExploreTheArch theatre company.
The AltPitch Arts and Technology Festival is inviting submissions for its inaugural event online in March. Commissions are on offer for the best entries, and there will also be a live-streamed debate on the future of technology in arts. Nick Terdre reports, images from Pexels.
VENUS is a short film shot in Hastings, co-written by filmmakers Andrew McGee and Tara Shehata and starring Margaret Clunie (Victoria, Last Christmas). It’s a self-contained short story that they are intending to use as a proof of concept to launch a full-length feature film. VENUS is inspired by cyberpunk classics like Blade Runner and Ex Machina. The film embraces the Sci-Fi genre, while sensitively exploring themes of identity, gender and objectification from a unique perspective. The script was also a
A new commission is being offered to musicians to undertake community engagement projects in Hastings over Winter 2020-2021.
What did you do during lockdown? It meant different things to different people: to some it was a welcome hiatus; to others a sort of imprisonment; lonely; stuck; lack of concentration; walks; gardening; reading; jigsaws; boxed TV sets; cooking and baking. Some enjoyed it, others hated it. And lots thanked the weather gods for the fine weather. To HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths a black cloud settled, resulting in a sort of torpor with the occasional action spike. But I did take photographs, as did other members of Photo Hastings – and here I have to declare an interest – as being part of an exhibition We Baked All Our Own Bread: one mischief always leads to another.
Our lives may have shrunk, like snails, into our homes, but the tentacles of Covid stretch far and wide into far reaching sectors. One: the natural world of trees, birds, animals, as we reach out for something, anything, outside our immediate environment. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was thrilled to encounter Ian Wood’s photographs of great apes at the Lucy Bell Gallery.
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