
An evening in with…Yuanfan Yang online
This Friday evening Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition prizewinner Yuanfan Yang will join us for a live performance of beautiful music, writes Chris Cormack.
This Friday evening Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition prizewinner Yuanfan Yang will join us for a live performance of beautiful music, writes Chris Cormack.
Tara Reddy was one of the founding members of Hastings Online Times and is a long-time community activist. She is also the driving force behind Arts On Prescription (AOP) – a scheme where people who are feeling depressed, lonely or anxious are ‘prescribed’ art and creative courses through their GP surgery. Tara will be the guest on Thrive at 5 this Saturday on Hastings Isolation Station. Here she tells us more about Arts on Prescription.
This Friday evening Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition prizewinner Eric Guo will join us for a live performance of beautiful music, writes Chris Cormack.
The eighth online recital from Hastings International Piano last Friday was given by Michelle Candotti, a prize-winner in the 2013 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition, writes HOT’s music correspondent
May Day means Jack in the Green, but in the era of coronavirus the festival had to go virtual. It proved a rip-roaring success, with viewers and participants joining in from around the world, JitG chair of trustees Keith Leech told Nick Terdre. Below HOT’s music correspondent Brian Hick describes the novel experience of joining in the fun from his living room. Screenshots by Erica Smith – there are more below Brian’s piece.
This Friday Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition prizewinner Michelle Candotti will join us for an evening of beautiful music, a welcome return looked forward to by Chris Cormack.
Sir Quentin Blake, greatly respected artist, renowned illustrator of children’s books and much loved Hastings resident, is living, like all of us, in these Covid-19 suspended animation times. Understandably, as many artists are – and will in the future – he has been exploring the effect of these times, which has resulted in an exhibition We Live In Worrying Times. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was intrigued to see some of the images which differ markedly from his previous work.