On Tuesday morning one of Hastings great men passed away. Percussionist Nana Tsiboe was born in Ghana. As a boy, he visited the United States with his family at the height of the civil rights movement in the ’60s and met Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. For over thirty years Hastings was his home. Erica Smith pays tribute to a talented and well-loved man.
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery has been awarded £3,500 through The Royal Society’s Places of science scheme to develop the community project ‘The Dinosaur on Your Doorstep’.
The Observer Building will soon be reopening its doors to serve the community. Sharon Rhodes got the lowdown from Jess Steele, one of the key players in rescuing this landmark edifice from dereliction.
The One Planet Hastings event is happening at the Common Room this Thursday 12 May from 7-9pm; a warm up event for the One Planet Cities UK Tour with Chris Richards. Come and hear Chris’s experience of setting up One Planet Bristol and understanding the pathways to a One Planet Hastings. Transition Town Hastings writes.
Brighton-based photographer JJ Waller has been a regular visitor to Hastings and St Leonards over the last couple of decades and a founding contributor to Hastings Online Times. Below is a mash-up of some of his photographs of bikers and green people from this year’s Bank Holiday Monday.
Our tree correspondent, the aptly named Joan Taylor-Rowan, rings in the spring with the majestic beech tree.
Erica Smith pays tribute to Maureen Teresa Connett – artist, singer, writer – and contributor to Hastings Online Times. Everyone who knew Maureen is invited to wear bright colours to attend her funeral on Thursday 21 April at Hastings Crematorium.
Together artists Clare Whistler and Charlotte Still have been following an organic process of being with and thinking about water and where this process will take them. A water wandering; inquisitive, interactive, immersive, reflective, poetic, experiential, unexpected, spontaneous and flowing. On the way they have constantly looked for ways to share their experience and convey their rapidly growing concerns and reverence for water.
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