Uplifting, happy, humorous, dramatic and ALL in a good cause

There’s a very special concert being staged at The Stables Theatre later this month called Far from the Home I Love featuring internationally renowned pianist Margaret Fingerhut. Described by Gramophone magazine as a pianist of ‘consummate skill and thrilling conviction’, she has a distinguished career which has taken her all over the world. She is particularly […]

In pictures… Escapism in Hastings Country Park

Readers have enjoyed the selection of photographs we posted on Sunday of last weekend’s Greenway Walk. No one questions that in Hastings and St Leonards we enjoy some stunning scenery. It’s also so easy to be in the bustling heart of the town and then walk for just a few minutes and find yourself in […]

Greenway walkers enjoy a stroll through our beautiful ‘town’

There’s little doubt we live in a beautiful town and it’s got everything; stunning seaviews, amazing architecture and fantastic green spaces. Last weekend Hastings Greenway Group staged another of its vey popular walks that guided those taking part along part the route that will ultimately form a greenway route across the town where walkers and cyclists […]

Britpop legends playing Hastings on Friday

One of the most notable Britpop/Rock bands from the 1990s is playing in Hastings on Friday – Republica is hedlining at The Crypt. The band notched up sales of over 3m albums, had top five success in the UK, US and Europe and achieved platinum sales worldwide – their biggest selling single in the UK […]

Coming up at The Stables – White Liars and Black Comedy

White Liars is a one-act play first performed in 1967 originally titled White Lies, it was written by Peter Shaffer to precede the 1967 Broadway production of his farce Black Comedy. White Liars revolves around Sophie Lemberg, an eccentric and disillusioned fortune teller – who imagines herself to be a baroness of the Holy Roman […]

The Stables at 60 – the history of a local gem!

The Stables Theatre celebrates the 60th anniversary of its opening this year and there is a packed programme of events to celebrate the occasion. The history of the theatre and how it came in to existence in the first place is a fascinating one. Here, in the first of a series of features about The […]

Hastings Contemporary – new era dawns on local arts scene

News that The Jerwood Gallery will be relaunched this summer as Hastings Contemporary has been given a warm reception by the new gallery’s Artist Patron Sir Quentin Blake. Artist and Hastings resident Sir Quentin said: “I could never have imagined, many years ago when I bought my ancient house in Hastings, that one day there […]

Promoting active travel – join the Greenway Group walk on Saturday

There’s another chance to join Hastings Greenway Group this weekend and join a walk that will take-in a route from the Conquest Hospital to Alexandra Park following the route of the greenway. To be part of the walk those wishing to join it should meet at the Coffee Box cafe at Kings Church, opposite the […]

Standing side by side – one Hastings many voices, mosque vigil is huge success

The vigil outside the mosque in St Leonards today attracted, at its peak, an estimated 350 local people. Having been moved by what she saw on television Jane Grimshaw was the driving force in getting the event off the ground under the auspices of Hastings Supports Refugees and Hastings and Rother Refugee Buddy Project The […]