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at Stade Hall
at Stade Hall
Coastal Currents 2011
27 August - 30 September
www.coastalcurrents.org.uk
A community arts space
delivering contemporary arts
exhibitions & engagement
projects until October 2011.
[email protected]
The Stade, Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings, TN34 3FJ
http://creativecoast.blogspot.com
Creative Coast
Creative Coast coordinates artists’
projects, exhibitions, community
workshops and events in Hastings
and the South East.
Throughout Coastal Currents
we’ll be based at CCHQ Stade Hall, Rock-a-Nore Road,
Hastings TN34 3FJ
(Tuesday - Sunday, 10am-4pm)
[email protected]
Coastal Currents returns for a twelfth year, showcasing a wide-range
of art exhibitions, performances and events throughout Hastings & St
Leonards and Rother to enchant local people and visitors to the area.
These are exciting times for the arts in Hastings with the building
of the Jerwood Gallery underway, the opening of Stade Hall and
Space, and the plans being developed for Hastings Pier. The works
by Banksy and Ben Eine reflect the new creative atmosphere in the
town.
Contents
4 Directions
8 Spotlight
14 Spotlight:Open
In the build-up to this year’s festival look out for a series of posters
along the seafront between Hastings and St Leonards, featuring the
work of eight well-known artists including Maggi Hambling, Jake
& Dinos Chapman, Billy Childish, Ben Eine, Iain Sinclair & Andrew
Kotting, and local printmakers Aardvark.
16 Interface
The Festival starts on the 27 August with Spotlight, an ambitious
evening of specially-commissioned, bold and experimental
performances, installations and interactive activities with parades
along the seafront and in Hastings. Events run from 4-10pm, are free,
and everyone is invited to join in.
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INTERFACE is an artist-led collaboration to mark the twentieth
anniversary of the twinning between Hastings and Oudenaarde.
Practitioners from France, Belgium and the UK are hosting
temporary installations and events in Hastings and St Leonards.
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Many other exhibitions, performances, activities and events can
be found within this brochure, including the popular Open Studios
programme, stretching from Bexhill across to Rye.
Accessibility
Coastal Currents and the Spotlight programme are organised by Creative Coast with
support from Hastings Borough Council. The INTERFACE programme is managed by
Christine Gist.
Hastings Borough Council and Creative Coast cannot be held responsible for
accident or injury at events and activities organised by external individuals and
groups during Coastal Currents 2011.
Printed by Hastings Printing Company on paper from sustainable sources.
All images copyright © the artists and organisers.
Cover image: ‘Wunderkammer’ by zeroh.
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24 Featured Weekends
40 Open Studios
60 Sponsors
Level access
Accessible toilet
Large print and
audio versions are
available on request.
Call 07975 872075.
To find out more,
visit our website:
www.thecreativecoast.co.uk
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22 Stone Squid Experimental
Art Space (High St)
23 Martel Colour Print (32a
High St)
24 Electric Palace
25 The Roebuck Centre.
Roebuck St
26 Isabel Blackman Centre (Winding Street)
27 Stade Hall & Stade Open
Space
28 Fishermen’s Museum
29 Shipwreck Museum
6 Blue Reef Aquarium
How to get here
13 HFS (Hastings Furniture
Service) Dorset Place
14 Bullet Cafe
15 12 Claremont
16 Underground Project Space
(35 Robertson St)
17 Harold Place Underpass
18 Wellington Square Baptist
Church
19 Pomegranate, George St
20 Butler’s Emporium (70
George St)
21 Hastings Old Town Hall
Museum
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Ferry from
Dieppe & Le Havre
7 Respond Academy
(Silchester Mews)
8 Old Lifeguard Station
9 Hastings Museum & Art
Gallery
10 Bottle Alley
11 Pier
12 Arthur Green
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Ferry from
Cherbourg, Caen & Le Havre
LIDO/ former bathing pool
St Leonards Gardens
Hastings Arts Forum
The Mews, Harold Mews
Lucy Bell Fine Art Gallery
(Norman Rd)
St John the Evangelist
Church (Pevensey Rd)
Key Festival Locations
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Ferry from Calais,
Boulogne &
Dunkerque
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If you’re planning to stay for the weekend, accommodation sells out early for this event, so
book in advance. See www.visit1066country.com or call 01424 451111.
This map covers most of
the main events listed
in the brochure, but
due to scale we have
not been able to fit in
all venues, bars and
restaurants. Locations
are approximate.
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By Air:
Nearest airports are Lydd
Airport 01797 322411 and
Gatwick International 0870
000 2468 (with direct train
service via Lewes).
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Visit www.nationalrail.co.uk, www.thetrainline.com or call
National Rail Enquiries
on 0845 7484 950.
By Sea:
Newhaven Harbour (links
to Dieppe) with train links
to Hastings via Lewes - call
0800 917575
Port of Dover (links to
Calais) - call 01304 241 427
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By Coach:
For coach information, visit
www.nationalexpress.com
or call 0870 5808 080.
By rail:
Hastings is served by
mainline routes from
London (Victoria and
Charing Cross), Tunbridge
Wells, Brighton, Lewes,
Eastbourne and Ashford
International for
connections from Europe.
Fastest connection from
London is one hour and
thirty-two minutes (from
Charing Cross).
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By Car:
From London follow signs
for Sevenoaks on A21
(junction 5 from the M25)
From Brighton or Lewes
take the A27, then A259
From Dover and Folkestone
take M20 then A2070 to
Rye
From Rye take A259 to
Hastings
For up-to-date travel
information and route
planner visit www.theaa.
co.uk
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Hastings is well situated in the South East of England with
easy links by road, rail, sea and air to London and Europe.
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At Martel Colour Print we offer a full
printing service for the artist.
From your original we can create
stunning archival prints,
greetings cards, postcards...
even business cards and letterheads.
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32a High Street, Hastings Old Town,
visit www.martelcolourprint.co.uk
or call 01424 420188
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Email: [email protected]
We have 95 years of printing
experience we would like to
share with you.
We create litho through to bespoke digital printing,
large print runs to one-off business cards, from single
to full colour with full design and studio services.
We provide:
Business and Personal Stationery, Leaflets, Posters,
Banners, Brochures and Magazines, an In-House Mailing
service, direct contact with friendly staff and
a quality of service of which we are very proud.
PRINT AT AN EXCEPTIONAL STANDARD
AND AT COMPETITIVE PRICES
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StablesTheatre & Arts Centre
The jewel in Hastings Old Town
• Conservation
• Reclaimed
• Sustainable sources
• Hand-finished
• Free consultations
• Affordable
Stable Workshop
Fairlight Place Farm, Barley Lane,
Hastings TN35 5DT
(By appointment)
01424 814687
First Sight Gallery
34 High Street, Hastings TN34 3ER
(Fri Sat Sun)
01424 714518
www.carbonframing.com [email protected]
Kieran D’arcy & Denise Franklin
29 July to 5 August
The 39 Steps
A comedy thriller
Adapted by Patrick Barlow
Directed by Christopher Lacey
Stables
11 to 13 August
The Tempest
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Peter Mould
23 September to 1 October
Someone Who’ll
Watch Over Me
By Frank McGuinness
Directed by Janet Tachauer
the
Theatre and Arts Centre
The Bourne, Hastings TN34 3BD
Telephone 01424 423221 · www.stables-theatre.co.uk
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COASTAL CURRENTS
sponsored by
LED badge-making and tracking throughout
town, and Cabinet of Wonder - theatrical lifedrawing from a Romany wagon.
Spotlight is a large-scale outdoor arts event,
creating a challenging platform for artists and
performers involved and an exciting event for all
to enjoy.
Join us this August Bank Holiday and celebrate
the opening of this year’s Coastal Currents Visual
Arts Festival.
ROAD
4pm
LONDON
Liquid Glass
ROAD
St Leonards
Gardens to Bottle
Alley on Hastings
Promenade
SongCycle,
Harold Place
Underpass,
Hastings
WARRIOR SQR
STATION
MAZE HILL
The Lost Plot
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Wellington
Square
Gardens,
Hastings
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Bohemia Ukulele
Orchestra
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FINISH
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5pm
For detailed up to date information on
SPOTLIGHT, check www.coastalcurrents.org.uk
or call 07841 757866
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CAMBRIDGE
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QUEENS
HEMIA
START
HASTINGS
STATION
From Pier to
Eternity
See full Spotlight event details on pages 10, 11 & 12.
BOURNE
8.45pm
BO
Coastal Currents would like say a special thank
you to Cooden Cellars for their kind supply of the
wine and the Eat@Stade café for the delicious
light refreshments.
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Twelve performances and interactive events
have been commissioned for Spotlight featuring
established and emerging local, regional and
international artists developing a range of
exciting interventions. These include installation,
live performance, moving image, sculpture, and
sonic & light artworks.
Look out for pedal-powered soundscapes; an
illuminated procession of bespoke bicycles;
The Lost Plot - a large outdoor sculptural
intervention; Liquid Glass – a participatory
intervention of sound & projection; interactive
ROAD
Spotlight is an ambitious
evening of bold, experimental
and specially commissioned,
performances, installations
and interactive activities
parading along the seafront
from St Leonards to Hastings on
Saturday 27 August.
6.30pm
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5.30pm
From Pier to
Eternity
Hastings Pier
to Crazy Golf,
Hastings Seafront
6pm
Radiator Arts
Swan Boat Lake,
Hastings Seafront
A spotlight:open venue - see pages 14 & 15
Official opening
of the festival
with wine & light
refreshments Stade Hall & Stade
Open Space.
7-8.30pm
The Tiny
Travelling
Tightwire Show!,
Jenny Edbrooke,
BuildBrighton,
Cabinet of
Wonder, Eight
Foot Square,
PAPER COUTURE
& Taster exhibition
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START 4pm at ST
LEONARDS GARDENS,
AND 6PM AT STADE
HALL, ROCK-A-NORE
ROAD, HASTINGS
Liquid Glass
4-5pm - St Leonards Gardens,
Maze Hill, TN38 0BB, 4-5pm
5-10pm - Performances as part
of the procession along the
promenade and at the Stade
Hall
An intriguing visual & audio
installation inspired by the
disused Victorian Turkish Baths/
Glass Factory on West Hill Road,
St Leonards Gardens. Soundartist James Brewster will create
an interactive sound installation
that fuses together the
building’s dual history. After the
end of its original working life,
the spa building was used as
a factory for making scientific
glass equipment. Brewster will
salvage glass tubes and valves
from the factory and create a
glass system through which
water can gradually flow. The
sounds of the water will be
picked up using hydrophonic
microphones. Visitors can
control the flow of water into
the system, as well as change
the flow and course of the
water at various points. A large
glass sculpture created by artist
Abigail Riddihough can be
seen in the gardens, while wall
projections reflect the bathers
of the historic Turkish baths.
Brewster will conduct a group
of volunteer performers to
ring different types of bells in
different patterns. Performers
will then lead the procession
onto the promenade to Bottle
Alley in a circle formation.
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Bohemia Ukulele Orchestra
5-5.30pm Bottle Alley, Hastings
Promenade
Throughout Bottle Alley in a
linear formation 12 ukuleles will
gradually play the C6 chord
creating a powerful crescendo.
Tune your ukulele GCEA and
join in on our monster C6 chord.
From Pier to Eternity
Procession 5.30-6.30pm from
the Pier to the Stade Hall,
Rock-a-Nore Rd, Hastings
8.30-9pm approx Stade Hall
to Wellington Place - Sound
intervention Harold Place
underpass, at approx 8.45pm
The “From Pier to Eternity”
bike rides with sound and
illuminations have been a
popular feature of Coastal
Currents since 2009. This
year From Pier to Eternity are
creating a new multi-channel
bike soundsystem for the
Spotlight procession, along with
some amazing decorated bikes.
They will join the procession
from the Pier onwards, and
perform a sound intervention
around and in the Harold Place
underpass featuring a speciallycomposed piece “SongCycle”
by physicist Dr Patrick
Nicholson.
The Tiny Travelling Tightwire
Show! - Dizzy O’ Dare
7-7.40pm
Stade Hall, The Stade, Rock-aNore Rd, Hastings, TN34 3FJ
Join the procession as “The Tiny
Travelling Tightwire Show!” rolls
into town!
Watch Kennington and his
assistant Poppet the Puppet
as they chance their feet on
the tightwire. This is a fun and
entertaining, roaming tightwire
show for all ages.
An innovative approach to
puppetry performed on a
mobile tricycle by one of the
leading tightwire artists in the
UK.
www.dizzyodare.com
Cabinet of Wonder: Brighton
Life Drawing Sessions
7-8.30pm
Stade Open Space, The Stade,
Rock-a-Nore Rd, Hastings,
TN34 3FJ
Participate in a theatrical lifedrawing session from a Romany
wagon. Free drawing materials
provided.
http://brightondrawing.tumblr.
com/
6.30 – 8.30PM
OFFICIAL FESTIVAL
OPENING WITH WINE &
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS,
PERFORMANCE,
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES
& ART INTERVENTIONS
Smalls: Jenny Edbrooke
7-8.30pm
Stade Hall, The Stade, Rock-aNore Rd, Hastings, TN34 3FJ
Funny, sad, moving and at
times challenging, Smalls
is an intimate performance
that provides an enchanting
and amusing insight into
the complex world of
undergarments. Audiences
of five are invited to peek up
Jenny’s voluminous skirt made
entirely of bras and knickers
and explore its hidden gems
and saucy secrets. Mixing
sound installation with live
performance, Jenny takes
you on a creative journey
that exposes the delights and
indiscretions of our underwear.
www.jennyedbrooke.com
Coastal Currents Taster
Exhibition
7-8.30pm
Stade Hall, The Stade, Rock-aNore Rd, Hastings, TN34 3FJ
A selected taster exhibition
of this year’s artists, curated
by festival organisers Creative
Coast. Featuring a selection
of work from a mixture of
disciplines including; painting,
sculpture, installation,
photography and film.
www.thecreativecoast.co.uk
LED Badge Making:
BuildBrighton
7-8.30pm
Stade Hall, The Stade, Rock-aNore Rd, Hastings, TN34 3FJ
Join BuildBrighton to create
free customisable luminescent
pin badges, that emit visible
colours and non-visible infra-red
light. The badges will interact
with other badges changing
colour and pattern based on the
wearers’ interaction with each
other physically. Participate in
Spotlight and spread light and
love throughout the night!
www.buildbrighton.com/wiki/
Main_Page
PLAY by Charlotte LambertGorwyn, David Francis & the
Pier Society
7-8.30pm - Stade Open Space,
The Stade, Rock-a-Nore Rd,
Hastings, TN34 3FJ
Also Saturdays 10 & 17
September, 1-4pm – Free PLAY
- Meet outside the Stade Hall at
1pm at join in the games
Participate in a range of
traditional seaside games for
all the family, from flying kites,
chalk drawings, and having your
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picture taken in a fun seaside
character board.
[email protected]
Eight Foot Square
7pm- 8.30pm – Stade Open
Space, The Stade, Rock-a-Nore
Rd, Hastings, TN34 3FJ
28 - 31 August, 1 & 30
September
Restricted to plots only 8ft sq,
the fishermen built upwards,
forming the iconic three-storey
high seafront huts. Eight Foot
Square looks to see what
other people in Hastings can
creatively do in a small area.
Spotlight plays host to five
versatile 8ft squares located on
the Stade outdoor performance
space. Find buried treasure with
metal detectors and display it in
a pop-up museum, book now to
use the performance stage, visit
the ‘Give us a Hand’ exhibition,
or take a free ribbon and make
an 8ft square (what could you
do inside it?).
www.eightfootsquare.com
Models will be wearing exquisite
paper dresses designed by
Maika Crampton and serving
light refreshments and wine to
celebrate the opening of the
festival.
8.30 - 10PM
STADE HALL TO
WELLINGTON SQUARE,
HASTINGS
Obscure Observer: Through
the Lens
27 August – 30 September,
Anytime
On roadside railings from the
Swan Boat Lake to Pelham
Crescent, Hastings
‘Through the Lens’ is
photography group from
Parkwood Sixth Form.
The exhibition ‘Obscure
Observer’ presents a series
of photographs on the
promenade railings that take
an unconventional view of
Hastings. The aim of ‘Through
the Lens’ is to inspire other
young people in the local
community to explore their
talents.
https://
throughthelensparkwood.
wordpress.com
The Lost Plot: Radiator Arts
5.30pm - Costumed characters
to take part in trail from pier.
9pm - Large scale illuminated
sculptural installation at
Wellington Square.
The Lost Plot is a luminous
white ghost garden only
accessible after dark. Visitors
are taken on a walk through the
garden where they will enter
into the imaginary world of the
ghost gardeners. Radiator Arts
will transform the grounds of
Wellington Square into a garden
of imagination and memory
with projections, soundscapes
and illuminations. The audience
will find themselves lost in this
mystical plot beguiled and
enchanted by the scenery,
film, performance and sensor
activated soundscapes.
Since its conception in 2001
Radiator Arts has produced
a number of exciting and
impressive large-scale sitespecific works. Innovative
interventions are created by a
selection of professional artists
from various disciplines
www.radiatorarts.co.uk
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Crampton
7-8.30pm – Stade Open Space,
The Stade, Rock-a-Nore Road,
Hastings, TN34 3FJ
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COASTAL CURRENTS
sponsored by
Coastal Currents
2011 developed an
open submission
competition
SPOTLIGHT:OPEN
INVITING ARTISTS to
explore Hastings’
past and present
through physical,
political or
sociological
means.
Five art interventions were
selected by leading regional
arts professionals from De La
Warr Pavilion, Towner and Blue
Monkey Studio.
Selected interventions will
compliment the large-scale
outdoor art project Spotlight
on the evening of Saturday 27
August. A range of exciting
work from digital media, sonic,
sculptural and conceptual
installations will be developed
at various sites along the route
from St Leonards Gardens, via
the promenade to selected sites
in Hastings Town Centre.
Due to the nature of the work,
location & date details may
change. Please check
www.coastalcurrents.org.uk
or call 07841 757866 for
up to date details on all
interventions.
All artists’ interventions will
run throughout the duration of
the festival unless otherwise
specified
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when the Hastings boundary
was extended to absorb St
Leonards.
www.onetwoone.org.uk
www.noticeboard121.org.uk
BORDERLINE by The Poor Law
Union B
27 August – 30 September,
Anytime
CAVE by Louise Kenward A
27 August – 30 September,
Thurs-Mon 10-5pm
Pier Shop, Arthur Greens, White
Rock, Hastings TN34 1JU
Kenward’s current interests
include the self, object and
space, exploring themes of
permanence and transience,
revealing and concealing.
Within the cave space beyond
the shop floor, Kenward draws
attention to the magic and
beauty of this unlikely, slightly
unpleasant place, which is full
of treasures. Using light and
sound, the rusting and decaying
objects are highlighted within
the space.
www.louisekenward.com
Private View - 2 Sept 6-9pm
Open Saturday & Sunday 3 - 25
Sept 11am-4pm.
Claremont Studios, 12 Claremont, Hastings
The Poor Law Union is a
creative partnership which
seeks to understand and define
the individual and its society:
is society just another word
for the group or has it become
an entity unto itself, capable
of an existence in spite of its
members? For Coastal Currents,
The Poor Law Union has walked
the Old Hastings Parish line
documenting their journey
and gathering objects along
the way. These artefacts form
the basis of a topographical
enquiry addressing the nature
of boundaries, man made
and natural, seen and unseen,
and the implication of these
boundaries on those living
within and outside them. The
culmination of this investigation
is a multi-media installation
which presents their ideas and
observations and the inevitable
questions that these raise.
A spotlight:open venue locations - see map on pages 8 & 9
Crossed Boundaries
by One Two One art and
architecture C
27 August – 30 Sept, Anytime
One day temporary installation
on Sunday 28 August, 11-4pm
The lower promenade opposite
the statue of Queen Victoria,
Warrior Square Gardens, St
Leonards
ONE TWO ONE art and
architecture is a collaborative
partnership founded in 2004
by architect and artist Elise
Liversedge and artist Mary
Hooper.
Crossed Boundaries is a
temporary promenade
installation and inland trail
marking the boundary between
St Leonards & Hastings, which
historically was the centre of a
long running dispute during the
earlier development of the town.
A temporary boundary will be
created on Sunday 28 August
with red tape and large-scale
cardboard letters placed on the
sea front. Billboard posters will
be displayed throughout the
festival located on the lower
promenade at Warrior Square,
The installation is influenced
by the works and journals of
local historian TB Brett and
the infamous escapades of the
“Paint Pot Society” who took to
the streets at night and painted
out the new street signs erected
Whispered musings by Sara
Harris D
Weekends from 27 Aug to 30
September, daytime.
St Leonards Gardens, Maze Hill,
St Leonards, TN38 0BB
Musings explores the collision
between art and literature.
Through an audio installation in
St Leonards Gardens the past
blurs with present. Meander
through the gardens and listen
out for whispered glimpses of
Miss Harriet Williams’ ‘Musings
of a lady recently arrived at St
Leonards-on-Sea’, an account,
in the style of Jane Austen, of
the colourful characters met
and places encountered when
she first started living in modern
day St Leonards. Typographic
artworks continue the ‘Musings’
trail around Open Studios and
historic buildings in the area.
See Event listing page 35.
Rock Watch by Beccy
McCray E
27 August – 30 September,
anytime
Promenade - full location
details online at
www.coastalcurrents.org.uk
Beccy McCray makes playful
explorations using mixed media
to create more human moments
in the world, elevating the
everyday and the things that
really matter. Subverting the
ominous CCTV posts dotted
along the seafront from St
Leonards to Hastings, she
transforms them into more
friendly landmarks by turning
them into giant sticks of rock.
The work alludes to traditional
seaside iconography, reclaiming
and humanising the local
landscape.
http://cargocollective.com/
beccymccray
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INTERFACE
Info: Christine Gist
com
Hastings based artists have been
invited to work in Oudenaarde while
practitioners from France, Belgium
and the UK are locating temporary
interventions and events in Hastings
and St Leonards.
INTERFACE focuses on new and
recontextualised works through
installations, performance, sound,
projections, moving image, painting,
photography and text based
interventions. The artists are working
in unfamiliar territories and through
their actions are proposing new
interpretations of local environments
and raising questions about the way
spaces are negotiated. As an artists’
collaboration, INTERFACE aims to
animate the public space, encourage
participation and change the
perception of the familiar.
From left to
right: Bertrand
Gadenne, Le
Hibou Chateau
Gonthier 2006;
Bob and Roberta
Smith, Will you
make it (as an
artist); Chloe
Brooks, Division
of Order
Photos © the
artists
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INTERFACE:
Hastings & St Leonards
26 August – 2 October 2011
Chloe Brooks
Golden gates and floodlit
temples
Harold Place underpass,
accessible 24/7
Bertrand Gadenne
Le Hibou
The Reading Room at 12
Claremont, accessible from
dusk to dawn
Bob and Roberta Smith
The Center for moving
around a lot
Old beach office site, Lower
Promenade, St Leonards.
Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm
and
Colonnade of Expectation
Bottle Alley/accessible 24/7
c.gist@btinternet.
http//interface-2011.blogspot.com
www.oudenaarde.be
HASTINGS, ST LEONARDS & OUDENAARDE
INTERFACE is a two site
artists-led collaboration
initiated as part of the
events to mark the 20th
anniversary of the
twinning links between
Hastings and Oudenaarde.
+44 (0)788 144 1120
Sebastien Seynaeve
Magnetic Observers
Old beach office site, Lower
Promenade, St Leonards,
Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm
Cécile Colle}{Ralf Nuhn
Tuning
Kings Road, St Leonards,
accessible 24/7
Robbrecht Desmet and Stijn
Van Dorpe
Forever and Always
Former lido bathing pool
site, accessible 24/7
Karel Thienpont
Historia
Various locations in Hastings
& St Leonards
www.coastalcurrents.org.uk
EVENTS – HASTINGS
Émilien Leroy
Symphonie pour Ferrailleurs/
Symphony for scrap metal
merchants
26 August: 6.30pm at the
former lido bathing pool site,
West St Leonards
A twenty minute sound/
body performance to launch
INTERFACE and Seaside Film
Trailer.
Seaside Film Trailer
27/28 August and each
weekend until 18 September:
12-4pm the former lido
bathing pool site, West St
Leonards
Located within Dylan
Shipton’s temporary structure
is a shipping container,
refurbished to house a cinema
for the screening of artists’
films. Each weekend’s films
will be programmed by an
invited artist, curator or
organisation, so expect eight
hugely divergent afternoons
of the best artists’ films from
the last 40 years.
uScreen programme. The
films explore ‘heritage’ in
its broadest sense and are
included in ‘Opening Spaces,
Going Places’, the Hastings
and St Leonards
Heritage Open Days 8-11
September.
Here and There – Hidden
Stories
Thursday 15 September
A seminar exploring film,
learning and disability, Stade
Hall, Rock-a-Nore Road
Hastings TN34 3FJ.
Registration – 2.30pm
Presentations – 3-5.30pm
Refreshments & Networking –
5.30-6pm
Film screenings – 6pm
For information & booking
please contact Kristina.
[email protected]
The charge is £30 for
organisations & £10 for
individuals.
‘Pieces to Fit’
Saturday 17 September:
7.30-9.30pm the old lifeguard
station, lower promenade, St Leonards
Curated and performed by
Marina Tsartsara with Soline
Pillet, Silvia Battista, Sophia
Campeu-Ferman and Art
in Motion. A site-specific
live installation where
performance is treated and
presented as visual art, with
the ephemeral of the live
body as a necessary layer to
the work.
Artists’ talk: Chloe Brooks
Cécile Colle}{Ralf Nuhn
Bob and Roberta Smith
Thursday 22 September,
7-9pm
Followed by the launch of
Claremont Studios CIC newly
refurbished project space.
The Reading Room,
12 Claremont, Hastings
TN34 1HA
All events are free unless otherwise stated.
Seaside Film Trailer presents
‘Here and There – Hidden
Stories’
Saturday 10 September: 124pm
Three short films created
by learning disabled young
people from Glyne Gap
School, Bexhill; St Mary’s
College, Bexhill and Autism
Sussex, Hastings. The project
is led by Creative Partnerships
Sussex and Surrey with
funding from Screen South’s
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Info: Christine Gist
+44 (0)788 144 1120
[email protected]
http//interface-2011.blogspot.com
www.oudenaarde.be
www.coastalcurrents.org.uk
28 August – 1 October 2011
BrandWoeker
Woeker 7, Oudenaarde
Thursday – Sunday 2–7pm
Sarah Broome
Mother of Grace – Moskow
Diskow
Greig Burgoyne
HUM
Jacqui Hallum
Paintings
Sharon Haward
An Experiment in Town
Planning – Twin Towns
Andrew Kötting
The Ebb and Flow - film
programme
Andrew & Eden Kötting
THIS OUR STILL LIFE
Scott Robertson
Untitled
slave-unit
Welcome to Fear City
Psycho Geography
Koninklijke Academie voor
Beeldende Kunst Oudenaarde,
Maagdedendale 13,
Oudenaarde
Mon 1.30-8.30pm, Tues 1.304.30pm, Weds 1-8.30pm, Fri
4.30-8.30pm, Sat 9am-5pm
Jeb Haward
Paintings
The garden of House de
Lalaing, Bourgondiëstraat 9,
Oudenaarde
Caroline Le Breton
Verdure
EVENTS – OUDENAARDE
BrandWoeker
Woeker 7, Oudenaarde
Opening reception: 11am on
Sunday 28 August
Yumino Seki dance/movement
live outdoor performance
in response to the artist’s
perceptions of Oudenaarde,
12.30pm at BrandWoeker
3 & 4 and 17 & 18 September
2-7pm at BrandWoeker
Here and There - Hidden Stories
A screening of three short films
created by learning disabled
young people exploring
heritage and landscape.
A project led by Creative
Partnerships Sussex and Surrey
with funding from Screen
South’s uScreen programme.
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Sarah Broome
Live performance: Mother of
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Karel Thienpont
Historia
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Ben Flynn, a.k.a. Ben Eine is
one of London’s most prolific
and original street artists
who specialises in the central
element of all graffiti – the
form of letters. Originally a
‘writer’ he started his career
over twenty five years ago
as a vandal leaving his first
tag all over London before
eventually developing a distinct
Promenade was coordinated by
Creative Coast and zeroh.
From left to right:
Rising Wave by Maggi Hambling, Private Collection; Shorescape by Debi Angel; Swandown, Andrew
Kötting & Iain Sinclair. Pin-hole photograph by Anonymous Bosch.
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Aardvark is a collaborative
creative practice whose
cross-genre work currently
encompasses printmaking,
typography, workshops and
singing. Past projects have
been a tearoom and gallery, and
future plans involve a pop-up
art emporium, performance and
cake. Aardvark is the brainchild
of Pea and Lesley, aficionados
of all things English, both
Ancient and Modern.
Keep up with the Aardvarks
here: aardvarkonsea.com
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Editor Eye Magazine. Eye 69.
Jake and Dinos Chapman
make iconoclastic sculpture,
prints and installations that
examine, with searing wit and
energy, contemporary politics,
religion and morality.
Working together since their
graduation from the Royal
College of Art in 1990, the
Chapmans first received critical
acclaim in 1991 for a diorama
sculpture entitled ‘Disasters of
War’ created out of remodelled
plastic figurines enacting scenes
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Martin O’Neill is a St
Leonards based graphic
artist and illustrator who
creates collages for a diverse
range of international clients
encompassing advertising,
design, editorial and book
publishing. He regularly
contributes to the UK and US
press and is a visiting lecturer.
“If Peter Blake is the Paul
McCartney of collage, then
O’Neill is its Tom Waits, a
pre-digital artist for a postdigital age.” - John L Walters.
Debi Angel fell in love with the
luminous light and landscapes
of this stretch of coast eight
years ago. She moved down
here after a thirty-year career
in London as a magazine and
graphic designer. She was Art
Editor of the launch of British
ELLE, launch Art Editor of ELLE
Decoration and has worked
on a wide variety of major
glossy titles. Moving down
here re-inspired her passion
for painting, drawing and print
making. She had her own major
exhibition of work last year, has
contributed work to many other
exhibitions and is a passionate
supporter of Coastal Currents.
from Goya’s ‘Disasters of War’
etchings.
Arguably their most ambitious
work was ‘Hell’ (1999), an
immense tabletop tableau,
peopled with over 30,000
remodelled, 2-inch-high figures,
many in Nazi uniform and
performing egregious acts of
cruelty. The work combined
historical, religious and mythic
narratives to present an
apocalyptic snapshot of the
twentieth-century.
Jake and Dinos Chapman live
and work in London. They have
exhibited extensively, including
solo shows at Museo Pino
Pascali, Polignano a Mare, Italy
(2010); Hastings Museum, UK
(2009); Kestner Gesellschaft
Hannover (2008); Tate Britain,
London (2007); Tate Liverpool
(2006).
typographic style.
Eine specialises in producing
huge letters on shop fronts, his
bright, colourful letters have
transformed streets around the
world in cities including LA, San
Francisco, Paris, Dublin, Tokyo,
Stockholm as well as his home
city of London.
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Andrew KÖtting and Iain
Sinclair’s Swandown is a
travelogue and odyssey of
Olympian ambition. A poetic
film-diary about encounter and
culture. It is also an endurance
test and pedal-marathon.
In the spirit of Dada it will be
Billy Childish was born in
Chatham, Kent in 1959. Initially
denied an interview to the local
art school, during six months
of employment at a dockyard
he produced hundreds of
drawings that gained him entry
to St Martin’s School of Art,
from which he was expelled in
1981. Childish then embarked
on an artistic, literary, and
musical odyssey exploring a
broad range of worldly themes
including war, history, social
protest, art hate, religious
philosophy, as well his own
experiences with addiction, and
sexual abuse. Over 35 years
of continual creative activity
Childish has gained a cult
status world-wide; writing and
publishing over 40 volumes of
confessional poetry, 5 novels,
recorded over 100 LPs, and
painted many hundreds of
paintings.
Billy Childish has had solo and
group exhibitions internationally
including New York, London,
and Berlin. In 2010, he was the
subject of major concurrent
retrospectives at the ICA in
London and White Columns in
New York.
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Maggi Hambling is one of
Britain’s most distinguished
contemporary artists.
Hambling’s obsession with the
sea manifests itself in paint,
print making and sculpture. Her
iconic and most controversial
work is Scallop (2003) the
sculpture on Aldeburgh beach
in Suffolk, dedicated to the
composer Benjamin Britten.
www.maggihambling.com
www.fullcircle-editions.co.uk
undertaken on board a plastic
swan-shaped pedallo resulting
in the production of a feature
length film and installation, by
artist and film maker Andrew
Kötting and writer Iain Sinclair.
The journey from Swan Lake in
Hastings to Hackney in London
will take just over a month.
The team will meet all sorts en
route, from the Hoi Polloi to
the Hoity Toity, from the very
old to the very young, along
with special invited guests.
The pedallo will act as catalyst
and magnet for both people
and narrative, en route to
re-discovering this enchanted
British landscape.
www.swandown.info
©debi angel
Eight recognised
artists with a
connection to the
region have been
invited to donate an
image to be made into
double crown-sized
promenade posters
displayed along the
seafront in Hastings
and St Leonards.
The images will also
be reproduced and
distributed as 10,000
free collectible
postcards in key
locations locally
and regionally, in
the build-up to the
festival in August
and throughout
September.
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Beginners
fine art canvas postcards flyers posters
photo rag photographic scanning
Hahnemühle design lightboxes satin vinyl
signage
poster s
q u a l i t y 18 Robertson Street s e r v i c e
Hastings, TN34 1HL
fine art Tel: 01424 205370 g i c l é e
canvas
postcards flyers posters banners photo rag
matt canvas prints sealing perspex
mounting flyers canvas gloss prints
knowledge foamex dibond design service
scanning Hahnemühle fine art bannerstands photographic exhibition big student
discounts quality canvas gloss duratrans
acid free design fine art photography flyers
leaflets bannerstands pop up displays
exhibition work postcards booklets design
Stand-up
Comedy Course
in Hastings
Taught by
Sally Holloway
(author of The Serious
Guide to Joke Writing)
Italian washing : Andrew Moran
12 week course starts Sept 2011
www.comedycourses.biz
[email protected]
01424 444172
www.digitalmediaprint.co.uk
Cowboy Head, Tony Bennett
Rye Art Gallery
107 High Street,
RYE TN31 7JE
Tel: 01797 222433
Email: ryeartgallery@
googlemail.com
Easton Rooms
10th September to 9th
October 2011
“Boys Toys and Other
Natural Disasters”
Tony Bennett - figurative
sculpture
Ian Brown - prints
Opening Times:
10:30 – 13:00 &
14:00 – 17:00 Monday,
Wednesday to Saturday
12:00 – 16:00 Sunday
and Bank Holiday
Closed Tuesday
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The Pier Shop at Arthur Green’s
Delve into the treasure trove that is the Pier Shop at Arthur Green’s,
34 White Rock Hastings and find gifts for friends, family and yourself!
Plus, help the Pier fund at the same time.
We are currently displaying ‘The History of Hastings Pier’, an
exhibition provided to the Trust courtesy of Hastings Library.
The Pier shop is also an information hub for HPWRT. Staff and
volunteers will be pleased to assist you with any questions or
enquiries you may have.
pomegranate
food and drink house
Stormont Studio
10th September to
November 2011
Phoebe Merricks
retrospective
Opening Hours
Thursday to Saturday
10.30 -13.00 & 14.00 - 17.00
Sunday and Bank Holiday
12.00 - 16.00
01424 429221
50 George Street, Old Town, Hastings
www.pomegranatehastings.co.uk
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FEATURED WEEKEND EVENTS
COASTAL CURRENTS
sponsored by
27/28 AUGUST
‘Curious Cases’ will be a
travelling event appearing
throughout Coastal Currents.
Stade Open Space from 6pm
27 August
Constructed on a unique
travelling device made by Leigh
Dyer and featuring mini-suitcase
collections of artwork by local
artists and makers including Ed
Boxall, Kate Iles, Lucy Dixon,
Lorna Crabbe, Sara Pemberton,
Leigh Dyer, and Rebecca
Child...with more artists to be
confirmed. The work will include
handmade books, prints,
boxes, metalwork, crochet, and
ceramics.
There will also be a chance
to join in with impromtu
workshops including printing
with a homemade printing press
made from an old toy mangle.
‘Curious Cases’ will appear at
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weekend events throughout the
festival.
To find out locations & more go
to www.edboxall.co.uk/curiouscases.
Two Figures in Dense Violet
Night
27 August – 18 September,
Saturday 2 – 8pm,
Sunday 12 – 5pm
Each weekend Becky Beasley
will invite a different artist to
travel to St Leonards with a
piece of their own work. This,
and a work by Beasley will
with be installed, becoming
the context for a public
conversation between the
artists. Emphasising the gallery
as space for the exchange of
ideas, this project also sheds
light on the mechanics and
processes at play when an artist
is invited to travel and exhibit
their work in an unfamiliar place.
Works & conversations between
Becky Beasley and Michael
Dean, Anne Hardy, Claire
Scanlon and John Stezaker.
Please check
www.lidoprojects.com
for specific programme
information.
Each exhibition opens on
Saturday at 2pm with the artists
in conversation at 5pm, followed
by drinks. Accompanying the
exhibition will be a library of
books selected by the artists for
the use of gallery visitors. This
library will grow as the project
progresses. Refreshments will
also be available.
All events are free and open
to all.
LIDO at Electro Studios, Seaside
Road, St Leonards TN38 0AL
Jacqui Hallum,
[email protected]
01424 427263
www.lidoprojects.com
Coastal Currents Taster
Exhibition at Stade Hall
Saturday 27 August - 4
September alongside the
Spotlight event
This taster exhibition will give
an introduction to some of
the exhibitions and events
happening throughout the
festival, including open studios
and Art in Romney Marsh.
Open daily 10am-4pm, closed
Mondays.
Free Family Creative Workshop
at Stade Hall.
Saturday 27 August, 1-4pm,
Join us at Stade Hall to
participate in artist-led creative
activities - fun for all the family.
Project at Stade Hall, Rock-aNore Road, Hastings, TN34 3FJ.
[email protected]
SPOTLIGHT
Saturday 27 August, 4–10pm
Join the procession and enjoy
a series of bold speciallycommissioned performances,
artists’ interventions and
interactive activities to open
this year’s festival. Starting
with Liquid Glass; a sonic and
glass installation at St Leonards
Gardens, parading along the
seafront with the Bohemian
Ukuele Orchestra and the From
Pier To Eternity bikes to the
new Stade Hall to officially
open the festival. The night will
culminate at The Lost Plot; a
mystical sculptural intervention
in Wellington Square, Hastings
Town Centre.
Enjoy a glass of wine and light
refreshments at Stade Hall
at 6.30pm and celebrate the
beginning of this years Coastal
Currents festival. Free event, all
welcome.
[email protected]
07841 757866
Hastings Film Challenge
registration event
Registration: 11am.
Saturday 27 August
This year we go underground
looking for avant-garde and
obscure film making techniques.
Our direction of genres and
titles (which you will choose
from a hat) in this year‘s
challenge will take film-making
to a new extreme. You may not
be avant-garde or obscure but
that doesn’t mean you couldn’t
make a three minute movie
that is.
Bullet Café Bar, 38 Robertson
Street, Hastings, TN34 1HT.
Entry £25 per film.
www.hastingsfilmchallenge.co.uk
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Eight Foot Square
What could you do in an 8ft
square? We will be handing
out free ribbons for you to
measure out your own 8ft
square. Show us what you
can create inside your space,
experiment with ideas; hold
your own performance, make
an installation or display your
art. We want you to show us
what you or your group can do.
Choose to be filmed and have
your piece broadcast on our
website.
As well as the ribbons, from 27
August – 1 September we will
have five versatile 8ft squares
on The Stade: including a stage,
an exhibition, and a pop-up
venue – see it transform from a
museum, to a cinema, a dance
studio, a theatre, a gallery...
We’ll be showcasing lots of the
work that we’ve been doing
all year in Hollington and Ore
Valley, and you can join in the
fun too – bring your group
or event to be part of our
programme – just get in touch
through our blog at
www.eightfootsquare.com
Stade Open Space, Rock-a-Nore
Road TN34 3FJ
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FEATURED WEEKEND EVENTS
COASTAL CURRENTS
sponsored by
2/3/4 SEPTEMBER
From Pier to Eternity Goes
Ibiza.
Friday 2 Sept 7-9pm
Trance, dance, and a roving
lightshow as Hastings’ favourite
illuminated seafront bicycle
ride relocates temporarily to
the Mediterranean. Meet at
Hastings Pier at 7pm with your
bicycle. Bike decorations and
illuminations encouraged!
frompiertoeternity@hotmail.
co.uk
07538 308103
Organised in partnership with
Hastings Urban Bikes and partfunded by National Lottery
Awards for All
Two Figures in Dense Violet
Night
Saturday 3 Sept, 2–8pm
Sunday 4 sept, 12–5pm
In Conversation talk, Saturday
at 2pm.
A guest artist joins LIDO as part
of an evolving programme of
events over four weekends.
LIDO at Electro Studios, Seaside
Road, St Leonards TN38 0AL
Check www.lidoprojects.
com for specific programme
information.
[email protected]
Day@The Park
10am-5pm
Following the success of last
year’s event, Day@The Park is
back!
Celebrating Hastings and
everyone in it, this is a modern
family fun day with a vintage
twist!
With great food, music, kid’s
games and entertainment, pony
rides, a market, art and more.
A free entry event, where
everyone is welcome!
Alexandra Park, Hastings.
www.spanglefish.com/
dayatthepark.com
[email protected]
07423 059706
Print Workshop at Stade Hall
and the Old Town Hall Museum
with Ed Boxall.
Saturday 3 September
10am-3pm (with a one hour
lunch break).
Make your own lino cut or
collagraph with local artist Ed
Boxall in a workshop at Stade
Hall, moving across to the Old
Town Hall Museum to print the
images on the Stanhope press.
This is a free workshop, but
places should be booked
in advance by emailing:
[email protected]
or calling: 07975 872075.
15 places available.
All ages and levels of ability
welcome- no experience
necessary. Children should
be accompanied by an adult.
Please wear suitable clothing.
Project Space @ Stade Hall, The
Stade, Rock-a-Nore Road, Old
Town, Hastings,
TN34 3FJ
Coastal Currents Taster
Exhibition at Stade Hall
Saturday 27 August - 4
September. 10am- 4pm,
closed Mondays.
This taster exhibition will give
an introduction to some of
the exhibitions and events
happening throughout the
festival.
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Open Studios
Saturday & Sunday, 11am-6pm
An opportunity to peek into
the houses, studios, gardens
and beach huts of over a
hundred talented artists and
makers, from Bexhill through St
Leonards & Hastings to Rye.
See page 40
From left to right:
From Pier to
Eternity; Ed Boxall;
View of previous
Open Studio, Tim
Riddihough
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FEATURED WEEKEND EVENTS
COASTAL CURRENTS
sponsored by
9/10/11 SEPTEMBER
Opening Spaces
Going Places
Hastings & St Leonards Heritage Open Days
8 - 11 September 2011
Opening Spaces
Going Places
Hastings & St Leonards Heritage
Open Days
8 - 11 September 2011
For the full programme of
events see:
www.heritageopendays.org.uk
One Town - Two Identities
8 - 11 September, 11am-4pm
An exhibition exploring the
relationship of Hastings with St
Leonards. Joint presentation
with Burtons’ St Leonards Soc.
Hastings History House
21 Courthouse Street
Hastings TN34 3AU
Sea Shanty Singing
Performance
9 and 11 September, 1pm
Ideal for family groups.
Fishermen’s Museum, Rock-aNore Road, Hastings, TN34 3DW
Creative Landscapes
Exhibition: 8 - 14 September
(closed Mondays) 10am-4pm
Private View: 8 Sept, 5-6.30pm
Photographic portraits of
people who work on the Stade
and paintings of the Stade huts,
nets and fishing paraphernalia
by artists Lynn Weddle and
Sally Booth (see right) who
took part in a residency on the
Stade in 2010.
Stade Hall, Rock-a-Nore Road,
Hastings, TN34 3FJ
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‘Fishing Today’
Talk by local photographer
George Greaves
10 September, 11am.
Fishermen’s Museum, Rock-aNore Road, Hastings, TN34 3DW
Crow on the Cradle 1066
9 September 7-9pm.
Weald Stories present a
dramatic telling of a fateful year,
battles, betrayals, love and loss.
For adult audiences or older
children.
Stade Hall, Rock-a-Nore Road,
Hastings, TN34 3FJ
Stade Stories photography
competition.
10 September - 16 October,
11am-4pm daily
Come and see the winning
photographs from the
photography competition
‘Stade Stories’ as chosen by
Grace Lau, Photographer,
Yasmin Ornsby of the
Fishermen’s Protection Society
and Cllr. Jeremy Birch, Leader
of Hastings Borough Council on
display in three unique maritime
venues. Free entry. Vote for
your favourite to win ‘People’s
Choice’.
Presented by the Stade
Education Project, funded by
the Heritage Lottery Fund with
support from Marriotts Photo
Store and Judges postcards.
Fishermen’s Museum, Shipwreck
Museum and the Blue Reef
Aquarium. All three venues
are on Rock-a-Nore Road, The
Stade, Hastings Old Town.
www.hastings.gov.uk/stade_
education
Hastings Film Challenge
Awards Ceremony
Friday 9 September, 7pm
The Hastings Underground Film
Challenge is innovative and
unique. In the past five years it
has produced over a hundred
short movies made in and
around Hastings, documenting
the change in its cultural
heritage.
The mystery locations of the
awards ceremony can be found
on www.hastingsfilmchallenge.
co.uk so watch closely for new
developments.
Two Figures in Dense Violet
Night
LIDO at Electro Studios
Saturday 10 Sept, 2–8pm
Sunday 11 sept, 12–5pm
See page 24
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From Pier to Eternity Goes
Retro
Friday 9 September, 7-9pm
As part of the Hastings & St
Leonards Heritage Open Days,
your favourite seafront bike ride
wheels out its pedal-powered
guerrilla cinema for a night
of vintage local footage and
antique musical mementos
played out amongst historic
locations along the promenade.
Meet at Hastings Pier at 7pm
with your bike Illuminations
and vintage attire encouraged.
Classic bicycles especially
welcome.
frompiertoeternity@hotmail.
co.uk
07538 308103.
Organised in partnership with
Hastings Urban Bikes and partfunded by National Lottery
Awards for All
Open Studios
Saturday & Sunday, 11am-6pm
From Bexhill through St
Leonards & Hastings to Rye.
See page 40
Clandestine
Rendezvous,
Maria Dyas
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FEATURED WEEKEND EVENTS
17/18 SEPTEMBER
From Pier to Eternity: Dive,
Dive, Dive!
Friday 16 Sept 7-9pm
In anticipation of the Hastings
Seafood and Wine festival,
the bike ride with an attitude
takes on a sub-aqua theme,
with whale song, fishy music
and undersea soundscapes,
culminating in a beach gathering
and possibly an attempt to take
the town’s first amphibious
bicycle onto the water! Meet at
Hastings Pier at 7pm. Illuminated
bicycles encouraged.
frompiertoeternity@hotmail.
co.uk
07538 308103.
Organised in partnership with
Hastings Urban Bikes and partfunded by National Lottery
Awards for All.)
Battle Art Trail
From 17 - 25 September
Battle High Street and the
adjoining twittens will be
home to more than twenty
installations and artworks that
will form the inaugural Battle
Art Trail. The site-specific
works will encourage the
public to take a fresh look at
their surroundings, to discover
new locations and see the
ordinary in a new light.
The theme of the trail is
‘The World Turned Upside
Down’. Commissioned artists
include Annabel Tilley, Patrick
Burton, Reem Acason, Louise
Kenward, Svetlana K-Lie
& Joanna Kerr. These are
interspersed with projects by
emerging artists from Sussex
Coast College and local
groups including: the Autistic
Spectrum Disorder Group,
Battle Knitters & the Traveller
Education Team, Children’s
Services.
More than 350 schoolchildren
from local primary schools
& Claverham Community
College will create pieces for
the trail during workshops run
by Hastings-based Radiator
Arts. Completing the line-up
will be an exhibition at Battle
Museum by local artists in
response to museum exhibits
and a drawing residency based
at the Almonry, led by Annabel
Tilley.
www.battlearts.co.uk
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Two Figures in Dense Violet
Night
Saturday 17 Sept, 2–8pm,
Sunday 18 Sept, 12–5pm
In Conversation talk, Sat 2pm.
A guest artist joins LIDO as part
of an evolving programme of
events over four weekends.
See page 24.
LIDO at Electro Studios, Seaside
Road, St Leonards TN38 0AL
Check www.lidoprojects.
com for specific programme
information.
[email protected]
Hastings Seafood & Wine
Festival
Sixth anniversary of this popular
local produce event. See advert
opposite.
Art In Romney Marsh 2011
Spread over six historic
churches in the Marsh. See
details below.
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COASTAL CURRENTS
sponsored by
Art in Romney Marsh 2011
A site specific, contemporary Visual arts project located in six of the medieval
churches of Romney Marsh, Kent. The work exhibited includes a wide range
of media including painting, sculpture, installation, video, film and sound. This
year work will be shown in Fairfield, Brookland, Ivychurch, Newchurch, Old
Romney and St Mary in the Marsh by kind permission of the priest-in-charge,
Jim Field.
Art in Romney Marsh 2011 will take place over 4 weekends:
17-18, 24-25 September, 1-2, 8-9 October.
The exhibition opening times are 1pm to 5pm.
www.artinromneymarsh.org.uk
17 & 18 September 2011, Hastings Old Town
The Hastings Seafood and Wine Festival, now in its 6th year, is a celebration of
Hastings’ sustainable fishery, its vineyards and excellent local food producers.
Attracting more than 40,000 food lovers to taste succulent dishes from over 30 food
stalls - where local chefs conjure up a colourful array of flavours – the festival runs
from 11am on the Saturday to 7pm on the Sunday. www.visit1066country.com
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FEATURED WEEKEND EVENTS
24/25 SEPTEMBER
watching you ….watching me
….watching you
24 - 25 September, 7-10pm
To mark the launch of
underground experimental
project space, watching
you…watching me...watching
you, will showcase a curated
selection of installations
and artworks relating to the
themes of looking, being
watched, privacy, ownership,
personal space, hacking,
security, public/private. The
open evening events will
provide an opportunity to
experience the artworks,
meet the artists and explore
this new art space.
Artists: Roz Cran,
Sarah Broome, Sharon Haward,
Nicole Zaaroura plus invited artists.
underground project space,
35 Robertson Street,
Hastings
01424 714864 / 07958615413
[email protected]
www.sharonhaward.com
Art In Romney Marsh 2011
Spread over six historic
churches in the Marsh. See
details on previous page.
Twelfth Night
23 - 25 September
See below.
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Winalot -The Big Consultation by
Greig Burgoyne
Public Consultation 24 & 25
September, 11am-4pm
Installation 30 September
A multi-media public consultation
that debates a low cost high impact
life style and living environment.
Stade Open Space, The Stade,
Rock-a-Nore Rd, Hastings, TN34 3FJ
[email protected]
www.greigburgoyne.com
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Or in person from:
McCarrons of Mercatoria
68 Norman Road, St Leonards On Sea
www.mccarrons.co.uk
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Exhibitions
Johns Place, Bohemia Road,
Hastings TN34 1ET
Coastal Landscapes: Paintings
from the Museum’s Permanent
Collection
Until 1 January 2012
Tues - Sat, 10am-5pm,
Sun 12-5pm
Four: Bruce and Annie Rae:
Harry and Charlotte Snook
13 August - 9 September
Weds– Sat, 11am– 4pm
Four artists connected by
friendship, longevity as artists
and respect for each other’s
practice. Curated by Bruce Rae,
the work on show contains both
the artists’ current obsessions
and a re-examination of work
made over the past twenty
years. Unusually for Lucy Bell’s
gallery this exhibition shows
not only photography but print,
painting and drawing.
Lucy Bell Fine Art Gallery, 46
Norman Road, St Leonards on
Sea TN38 0EJ
[email protected] 01424
434828
www.lucy-bell.com
This exhibition brings together
an eclectic mix of sketches,
drawings and paintings that
focus on the varying coastal
landscapes along the East
Sussex shoreline. The show
includes Fishmarket on the
Sands, Early Morning by JMW
Turner, and a special display of
work to mark the 70th birthday
of Laetitia Yhap.
Len Shelley & Angie Biltcliffe: A
Retrospective
23 July - 23 Oct, Tues - Sat,
10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm
*Booking essential as places are limited
TWELFTH
NIGHT
LISTINGS
Len Shelley and Angie Biltcliffe
were hugely popular and
influential figures with Hastings
and the wider art world. This
exhibition celebrates their work,
reflecting the profound impact
their lives, and untimely deaths,
have had, with an exhibition
that will be of interest both to
visitors who knew them well
and those new to their work.
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery,
COASTAL CURRENTS
sponsored by
Space, 78 High Street, Old Town
Hastings TN34 3EL
[email protected]
07594 701425
Surface Histories
27 August - 30 September
Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 9.30am5pm, Sat 9.30am-12.30pm.
In this series of photographs
Paul Thomas examines the
surface minutiae of domestic
buildings. Appearing at first to
be abstracts, or maybe aerial
landscapes, these images
reveal cracks, repairs and
the encroachment of nature.
Photographed with a sixty year
old folding camera, yet printed
using the latest digital
technology, process reinforces
subject to create a document of
time passing.
Martel Colour Print, 32a High
Street, HastingsTN34 3ER
01424 420188
www.martelcolourprint.co.uk
Short WAVES series of 3
19 August – 4 September
72 hour installations @ stone
squid
Kate Street - Preview Friday
26 August 6-8pm, open Friday,
Saturday, Sunday 2-5pm and by
appointment
Stone Squid Experimental Art
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Art Work by Rhian Thomas
27 August - 30 September
Daily 11am-5pm.
Rhian’s work explores memory
and people’s relationships with
objects, how they are often
kept as relics in a domestic
environment, simultaneously
enforcing the presence and
absence of people. Like
photographs they are retained
as a way of preserving a period
of time or a feeling that is no
longer in existence.
Butler’s Emporium, 70 George
Street, Old Town, Hastings TN34
3EE
01424 430678
[email protected]
Rarities 2011
27 August – 30 September.
From 4pm
Exhibition of 200+ magnetic
artworks on the gates of
Hastings and St Leonard’s Pier.
Come along, find a magnet,
take one home for FREE!
100+ artists including Sinéid
Codd, Alban Low, Adam
Piggott, Alex Leadbeater, Dean
Reddick, Bryan Benge, Zeroh,
Ray McCrystal, Roz Cran, and
Andrew Dennis. Come early
to avoid disappointment.
Sponsored by local people/
businesses.
Hastings Pier, The Pier Gates,
White Rock Road, Hastings
TN34 1JY
07792 027716
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[email protected]
www.rarities2011.blogspot.com
Lovely and Local by Fiona
Pienkowska
27 August- 30 September,
Weds - Sun, 11am-4pm
This work was inspired by the
places and people of Hastings
and St Leonards.
The urban environment
fascinates me. I create my
work from observations of
people and places I see around
me everyday. My medium is
printmaking. The technique I
use is called ‘dry point’. I hand
colour my prints, making small
editions.
Post Office Tea Rooms, 40a
Marina, St Leonards TN38 0BU
& Bells Bicycles, 49 High Street,
Old Town Hastings TN34 3EN
[email protected],
[email protected]
www.wix.com/potearooms/info,
www.bellscycles.co.uk
Chrysalis by Respond Academy
28 - 31 August
11am-4pm. Private View: 27
August 4-7pm
A body of work by Respond
Academy students and
members aged 14-21 years.
Chrysalis represents the
metamorphosis from year
2010/2011 into the new
2011/2012, with former students
moving on and new young
people beginning their journey
with us.
Respond Academy, Ground
Floor, Silchester Mews,
17a Silchester Road, St Leonards
TN38 0JB
01424 718235,
[email protected]
www.respondacademy.com
The Drawing Room
Saturdays and Sundays
throughout September
11am–6pm
The Drawing Room is a creative
space dedicated to the fine art
of drawing.
Each artist has a unique
relationship with the drawing
room with the act of drawing
playing a different role in
each of the individual artists
practice: drawing as process,
practice, research, refinement,
observation and mark making.
Robin Holtom, Marie-Louise
Miller, Pip Carpenter, Victoria
Kiff, Eleanor Lynn, Nigel Plumb,
Emily Johns.
The Cellar, 41B Marina, St
Leonards on Sea, TN38 0BU
01424 200 451/ 07853 765 218,
[email protected]
www.holtom.org
From Tat to Treasure
1 - 12 September
Mon - Thurs, 9.30am-4.30pm,
Fri 9.30am-4pm, Sat 10am3pm.
Hastings Furniture Service is a
charity well known for providing
free collections of furniture for
reuse, but do you know how
crafty HFS is?
As well as offering affordable
furniture, HFS helps people
develop skills and confidence
with furniture craft training.
See how learners transform
tired pieces ‘From Tat into
Treasure.’
Hastings Furniture Service,
6-10 Dorset Place, Hastings,
TN34 1LG
01424 441112, [email protected]
www.hfs.org.uk
http://onecafe.webs.com
Coffee & Art
2 –3 September
10am- 4pm
An exhibition by local Christian
artists. The work has evolved
from creative prayer sessions
held at St Helens Church. Free
coffee and cake for all visitors.
Wellington Square Baptist
Church, Wellington Square,
Hastings TN34 1PN
07733044027, janvidler@
hotmail.com
www.wellingtonsquare.co.uk
London Road
2 September - 2 October
Mon - Sat, 10am-6pm
A photographic enquiry. London
Road in St Leonards was
where ‘The Ragged Trousered
Philanthropists’ was written
a century ago. It is as full of
stories, symbols, clues and
traces now as it was then.
Alexander Brattell. Lucy Phillips
& Cath Tajima-Powell
One Cafe & Gallery, 1 London
Rd, St Leonards, TN37 6AE
01424 44380
[email protected]
144 by Rebecca Youssefi and
Leroy Laban
2 - 29 September
Mon - Fri, 9am-5pm.
Private View: 2 Sept, 5-9pm
Rebecca Youssefi and Leroy
Laban exhibit together in
144. Mixed media artist
Rebecca is interested in the
metaphysical and explores who
we are and what life is. Leroy
is a photographer who aims to
capture the essence of people
using their local environments.
Isabel Blackman Centre IBC,
Winding Street, Old Town
Hastings TN34 3AT
01424 446428, ibc@
ageukeastsussex.org.uk
www.myibc.org.uk
Musings
3, 4, 10, 11 September
11am–6pm
On starting a new life in modern
day St Leonards, Miss Harriet
Williams penned, in the style
of Jane Austen, a light-hearted
account of the colourful
characters she met and the
places she experienced. Catch
glimpses of Miss Williams’
musings in this typographic
artwork and audio installation
trail. Unmissable.
Participating venues:
South Lodge, St Leonards
Gardens (11am – 4pm);
Horse & Groom Pub; and Open
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Studios 5, 13, 14, 20 listed in the
Open Studios section starting
on page 40.
See also ‘Whispered Musings’
on page 15.
07525 347 740
[email protected]
Heroes, Dreams and Visions
9 - 20 September, 11am- 5pm
Private View: 9 September
6.30- 8.30pm
Artists’ Talk: 16 September
6.30-8.30pm
This exhibition highlights
exceptional new work created
by individuals at Project Art
Works over the past year.
Mentoring Studios offers a
groundbreaking opportunity
for learning disabled adults
to experience intensive
professional development
alongside an artist mentor. A
significant and surprising body
of work, the showcase reveals
seven very distinct approaches
to making.
Hastings Arts Forum, 36 Marina,
St Leonards TN38 0BU 01424 201 636
[email protected]
www.hastingsartsforum.co.uk
Extended Conversation
Amongst Gulls
10 - 11 September, 11am–5pm
An exhibition of prints, digital
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images, and mixed media
work by students and teachers
from Parkwood sixth form and
William Parker Sports College.
An array of diverse images
created in response to the local
environment.
Beach Hut No.19, In front of
Seaside Road, West St Leonards
01424 448207, sue.warren@
williamparker.e-sussex.sch.uk
Inside Out
10 - 24 September
Mon - Sat 10am–5pm
Exhibition of paintings,
sculpture, drawings & prints
following the theme ‘Inside Out’,
in conjunction with the Battle
Art Trail: The World Turned
Upside Down. Exhibiting artists
will interpret the theme freely &
include award winning Svetlana
K-Lie, Louise Giblin & Cathryn
Kemp.
Saffron Gallery, Saffron House,
59-60 High Street, Battle, TN33
0EN
01424 772 130
[email protected]
www.SaffronGallery.co.uk,
www.facebook.com/
SaffronGallery
The Lie of the Land
16 September - 20 November
Open every day, 9.30am–
5.30pm.
Private View: 16 Sept 6–8pm.
Members of South Coast Artists
group respond to locations
and histories that hold special
significance and personal
connections. Selected work
includes painting, printmaking
and photography.
Arts in Healthcare, Conquest
Hospital Exhibition Area
Level 3 (turn right at main
entrance), Conquest Hospital,
The Ridge, St Leonards TN27
7RD
[email protected]
Cc. [email protected],
01424 755470/754488 ext 2270
/ 07976 477641
by members of the public
merge to create an informative,
interactive experience. ‘Time to
reflect… intimate, comforting’The Argus (for Brighton Fringe).
Donations to St. Michael’s
Hospice, charity no. 288462.
The Function Room at Walkers
Cocktails, 48 Robertson Street,
Hastings, TN34 1HL
[email protected]
www.tobemeproject.com
Pocket Companions at Arthur
Green
17 September - 2 October
Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat 10am-5pm,
Sun 10am-4pm
A group of SOCO artists make
books, in the broadest concept
of the word, for the recesses
and alcoves of this Victorian
shop. The project follows a
recent talk on the subject by
artist and bookmaker, Lorna
Crabbe.
Courtesy of the Hastings Pier &
White Rock Trust
Hastings Pier & White Rock
Trust, 34 White Rock, Hastings
TN34 1JY
01424 713873, [email protected]
www.soco.org.uk
To Be Me
17 - 18 September
12-6:30pm
What does it mean to be you?
Multimedia art, personality
psychology and an exhibition
of personal contributions made
Exhibition of Artists Books and
workshops
23 September, 7-9pm,
24 September 10am–8pm,
25 September, 10am-8pm.
Artists Books – Showing
hand-bound, folded, stitched
books including altered books,
scrumptious sketchbooks, prints
and images.
Work by Alex Leadbeater,
Lynne Bingham, Lorna Crabbe,
Helen Hunt, Cathryn Kemp, Sara
Harris, Erica Smith, 14 artists
from Quattordecim and others.
Includes typographic artworks
as part of a trail of musings by
Harriet Williams.
The Muse, Harold Mews, St
Leonards TN38 0EA
01424 423457 alex@
alexleadbeater.com
www.alexleadbeater.com
Battle Art Fair
16 – 23 September, 10am–6pm
The Battle Contemporary Fine
Art Fair takes place annually
to coincide with the Coastal
Currents Arts Festival. The
2011 art fair will, for the second
year running, be hosted by
The PowderMills Hotel, Battle.
Taster exhibitions can also be
seen at the Blackshed Gallery,
Robertsbridge and the Roche
Gallery, Rye.
PowderMills Hotel, Powdermill
Lane, Battle, TN33 0SP
Adrian Calder-Reade – Hotel
General Manager- 01424 775511,
Lesley Samms – Director;
Pure Arts Group, lesley@
pureartsgroup.co.uk
www.pureartsgroup.co.uk
Events &
performances
Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte
11 September, 7.30pm
Fully staged sung in Italian with
English subtitles on a raised
stage by talented young music
college graduates. Conducted
by Lesley Anne Sammons and
Directed by Jenny Miller, in
association with Longborough
Festival Opera.
Tickets: £12, £9 Students, £24
Family Ticket (2 adults & 2
children)
St John the Evangelist,
Pevensey Road, St Leonards
TN38 0RD
[email protected], 01424
432985
www.thecompletesinger.co.uk
An evening of dance and music
for all ages
24 September, 7-9pm
Sit back and enjoy an evening
of contemporary and hip-hop
dance with live music from
Christian band Three Days
Later. Interval with refreshments
included. Free entry.
Wellington Square Baptist
Church, Wellington Square,
Hastings TN34 1PN
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07733044027, janvidler@
hotmail.com
www.wellingtonsquare.co.uk
Bob’s Garage by Anthony
Forrest
27 September, 7.30pm
“Bob’s Garage” Premiere of
black comedy indie film feature
from local artist Anthony
Forrest.
Five guys party in Bob’s garage,
their clubhouse. After excess
beer and drugs a gun goes off
accidentally shooting one of
them in the stomach. The men
decide to remove the bullet
themselves by using the tools in
the garage…
£2 entry
Pomegranate, 50 George Street,
Hastings, TN34 3EA
01424 429221
www.pomegranatehastings.
co.uk
Wednesdays at the Electric
Palace Cinema
Wednesdays in September
are dedicated to a range of
film work from both emerging
and established artists and
filmmakers from Hastings and
beyond as part of the Coastal
Currents Arts Festival:
Coastal Currents’ Shoot the
Poets Special
7 September, 8pm
Presenting the Artists Selection
from the last two years
of films and performance.
Original collaborative work
by filmmakers, writers, sound
artists and performers.
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Adventures in Lo- Fi’ featuring
Saffron Summerfield
14 September, 8pm. £5.
Following the success of at
last year’s event ‘Adventures in
Lo Fi’ returns...this time at The
Electric Palace. A marvellous
blend of homemade projections,
song, and grown-up storytelling
with Ed Boxall, culminating in
a unique performance from
Singer/Songwriter/Digital
Storyteller Saffron Summerfield.
Benda Bilili
21 September, 8pm. Cert. 12.
Subtitles
Renaud Barret, 2010. 86
minutes.
Dubbed the new Buena Vista,
this incredible true story of a
group of paraplegic Congolese
street musicians is infectious
and life-affirming. Gregarious,
up-tempo rumba with
bluesy hard-times lyrics and
declarations of ambition. This is
a must for fans of African music
– and music generally.
Underground Worlds
28 September, 8pm
Hastings abounds with tunnels
and caves which lie beneath
the town’s imposing sandstone
cliffs. This subterranean
network sprawls under the chip
shops and souvenir stands,
accessible by some residents’
basements, bunkers and cellars.
Artist and filmmaker Toby
Tatum draws inspiration from
this topography, curating and
contributing to this programme
of short films that illuminate
other secret hidden places,
be they real or imaginary. The
programme features artist’s film
and video, experimental film,
documentary and short fiction
film.
To book tickets for any
of the events go to www.
electricpalacecinema.com
39a High Street, Hastings TN34
3ER 01424 720393
[email protected]
Last Night on the Prom
30 September, 6- 10pm
To celebrate the Project at
Stade Hall arts programme
and the month-long Coastal
Currents festival; Creative
Coast has devised an evening
of experimental performance
and arts interventions within
the hall and on the Stade
Open Space. Featuring the
culmination of a five-day
collaborative artists’ residency
at Stade Hall, combined with
a curated programme of
performance, projection and
sonic interventions.
Stade Hall, Rock-a-Nore Road,
Hastings TN34 3FJ
[email protected],
07841 757866
Talks/
Workshops/
Seminars
AutismSussex- Les Misérables
and The Rich
23, 24 & 25 September
Two days of discussion, music
and drama in English and
French, based around the
characters and themes of the
popular musical. Join in one or
two sessions, in either language,
at £2 per session or sign up for
the whole weekend plus (if your
French or English skills need
freshening up) the optional
Friday night vocabulary-prep
session, for £12.
Friday Prep session 7-8.30pm.
Saturday session one 10.30am12noon, session two 1.30-3pm,
session three 4.30-6pm, session
four 7-8.30pm. Sunday session
one 10.30am-12pm, session two
1.30-3pm, session three 4.306pm, session four 7-8.30pm.
The Roebuck Centre, Roebuck
Street, Old Town, Hastings.
07801 358090, 01424 203735,
[email protected]
Field of Asphodel
Sunday 4 September, 6.30pm
A new performance with dance,
sound, shadow and hand
puppetry. The show follows
the story of the abduction of
Persephone by Hades into the
underworld, which originally
illustrated the creation of
Summer and Winter in Greek
mythology. Now retold to
resonate with the 25 year
anniversary of the Chernobyl
disaster (and more recently
Fukishima) with quotes from
survivors and witnesses.
Stade Hall, The Stade, Rock-aNore Road, Hastings, TN34 3FJ
01424 203 944
[email protected]
www.idolrich.co.uk
Europe; the use of social
networking to professionalise
your practice; how to write a
successful proposal, and how to
earn money as a craftsperson/
maker.
Free but booking
recommended.
For more details on guest
speakers see:
www.coastalcurrents.org.uk
31 August, 7, 14 Sept at Stade
Hall, Rock-a-Nore Rd, Hastings.
21 & 28 Sept at Underground
Experimental Project Space,
35 Robertson Street, Hastings
(Next to Hastings Trust).
[email protected]
www.coastalcurrents.org.uk
Short Fuse 1066
25 September, 7.30pm
Hastings popular short story
event fulfills an important
function in giving writers
the chance to perform and
showcase their work. The theme
for the next meeting is ‘The
Holiday’. Visit the website for
details – then – get writing!
Jenny Lind, High St, Old Town,
Hastings
www.shortfuseat1066.org.uk
Below: Field of Asphodel,
Idol Rich
Wednesday Talks
31 August,
7, 14, 21, & 28 September, 7pm
Every Wednesday evening
throughout the festival come
and share ideas, discuss relevant
issues and meet local artists,
makers & key arts professionals
across the region. The talks
will deliver a range of relevant
topics from how to work in
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open
studios
The Open Studios programme is always a popular feature of Coastal Currents, and this
year we have even more artists taking part, presenting their work in their homes, studios,
beach huts and gardens.
Open Studios take place over two weekends, and offer a wealth of arts and crafts from bold outdoor sculptures, to paintings, prints, jewellery, textiles, ceramics, books
and prints. Take this opportunity to meet local artists and makers; and browse, buy or
commission artwork.
This year the trail extends to Bexhill and Battle, stretching all the way along the coast to
Rye, giving the chance to discover studios in town centres, countryside hideaways and
coastal locations as part of the route.
COASTAL CURRENTS
Maps are for guidance only and do not necessarily show the exact location of studios.
sponsored by
All events are on 3 - 4 & 10 - 11 September
unless otherwise stated.
Many thanks to Roost for their continued support in sponsoring the open
studios programme. Look out for the blue and yellow Roost signs placed outside
participating studios.
27 Grand Parade, St Leonards TN37 6DN
Telephone: 01424 442 600
[email protected]
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Gary Mills produces clay pieces exploring unique qualities of raku firing.
Philippa Haines explores clay and recently began using copper etched metal.
Valerie Knapp makes figurative and abstract ceramic wall reliefs, tiles and
decorative chairs. Veronique Pullen makes silver and ceramic jewellery inspired
by nature.
Alex Leadbeater
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The Muse, Harold Mews, TN38 0EA
[email protected] www.alexleadbeater.com 01424 423457
Open Studios… what will you find? An exhibition of Artists’ Books, new work to
discuss, old work to recognise. Bargain paintings, prints and cards to buy.
Art classes to join, people to meet…and a free cup of tea. Get inspired…
Co-hosting ‘Musings’ project - see page 35.
Opening Times: 3 - 4 & 10 - 11 September, 11am - 6pm
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 - 11 September, 11 – 5pm
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[email protected] www.dannymooney.co.uk 07905209618
Andy Young paints in Oil and Acrylic at the edge of the sea, the sky, the
beach, the individual. Katharine Weston Smith’s paintings are semi-abstract in
acrylic and oil, based on the Sussex landscape and still life images.
Mooney studied at Goldsmith’s and Guildhall in London and has been making
art for more than 20 years. He currently makes abstract paintings and
figurative wire sculptures. Mooney’s work is in collections in the UK., America,
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[email protected] www.zoomimagegroup.co.uk 07957388807
barbara williams has an exploratory and expressive approach to painting
and drawing, working from life and nature towards abstract images. Denise
Griffiths works distinctively with pastels, oils and charcoal, particularly inspired
by urban dynamism, people and the 1920’s to 1950’s. Free parking.
Opening Times: 3 - 4 & 10 - 11 September, 11am - 5pm
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www.eleanorcarter.com www.bombarock.co.uk 01424 439313
Come and see new and exciting work by Georgina Brett Chinnery and Eleanor
Carter.
Hand decorated leather furniture and accessories. Limited edition prints and
hand made greeting cards. Cake and refreshments provided!
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September,
11 – 6pm Saturdays, 11 – 5pm Sundays
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Old Bakery Studios
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Unit 7, Second Floor, Mercatoria Business Centre, 100 Norman Road, TN38 0EJ
[email protected] 07948 441376
Paintings, prints and drawings exploring ambiguities between representation
and abstraction using starting points in life drawing, landscape and still
life. Wide variety of work on canvas and paper (oils, acrylics, mixed media,
monoprints and drawings) at accessible prices.
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 6pm
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[email protected] www.oldbakerystudios.com 01424 201113
Come and see what’s cooking – a creative mix of things to see and buy from:
Claire Buckley – Textiles, Sarah Macbeth and Erica Smith - Graphic Art, Luke
Mitchell - Digital Marketing, Stephen Fulljames - Model-maker and other invited
artists.
Opening Times: 3 – 4, 10 – 11 & 17 – 18 September, 11 – 6pm
Bramwell - Cole Ceramics
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[email protected] 01424 729545
3 Stanhope Place, TN38 0ED
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Cloth, Clay and Dead Wood clothing and ceramics by Kate Bramwell-Cole.
Theories, thoughts, questions and images of dead trees by Simon BramwellCole.
Miss Harriet Williams presents typographic artworks pertaining to her lighthearted musings on the colourful characters and places of contemporary
St Leonards. Art collides with literature, past blurs into present. Part of the
‘Musings’ trail. See Event listings. Co-hosting ‘Musings’ project - see page 35.
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 6pm
Opening Times: 17 – 18 September, 11 – 6pm
Leslie McKinley Howell
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[email protected] vanessafowler.com 07732 987643
Open the gate and walk through the garden to view a collection of ceramics
ranging from abstract vessels, to tile panel compositions. Materials and
techniques produce different results- stoneware, earthenware, thrown or hand
built.
Alastair Knights and Vanessa Fowler are established ceramicists. Michelle
Jarvis, printed and embroidered bags/purses. Ness Mann, painted studies of
birds, acrylic on canvas. Please find our Facebook page Coastal Currents Alastair Vanessa Michelle Ness for further information and photographs.
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 6pm
Liz Blackborow
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 6pm
Valerie May
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[email protected] 07980 772498
Nunovalenki, 65 Norman Road, TN38 0EG
[email protected] www.nunovalenki.co.uk 01424 714848
REFLECTIONS: Look at colour filled paintings, collages, photographs
and textiles reflecting the experience of living by the sea in St Leonards.
Then relax on the balcony with tea, coffee and cakes and experience the
magnificent seaviews for yourself!
I specialise in felting, (nuno, wet and needle felting). My creations include
beautiful scarves and necklaces, fabulous corsages and uniquely quirky
brooches, pin cushions and colourful DIY felting kits. Prices range from the
very affordable £5 to the also affordable £75.
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 6 pm
Opening Times: 3 – 12 September, Monday - Saturday 10am – 5.30pm,
Sunday 4 & 11 September 11am - 5.30pm
Lorna Hamilton-Brown
Shahriar Mazandi
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[email protected] I www.passion4.co.uk/openstudios
Lorna and Chris Hamilton-Brown create contemporary art that captures
the energy of everyday events and things in a simple, evocative snapshot.
Photography, prints, textiles, cards and gifts for sale at affordable prices.
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 6pm
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Vanessa Fowler Works
14 Stanhope Place, TN38 0ED
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The Cloudesley, 7 Cloudesley Road, TN37 6JN
[email protected] www.mazandi.com 01424 442524
‘GANGSTER’, ‘PLAYING WITH FIRE’ and other photographic essays by globally
syndicated photographer Shahriar Mazandi, owner of The Cloudesley, where
they are on display. Drop by for complementary drinks and to see the work.
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 6pm
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Wallpaper by Deborah Bowness
Hand printed and painted in England.
www.deborahbowness.com
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Trade appointments - 01424 717132
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Anna Pontonutti, painter
Thierry Alexander, painter/performer
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Ruth Wurzburger, abstract paintings
Ben White, painter, printmaker
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Natalia Watts, A mixed media artist and art psychotherapist exploring
playfulness within the creative process [email protected] 07980 919516
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September, 11am - 6pm unless otherwise stated.
Welcome back to Studio VII – see new and current work in a variety of
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Mike Williams, stone sculptor
Kate Orr, painter
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“6 - 12 Group”
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Following the success of last years “collective open studios”, the group returns
with more members and greater diversity of arts and crafts on show. This year
we have five studios and the work of 8 artists offering diverse work at a range
of affordable prices. Visit our secluded Victorian crescent in a twitten and
conservation area and make us your first stop. Refreshments available in each
studio.
Suzie McFie and Friends
6 Mount Pleasant Crescent
Monoprints, drawings and works in progress including book project. Homemade snacks
will be available.
[email protected]
Incurva Studios and the Work Ship
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8-10 West Street (between George St. & the seafront), Old Town, TN34 3AN
www.theworkship.blogspot.com 01424 424422
Incurva Studios and the Work Ship are housed in a converted metal work
factory in the heart of the old town, where a diverse jumble of eight Hastings
artists and makers reside.
Leigh Dyer
Sculptor, creating work ranging from site specific and community based
projects to gallery works and private commissions. Through his practice he
aims to engage the viewer with their surroundings, encouraging them to look
again or alter their association with a particular place/ site. His practice also
seeks to promote a ‘please touch’ policy, enabling the viewer to engage further
with the work. [email protected]
Lucy Dixon
Hazel and Jeremy Brook
The relationships between geological landscapes and mythology have become
a central theme throughout her work. Looking at a multiplicity of ways
through which historical customs, folk law, tradition, narratives and nostalgia
play a part within our widely secular society.
9 Mount Pleasant Crescent
[email protected]
Abstract oil paintings on canvas, abstract monotypes and watercolours on Fabriano
and Somerset papers by Hazel Brook, plus digital inkjet prints on archival matt paper by
Jeremy Brook.
[email protected], [email protected]
www.graphicideas.co.uk
Mike Leale
10 Mount Pleasant Crescent
Alice Underhill
Alice makes brightly glazed porcelain jewellery and vases, as well as a
selection of illustrative work on ceramic and watercolour paper backgrounds.
Come and see her new collection of work that will be launched at this year’s
Coastal Currents Open Studios Festival.
[email protected] www.aliceunderhill.co.uk
Kate Iles
This year I am showing mostly photography. This is what I see when out and about In
Hastings, London and around the world.
[email protected], www.mikelealephotography.co.uk
Kate makes boxes. They are made from a need to preserve a moment - a
mourned dog, a dreamlike state, a snippet of converstaion. Discarded artifacts,
lost treasures and if you’re really lucky, tiny lights are assembled and given a
new home. [email protected]
John Shanks and Friends
Lorna Crabbe
11 Mount Pleasant Crescent
Recent photographic images from John and ceramics by Tony Stayne and Corinna
Powis.
[email protected], www.fragmentsandrealisations.co.uk
Caroline Richards
12 Mount pleasant Crescent
Hand woven textiles for upholstery and interiors, together with silk scarves.
[email protected]
Showing a selection of hand-bound artists’ books, drawings, paintings, lino
prints and objects. She also writes, curates arts projects and exhibitions, and
leads workshops. Her work addresses informal collections; the homemade,
domestic archives; womens’ craft history; ornithology; found objects and
imagined pasts. [email protected] www.lornacrabbe.co.uk
Ed Boxall
Illustrator, book artist and Printmaker. Ed will be showing recent large-scale
prints and new books: the nightmarish ‘Climb On’ and a cheerful suburban
adventure: ‘Dixie Steps Out’. www.edboxall.co.uk
Mel Brewer
A unique blend of handcrafted metal based pieces and constructed images
influenced by urban and environmental themes, using photography and found
objects as inspiration. [email protected]
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 6pm
Objects by artists of Incurva Studios and the Work Ship will be available to
view and buy as part of ‘Curious Cases’, which will be touring Hastings & St
Leonards throughout the festival. See: www.edboxall.co.uk/curiouscases for
further information.
Wine kindly provided by Dragon Bar, George Street.
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 6pm
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Lesley Crabtree, The Old Brewery, Rear of 33 High St, TN34 3ER
[email protected] www.aardvarkonsea.com
JD Bar & Eat@claremont, both in Claremont, Hastings Town Centre.
A cornucopia of exceptional work from local artists, designers and makers:
Centre.
AARDVARK, ZEROH & BADBLOODANDSYBIL plus SPECIAL GUESTS
Letterpress and screenprints, quilts, broadsides, moths, vintage textiles,
paintings, jam, typography, manifestos and cake. Absolutely nothing inspired
by the sea.
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 6pm
Active Arts
We Love Property, London Road, St Leonards.
Beach Hut No. 13, Front Row, West Marina, West St Leonards.
White Rock Hotel, White Rock, Hastings Seafront.
[email protected] www.zoomimagegroup.co.uk 01424 717542
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Hastings & Bexhill Mencap Society, 64 London Road, St Leonards, TN37 6AS
www.hastings-bexhill-mencap.org 01424 424813
Active Arts presents an exciting new collaboration of students’ art, sculpture,
and film exhibited alongside work from Active Arts tutors Ed Boxall and Zeline
Dupraz. Active Arts is a visual and performing arts project for adults with
learning disabilities.
Opening Times: 3 - 4 September, 11 – 5pm
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Debenhams Café, Spaghetti Tree, both in Robertson Street, Hastings Town
Zoom is a collective of local visual artists from diverse backgrounds, with ages spanning
six decades from their 20’s to 70’s, who are united by a passion for experimental,
exploratory and expressive approaches to our work. Influences are the world around
us, rural, urban, seaside and internal worlds and memories.
Zoom started in May 2005 with only seven photographers, and now has 24 members
from all parts of the arts disciplines. The group receives no grants and thanks all
advertisers and supporters.
Louise Etgart, Sandra Everley, Marie Ford, Hilary Gammie, Denise Griffiths, Penny
Hobson, Robin Hutt, Jane Irish, Tim Jones, Mike Leale, Rob Maxted, Rick Moye, Katie
Nattress, Claire O’Shaughnessy, John Scowen, John Shanks, Hayley Small, Katrina Taylor,
Debbie Ward, Laura Wilde, Barbara Williams.
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, Shop opening hours.
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ompompom creates commemorative knitted textiles. Freestylefibre - textiles
and hand spun yarn by Joanna Ratcliffe. abigail luthmann photography
exploring landscapes of memory and fiction. Charlotte Strong hand built
porcelain clay pieces. The decoration has been influenced by our rambling
garden.
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Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 5pm
Ian David Baker
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Ground Floor Flat 28, St Helens Park Road, TN34 2DP
[email protected] www.iandavidbaker.com 07713 253209
Abstract Paintings on canvas adapted from small observed objects, current
work based on the Hastings burnt pier iron. Photographic Prints and cards.
Opening Times: 27 - 28 August, 10 - 11, 17 - 18 & 24 - 25 September, 11 - 6pm.
Open by appointment.
Textile Hut Studios
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[email protected]
Local artists producing a diverse range of printed, painted and dyed textiles.
The woven pieces incorporate hand spun wool which has been naturally dyed.
Hand printed wallpapers and reclaimed chairs are also exhibited.
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 5pm
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[email protected] www.ompompom.com 07771 992972
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Contemporary Crafts Gallery
Quirky handmade cards, tableware, jewellery,
prints, ceramics, sculpture & more from over
30 local and UK artists & makers!
Find us 10am-5pm Fri-Mon at the foot of the Westhill
Ascension Lift at 2 Westhill Arcade, 43A George St,
Old Town, Hastings TN34 3EA
01424 428999 www.cuckoocuckoo.co.uk
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Annie Soudain
Studios open weekends of 3 - 4 and 10 - 11 September,
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watercolour and gouache paintings, linoprints, wax-resist paintings on silk, and
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hand embroidery. Josephine’s work incorporates mixed media, fabric, indigo,
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Paintings, drawings, prints, photography, furniture, ceramics & jewellery.
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[email protected] www.delfanddufy.com
Steve Duffy and Angela Delf will be showing recent work including paintings,
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Judith Rowe
Jo McCallister
Combine a visit to our open studio with a walk in Hastings Country Park, an
area of outstanding natural beauty. Refreshments provided.
Opening Times: 3 - 4 & 10 – 11 September, 11 – 6pm
We have space for disabled parking at the studios.
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Carole Sheldrake figurative ceramics, Jennie Bayntun glass artist, Jane Walsh
raku pottery and Tricia Neve textile artist. Homemade cakes too!
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independently exploring various themes through painting, drawing and
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Artists, designers and crafts people from Bexhill Artists Workspace will display
and demonstrate their work. A variety of paintings and craft work available at
affordable prices. Car park in Sea Road near Bexhill seafront. Refreshments.
Opening Times: 3 – 4 & 10 – 11 September,
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Photo Diary
We want collect your experiences of Coastal Currents 2011.
Email your festival snaps to [email protected]. We will select and exhibit your
photographs every week creating a photomontage of festival events.
Keep a look out for your photos on the walls of Martel Colour Print, High Street,
Old Town, Hastings.
14 Spotlight:Open
15 Crossed boundaries
installation
16 Interface
20Promenade
24Two Figures (LIDO)
Sun 28 August
08Spotlight
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
24Two Figures (LIDO)
24Curious Cases
24CC Taster Exhibition
25Hastings Film Challenge
25Eight Foot Square
25Family creative workshop
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
33Four
33Short Waves
34Rhian Thomas
34Rarities 2011
34Lovely and Local
Sat 27 August
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
25CC Taster Exhibition
25Eight Foot Square
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
Weds 31 August
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
25CC Taster Exhibition
25Eight Foot Square
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
34Chrysalis
Tues 30 August
CONTEMPORARY FINE ART
14 Spotlight:Open
Sat 03 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
25CC Taster Exhibition
26From Pier to Eternity
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
33Four
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35From Tat to Treasure
35London Road
35144
35Coffee and Art
Fri 02 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
25CC Taster Exhibition
25Eight Foot Square
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
33Four
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35From Tat to Treasure
Thursday 01 September
at Stade Hall
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
25Eight Foot Square
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
34Chrysalis
BATTLE ART FAIR 2011
Mon 29 August
at Stade Hall
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
33Surface Histories
Mon 05 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
25CC Taster Exhibition
26Two Figures (LIDO)
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
34Rhian Thomas
34The Drawing Room
34Lovely and Local
35Musings
39Field of Asphodel
40Open Studios
Sun 04 September
16 Interface
20Promenade
25CC Taster Exhibition
26Two Figures (LIDO)
26Day@the Park
27 Printing Workshop
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
33Four
34Rhian Thomas
34The Drawing Room
34Lovely and Local
35From Tat to Treasure
35London Road
35Musings
35Coffee and Art
40Open Studios
at Stade Hall
33Four
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
34Chrysalis
39Wednesday Talks
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
28Heritage Open Days
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Thurs 08 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Four
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35From Tat to Treasure
35London Road
35144
38Shoot the Poets Special
39Wednesday Talks
Weds 07 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
35From Tat to Treasure
35London Road
35144
Tues 06 September
34Rhian Thomas
35From Tat to Treasure
35London Road
35144
Many thanks to the team at Hastings Borough Council who have trusted our vision and supported us
to create a diverse, innovative programme of exciting and experimental work.
25CC Taster Exhibition
25Eight Foot Square
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Short Waves
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
34Chrysalis
massive thank you to everyone who contributed to Coastal Currents 2011.
17 Symphonie Pour
Ferrailleurs
20Promenade
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
33Four
33Short Waves
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
We would like to say a special thank you to all artists, organisers, partners and volunteers who
have been extremely generous in their support, energy and enthusiasm this year, without which the
festival couldn’t happen.
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14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
30Battle Art Trail
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
Weds 21 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
30Battle Art Trail
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
35London Road
35144
36The Lie of the Land
36Inside Out
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
37 Battle Art Fair
Tuesday 20 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
30Battle Art Trail
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
35London Road
35144
36The Lie of the Land
36Inside Out
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
37 Pocket Companions
37 Battle Art Fair
Mon 19 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
17 Here & There screening
20Promenade
28Heritage Open Days
29Two Figures (LIDO)
29Stade Stories
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
Sat 10 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
28Heritage Open Days
29Hastings Film Challenge
29From Pier to Eternity
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
33Four
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35From Tat to Treasure
35London Road
35144
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
Fri 09 September
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
33Four
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35From Tat to Treasure
35London Road
35144
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
30Battle Art Trail
30From Pier to Eternity
32Twelfth Night
32Watching Me Watching
You
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
Fri 23 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
17 Artists’ talk
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
30Battle Art Trail
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35London Road
35144
36The Lie of the Land
36Inside Out
37 Pocket Companions
37 Battle Art Fair
Thurs 22 September
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35London Road
35144
36The Lie of the Land
36Inside Out
37 Battle Art Fair
38Benda Bilili
39Wednesday Talks
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
35From Tat to Treasure
35London Road
Mon 12 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
28Heritage Open Days
29Two Figures (LIDO)
29Stade Stories
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
34Rhian Thomas
34The Drawing Room
34Lovely and Local
35Musings
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
36Conversations Amongst
Gulls
37 Cosi Fan Tutte
40Open Studios
Sun 11 September
34The Drawing Room
34Lovely and Local
35From Tat to Treasure
35London Road
35Musings
36Inside Out
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
36Conversations Amongst
Gulls
40Open Studios
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
30Battle Art Trail
31 Art in Romney Marsh
32Watching you Watching Me
Sun 25 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
30Battle Art Trail
31 Art in Romney Marsh
32Watching you…
32Twelfth Night
32Watching Me Watching
You
32Winalot- Greig Burgoyne
32Family Creative
Workshop
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
34The Drawing Room
34Lovely and Local
35London Road
36The Lie of the Land
36Inside Out
37 Pocket Companions
37 Artists’ Books
37 Evening of Dance & Music
38Les Miserable & The Rich
Sat 24 September
35London Road
35144
36The Lie of the Land
36Inside Out
37 Pocket Companions
37 Artists’ Books
37 Battle Art Fair
38Les Miserable & The Rich
14 Spotlight:Open
Thurs 15 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35London Road
35144
36Inside Out
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
38Adventures in Lo-Fi
39Wednesday Talks
Weds 14 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
35London Road
35144
36Inside Out
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
Tues 13 September
35144
36Inside Out
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
Weds 28 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
34Rhian Thomas
35London Road
35144
36The Lie of the Land
38Bob’s Garage
Tues 27 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
35London Road
35144
36The Lie of the Land
37 Pocket Companions
Mon 26 September
32Winalot- Greig Burgoyne
32Twelfth Night
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
34Rhian Thomas
34The Drawing Room
34Lovely and Local
36The Lie of the Land
37 Pocket Companions
37 Artists’ Books
38Les Miserable & The Rich
39Short Fuse 1066
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
17 Pieces to Fit
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
Sat 17 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
30From Pier to Eternity
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35London Road
35144
36The Lie of the Land
36Inside Out
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
37 Battle Art Fair
Fri 16 September
16 Interface
17 Here & There seminar
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35London Road
35144
36Inside Out
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
Coastal Currents 2011 Diary cont...
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
26From Pier to Eternity
29Stade Stories
32Winalot- Greig Burgoyne
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35London Road
36The Lie of the Land
37 Pocket Companions
38Last Night on the Prom
Fri 30 September
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Stade Stories
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35London Road
35144
36The Lie of the Land
37 Pocket Companions
Thurs 29 September
29Stade Stories
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
34Rhian Thomas
34Lovely and Local
35London Road
35144
36The Lie of the Land
38Underground Worlds
39Wednesday Talks
14 Spotlight:Open
16 Interface
20Promenade
29Two Figures (LIDO)
29Stade Stories
30Battle Art Trail
30Seafood & Wine Festival
31 Art in Romney Marsh
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
34Rhian Thomas
34The Drawing Room
34Lovely and Local
36To Be Me
36The Lie of the Land
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
37 Pocket Companions
37 Battle Art Fair
Sun 18 September
30Battle Art Trail
30Seafood & Wine Festival
31 Two Figures (LIDO)
31 Art in Romney Marsh
33Coastal Landscapes
33Len Shelley & Angie
Biltcliffe
33Surface Histories
34Rhian Thomas
34The Drawing Room
34Lovely and Local
35London Road
36To Be Me
36The Lie of the Land
36Inside Out
36Heroes, Dreams and
Visions
37 Pocket Companions
37 Battle Art Fair
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