Curated Events Open studios
Join in by submitting your Open Studio, Event, Exhibition or Performance now and help make this the biggest festival yet!
Submissions open soon
Everyone can submit a listing to take part in the festival.
Submissions open 1 March – get your ideas, venues, dates and concepts ready…
Printmaker Tessa Holmes recently relocated from her London studio to a large warehouse in Rye Harbour. Working with traditional and contemporary techniques, her images are inspired by the coastal and rural landscape of East Sussex. Framed/unframed prints available.
Demolished in 1993, the famed St Leonards Bathing Pool is a much cherished memory for many in our community.
Ella Guru, an American painter based in Hastings and a founder of the Stuckist movement, blends Old Master influences with vivid subcultural themes from nightlife and performance.
The Beacon is a quirky family home and business nestled on the west hill, with a cosy eatery and licensed bar, hidden gardens and artist studios. OPENING HOURS 11 – 5PM
We invite you to share your thoughts, which will be shared in the local news. We ask you to query who has created this piece of work but to respond to it in the way you wish to.
Last weekend of Open Studios – Download the digital version of the brochure and read at leisure!
Acrylic paintings, prints and cards inspired by the weather and the sea of the East Sussex coastline. Wide range of sizes from 14×14 cm to 120x100cm.
In 1995 a community project called ‘Hastings in Stitches’ launched, a tapestry made up of 68 small panels of embroidery that delivered an art piece depicting 68 organisations. This piece was created by local embroidery and textile makers with the organisations with the Women’s cooperative.
FREE 3-DAY DRAMA WORKSHOP for Creatives to explore topical issues, create and share a short performance on the final day lunch and refreshments provided.
Cinema exhibition will also be open before each public screening until end of October Artist Hramseig and WolfGang, in partnership with Eggtooth, bring you an exhibition of film posters and drawings based on the history of Hastings and Bexhill cinemas. Includes sketches of the Electric Palace, alongside many cinemas now lost: the Roxy, Ritz, Orion and Gaiety.
Is a new art manifesto in the making? Join us at the award-winning Barnaby’s Lounge jazz bar for MANIFESTO, an exhibition exploring the theme of generosity of spirit. Curated by Louise Whitham, and presented by the #BarnabysArtGroup, the show features diverse media and affordable art via the #ArtistSupportPledge.
Chris Mammone has walked and photographed most of the 100 square miles of Romney Marsh. The Fifth Continent is his record of the place and its history. Ian Land is launching a new book, Consolations, a hand made document of a brief moment in time.
