Curated Events Open studios
In this section you will find workshops, performances, films and exhibitions in shops, on the seafront, on the streets as well as in galleries, museums, art venues and cinemas.
Please use our map to help guide you to all the events and exhibitions happening during the Festival.
The following posts contain community listings that are not funded or organised by Coastal Currents. We cannot be held responsible for accident or injury at events and activities organised by external individuals and groups during Coastal Currents.
Aged 18 – 25? Apply to be one of our dancers at this year’s festival as part of our public art piece.
COASTAL CURRENTS AND THE POETRY BROTHEL HASTINGS ARE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE
AN EXCITING NEW SPOKEN WORD AND PERFORMANCE MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME FOR 2026.
Make a Zine in a workshop hosted by Tiger-lily Martinez and come out with something tangible you can feel proud of. Materials provided.
SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO BE PART OF A PUBLIC EXHIBITION IN HASTINGS STATION. Priority will be given to young and early career artists who haven’t had the opportunity to exhibit in a public space.
You are invited you to bring your projectors and films, slides, shadow stuff, etc. to create a new, ever-evolving artwork installation.
ALL “KATE’S” WHO WANT TO TAKE PART IN THE OFFICIAL DANCE, PLEASE TO REGISTER HERE
An exhibition curated by Hattie Hambridge, exploring the relationship between landscape,
memory, and time through moving image, photography and painting by emerging and established artists.
BINGE: Live performance by Ornagh & Rosie Greenwood with Artist Talk & Q&A. An evening of contemporary performance and immersive worlds.
View the work of several artists as we transform the office space into a gallery for the festival.
Private View reception – come and celebrate the Battle trail for Coastal Currents and view the work of several artists as this office space is transformed into a gallery for the festival.
My work uses textiles, stitch, paint and print to depict familiar everyday objects and sayings.
Part Buster Keaton deadpan, part Road Runner energy – this is sculpture with a sense of timing.
Plus pop-up exhibition Out Front will showcase the diverse and thought-provoking work of Hastings Contemporary staff and volunteers.
The After Dark exhibition will showcase a new body of work by latex artist Michelle Mildenhall. Exploring Hollywood’s iconic figures in intimate, nocturnal moments.
Phillip Cosham, Tim Riddihough, Siobhan Tanner, Jackie Attwood plus invited artists.
Bringing together creativity & spirituality, through movement and sound to visually create a body of work through participation and engagement.
Inked In is a flash story mob at The Pig. Drop in, pick a prompt, drop a line.
A one day event at the Beacon with a bake-off, a children’s art competition, and an exhibition.
Bringing together painters, printmakers & illustrators for a yearly market showcasing
work from local Creatives and designers.
You are invited to a ritual of storytelling, mythic folklore & Shamanic sound journeying…
Oscar’s on the Square presents The Last Picture Show, a selection of new and not so new paintings in different media on the theme of Cinema. Watercolours, paintings, inks and mixed media.
Zoom Arts provides spaces for members to exhibit their work, either solo or as a collaboration…
An Exhibition of Artworks by Mark Shepherd, Helen Savage and Nathalie Frost.
Markus Thonett works in his unique medium of Card Cuts and Tessa Thonett is a portrait painter, working in oils.
For four weeks in September we will be hosting four different local and internationally renowned artists: Peter Spencer, Jon Jon Renouf, Barny Zadok, Will Shine All Stars.
MIRROR MIRROR is a large-scale immersive installation by ORNAGH exploring the unstable relationship between beauty, identity, illness, self-perception and emotional surveillance.
TAKE PART IN OUR SURVEY TO HELP US UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT OUR CREATIVE COMMUNITY LOCALLY. THE MORE RESPONSES WE GET THE BETTER AS WE CAN USE THIS INFORMATION TO CAMPAIGN FOR THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURE.
Come celebrate the opening of Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2026 and support young talent.
