Festivals galore in this South Eastern corner of England. The popular Seafood and Wine Festival weekend came and went catching yet another Indian sunny September and the event drew more than 40,000 visitors to Hastings!.
Seafood and Wine Festival, Hastings Old Town
Rye Arts Festival and Coastal Currents Festival have both finished but
Hastings Week Festival will soon be upon us – starting on Monday 12 October with a host of events and activities including a huge Bonfire procession night on Saturday 17 October.
Laetitia Yhap’s exhibition of paintings about the Hastings Fishing Community at the Memorial Art Gallery is on until the end of October. This is accompanied by ‘The Catch’ a film by Mark French about the artist, her life and inspiration.
The Weekend Gallery has re-opened with an exhibition of new work by Michael Davies, painter and this runs until November 1. Open from Thursday to Sunday 10-5pm. 
October 5th, 2009 | Tags: fish, weekend, wine | Category: Festival, Hastings | Leave a comment
As part of the Coastal Currents Arts Festival a round of Open Studios and houses was visited by AWG in this last week and we attended a busy opening of the Indian Miniature paintings at the Hastings Museum .
Opening of Indian Miniature Exhibition, Hastings Museum
21 stunning Indian Miniature paintings on loan from the collection of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich. Spanning a period of over two hundred years (1650-1850) the exhibition includes studies of animals, illustrations to Hindu sacred text, Persian mystical poetry, portraits of rulers and pictures of court celebrations. The exhibition runs until 6 December.
Open Studios visited included the Stables at Fairlight where many of the featured artists had a very successful selling period.
We visited The School Creative Centre in Rye which has taken over the old Freda Gardham school. This is now the home of more than 10 professional artists and makers as well as a Theatre production company.
Grant Braithwaite, Open Studio
The School Creative Centre, Rye
September 18th, 2009 | Tags: centre, Indian, sainsbury, school | Category: Museum, Rye | Leave a comment