The following is by no means an exhaustive list of all art groups working in Hastings. If you know of another group who should be on our list please get in touch with us.
Active arts work with Mencap to provide an innovative range of visual arts and performance, based workshops.
Mencap
Frimley 64 London Rd
St Leonards
TN37 6AS
Telephone: 01424 424813
Decoda is a Social Enterprise Group who are constantly seeking innovative ways to use music and sound technology with people who have profound and multiple disabilities and/or challenging behaviour.
The Creative Media Centre
17 Robertson Street
Hastings
TN34 1HT
Telephone: 01424 444322
e-Mail: enquiries@decoda.org
Web: www.decoda.org
Project Art Works is a visual arts organisation that creates opportunities for young people and adults who have complex impairments to communicate and express themselves through making art. Art Works is currently developing programmes of work from its new dedicated workshop space.
Art Works
Kate Adams (Director), Anthony McIntosh (Deputy Director), Wendy Routley (Finance and Office Manager).
Arch 3, Braybrooke Terrace,
Hastings
TN34 1TD
Telephone/Fax: 01424 423555
e-Mail: info@projectartworks.org
Web: www.projectartworks.org
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Hastings Arts Forum is a not-for-profit community organisation dedicated to promoting and developing Hastings as a major centre for the arts.
Anita Pain
Hastings Arts Forum
Telephone: 01424 201 636 or 07904663793 (Tuesdays and Thursdays only)
e-Mail: info@haf.org.uk
Web: www.haf.org.uk
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Radiator Arts produces large and small scale, dynamic celebratory public events with community groups, schools and other organisations. We offer workshops involving visual arts, dance, film and music.
Annual events include the children’s parade on Hastings seafront, "Walking the Fish", Street Theatre performances at Brighton Street Festival, Hastings and Sotteville (Rouen, France) and a number of summer festivals and one-off events in the South East Region.
Jane Bruce and Margaret Richards
Radiator Arts
9-10 West Street
Hastings
TN34 3AN
We are a group of professional artists based in Hastings, East Sussex. Our skills cover a broad spectrum of different art forms. Many of us also work in educational settings.
We work with the community in contemporary projects, making art, encouraging communication and facilitating creativity to enhance both individual and collective cultural experience. We work mainly in Hastings and St Leonards and also in London and the Arts Council South East region.
We go out into community and educational settings to work with individuals and groups of all ages, accessing peoples ideas and enabling them to express them through a variety of media.
We believe that the arts have a significant part to play in the life of any community by providing opportunities for people to express themselves, learn new skills, build confidence and enrich personal experience. We are committed to equal opportunities.
Dab Community Arts Group,
P.O. Box 153
Hastings
TN34 3UX
e-Mail: ask@dabarts.com
Web: www.dabarts.com
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First Friday of every month, 7.00 - 10.00 pm at St Johns Church Hall, Brittany Road, St Leonards on Sea.
Learn to Juggle, unicycle, throw a diabolo, play games, make new friends and have fun. For all ages over 11.
Ring Caron for details on 01424 445221
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The Electric Palace is an independent digital cinema in the heart of Hastings Old Town. This specially developed cinema aims to bring to Hastings a wide choice of alternative films and film related events, we have regular screenings of arthouse films, classic movies, foreign films, special events and an annual digital film festival, Shot by the Sea.
Electric Palace Cinema
39a High Street
Hastings
TN34 3ER
Telephone: 01424 720393
e-Mail: info@electricpalacecinema.com
Web: www.electricpalacecinema.com
Independent digital film makers
Finian Lynch
Telephone: 0776 3387399
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7 Pelham Crescent
St Mary-in-the-Castle
Hastings
TN34 3AF
Telephone: 08701 417484
e-Mail: info@rhythmix.org.uk
Web: www.rhythmix.org.uk
(A project from the Arts Council)
Take it Away gives financial help to buy musical instruments for families with low-incomes.
You can get an interest-free loan for up to £2,000 to pay for any musical instrument or equipment. Instruments can be purchased on the scheme from more than 100 outlets across the country.
Anyone over 18 can apply for a Take it Away loan, but priority will be given to:
- people buying an instrument for the first time
- people buying an instrument for a young person
- people on lower than average incomes
Get more information from the Arts Council website www.artscouncil.org.uk
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Julia McClean
21 Lower Park Road
Hastings
TN34 2LB
Telephone: 01424 203944
e-Mail: julia@theatre-rotto.fsnet.co.uk
Christopher Leith
Mount House, 59 George Street, Old Town
Hastings
TN34 3EE
Telephone: 01424 717083
founded by Sue Bodkin
Sue has always enjoyed stories and facilitating others to tell their story either, real or imagined. Sue trained as a childcare worker back in the 1980’s and has set up and ran playgroups, after school clubs and holiday play schemes in her local community.
Later, having completed a Diploma in Social Work, she worked for about five years as a professional social worker. She also worked for Children and Families Team at Ocean House in Hastings for a year when she moved to Hastings in 1997.
In 1996 Sue trained as a professional puppeteer with the London School of Puppetry with the aim of developing her creative talent further. Sue set up ‘Puppet Productions’ in 1997.
Sue has created several puppet shows which she uses to entertain children at parties, schools and special events.
Sue Bodkin
Telephone: 01424 443615
e-Mail: sue@puppetproductions.co.uk
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Independent street arts company with a number of touring shows. Also offer management facilities for street arts events and run youth theatre workshops.
Inside Out theatre Company
12 Woodland Vale Road
St Leonards on Sea
TN37 6JJ
Telephone: 01424 438200
e-Mail: inside_out@lineone.net
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Amateur dramatics theatre company
The Bourne
Hastings
TN34 3BD
Telephone: 01424 423221
Full stage for hire with LX , PA , Flying facilities and full back stage dressing rooms plus, front of house facilities, art gallery and bar.
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(See also Inside Out Theatre Company)
Offers children and young people aged five to 18 creative arts workshops and the chance to perform and exhibit their work in the community. Gizmo courses include: Film-Making, Set and Fashion Design, Art, Performing Arts and Cheerleading Workshops, including educational trips and School Holiday Schemes.
Gizmo World
23 Priory Street
Hastings
TN34 1EA
Tel: 01424 436333
e-Mail: gizmopatricia2006@hotmail.co.uk
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Caroline Le Breton
12 Claremont
Hastings
TN34 1HA
Telephone: 01424 719860
St Mary-in-the-Castle
Pelham Place
Hastings
TN34 3AF
Colin Booth
Seaside Road
St Leonards on Sea
TN38 0AL
Telephone: 01424 718837
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SCW is a community writing and publishing group which is open to all, but particularly welcomes people who need to develop confidence in expressing themselves.
e-Mail: info@shorelinkwriters.org.uk
Web: www.shorelinkwriters.org.uk
‘Horizons’ is a collaborative project which, in partnership with other organisations in the Hastings area, offers adults the opportunity to acquire new knowledge and develop their skills. The project offers non-traditional’ learners in Hastings and St Leonards the chance to return to learning in their own community, studying a wide range of subjects including creative writing, life history work, volunteering, maths, French and computing.
The Horizons Project Community
Flat 1 & 2, Churchill Court, Stonehouse Drive
St Leonards
Telephone: 01424 204136
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This page last updated: 17/10/2007