Welcome to the new independent Coastal Currents Arts Festival now stretching from Eastbourne to Rye to Robertsbridge Firstly we want to thank you, the public, for helping us crowd fund to keep this vital celebration of culture and energy of the coast alive. The White Rock Hotel has We have new partners and more supporters than ever, working together to create legacy pieces concerned with bringing art and the perfect location with culture to you, as accessible, free, immersive experiences that stunning views over award inspire, educate and enliven. This year we are starting on the road to be consciously greener, winning Hastings Pier note no laminate on the cover and impactful pieces that carry less Coastal Currents is devised and managed and the sea, a fabulous of a footprint. We have looked at introducing projects with an by Sweet & Dandy Ltd. environmental slant, from Juliet Russell’s A Pledge to the Land sweetanddandy.co.uk cafe-bar, and lovely rooms. and Sea to Felicity Truscott’s artist in residence piece with Groundwork South. Why stay anywhere else? We are truly proud to present a new phase in the life of this 21 year old festival whilst continuing to showcase the quality of this unique Situated in a prime location on Hastings area, with innovative outdoor performances, interventions and seafront, the White Rock is a great place commissions rooted in reinventing and rejuvenating unusual areas, to stay for your visit to Hastings whether venues and locations. for business or pleasure. Come spend September by the sea. Our hotel offers modern comfortable rooms Tina Morris Director With Art Fund support and professional but friendly service. We have the security and convenience of a 24 hour reception, food and drink available all day in our stylish cafe-bar and room service at no With thanks to our supporters who helped create the 2019 independent festival: extra charge. We also have our own carpark, free WiFi and a choice of meetings rooms. The Terrace cafe-bar’s famed sea front terraces are the ideal place to breakfast al fresco, meet friends for lunch or sip cocktails in the moonlight. Perhaps unusually for such a modern bar we are also noted for our excellent local beers and our ‘dogs welcome’ policy. Also discover our newly opened basement bar and live music nights. To book, please call us Donate: on 01424 422240 We are now independent and rely on your donations to make this festival happen. www.thewhiterockhotel.com Help us with the 2020 festival now gofundme.com/coastal-currents-2020 [email protected] Coastal Currents 2019 is in tribute to Jay Warner, an incredible, kind, funny and big hearted, larger than life, diamond human being, who made a real impact on all who knew him in the short time he was in Hastings. We’ll miss you terribly at this year’s festival Jay. B coastalcurrents.org.uk CONTENTS 4 Street Art 5 Festival Launch Party 6 Grand Coastal Postcard Hunt 8 BT Boxes 9 Crowley Calling 10 Hastings Heart Night 11 Our Town: A Pledge to the Land and the Sea 12 Coastal Currents Workshops 13 Felicity Truscott 14 The Observer Basement 15 If Not a Wasteland 16 Pecha Kucha 17 Dance Movies - Mark French 18 Home Live Art & New Queers on the Block 19 Salty 1st Birthday Party 20 MAP 23 EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS 49 OPEN STUDIOS 49 Seaford 51 Eastbourne 53 Bexhill 56 Battle 57 St Leonards on Sea 68 Hastings 77 East of Hastings 80 Winchelsea & Rye Thank you We are very grateful for all artists, organisers and advertisers who have contributed to CC 2019. Designed by Luke Herriott at StudioInk.co.uk. With special thanks to Mark French, Juliet Russell, Ben Urban, Rachel Irons, Rebecca Ellis, Katy Baird, Fay McConnell, Megan Donfrancesco Reddy, Molly Anne Barrett, Clare Dunham Phillips, Emma Long and Joule Arts and Events among others who helped facilitate. Coastal Currents 2019 is devised and managed by Sweet & Dandy Ltd. Large print versions are available on request email [email protected] Coastal Currents 2019 3 STREET ART Curated by Sweet and Dandy COASTAL CURRENTS LAUNCH PARTY ROOF TERRACE JOIN US ON THE TOP TERRACE OF THIS 1930’S ICON STARTS 6PM, SPEECHES - 7PM Image by Drew Copus - @droobie_art Copus Drew Image by FREE GLASS OF FIZZ - Limited Book online at dlwp.com if you want to attend though! De La Warr Pavilion beach-side lawn Saturday 31st August 2pm – 10.30pm Free entry booking required – dlwp.com An all-day, beach-side event celebrating independent record label culture with DJs from eight of the UK’s best record labels bringing you the fi nest soul, funk, beats, breaks and drum & bass. Street Art Sweet and Dandy as part of this year’s Coastal Currents has curated a number of accessible street level visual arts pieces that will add to the impact the festival has already made in recent years. With the Queens Road mural and the West Hill Shelter, Bottle Alley’s Point of Decay and Wavelength by ZEROH in 2015 & 2017 as well as Isaac Cordal’s #LittleMenofRockaNore amongst some of the better known interventions, Coastal Currents looks to continue this legacy. Watch out for pieces across the region and hashtag with #coastalcurrents when you spot them. 4 coastalcurrents.org.uk Coastal Currents 2019 5 FREE Participatory NT HU D AR ND TC A ASTAL POS GR CO HASTINGS BEXHILL SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 10AM HASTINGS CONTEMPORARY 1PM DE LA WARR PAVILION 3.30PM TOWNER EASTBOURNE The Grand Coastal Postcard Hunt will take you on a magical mystery tour of the Sussex coastline giving you many opportunities to fi nd and win amazing artworks by fantastic artists. We asked a heap of the most talented artists we knew including Maslen and Mehra, Dawn Mellor, Alice Channer, Sophie Barber, Robert Ellis, Scott Robertson, Godith Hawkins, EASTBOURNE Alessandra Spranzi, Harold Off eh, Caroline Achaintre, Jack Strange, Alison Wilding, Drew Copus, Etienne Le Comte, Geraldine Swayne, Amy Sharrocks, Alexander Brattell, Tom Banks, Michelle Mildenhall, SHUBY, Sadie Hennessy, Rachel Williams, Leo Leigh, Sassy Luke, Tom Dale and many more. Follow us on social media on the day to fi nd the clues, follow the hunt and bag yourself a free piece of valuable original art. coastalcurrents.org.uk/grandcoastalpostcardhunt @coastalcurrents #coastalcurrents #grandcoastalpostcardhunt 6 coastalcurrents.org.uk Coastal Currents 2019 7 STREET ART Curated by Sweet and Dandy BT BOXES Sweet and Dandy presents: Peter Quinnell 50.859960, 0.588942 Benjamin Phillips 50.857037, 0.590898 Nina Somers 50.857026, 0.590975 Drew Copus 50.855659, 0.579918 SHUBY 50.855201, 0.584300 ZEROH 50.855237, 0.577055 SEP 8 coastalcurrents.org.uk Quinnell Peter Image by Coastal Currents 2019 9 FREE Participatory OUR TOWN; A PLEDGE TO THE LAND AND THE SEA Ladies Parlour, West Hill, Hastings, TN34 3RD 20 September, 6pm, FREE You are invited to Ladies Parlour, West Hill, Hastings to watch the sunset, accompanied by beautiful live music and readings of the books. 7.15pm We will circle the Hill as custodians to this land and sea. PLEASE CONTRIBUTE Nelson Antiques, 80 High St, Old Town, TN34 3EL St Mary in the Castle Cafe, 7 Pelham Place, TN34 3AF Omega Studio, 14 Grand Parade, TN37 6DN 1 - 15 September PLEASE SIGN THE BOOK AT THESE LOCATIONS As part of Coastal Currents Festival, a book will be created, pledging how we as a whole town will change part of our lifestyle to protect and preserve the environment and our impact upon it. We would love everyone in the community to come and write one sentence in the book saying how they will help the environment. The pledge will then be illustrated by local artists and housed in Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, then archived in the Fishermans Museum. We would also love schools and all community groups to add to the Towns Pledge by creating their own beautiful books. Please will you be an ambassador? We ask everyone of you to become an ambassador for the pledge project. Please take a few lined & numbered A4 pages everywhere with you and ask everyone including groups and businesses you are part of, to sign their name and a short sentence saying how they will reduce their impact on the environment. Then take your sheets to one of the addresses above by 17 September. The project has been created by Juliet Russell whose music in the landscape has been heard globally from the National Theatre roof, castles and football stadiums, to sites of the ancient Mayans. vocalexplosion.co.uk/juliet-russell MUSICIANS: Dirk Campbell on Bagpipes - renowned multi instrumentalist (The Last King of Scotland, Harry Potter, RSC). Juliet Russell, vocalist. Vocal Explosion Choir, Hastings Gospel Soul Choir. FELL DUO, stunning accordion & violin from Joe White and Mike Simmonds (Nick Cave,The Levellers, Alice Russell). 10 coastalcurrents.org.uk Coastal Currents 2019 11 WORKSHOPS In partnership with East Sussex College Coastal Currents Workshops Workshops hosted at East Sussex College and curated by Sweet and Dandy. £10 per adult per session - coastalcurrents.org.uk/tickets Felicity Truscott (free to students from East Sussex College but must book in advance by emailing [email protected]) Hastings Borough Council, with support from the Interreg North West Europe programme, is working with Groundwork South to 23 July deliver a new sustainable straw bale Visitor Centre for Hastings Marketing/PR/Social Media by SWEET AND DANDY Country Park. Morning 10am - 1pm - Making things happen Capturing the process of the build will help to promote Afternoon 2pm - 5pm - How to make a project fl y... sustainable public buildings.