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JJ Waller’s Jack in the Green
Hastings Bank Holiday Monday through the eyes of JJ Waller HOT’s Erica Smith goes all green-eyed over JJ Waller’s photographs. As I cycled down London Road this morning, clad in
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JJ Waller’s St Leonards Festival
St Leonards Festival through the eyes of JJ Waller JJ Waller continues his documentation of life in St Leonards and Hastings with a visit to this year’s St Leonards Festival.
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HOT party
The HOT-test night out On Wednesday 25 September, Hastings Online Times will be TEN YEARS OLD! And we’d like you to celebrate with us at the Kino-Teatr. Some of our
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HOT in the Gardens
HOT Picnic this Sunday This Sunday at 2pm, some of the HOT team will be picnic-ing at the south end of Gensing Gardens. If you’d like to meet the team,
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Pride 2021
Back to the ’80s for Pride 2021 Hastings Pride is back on Sunday 29 August and is bigger and better than ever before with the incredible hard work of all
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JJ Waller’s May Day medley
May Day 2022 through the eyes of JJ Waller Brighton-based photographer JJ Waller has been a regular visitor to Hastings and St Leonards over the last couple of decades and
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Sanctuary Festival 2022
Sanctuary Festival 2022 Musicians and artists join a day of community, creativity and hope on Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 June 2022 at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. Sanctuary Festival
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Gensing Gardens birthday party
Happy 150th Birthday, Gensing Gardens! Gensing Gardens was officially opened by the Mayor of Hastings, Mr Thomas Ross, on 3 July 1872. 150 years later, the community celebrated the Gardens’
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JJ Waller at SLF 2022
JJ Waller’s St Leonards Festival 2022 Photographer JJ Waller shares his photographs of and his thoughts about this year’s St Leonards Festival. I think I have been to every festival
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JJ Waller’s Pirate Weekend
JJ Waller’s Pirate weekend Photographer JJ Waller had an action-packed weekend – starting off taking photographs of the low-tide tour of the Amsterdam at Bulverhythe, documenting Pirate Weekend and he
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Palestine on the Pier hosts UK’s first heritage ‘thobe’ show
Palestine on the Pier hosts UK’s first heritage ‘thobe’ show Palestine on the Pier, the free cultural festival, returns to Hastings Pier on 4 September with another UK first –
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The Frockers are coming!
The Frockers are coming! It’s Frock Up Friday weekend – an opportunity to put aside the world’s woes for a brief period and have some fun dressing up, as Joan
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Deadly Dames
Deadly Dames. A 1940s cabaret with a female twist HOT’s Judy Parkinson, all glammed up in a pencil skirt, high heels, red lipstick and matching nails, stepped back
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Gensing Gardens wassail
’Tis the season to wassail! In January and early February it is traditional to sing and dance around apple trees, bless them with cider and make lots of noise to
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Get ready for Fat Tuesday
The Big Reveal for Fatter-than-ever Tuesday Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival will once again deliver five days of music, mayhem and Mardi Gras across Hastings and St Leonards from Friday
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St Leonards Festival 2023
St Leonards Festival: Saturday 1 July Get ready to immerse yourself in a joyful day at the much-anticipated St Leonards Festival, taking place this Saturday – 1 July. Erica Smith
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Pride 2023
Proud of Hastings Pride! Photographer JJ Waller shares a few of his pictures from this year’s Pride parade and party at the Oval. Corny captions courtesy of Erica Smith.
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Queer on the Pier
Queer on the Pier is back with a gold star line-up Queer On The Pier is back on Saturday 16 September. Sharon Rhodes interviews the organiser, Wayne Shires of Trinity
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Queer on the Pier
Three cheers for Queer on the Pier! Photographer JJ Waller spent a gay Saturday on Hastings Pier capturing the crowds and the performers who all had fun whilst fundraising for
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The Funny Hole
The Funny Hole The Funny Hole brings together four distinctive artists for a thoroughly idiosyncratic weekend exhibition of unbridled gaiety and whimsy April from 19 to 21 April at The
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Easter holiday happenings
A sunny Easter holiday for once It’s rare to have a sunny Easter holiday period, and after the wild winds on Thursday night, the weather didn’t look promising, but spring
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JJ Waller’s Jack in the Green 2024
JJ Waller’s Jack in the Green 2024 As a tribute to everyone that braved the rain we are featuring a picture special by photographer JJ Waller who writes: “The past
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No August Bank Holiday Pride for Hastings
Hastings will have no Pride this August On the same weekend as a mighty successful TransPride festival was celebrated in Hastings, and Queer on the Pier was held on Saturday
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Pride 2024: Back and Banging!
We are the Rainbow after the Rain! JJ Waller shares a pick of his images from Pride with HOT readers. He says: “What an inspiring and brilliant day. Out of
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60s Danceaway returns this Friday
A vibrant celebration of community and dance In October, Hastings Commons Community Land Trust (HCCLT) members Jan and Pam took the initiative to host an unforgettable 60s Danceaway event at
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