A casual cabaret with buffet supper. Bring your own wine. £10
This Friday (22nd July) Carol Prior is at the Beacon, 8pm onwards, with her special cabaret + buffet supper.
For a tenner there's a cool atmosphere, music, entertainment and food (mainly vegetarian). Tea/coffee inc. BYO wine. Booking would be good (email judy@beaconhastings.com or 01424 431305).
We know there's a lot happening on this evening but come along after the Museum retrospective for Angie and Len.
Sunday 24th July, 3pm.
Krysia Mansfield sings and models (if you'd care to draw - basic art materials provided), plus home-made cream tea, sandwiches, cakes etc;. Please bring your own alcohol; tea provided.
£7.50
Krysia Mansfield
Coastal Currents Open Studios 2009
Exhibition and Open Studios; 5th/6th and 12/13th September, 12noon - 6pm.
Always an enjoyable experience for us, an opportunity to spend a few hours chatting to visitors and catching up with each other.
dab Arts, based here at the Beacon, is offering a series of performance and theatre skills workshops on Saturdays. Run by writer/director Christine Harmar-Brown and Rebecca Ellis they are aimed specifically at young people 16-25 years. With a maximum of 12 in the group the aim is to have a stimulating informative day in relaxed surroundings.
ACTING and IMPROVISATION SKILLS. Release your spontaneity in this fun, skills based workshop to develop understanding and techniques of improvisation.
DEVISING and PERFORMANCE PRACTICE. Create a drama by responding to a variety of stimuli to devise and refine short pieces for performance.
TEXT ANALYSIS IN REHEARSAL. For budding directors and actors - working on text to explore practically a director's approach to looking at character, analysis of sub text, actioning, gesture and staging.
SCRIPT WRITING. Speak out - a chance to have your say and write the script yourself. Discover how to create a character, plot and dialogue.
Booking essential.
Fee £15 per workshop. Book all four for £40.
Wear old loose-fitting clothes and trainers, and briing a packed lunch. Soft drinks provided.
To book: email judy@dabarts.com , or phone 05602 748073 or 01424 431305
The evolution of "supermarket punch" into a bedspread
Robert Weatherburn and Olivier Marechal bring their piano concert to the Beacon, Hastings in between performances in Paris and Balliol College, Oxford.
Brahms 11 Waltzes Op 39
Mozart Sonata in D major K 381 (1781)
Mendelssohn Overture 'Fingal's Cave' - The Hebrides
INTERVAL
Schubert Fantaisie in F minor Op 103
Rachmaninov Romance. Russian Song
Moszkowski Valse Brillante.
£15, which includes a hot buffet. Please bring your own alcohol, but tea and coffee provided.
This dress charts my life through my family history; seeing the course of ‘me' coming through my great grandparents and grandparents none of whom I ever met but they were talked about often; my parents and siblings – us growing up as a family, and now my own children and our family stories as we all go one rung further up the ladder of life with a new generation about to be born.
The sanctuary, the security, the bedrock of family.
I have taken images from family photos and drawn directly onto a dress that I made about 30 years ago. I have worn this dress at different times over this period, in different ways- with petticoats or possibly with very little underneath….such was my life, adapting to circumstances, often brazen but sometimes fading into the background.
Very personal work, drawing on my life and what's happening around me.
I have chosen to show the dress this time as an object ‘light-as-air', flying, reflecting my current feeling of impermanence as I fall or can't stop myself running towards becoming……a grandmother.
The Open Studios 2008 were blessed with the surprising addition of Third Party's 'Fair Maid of the West', due to excess of windy weather at the castle. At the Beacon we were delighted to host their swashbuckling antics, lending both our cutlery and our dog to enhance the shows.
Many, many people passed through our studios, ate our lunches and cakes and purchased our wares. A good year and as Ed Boxall said, 'the sun always shines at the Beacon'. Hmmmm.......
Judy Dewsbery's painting, inspired by a day when Caroline LeBreton and the late Jonathon Cole had covered the seats on the West Hill with brightly coloured fabrics, very neatly sewn. It was a truly magical moment seeing them, with people asking if it was alright to sit on them? and choosing their favourite colour., in fact talking to each other. It was a complete surprise and a generous gesture.
Jan Maloney 17th August 1952 - 7th July 2008
Jan was a good friend and collaborator, a strong force of energy, creativity, hard work and fun. She turned up at the Beacon as a life model but it was immediately obvious that there was more to her, much more. She was a writer, I suggested we did some work together. She had a profound effect on my life for 7years and will be greatly missed.
Jan died after a six month battle against cancer of the oesophagus, this following 2 years of mourning the loss of Lee, her long term partner and father of her two children.
Jan was an internationally recognised writer and play-write who moved to the Hastings area in the late 1990s. She was responsible for setting up the dabArts Youth Theatre; she leaves a legacy of young people and artists who were touched by her huge personality - energetic, creative, entrepreneurial, generous and fun-loving ( often on the dancefloor of La Chambre Magique ).
She researched and wrote the scripts for issue based dramas such as SHED (Self Harm and Eating Disorders) and Shh! that were shown locally and in London. She also wrote and produced 'Big Brother Backwards' and 'Aladin...........trouble' both featuring young people and Hastings, and both being seriously good entertainment while having a sound basis of life at the tough end.
Jan was the local representative for Cardboard Citizens, the national homeless charity that specialises in communication and confidence building through drama and forum theatre. Training with them strenghened her skills and commitment to working with people who's lives had taken a wrong turn.
Jan said the piece of work she was most proud of was the Minotaur, which had many productions and was taken out nationally by the National YouthTheatre. She also wrote for and worked with Gay Sweatshop early in her career, taking theatre pieces to the USA.
Jan's circle of friends was huge and varied; we all looked at each other in amazement at her funeral, realising that there were so many facets to her personality. Part of the reason was her very low boredom threshhold. A cup of coffee with mates, a couple of films at the cinema, the Weakest Link, a jigsaw or two, then on-line Scrabble - and this was during her illness when she had stopped working. She was difficult to keep up with and a hard act to follow.
children and our family stories as we all go one rung further up the ladder of life with a new generation about to be born.
