When writer, broadcaster and fellow Hastings resident Michael Smith told me a few months ago about visiting St Clements caves, underneath the West Hill, it was quite a story. He’d visited the caves as part of a feature for the brilliant independent magazine Get Hastings. Fast forward a few months later and he and Beth King (the editor of the magazine) had come up with a whole 45 minute film inspired by the caves, but which delved further into the wider “esoteric underbelly” of the town.

DRUMZ OF THE SOUTH at TURF PROJECTS: EYE LEVEL Exhibition

Friendships are formed on the dance floor. In smoky rooms with sticky floors, in pub toilets with stickers covering the stall doors, we carve out our own sense of belonging. We operate new frequencies, climb up lampposts and flyer city streets to shout that we are here and we will find each other.

EXHIBITION: LIFE ON THE BORDERS, CAKE ROOM, HASTINGS, SEPTEMBER

Hastings is good to me. 2 years in and I have an exhibition launching with Vanessa Farinha this Sunday at Cake Room Hastings as part of the indomitable Coastal Currents festival!

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