STORIES FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN
Hastings Storytelling Festival 2024 will run from Saturday 19th October to 2nd November
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Here's what's
coming up in
2024
19th October - 1st November
(Programme subject to change)
Relic Hamilton, Genie Hunter
by Joseph Coelho
Saturday 19th October 2024
11am
Hastings Library, 13 Claremont, TN34 1HE
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FREE
No booking required (Limited space - please arrive early)
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Join award winning and best-selling author Joseph Coelho as he shares the first book in his latest middle grade series - Relic Hamilton, Genie Hunter.
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Don't miss out on his CPD workshop on Friday 18th October at The Learning Centre in the Hastings Library
Get Off
by Katy Baird
Saturday 19th October 2024
7:30pm
Stables Theatre, The Bourne, Hastings, TN34 3BD
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TICKETS: £12 | Suitable for 18+
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​Through her trademark humour and an existential haze of home videos, last night’s pounding gabber music, and sessions with her life coach, Stephen, Get Off offers a raw, unfiltered glimpse into the human need for distraction; exploring the depths of our desires and what truly gets us off.
18+
The Fabulous Unknown
by Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir, co-hosted with Katy Baird (Home Live Art)
Sunday 20th October 2024
7:30pm
Stables Theatre, The Bourne, Hastings, TN34 3BD
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TICKETS: £12
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Come and hear the music, the song, the tunes, the dynamism, the humour and the passion of the ecstatic environmentalism. All the way from New York this troupe of activist minstrels fill the room with high energy performance and song with a call to action.​
Anansi and the Lost Sun
performed by Swallow's Wing Theatre
Tuesday 22nd October 2024
4:30pm
Sandown Primary School, The Ridge, Hastings, TN34 2AA
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FREE
No booking required (Limited space - please arrive early)
Anansi & the Lost Sun is a puppet show celebrating African & Caribbean culture. It is a funny, inspiring & entertaining West African tale mixing puppetry, spoken word & traditional live West African Music. More Info
Plants that Kill and Cure
by Xanthe Gresham, Kate Corkey & The Wild Poets
Wednesday 23rd October 2024
7pm
Durbar Hall, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, TN341ET
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Tickets: £8
​Inspired by Xanthe Gresham's Knights Herba Mythica, let four intoxicating storytellers and poets lead you into their worlds of seeds and sweet waters, sirens and shapeshifters, symbols and spirits. Learn their secrets and you too will be able to laugh in the face of the fathers - then turn them to stone – or tree, or water or wine. You know it’s time…
Human Rights Bingo
by Yael Karavan and Silvia Mercuriali
Thursday 24th October 2024
7pm
The Durbar Hall, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Bohemia Road, Hastings, TN34 1ET
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Tickets: £8
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How well do you know your rights? Join the ridiculously serious callers Yael and Silvia in their full blown Bingo Ball Costumes, for a surreal night of Bingo with visual treats and dancing beats.
Test your knowledge and your luck!
This event will include BSL sign interpretation!
Search Party
by Innua Ellams
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Friday 25th October 2024
7:30pm
The Benbow Arts Space, 2 London Rd, Saint Leonards-on-Sea TN37 6AE​
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Tickets: £10
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Hastings Storytelling Festival welcomes our patron, Inua Ellams, an award-winning poet, playwright & curator, is bringing his show ‘Search Party’ to The Benbow Arts Space. Audiences are invited to suggest any word, and based on these prompts, Inua will delve into his vast collection of works to perform a spontaneous selection. Every show is a one-of-a-kind experience.
Smile
by Lauren Child
Saturday 26th October 2024
2pm (Doors open from 1:30pm)
White Rock Theatre, White Rock, Hastings, TN34 1JX
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Tickets:
£10 for ADULTS (aged 17+) | comes with 1 x FREE Child ticket for children aged 0-10, on request.​
£5 for CHILDREN (aged 11-16 or any additional children aged 0-10)
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Hastings Storytelling Festival are proud to present, former Children’s Laureate, and Hastings Storytelling Festival patron, Lauren Child as she focuses on children’s anxiety about the environment in her latest novel Clarice Bean SMILE published by Harper Collins.
Children's Day
and Carnival Parade
Sunday 27th October 2024
12pm - 4pm (Parade starts at 3pm)
The Stade, Stade Open Space, Stade Hall, Hastings Contemporary,
Rock-a-Nore Road, TN34 3DW
FREE
Featuring Laura Dockrill, Alim Kamara, Tuup, Richard Storybeard, Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Ben Watson, Dolly Delicious, Swallow’s Wing Puppetry, Circo Rum Baba and The Flying Buttresses. Don't forget to dress up or bring something along for the ‘animals’ themed parade with Mahogany Carnival Arts of Notting Hill Carnival!
SWELL
by Maria Ferguson
Wednesday 30th October 2024
7pm
​The Horse & Groom, 4 Mercatoria, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0EB
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To make this show even more accessible, Pay What You Can. If you cannot afford to pay then this show is FREE.
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Join Maria Ferguson for an evening of her award-winning poetry, including work from her second collection Swell, upcoming with Penguin in 2025.
Eloquent and uncompromising, Swell explores the triumphs and hardships of the journey to new motherhood through pregnancy, miscarriage, birth and beyond.
Maria's first collection Alright, Girl? was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. Her poetry has appeared in Magma, The Rialto and The Poetry Review and she has been commissioned by the Royal Academy of Art, Stylist magazine, The Bronte Parsonage and BBC Radio.On the stage, Fat Girls Don't Dance won a Saboteur Award and Essex Girl was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award and won Show of the Week at VAULT Festival.
Triple Harmonies
with Black Voices, Brighton Gay Men's Chorus, and Barefoot Opera
Friday 1st November 2024
7:30pm
White Rock Theatre, White Rock, Hastings, TN34 1JX
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Tickets: £15 (Excluding White Rock ticketing fees)
Join us for Triple Harmonies: A Night of Vocal Brilliance, featuring Black Voices, Barefoot Opera, and Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. Be captivated by Black Voices, who bring the world’s stages alive with music rooted in African folklore and storytelling. Experience Barefoot Opera’s dazzling operatic performances with the Barefoot Band, and enjoy the vibrant, high-energy shows of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. Don’t miss this unforgettable evening of vocal artistry and musical magic.
Axel Scheffler
Saturday 2nd November 2024
2pm - Doors open at 1:30pm
White Rock Studio, White Rock Theare, Hastings, TN34 1JX
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Tickets:£10 for ADULTS (aged 17+) | comes with 1 x FREE Child ticket for children aged 0-10, on request.​£5 for CHILDREN (aged 11-16 or any additional children aged 0-10)
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We welcome our new Patron Axel Scheffler as he presents his new book published with Julia Donaldson; Jonty Gentoo: The Adventures of a Penguin. This story tells an unforgettable tale of a brave little penguin on the journey of a lifetime. Axel Scheffler is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed illustrator of some of the most well-loved children’s books. Expect stories, live drawings, and opportunity for questions…and maybe a Gruffalo.
Axel will offer book signing after his talk with books available from our book stall.