Retail Vitality, Keeping Our Town Centres Lively
Hastings Borough Council's Retail Vitality Project is aimed at attracting people to Hastings and St Leonards town centres and supporting local independent retailers. As part of this project, Hastings Borough Council is working with landlords, artists, and social enterprises in the main shopping areas to bring creative and community uses into empty shops and retail spaces. We are doing this in partnership with the Government’s Meanwhile project (Communities & Local Government led by the Development Trusts Association), and Meanwhile Space Community Interest Company.
The following formerly empty shops have been used to present very different short-term art projects which have have helped bring new life and entertainment into our town centre, and as they are right in the town centre, it has brought art into everyday places for everyone.
"The Big Draw " was a free drawing workshop for children and families at Nomad Creative Space, formally the old Halifax Building in Wellington Place, held on a Saturday in October. Nomad Creative Space is a collaboration of artists and enterprise in an exciting project space that aims to engage creatively with the community and provide accessible opportunities for artists to exhibit, perform and work in the space. There are weekly exhibitions, Saturday workshops plus special events to look out for.
"Red Ballon" by Project Artworks shown at 3 York Buildings, Wellington Place, was commissioned by Shot by the Sea film festival 2009. This film installation in a Wellington Place empty shop documented an ongoing collaboration between visual artists and people with neurological impairments.
"The Art of Survival" at 197 Queens Road was an art installation presented by Claremont Studios as part of Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2009, and also funded by the Arts Council. It was a sculptural investigation into the ways we relate to nature and our environment.
"The Good, the Bad and the Telly" also at York Buildings, Wellington Place, was a video installation by Phil Smith and Mat Macdonald, part of Coastal Currents and Shot by the Sea 2009, intriguingly a mere 50 metres from the place television was created by Logie Baird. The installation presented 70 short films made in Hastings over the past 4 years, which had been entered into the Hastings film challenge.
The following formerly empty shops have been used to present very different short-term art projects which have have helped bring new life and entertainment into our town centre, and as they are right in the town centre, it has brought art into everyday places for everyone.
"The Big Draw " was a free drawing workshop for children and families at Nomad Creative Space, formally the old Halifax Building in Wellington Place, held on a Saturday in October. Nomad Creative Space is a collaboration of artists and enterprise in an exciting project space that aims to engage creatively with the community and provide accessible opportunities for artists to exhibit, perform and work in the space. There are weekly exhibitions, Saturday workshops plus special events to look out for.
"Red Ballon" by Project Artworks shown at 3 York Buildings, Wellington Place, was commissioned by Shot by the Sea film festival 2009. This film installation in a Wellington Place empty shop documented an ongoing collaboration between visual artists and people with neurological impairments.
"The Art of Survival" at 197 Queens Road was an art installation presented by Claremont Studios as part of Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2009, and also funded by the Arts Council. It was a sculptural investigation into the ways we relate to nature and our environment.
"The Good, the Bad and the Telly" also at York Buildings, Wellington Place, was a video installation by Phil Smith and Mat Macdonald, part of Coastal Currents and Shot by the Sea 2009, intriguingly a mere 50 metres from the place television was created by Logie Baird. The installation presented 70 short films made in Hastings over the past 4 years, which had been entered into the Hastings film challenge.
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