Sunday Afternoon at the Mint House

Oak Room music stage schedule

2.15 Serious jazzman Olie Brice solo double bass set (20 mins)

2.50 Slapp Happy eminence gris Anthony Moore and Fritz Catlin of 23 Skidoo present C sound and saz… +bongos (20 mins)

3.25 BAFTA nominated soundtrack artist and improvisational wildcard Hutch Demouilpied + composer Vlad Miller get it together on trumpet, flute and keyboard (20 mins)

4pm Otti Albietz + Hutch + Olie play the marvellous songs of Otti (40 mins)

4.55pm Anthony + Resonance FM founding father Ed Baxter (35 mins)

5.40 lute-led folk improv free for all

Ghostly books schedule in the main entrance hall

2pm Divisive East Sussex scenester Southcoast DonArden reads from a never to be published memoir by Evel Knievel’s son (15 mins)

3.10 Faber author Richard King on fascism and the countryside from his book The Lark Ascending

4.20 Antony Clayton, author of Netherwood: Last Resort of Aleister Crowley will talk about a remarkable Hastings guesthouse that around the middle of the last century was home to visiting politicians, scientists, intellectuals and radicals. It was also where Aleister Crowley spent his final three years, playing chess, injecting heroin and receiving an impressive cast of visitors.

5.10 Owen Hatherley - Architectural visionary reads from his new book The Alienation Effect - How Central European Emigres Transformed The British Twentieth Century

Visual arts (in the minting chamber and other back rooms):

Folk acid landscapes from St Richard’s School, Bexhill’s very own head of art and resting Balearic Assassin Ade Peachment

Ceramics causing panic - stunning early career pots by Suzanne Osborne

Animation installation - Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan and Lamprini Loukaidi present

Title: Ladybeat

Year: 2023

A multi-layered animated collage: clap your hands everybody, and everybody clap your hands.

Photography -

The new age of protest

Every Jeff Pitcher photo tells a story

Debbie Antonowicz installations inhabit the Minting Chamber - a room so haunted musicians won’t play in it

Last but not least - durst ye enter Betty Davies’ Chamber to sea what ye may find there?

Refreshments

Mr Tea is Jack Peachment who will be wrangling cakes from Bullet Coffee House

Crossing the road to get a pint from the pub is also encouraged

Security

Matt Le Chat

Travel

Ten minutes very scenic walk through the Castle from Pevensey and Westham (half hourly trains to Hastings Brighton and London)

Or by road it’s just off the A27

Admission £20 (+ bkg) via Eventbrite 50 tickets only