Hastings Events
Discover what's happening in Hastings. Updated regularly with events for the town; from major events to quiz nights, theatre, markets and music evenings.
Here are just some the highlights of the year (2017) but there is always a good reason to visit Hastings at any time of the year.
January – the 92nd Hastings International Chess Congress - 28 December 2016 - 5 January 2017
February – Fat Tuesday - details are from 2016 at present!
March – Hastings Half Marathon – 19 March
April – Beatles Day 18 – on 2nd at White Rock Theatre
May - Hastings’ Jack in the Green
June – Stade Saturdays - cultural events every Saturday on Stade Open Space; and free!
July – Hastings Beer and Music Festival, Alexandra Park
August – Old Town Carnival Week
September – Seafood & Wine Festival
October – Hastings Bonfire – 14 October
November – Hastings Storytelling Festival
December – It’s Christmas!
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Ongoing Events
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Guided Walk
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 24 Aug 2017 To 24 Aug 2017
A tour of Hastings Old Town, the premier ancient Cinque Port, with its wealth of historic buildings, twittens and cat-creeps. Find out why the celebrities of their day flocked to Hastings.
Old Hastings Preservation Society volunteer guides lead all walks, which proceed gently downhill, but...
Type
Type
Concert
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 25 Aug 2017 To 25 Aug 2017
Irish pop legends Boyzone at Hastings Pier. Twenty-four years, twenty five million record sales, seven hit studio albums, six #1 singles and hundreds of thousands of ticket sales later; Ronan, Keith, Mikey & Shane are BOYZONE and are still going strong. With their 25th anniversary due in 2018 the...
Type
Type
Dance / Dancing
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 25 Aug 2017 To 25 Aug 2017
An evening of two incredible Cabaret Acts; DJ for the evening is Ash playing our favourites from the 70s & 80s from Boy George through to Kyle Minogue - requests welcomed on the night Fancy Dress Option To make the evening real fun why not dress up in your favourite attire of your idol singer....
Type
Type
Museums
Location:
White Rock, Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 26 Aug 2017 To 28 Aug 2017
This Bank Holiday Weekend at The True CRIME Museum…
A robbery has taken place! Find clues hidden around the museum on bank notes to solve the CRIME - a fun activity for detectives of all ages.Type
Type
Concert
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 26 Aug 2017 To 26 Aug 2017
DAY TRIPPER is a unique one-day open-air event on Hastings Pier curated by OCEAN COLOUR SCENE themselves and will see the band perform their seminal 1996 breakthrough album Moseley Shoals in full plus a selection of their greatest hits. Joining them on this special bill will be the hugely...
Type
Type
Outdoor Event / Activities
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 26 Aug 2017 To 31 Aug 2017
Fun activities for all the family.
Saturday - Dino Day, Giant T-Rex & interactive dinosaur babies
Sunday - Chill Out Sunday - DJ, Free
Monday - Movie Mondays - Moana
Tuesday - Jazz Tuesdays - Jazz Brunch with Chantelle Duncan
Wednesday - Craft Wednesdays
Thursday - ...
Type
Type
Music
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 27 Aug 2017 To 27 Aug 2017
Charity fundraiser for Hastings Sanctuary service - donations kindly accepted at the door.
Featuring:
Elvis with Andy T King
Thee Missing Finks
DJs
Grand raffle, BBQ
Type
Type
Food
Location:
St Leonards
Dates
- From:
- 27 Aug 2017 To 27 Aug 2017
Listen to Jazz live with the Excelsior Vintage Jazz Band and The Victory Sisters.
Bring your own food and drink and picnic in beautiful surroundings by the lake.
Tea, coffe and Pimms available
£11 in advance or £13 on the day. Children free.
Ample free parking
Type
Type
Festival
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 31 Aug 2017 To 30 Sep 2017
Hastings Fringe is an independent, inclusive, and friendly festival dedicated to nurturing local, national and international performances by emerging and established artists from all arts disciplines.
The annual festival celebrates a diverse range of performance including theatre, spoken word,...
Type
Type
Workshop
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 2 Sep 2017 To 3 Sep 2017
Let your children’s imaginations run wild at this fantastic kids workshop
Who’s that hiding around the corner? What’s that moving on the beach? Did you just see what I saw?
Take a magical adventure with Lone Twin who last visited Hastings with their spectacular Boat Project in 2013....
Type
Type
Arts
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 2 Sep 2017 To 8 Sep 2017
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS: pearls, paint & fishleather
Sat 2 FISHLEATHER FLOWERS (Jane Fryers): Learn to sculpt roses from salmon skin. Sun 3 BEAD STRINGING (Julie Tucker-Williams): Learn to string beads & pearls on knotted thread. Fri 8 PAINTED FURNITURE (Melissa White): Transform an old...
Type
Type
Arts
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 2 Sep 2017 To 1 Oct 2017
The boat can be seen from dawn till dusk. Dazzleship NN201, a Hastings fishing boat will be painted in WW1 dazzleship camouflage, to highlight the role of the fishing community during both world wars.
All welcome to the private view on Sep 1 (5pm – 7pm) and Coastal Currents Open Studio...
Type
Type
Participatory Event
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 2 Sep 2017 To 2 Sep 2017
Hunt and Darton will host an interactive and unwieldy bake-off.
Prepare to be totally underwhelmed as the general public go head-to-head for one supreme crap baker to be crowned champion of H&D’s Not Great British Bake Off.
Hunt & Darton as your hosts and adjudicators, have created...
Type
Type
Arts
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 2 Sep 2017 To 1 Oct 2017
The internationally acclaimed Macedonian artist Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva will showcase Reoccurring Undulation VI at the Shipwreck Museum in Rock-a-Nore. Reoccurring Undulation is made from fish skin tiles and was originally commissioned for Towner, in Eastbourne, as part of Compulsive, Obsessive,...
Type
Type
Music
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 2 Sep 2017 To 2 Sep 2017
The Fabulous Red Diesel downsize and start their journey into new jazz, with Miss Bea Have on double bass, Kitty and Boom in their usual positions, and what has Rabbi Jaffa Delicious brought with him? Expect beautiful new music, voodoo grooves, chilled out jazz and a little bit of chaos.
Type
Type
Arts
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 2 Sep 2017 To 1 Oct 2017
Wavelength will be a site specific visual experiment in Bottle Alley, a unique space that joins Hastings with St Leonards.
A half mile long and subterranean, its position and narrow width provide an acute sense of perspective. Generally under-used, this space is an inspired example of...
Type
Type
Performing Arts
Location:
St Leonards
Dates
- From:
- 3 Sep 2017 To 3 Sep 2017
ISLAND WORKOUT A durational performance testing relations between body and space
The chosen site is an elevated, in-between space; buffeted by the sea and passed by a constant flow of traffic. Burgoyne will seek to immerse us in its island-like status, something of a drifting Raft of...
Type
Type
Guided Walk
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 5 Sep 2017 To 9 Sep 2017
A tour of Hastings Old Town, the premier ancient Cinque Port, with its wealth of historic buildings, twittens and cat-creeps. Find out why the celebrities of their day flocked to Hastings.
Old Hastings Preservation Society volunteer guides lead all walks, which proceed gently downhill, but...
Type
Type
Arts
Location:
St Leonards
Dates
- From:
- 7 Sep 2017 To 10 Sep 2017
Department of the Interior is a 6.5m high black leatherette bouncy castle that mocks, with absurdity, both institutional and architectural claims for authority.
It is a sculpture that is simultaneously seductive and repulsive; its form and the space within no longer the preserve of inclusive...
Type
Type
Music
Location:
Hastings
Dates
- From:
- 7 Sep 2017 To 26 Oct 2017
The shanty sessions featuring RX Shantymen
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