The opening of The Hastings Seafood, Wine & Music Festival in East Sussex

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The event started on Friday, 13th September with their launch party and rock evening followed by the opening of the full event on Saturday 14th at 11am.

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00:00Welcome to the Hastings Seafood and Wine. For the first time it's going to be run independently

00:05from the Hastings Borough Council who have run it for many years and unfortunately due

00:10to budgets unable to do it this year. So a group of very enthusiastic, passionate people

00:16about Hastings got together to put this event on because we know it's so popular. Events

00:21like this are really important to the town because it's such a community vibe here. We've

00:26got some great creative people and it's also about the sustainable fishing fleet that we

00:33are trying to still maintain. This year will be a learning curve because obviously like

00:39anything starting out first we won't get everything right but yes we have plans to do other events

00:45and all the people in our group are so enthusiastic about putting other events on. It's absolutely

00:50brilliant to be here today at the Hastings Seafood and Wine Festival. I have to say I

00:55was here last night dancing away to Stop Stop. It's really sad that because of the

01:03budgetary situation the council at this time have not been able to fund it as we did in

01:09the past. However these events are absolutely crucial to Hastings. They are Hastings, they're

01:15part of our life of Hastings. They bring the visitors into our town and that's what we

01:21need. We are a tourist destination and to see everybody working and see the traders

01:28and the people working together to make this event happen is absolutely brilliant and I

01:34mean a really well done to them. I'm looking forward and hope everyone enjoys a brilliant

01:41weekend. You can't get an Airbnb this weekend and we only announced four weeks ago we were

01:46able to do this. It's great for the town, it's great for the business and I have a lot

01:53of music, 12 bands on this weekend right through to Sunday at 6pm. We formed a CIC, that's

02:01a community company, non-profit and we called ourselves State Events and we aim to bring

02:11back the Midsummer Fish Fest that's been slashed and also the Good Old Herring Fair

02:17in the winter, perhaps with a Christmas Fair. That's what we aim to do. If this all works

02:22out today, this weekend, that's what we'll be doing. State Events is what we're called.

02:28Keep it going. Let's keep seafood, wine and music festival on the go.

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