HAY: How Are You? (Formerly known as Ministry of Moans)

How Are You? A standard throwaway question we ask so casually, with answers so brief, so remote from the truth worming around inside us, you wonder why we bother. These days, we’re taking our time, asking and answering this question with a little more care.

HAY is a multi-disciplinary performance which will put this question to the community with the weight and time it deserves. These stories, feelings, moans and outbursts have been collected from around Hastings and St Leonards, then harvested and fed to our giant thoughtful worms, who will help us rustle together a soothing combination of live art experience including theatre, puppetry, live and recorded sound, and animation.

HAY is devised and produced by Reshuffle, a collective of local performers, musicians, visual artists and designers who have come together to question current political and social acceptances, while avoiding an unhelpful reliance on institutions that monopolise the arts. In doing so, the aim is to make work as local and accessible as possible, facilitate the expression of thoughts, feelings and difficult conversations, challenge the status quo, and most importantly, create a bit of wonderment. '

Below is information on the previous plan for the Minisitry of Moans.