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Monthly Archives: February, 2016

Marquee moan – a reader writes

As Rye Arts Festival selects a new chairman, a reader gives some advice about appropriate venues to show off the visiting talent

New direction for Arts Festival?

Tension was in the air as members arrived at Rye Community Centre for the Rye Arts Festival AGM

Lets go to the movies!

This week's featured film showing at the Rye Kino is Spotlight, telling the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. . .

Tuesday Painters, come and join

If you draw or paint as a hobby, or if you did once and want to take up brush or pencil again, then joining the Tuesday Painters can help you develop your art

A ‘salty’ book group

Another book group starts - at Salts Farm - with a problem

Chamber music comes home

Chamber music returns to a familiar home, with hopes for more

Join the ‘Lab’ crew

Are you young, hip and ready to hop? Join one of the music workshops at the Rye Creative Centre and learn how to beat it

Rye dance perform another hit

Rye Dance Centre’s latest show, Super Duper, came hot off the heels of the successful Christmas pantomime Down in the Woods. Did they pull off another sensational performance? Olli Hopkins reports

Art discovery on a Rye stroll

Stroll through Rye and who knows who you might meet. In this case it was artist Karl Terry in the High Street creating a masterpiece

Casuals back in action?

This weekend hopefully sees the return to football for Icklesham Casuals, as their 1st and 2nd team are in action, whilst Beckley are hit with another postponement. Dan Lake reports

Painting the pool red

The pool turned red at the Rye Sports Centre at an under 16s splashdance party in aid of the British Heart Foundation

Let’s go to the movies

This week's featured film playing at the Rye Kino - Dad’s Army - It is 1944 and World War II is reaching its climax. But in Walmington-on-Sea morale, amongst the Home Guard is low. Their new mission is to patrol the Dover army base and it is a great chance to revive spirits and reputation, that is until glamorous journalist Rose Winters arrives to write about their exploits, setting their pulses racing...

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