Culture

Magnificent jazz seven

What to do on a cold windy Thursday in January?I have an idea, there is a supper with jazz evening at the Mermaid Inn in the Tudor Room organised by Dave Silk. I think I could be in for some good food and music. I might even run into some old friends for a chat in the interval

Let’s go to the movies!

This week's featured movie showing at Rye Kino is Room - an unparalleled celebration of the bond between parent and child. Ma has created a whole universe in a room for five year-old Jack, where they have both lived for Jack's whole life. But when Ma decides they have to escape, she risks everything

Fishing for friends of art

Rye Art Gallery is fishing for volunteers. Heidi Foster gives a view from inside

Arts Festival seeks new chairman

The annual meeting of the Rye Arts Festival will see a leadership contest

Bold and brassy ‘Winter Warmer’

A bit of brass should blow out the winter cobwebs

Found, an accidental encounter

A new art show opens at the Rye Creative Centre in New Road - but is it by accident ?

Let’s go to the movies!

The week's featured film at the Rye Kino is "The Revenant", telling the story of legendary explorer Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) who, having been brutally attacked by a bear, and left for dead, must navigate a vicious winter in a relentless pursuit to live

Club returns to bookshop

Literary life will be boosted by the start up of two new book clubs next week in Rye and East Guldeford. Both groups welcome new readers

Bridge to art

A new exhibition has been unveiled at the Rye Creative Centre

Winchelsea’s history rewritten

The New Year in Winchelsea was launched irreverently by the town's Mummers in a traditional performance followed by a musical re-interpretation of the town's history

Rye heads for Cannes

Is Rye about to be seen in Cannes? The makers of this film hope so

Lets go to the movies!

This week's featured movie showing at the Kino is Joy, the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes a woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper . . .

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