Culture

Get your tickets for the piano competition 2017, it's a treat

Following good attendances at recent film shows Rye Film Club look forward to more appreciative audiences, as they continue with their programme of classic and foreign-language films through the winter to spring

Film of the week - enjoyable and uplifting

Cartoons well worth the visit

Blues by a local legend in a wonderful venue

La La Land, winner of seven Golden Globe awards, stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a jazz musician and actress struggling to make it in Los Angeles. Also showing at the Kino as a special event on Sunday January 15, is TV's Series Four finale of Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, with extra content shown only in cinemas

The Grapevine in Conduit Street, a hot spot for blues and jazz

Overprotective dad Ned is seriously underwhelmed when he and his family visit his daughter and meet her wild and wacky Silicon-Valley billionaire boyfriend Laird. An entertaining comedy of manners ensues

Kate Beckinsale as Lady Susan Vernon, a widow, who has come to stay at the estate of her in-laws to wait for rumours of her dalliances circulating in polite society, to die down

A fascinating and enjoyable evening, showcasing the talents of both cast and director and which deserved a larger audience

Fancy some entertainment after the festivities? In Winchelsea, Holmes and Watson will be seeking the Hound of the Baskervilles inside St Thomas's Church, complete with fog, in this year's Christmas matinee

Thomas Harris, a young pianist of great promise, died at the age of 22. A concert was held in his memory at St Thomas's Church, Winchelsea