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Exhibitions continue at RAG

Three exhibitions staged during the Rye Arts Festival continue at the Rye Art Gallery until October 25 featuring leading local artists, mixed media from local textile artists and an Art Deco retrospective

Gothic ramble round Ramsgate

Rambling round Ramsgate, what lessons can we learn about conserving glorious architecture and having to depend too much on tourism? This special report is from Allan Downend

Let’s go to the movies!

This week's featured film showing at the Rye Kino from Friday October 9 is "A Walk in the Woods". In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (pictured above with Robert Redford) challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find is anything but . . . For more details and trailers of this and other movies showing in Rye follow the link

Something for everyone in RAF

Heidi Foster, sums up the experience of her own, mostly lighthearted, last weekend at the Arts Festival

Bloody thrones and other plays

Five people sit calmly in front of a cinema screen. The curtain is about to come down on the Rye Arts Festival. But mayhem breaks out. Rape, poisoning, and intrigue follows. The body count rises. This is 16th century Elizabethan England and Rye playwright John Fletcher is at work. Ray Prewer spells out the plot - which was set to music

An unforgettable conclusion

Alexander Stiller reviews one of the last concerts in this year's Arts Festival as the Belcea and Piatti quartets unite for an octet

Residing and drawing

Last year's Arts Festival had a quartet in residence...

Sacred and profane in church

Last week the classical vocal ensemble Stile Antico returned to the Rye Arts Festival after a six year wait to perform their set "Sacred or Profane" - in a church. Ray Prewer reviews the concert.

Fashion at the cutting edge

Want to see some young talent and cutting edge designs during the Arts Festival ? If you weren't at the Studio School Fashion Show, you missed out. Gillian Roder gives her impressions

Bonzo fans get sated

Festivals need moments of total madness - as you can see

Cabaret queen raises roof

Gales of laughter shook the Arts Festival's Lamb House marquee as Tim Redfern's hilarious cabaret evening provided a light hearted end to the festival, of which it was (apparently) not officially part

A trio of masterpieces

The Odysseus Trio are setting out on a musical journey. Alexander Stiller reviews their Arts Festival concert in All Saints Church in Iden.

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