Culture

The programme for this year's Rye Arts Festival will be announced on Sunday, July 20, and a highlight will be two performances of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" with a lot of help from students at the Studio School. Charles Harkness talks to conductor/director Alisdair Kitchen

Multiple murders took place last weekend (July 10-11), committed...

The annual meeting of the EF Benson society saw 40 fans gather in Rye for a day of walks, talks and overeating. The highlight was the reading of "Dinner for Eight", a Benson play first performed 100 years ago

This week's featured film 'Amy' tells the incredible story of six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse (pictured above) - featuring extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving and vital film shines a light on the world we live in today.. For more of this and other films showing in Rye follow the link...

  On July 14, an audience of fifty or more people cheered...

Writer and broadcaster Richard Crowest returns to the garden...

Rye Museum Association is holding its Annual General Meeting...

Sabotage theatre company put on a thought provoking, moving and educational show about owling (smuggling) in Sussex at the weekend as part of the JAM festival

Songs from Sondheim musicals, comedy thrills, operatic arias and the launch of this year's programme for the Rye Arts Festival all feature in a busy programme of events this coming weekend and the next.

This week's featured film, 'Minions', the story begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. But one Minion named Kevin has a plan, and he - alongside teenage rebel Stuart and lovable little Bob - ventures out into the world to find a new evil boss for his brethren to follow. For details of this and other films follow the link..

The Rye Museum Association is holding its annual fundraising...

Three readers can win a copy of the new book from Harper Lee, courtesy of The Rye Bookshop. Just answer a simple question, email in to Rye News and you could be one of the lucky winners. Alternatively pop in to the store and enjoy complimentary coffee and doughnuts on the launch day, July 14