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Culture

Two buses, three churches & tea

In blazing sunshine, thirty five Friends of St Mary's met at Rye Station Approach to board two community buses for the annual visit to a selection of churches on Romney Marsh. This year the choice was Snave, Appledore and Stone in Oxney.

Let’s go to the movies!

This week's featured film showing at Rye Kino is 'Love & Mercy' Set to the era-defining music of The Beach Boys (pictures above), Love & Mercy intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the band's mercurial lead singer and songwriter Brian Wilson, an icon whose success came at an extraordinary personal cost. For details of this and other movies showing in Rye please follow the link...

Singing in black and white

Stephen Sondheim's music and words (reviewed last week) were...

Janet explores Jim’s mystery

Janet Denny's prize winning mystery starts with a photograph. Explore what happens next in "The man on the mantlepiece"

Festival to stage 50+ events

More than 50 events at least 15 different venues over 17 days. It's the 44th Rye Arts Festival and its 36 page programme has just been launched. Charles Harkness reports on a few of the highlights

Dark art hovers in GCSE show

A refreshingly frank GCSE Art Exhibition at Rye Art Gallery gives a glimpse of life as a teenager in 2015

Festival doubles up Mozart

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

Bloodbath at community centre

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

Tilling hosts lunch and tea

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

Let’s go to the movies!

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...

Singing Sondheim for charity

  On July 14, anĀ audience of fifty or more peopleĀ cheered...

Don’t keep off the grass

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

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