Culture
Musical Peasmarsh
The 2015 Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival was once again a great success with superb performances by some wonderfully skilled musicians
‘JAM on the Marsh’ returns
JAM on the Marsh, a multi-art festival built round our own magnificent Romney Marsh, brings 19 events over 10 days for us all to enjoy
Rehearsing again with thrills
This is just a rehearsal, and you need to imagine swirling mists, rising floodwaters and an old dark house on the edge of marshes. It could be Rye. And all that is missing is the body - and the will, of course. So it must be Acting Up In Rye hard at work on a new production, though it looks like a lot of fun
Let’s go to the movies!
This week's featured film is the long awaited blockbuster 'Jurassic World' (pictured), 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park. Isla Nublar is now a fully-functioning dinosaur theme park. But, after ten years of operation and with visitor rates declining, a new attraction is created to re-spark visitors’ interest, with disastrous consequences. For more details of this and other films with trailers follow the link..
Road links ancient and modern
The Bexhill to Hastings link road has revealed some hidden treasures, bringing new clarity to how our ancestors lived and worked
“Peaceful contemplative scenes”
From primitive cave paintings to Turner, watercolours are a huge subject, and local artist Andy Wood is an expert because he is President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. He talked to the Friends of Rye Art Gallery recently about this area of art
Schools join festival line up
Local schoolchildren will have the chance to write their own music to be performed by a professional group of musicians at the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival this month reports Seana Lanigan
Let’s go to the movies!
This week's featured film showing at Rye Kino is Mr Holmes, staring Sir Ian McKellen as the long-retired Sherlock Holmes living in a remote Sussex farmhouse tending to his bees. Partially filmed at Wickham Manor Farm in Winchelsea (pictured), Holmes is haunted by an unsolved case that forced him into retirement. Inspired by the enthusiastic Roger, Holmes is determined to crack one final mystery... Follow the link for this and more films showing in Rye