Culture
Tuesday Painters, come and join
If you draw or paint as a hobby, or if you did once and want to take up brush or pencil again, then joining the Tuesday Painters can help you develop your art
Join the ‘Lab’ crew
Are you young, hip and ready to hop? Join one of the music workshops at the Rye Creative Centre and learn how to beat it
Rye dance perform another hit
Rye Dance Centre’s latest show, Super Duper, came hot off the heels of the successful Christmas pantomime Down in the Woods. Did they pull off another sensational performance? Olli Hopkins reports
Art discovery on a Rye stroll
Stroll through Rye and who knows who you might meet. In this case it was artist Karl Terry in the High Street creating a masterpiece
Let’s go to the movies
This week's featured film playing at the Rye Kino - Dad’s Army - It is 1944 and World War II is reaching its climax. But in Walmington-on-Sea morale, amongst the Home Guard is low. Their new mission is to patrol the Dover army base and it is a great chance to revive spirits and reputation, that is until glamorous journalist Rose Winters arrives to write about their exploits, setting their pulses racing...
Dry January? Try Fat Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday, AKA Mardi Gras, AKA Fat Tuesday, is your chance to indulge before embarking on your Lenten fasting. Hastings offers a lot more than pancakes. Get some soul food and join in with the street celebrations - particularly if you had a "dry January" after your Christmas boozing
Let’s go to the movies!
The weeks featured film by the Rye Community Centre Film Club is Woman in Gold. Based on a true story, this film follows octogenarian Jewish refugee Maria Altmann’s struggle with the Austrian government in trying to recover a valuable painting stolen from her family by the Nazis during the Second World War. . .