Culture

Found, an accidental encounter

A new art show opens at the Rye Creative Centre in New Road - but is it by accident ?

Let’s go to the movies!

The week's featured film at the Rye Kino is "The Revenant", telling the story of legendary explorer Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) who, having been brutally attacked by a bear, and left for dead, must navigate a vicious winter in a relentless pursuit to live

Club returns to bookshop

Literary life will be boosted by the start up of two new book clubs next week in Rye and East Guldeford. Both groups welcome new readers

Bridge to art

A new exhibition has been unveiled at the Rye Creative Centre

Winchelsea’s history rewritten

The New Year in Winchelsea was launched irreverently by the town's Mummers in a traditional performance followed by a musical re-interpretation of the town's history

Rye heads for Cannes

Is Rye about to be seen in Cannes? The makers of this film hope so

Lets go to the movies!

This week's featured movie showing at the Kino is Joy, the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes a woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper . . .

Wassail, wassail all over town

We will be nigh on drowning in cider this autumn, if the ceremony at The Oak last weekend was anything to go by

Let’s go to the movies!

This week's featured film showing at Rye Community Centre Film Club on Friday January 8 is "Far from the Madding Crowd". Set in Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three different suitors

Watch China unfold

Practical gardening or the history of Chinese art, culture and current affairs? WEA courses can expand your mind

Galactic invaders spotted

Stormtroopers were seen in Rye between Christmas and New Year, raising speculation about a full-scale alien invasion

Time to dress up . . .

One of the expectations of Rye's Christmas celebration was that people came in Dickensian costume, if they could, from Victorian times - and they did!