Culture

Rye Art Gallery is fishing for volunteers. Heidi Foster gives a view from inside

The annual meeting of the Rye Arts Festival will see a leadership contest

A bit of brass should blow out the winter cobwebs

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

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

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

A new exhibition has been unveiled at the Rye Creative Centre

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

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

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 . . .

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

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