Culture
Tempest hits Winchelsea
Outdoor Shakespeare returns to the Ancient Town on June 20, when 'The Tempest' will be performed in the grounds of St Thomas' School
Let’s go to the movies!
This week's featured film showing at Rye Community Centre Film Club on Friday June 5 - The Theory of Everything (pictured) the story of the young Stephen Hawking, not yet the world-renowned physicist he was to become and his relationship with Jane Wilde, a young student he meets and falls in love with at Cambridge in the early 1960s. For this, and other films in Rye, follow the link...
Strumming in the sunshine
The sun shone, the ukuleles were strummed, the kazoos were blown - and it was festival time during the Bank Holiday weekend. Who knows whether the Big Strum set a record, but something like 300 musicians were trying to synchronise their efforts. Lorna Hall reports
When Morris men dance
Traditions of Merrie England still hold their appeal for spectators and performers alike as Morris men perform to the sound of music in front of Rye Town Hall
Cinque Ports rise and fall
The citizens of the present-day Cinque Ports take pride in the notoriety of their medieval predecessors. The height of the Portsmens' turbulent role in national history was during the Barons War in the early 13th century. This episode is to be the subject of a talk (fittingly) in Winchelsea later this month
Let’s go to the movies!
This week's featured film showing at the Rye Kino is 'A Royal Night Out' (pictured) It's VE Day, 1945, people are celebrating the end of the war. Two teenage princesses, Margaret and the future Queen of England, Elizabeth are allowed out that night to join the party. For the first time they are able to mingle with the teeming crowds, incognito... Follow link for details and previews of this and other movies showing in Rye