Culture

The fourth Rye International Jazz & Blues Festival promises a stellar line-up over the August bank holiday. And this year’s festival will include special screenings at the Kino and a ‘New York’ jazz club as well as lots of free concerts at local venues. Tony McLaughlin has a full preview

The latest exhibition at the Rye Art Gallery is nautically themed, focused on work from the sea and the seaside by local contemporary artists. It includes ceramics and crafts and should not be missed! Linda Harland reports

On July 4 Waterstones will "officially" open in the High Street under the name of The Rye Bookshop. Peter Rabbit will be there to perform the opening ceremony

This week's featured movie showing at the Rye Kino is Queen and Country (pictured); the wonderfully witty but deeply moving new film focusing on Bill and Percy, two young and disillusioned army recruits in the early 1950s. The film follows their escapades as they while away their days chasing girls and making mischief. But the war in Korea is looming and authority is pressing in around them, creating tensions that will test their relationship to breaking point. For details of this and other movies follow the link...

Jonty Driver will read his long poem, Requiem, at a free event as part of the JAM festival which includes an eclectic mix of events at venues all over Romney Marsh

The 2015 Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival was once again a great success with superb performances by some wonderfully skilled musicians

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

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

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..

Rye Kino hosted a performance by Bulgarian cellist, Michael...

The Bexhill to Hastings link road has revealed some hidden treasures, bringing new clarity to how our ancestors lived and worked

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