Lurking behind the quiet exterior of the National Trust's Lamb House this week lurks a frenzy of activity leading up to open air performances (weather permitting) of "Twelfth Night", but that's not the only event taking place there. The jazz festival at the end of August features a two day weekend e
More than 23,000 visitors went round the Ypres Tower last year and this year the East Street Museum is featuring a display on Waterloo as part of Rye Arts Festival in September.
The coolest jazz club, skittering break-beats in an ancient church, and a teach-in with live music in a walled garden. Rye's International Jazz and Blues Festival has it all, over five nights and four days between August 27 and 31.
The three lucky winners of our book competition have been notified of their victory and will be rushing along to The Rye Bookshop on the High Street to pick up
The new summer exhibition by the Rye Society of Artists looks set to break records as fine weather, a new bright and breezy venue and a spectacular show tempts in collectors, locals and visitors alike
A new regular correspondent in Rye News, Heidi Foster (above), kicks off on the "Culture" page with some comments about the Jazz Lounge at last year's Jazz and Blues Festival, and the Maritime Festival
Showing at Rye Community Centre Film Club on Friday, August 7- Selma (pictured above). This Oscar-nominated film is based on the story of Martin Luther King's quest to obtain equal voting rights for black citizens in Alabama in 1965. For details of this and other movies showing in Rye please follow
The box office opens, the opening procession has permission and Rye Arts Festival is on its way with the Studio School and pupil Maria Ezobi playing a big part
It's open air theatre time again at Lamb House on August 14-16. Shakespeare of course. But not too heavy. This year it's "Twelfth Night". Previously it's been "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (pictured above). And the young actors have lots of experience, with the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare
There will be a rare opportunity this Saturday afternoon to visit what is reckoned to be Winchelsea's best medieval vaulted cellar, under the ruins of the so-called Blackfriars Barn.
The full programme for the fourth Rye International Jazz and Blues Festival was launched last week with nearly fifty events over five nights and four days from August 27-31, the Bank Holiday weekend. Charles Harkness reports.
