Tag: Rye Arts Festival

The Rye’s Own archive follows Rye Arts Festival through contemporary reports and later recollections, capturing both the public spectacle and the details remembered locally. The trail includes “Rye Arts Festival 2006”, “Rye’s Great Annual Events That Still Draw The Crowds”, “Rye Arts Festival Opens New Doors”, and “Editorial”, offering several ways into the subject rather than a single potted account. The result is less a formal history than a lively bundle of evidence, voices and remembered moments from the magazine’s pages.

Rye’s Great Annual Events That Still Draw The Crowds

There has been a lot of talk recently on reviving many of the old annual events staged in Rye but which, over the years, have fallen by the wayside. Rye Sports Day, Rye Medieval Festival, Miss Rye, The Raft Race and Rye in Bloom to name just a few. It is hoped the meeting on … Continue reading Rye’s Great Annual Events That Still Draw The Crowds

Editorial

Many people have asked about the artist who provided last months cover picture of Mermaid Street . Beat rice Cloake from Hythe is the artist, she has been described as a romantic in modern times who writes poems in watercolour. We could not improve on this description of one of our favourite artists.

Rye Arts Festival Opens New Doors

  During a packed programme of events between 15th and 30th September, the 41st annual Rye Arts Festival is excited to be using three new venues in Rye this year – Tilling Green Community Centre; the Fletcher Centre in Lion Street; and St Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church in Watchbell Street.