The Battle of Hastings

The Kino in Rye has a special screening of a documentary film about the 11th Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition, And, as an added extra, there will be a Q&A session with the film's acclaimed director Mike Figgis (left).

The film is being shown on Sunday 7th May at 5.45pm at Kino Rye, with tickets at £20, which includes a glass of wine and nibbles as well as the Q&A session with Figgis who is a British film director and screen writer as well as a composer and who gained 2 Oscars nominations for his film Leaving Las Vegas in 1995.

Rye Favourite Pianist Plays Tenterden

A concert by Anna Szalucka will take place at 7.30pm on Saturday 8 April in St Mildred's Church Tenterden.

Anna Szalucka is an outstanding young Polish pianist, who wowed the Rye audience last September during the 2016 Rye Arts Festival. Not surprisingly since she is a multiple prizewinner and has dazzled audiences in a number of locations across Poland, Austria, the Baltic States as well as in the UK!

Rye-Citals’ – A New Classical Concert Series at Rye Creative Centre

Starting on Sunday 26th February and then each month, Alisdair Kitchen – known in Rye for his widely acclaimed opera productions in the Rye Arts Festival – will present a concert at Rye Creative Centre featuring Euphonia Studio Artists, singers and instrumentalists who have delighted festival audiences with their performances in recent years. 

The series begins, to coincide with a break in the Hasting International Piano Concerto Competition and the last day of Scallop Week festivities in Rye with a candlelit solo piano recitals given by Alisdair himself.