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!