There was no society meeting this month, but the annual garden party, held in Howard's and David's garden, was well attended, well fed, favoured by the weather and intellectually extended by no fewer than four quizzes.
August: No Literary Society meeting.
September: The next Literary Society meeting will be on 15 September: "Who's in Charge? The Muse Answers Back" by Douglas Skinner. More details next month
On Monday 7 August the Box Office opens
at Phillips and Stubbs, 47 - 49 Cinque Ports Street, opening hours 9:30 am to
12:30 pm Mon – Fri. (also Saturday 16, 23, and 30 September.) You can also book
on-line at www.ryeartsfestival.co.uk . For friends and patrons the box office is already
open.
Of literary interest are:
Saturday 16 Sept 11:00 Talk by Kenneth
Clarke about his political memoir: “A Kind of Blue”
Sunday 17 Sept 15:00 Prof Andrew
Hadfield with Peter Franczak on Shakespeare in Rye
Sunday 17 Sept 19:00 Talk by Karin Fernald
on Jane Austen - The Early Years
Monday 18 Sept 11:00 Allan Downend
Guided walk: Mapp and Lucia in Rye
Monday 18 Sept 15:00 Terri Fleming , “Perception”,
her sequel to “Pride and Prejudice”
Tuesday 19 Sept 17:30 Sally Smith QC on
her biography of Marshall Hall
Wednesday 20 Sept 11:30 Screening of
2014 BBC production of “Mapp & Lucia”
Wednesday 20 Sept 12:30 Guy Fraser-Sampson:
Lucia’s Luncheon, at Tuscan Rye
Thursday 21 Sept 15:00 Dame Stephanie
Shirley: introducing her memoir, “Let IT Go”
Thursday 21 Sept 19:00 Bowler Crab
Production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Thursday 21 Sept 20:10 Clueless (Film
reworking of Jane Austen’s“Emma”)
Saturday 23 Sept 12:00 to 19:30 “Caravan
Shorts” – Two short films
Saturday 23 Sept 15:00 Evie Wyld (award-winning
author) “Talk on the Wyld Side”
Sunday 24 Sept 15:00 Claire Fuller on “Swimming
Lessons” and how it got written
Sunday 24 Sept 18:00 Nicholas Collett “Your
Bard” performance playing two parts
Monday 25 Sept 17:45 “The Art of
Translation” by a panel of translators
Tuesday 26 Sept 15:00 Dr Andrew Bamji “Faces
from the Front” Facial reconstruction
Wednesday 27 Sept 15:00 Vanessa
Nicholson “Have you Been Good?” a memoir
Thursday 28 Sept 20:10 Helen Simonson
Writers of Rye (TV documentary)
Thursday 28 Sept 18:00 Margaret Hodge “Called
to Account” (political memoir)
Friday 29 Sept 15:00 William Shaw “The
Birdwatcher” (his crime novel set in Dungeness)
Sunday 1 Oct 17:00 “Austentatious” the
improvised Jane Austen novel
October: Our Literary Society meeting is on Friday 20 October: 20 October: "Who is Julian of Norwich and why is she so wonderful?" by Claire Foster-Gilbert
An additional event of interest is a talk in St Thomas' Church by Zdenka Fantlova. Here is a reminder from Ann Rachlin, including a link to a YouTube excerpt:
"Zdenka Fantlova, 95-year old Holocaust survivor, author of "The Tin Ring", will be visiting Winchelsea on October 15th and speaking at 3 pm in St Thomas' at our awe-inspiring "Life is Wonderful” event, accompanied by ten musicians. This will be an inspirational afternoon, in no way sombre - on the contrary, it will be uplifting and life-enhancing.
I urge you all to view this short YouTube excerpt that will illustrate Zdenka's amazing compelling attitude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMwkJtvP9_o&t=42s
Make sure you start it at the beginning. It often decides to start the excerpt half-way through!
Tickets for "Life is Wonderful" are on sale at £15"
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