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Saturday, 26 August 2017

Literary Events at Rye Arts Festival. 16 September to 1 October 2017





On Monday 7 August the Box Office opened 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  



The programme includes:


Saturday 16 Sept 11:00 Milligan Theatre: Talk by Kenneth Clarke about his political memoir: “A Kind of Blue”

Sunday 17 Sept 15:00 Tudor Room, The Mermaid Inn: Prof Andrew Hadfield with Peter Franczak on "Shakespeare in Rye"

Sunday 17 Sept 19:00 Community Centre: Talk by Karin Fernald on "Jane Austen - The Early Years"

Monday 18 Sept 11:00 opposite Rye Lodge Hotel (booking essential) Allan Downend Guided walk: Mapp and Lucia in Rye

Monday 18 Sept 15:00 Mermaid Inn: Terri Fleming , “Perception”, her sequel to “Pride and Prejudice”

Tuesday 19 Sept 17:30 Methodist Church: Sally Smith QC on her biography of Marshall Hall

Wednesday 20 Sept 11:30 Kino Cinema: free screening of 2014 BBC production of “Mapp & Lucia”

Wednesday 20 Sept 12:30 Tuscan Rye, Lion Street: Guy Fraser-Sampson: Lucia’s Luncheon

Thursday 21 Sept 15:00 Methodist Church: 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 Kino Cinema: "Clueless" (Film reworking of Jane Austen’s“Emma”)

Saturday 23 Sept 12:00 to 19:30  Kino Courtyard: “Caravan Shorts” – Two short films: "Maid of Kent" and  "Dust to Dust"

Saturday 23 Sept 15:00 Mermaid Inn: Evie Wyld (award-winning author) “Talk on the Wyld Side”

Sunday 24 Sept 15:00 Methodist Church: 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 Rye Bookshop: “The Art of Translation” by a panel of translators

Tuesday 26 Sept 15:00 Methodist Church: Dr Andrew Bamji “Faces from the Front” Facial reconstruction surgery and the pioneering work by Sir Harold Gllies during and after the First World War

Wednesday 27 Sept 15:00 Methodist Church: Vanessa Nicholson “Have you Been Good?” a memoir

Thursday 28 Sept 20:10 Kino Cinema: Helen Simonson Writers of Rye (TV documentary)

Thursday 28 Sept 18:00 Community Centre: Margaret Hodge “Called to Account” (political memoir)

Friday 29 Sept 15:00 The Mermaid Inn: William Shaw “The Birdwatcher” (his crime novel set in Dungeness)

Sunday 1 Oct 17:00 Community Centre: “Austentatious” the improvised Jane Austen novel

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