With three weeks to go till Rye Arts Festival starts on September 13, some events are already sold out, and a number are also fast approaching capacity, so you need to secure your tickets sooner rather than later.
Events that have proved super popular include the two walks by Cliff Dean and Keith Swallow at Pett Level, both of which are fully booked.
The talk by Peter Hibbs The South Coast Martello Towers has sold all 60 of its tickets in double quick time. And the Winchelsea cellars tours are proving ever popular, with a sell-out on Saturday September 21, while other dates are about to become fully booked in the next few days.
Barry Yates, a firm festival favourite, is coming out of his well-deserved retirement to lead a sold-out walk of the nature reserve, and he is also part of the Rye Harbour History Group talks, Discover Rye Harbour, which is also at full capacity, although the festival has just reconfigured the event to put a further six tickets on sale!
And other events are going like hotcakes, so you need to move quickly in order to secure your tickets.
These include Timberlina’s Bingo Extraordinaire which closes the Festival on Sunday September, 29 which the organisers will soon call “House” on shortly, as a full complement of numbers is reached!
Sir Vernon Bogdanor’s talk Six Politicians who Changed Britain, but who never became PM (including Nye Bevin and Nigel Farage) on Wednesday September 25 has just a dozen tickets left before it is fully booked. And a lucky seven people might get the remaining tickets for the talk on Derek Jarman by Jane Palm-Gold on Monday September 23.
The ever-popular Pat Argar will talk about a Hop Farming Family 1796-1986, which focuses on a single family in Northiam and particularly its notable matriarchs who kept the show on the road and the farm in business over the centuries. With just about 20 tickets left to sell for Pat the festival talk will soon be sold out!
And the wonderful Crispian Steele-Perkins, the doyen of British trumpeters will be accompanied by Martin Bruce on the organ at St Mary’s church on Tuesday September 17 in an intimate concert in the choir and the crossing of the church, with two-thirds sold already.
In addition to these events the festival has around 50 more ticketed talks, walks, concerts and shows in a packed fortnight at the end of September. To find out more about these go to www.ryeartsfestival.org.uk
Image Credits: Kt Bruce , Peter Hibbs , Rye Arts Festival , Pat Agar .