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Rye Festivals
Rye hosts a medieval weekend in July, the Rye Festival of Music and the Arts in September and a bonfire night in November.
Hastings Festivals
Hastings is known for its traditional Jack-in-the-Green Festival which celebrates the first of May. The festival features traditional music and Morris dances. The Jack-in-the-Green is paraded through the town before being symbolically slain so as to hail in the dawn of a new summer. In the first two weeks of August, Hastings celebrates the Old Town Festival and Carnival. Events include a Boat Parade and Race, a Pram Race and a Bike Race. If you're here in October, you'll witness one of the biggest firework displays in the UK when the town celebrates Hastings Day, October 14th, the day when the Battle of Hastings was fought.
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
A yearly festival in which one of the world's best known opera houses, the Glyndebourne Opera House holds a series of operas. This festival is an historic event which was held for the first time in 1934. The 2006 Glyndebourne Festival Opera will run between May and August holding productions such as Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte , Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer's Night Dream and Beethoven's Fidelio .
Arundel Festival
selection of artisits to deliver six evenings of top quality entertainment featuring theatre, jazz, classical, choir & pop music and on top of this, a Spitfire display and spectacular fireworks. Between June and July.
Goodwood Festival of Speed
The Festival of Speed can claim to be the world's biggest and most diverse celebration of the history of motor sport.