Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
Art
Home to a permanent collection that showcases the work of artists and craftspeople living and working in Ditchling
No two Brighton Festivals are ever the same. Yes, all the usual suspects are here – music, theatre, art, dance, film, literature – but it’s the capacity to surprise that marks Brighton’s festival out from the rest. Waves of culture flow across the city in May as each year a different director puts their own unique twist on an event that unfailingly seems to manage to find a way to make the cultural world sit up and take notice.
Each May // various venues
Art
Home to a permanent collection that showcases the work of artists and craftspeople living and working in Ditchling
Overnight | Accommodation | Self-catering
Get away from it all at this picturesque cottage situated among 600-acres of vines on the Rathfinny Wine Estate.
Events
International artists take over Rye.
News | Wine
With its high latitude, warm and dry maritime climate, and range of soil types Sussex has just the right characteristics and long seasons for growing grapes.
Wine
As crisp autumnal days give way to cosy winter nights and frosty mornings, the new season brings new experiences, events and occasions to Sussex’s vineyards.
Landscape
Pevensey Bay is an old fishing village founded in the 1600s and is famously known as William of Normandy’s landing place in 1066. It is now a popular seaside destination. Pevensey village dates back to the 13th century and the nearby Pevensey Levels are a natural haven for wild birds, flowers and animals.
Events | Art
Out and about on the Sussex art trail.
Wine
Ben Walgate is at the vanguard of regenerative farming in Sussex. His dynamic vineyard and winery, Tillingham— in Peasmarsh near Rye— is the antidote to large-scale winemaking. We meet him at the farm on an autumn day to find out what brought him here—and where Tillingham is going.
News | Wine
Alison Nightingale, the force of nature behind Albourne Estate, gives us the inside line on what’s happening in English wine. And it seems sparkling wine isn’t the only story in town.