Coastal Currents Arts Festival
Events | Art  
The arts festival that asks us to look again.
Things are looking up on the downs as stargazers across Sussex turn their eyes to the heavens for February’s Dark Skies Festival. This two-week celebration of all things celestial takes you on a journey to the moon and planets, there’s a Facebook Live session and even an astrophotography masterclass. Back down on terra firma, the local wildlife gets a look in as well as we find out which animals come out to play in the dark.
February // South Downs National Park
Events | Art  
The arts festival that asks us to look again.
Overnight | Accommodation | Self-catering  
Get away from it all at this picturesque cottage situated among 600-acres of vines on the Rathfinny Wine Estate.
News  
Harriet Olsen is the founder of independent Sussex-based publishers, Eiderdown Books. If you haven’t already heard of them, their books about female artists are written by leading female writers, art historians and cultural commentators.
Wine  
The impressive 50-acre estate represents a new style of vineyard, with overnight stays, tours, tastings, restaurant and even a Gin School.
Art  
The modernist home and studio of the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Charleston was a gathering point for some of the 20th century’s most radical artists, writers and thinkers known collectively as the Bloomsbury group.
Story | Art | Landscape | Wine  
There’s a gentle landscape that follows the eastern margin of Sussex. It unfolds across the Weald through ancient woodlands, broadening out to a quiet hinterland, a place defined by its three rivers.
Wine  
Set amongst 70 acres of rolling hills and woodlands with far reaching views along the Tillingham River valley.
Cycling | Wine  
Cadence Cycle Club's Director Roger Myall shows us how to reach some of the best vineyards near Eastbourne by bike.
Wine  
Meet Julie Bretland, Mark Collins and Hannah Simpson-Banks, thoughtfully blending art and wine at Artelium: their beautiful patch of Sussex countryside.