"For 16 September days, hundreds of artists and makers open studios, homes and galleries across the Lewes District villages from Lewes to Seaford, Newhaven and the surrounding countryside in its 32nd year as the South East's most accessible open art festival."
Artwave Festival
"One of the earliest events of the Sussex bonfire season sends costumed societies and burning torches through a pretty Wealden village high street."
Mayfield Bonfire
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Thirty specialist nurseries gather at Christopher Lloyd's legendary experimental garden for a weekend of rare plants, short plantsmanship talks at the stalls and famous cake."
Great Dixter Autumn Plant Fair
"This small Wealden village keeps the old Sussex tradition alive with a torchlit procession, costumed marchers and a village bonfire and fireworks."
Northiam Bonfire
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Six rival bonfire societies stage torch-lit processions, burning effigies, and fireworks through the streets of Lewes on the 5th in what is widely regarded as the UK's most spectacular and defiant Bonfire Night tradition."
Lewes Bonfire Celebrations
"Six rival bonfire societies fill the narrow streets with blazing torches, burning crosses and exploding effigies in the wildest Fifth of November spectacle in the world."
Lewes Bonfire Night Celebrations
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Visiting societies and burning torches process past the abbey where the Battle of Hastings was fought, ending with a roaring bonfire and fireworks."
Battle Bonfire
✦ Weird and Wonderful"The Rye and District Bonfire Society leads a torch-lit town procession past Rye's medieval streets, accompanied by Scorcher the dragon and the Ryebellion drummers, culminating in a waterside bonfire and boat burning."
Rye Bonfire (Great Rye Fawkes Pageant)
"A torchlit pageant winds through the medieval cobbled hilltop town before a blazing boat is consigned to the flames at The Salts."
Rye Bonfire Pageant
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A whole village rises before dawn for a Bonfire Breakfast and a guy competition before a torchlit procession winds to the recreation ground for grand fireworks."
Robertsbridge Bonfire
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Over 40,000 tulips in more than 100 varieties fill the colour-themed rooms of an 11-acre High Weald garden surrounding a Grade I-listed Tudor manor house, with Bloms Bulbs experts on hand throughout."
Pashley Manor Tulip Festival
"One of England's most spectacular May Day folk revivals, this four-day festival sees a giant leaf-covered Jack lead a thundering procession of Morris sides, giants and drummers through Hastings Old Town before being slain on West Hill to release the spirit of summer."
Hastings Jack in the Green
"A traditional village show on Northiam Playing Fields featuring classic and vintage vehicles against the backdrop of the High Weald."
Northiam Classic Car and Vehicle Show
"The East Sussex town built on the field of Hastings fills its streets and gardens with scarecrows for two weeks each July, a festival that plays with the history of battle and Norman conquest while somehow ending up being extremely cheerful."
Battle Scarecrow Festival