Lewes Speakers Festival

All Saints Centre, Friars Walk, Lewes, Friday, July 17, to Sunday, July 19, various times, tickets from £12.50, £45 day ticket, £80 weekend, www.lewesspeakersfestival.com

THE Beast Of Bolsover Dennis Skinner, best-selling author Louis de Bernieres and A C Grayling are among the special guests at this year’s Speakers Festival – which also includes debates on equal rights for men and the obesity epidemic.

Mutiny Festival

Fontwell Park, Arundel Road, Chichester, Friday, July 17, to Sunday, July 19, noon, weekend tickets from £65, day tickets from £35, www.mutinyfestivals.co.uk

HIP hop legend Snoop Dogg heads up the Saturday main stage line-up at the second Mutiny Festival, following last year’s launch event at Portsmouth’s Victoria Park. Also on the bill are Knife Party, Labrinth, Katy B, Rebel Sound, Nero and Maverick Sabre.

Walled Garden Music Festival

Brightling Park, Brightling, Robertsbridge, Saturday, July 18, and Sunday, July 19, 2pm, weekend £115, day passes from £48, visit www.walledgardenmusicfest.co.uk

ANOTHER new music festival makes its debut this summer, with a bill aimed at the classic rock crowd – including tribute acts Off The Wall, Absolute Bowie, And You And Yes and No Jacket Required, plus Cutting Crew’s spin-off project Three Wise Men And A Virgin, Lifesigns and spacerockers Quantum Fantay.

Bexhill Roaring 20s

Seafront, Bexhill, Saturday, July 18, 10am to 6pm, free, bexhillroaring20s.org.uk

A WORLD record largest Charleston dance at 1pm is one of the highlights as the clock is turned back almost a century in Bexhill tomorrow. Also on the bill are air displays, dance demonstrations, a vintage car parade and display and open air screening of Bugsy Malone at the De La Warr Pavilion.

March Of The Mermaids

From Hove Lawns, Saturday, July 18, from noon to 8pm, parade wristband £2, children free, www.marchofthemermaids.com

THE third annual March Of The Mermaids along Brighton seafront will raise cash for Whalefest’s World Cetacean Alliance charity. Inspired by the parade in New York’s Coney Island it will see mermaids and sea creatures enjoy a seafront picnic before the parade at 2pm and family after-party from 4pm.

HOST: Light Of My Life

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Church Street, Saturday, July 18, 5.30pm and 7pm, free (pre-booking required), www.brightondome.org

ARGUS Angel winners Jess Thom and Matthew Poutney are returning to the Dome following the success of Backstage In Biscuitland, their light-hearted look at artist Thom’s life with Tourettes syndrome. This new work has been commissioned by Nightingale Theatre to continue the Host project of replayed stories launched at Brighton Fringe 2014.

Rare And Traditional Breeds Show

Weald And Downland Open Air Museum, Town Lane, Singleton, Chichester, Sunday, July 19, 10am to 4pm, £12.50/£7, 01243 811348

DANCING sheep, young animal handlers and trade and craft stalls are all descending on the Weald And Downland Open Air Museum for the 30th anniversary of the Rare And Traditional Breeds Show on the museums’s events field.