🔥 REC & RIBS – BBQ FESTIVAL 🔥A full day of BBQ food and summer vibes is coming to Old Heath Recreation Ground as Rec & Ribs takes over Colchester.This is a proper BBQ-led event, celebrating low & slow cooking, big flavours and a laid-back outdoor atmosphere. Expect stacked ribs, sizzling grills, great traders, a [...]
Join us for a relaxed and creative workshop where you’ll design and make your own knitted wire word – perfect for home décor, gifts, or something completely personal to you.Using a knitting machine, you’ll create your own wool-covered wire, before shaping and forming it into your chosen word or phrase. Don’t worry if you’ve never [...]
Join us for another wonderful Colchester Carnival. Wear something bright and colourful and decorate your bike if you can.
As part of the Constable Ambisonic project, sound artist Stuart Bowditch has been making 360º spatial audio recordings of the locations of 20 paintings by John Constable. You’ll be able to hear stereo versions of these recordings at ‘The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape’ exhibition at Christchurch Mansions in Ipswich from July. There will also [...]
Join us for a calm and creative afternoon learning the traditional craft of bookbinding, where you’ll create your own hard, fabric-covered notebook completely from scratch. At the wonder House of Joy.In this friendly, guided workshop, you’ll choose from a range of fabrics to design a notebook that reflects your personal style. You’ll then be taken [...]
We cannot wait to bring our Mid Summer Evening Market back to Colchester in 2026 on Saturday July 18thWe’ll be filling the gorgeous piazza area, outside the Mercury Theatre from 4pm until 8pm with lots of amazing food, drink and craft stalls as well as some delicious street food so get the date in the [...]
MY HEART WILL GO ON – Is the Ultimate celebration concert of the music of one of the worlds greatest iconic singers of all time- Celine Dion. This outstanding concerthas been storming its way across Europe for 4 years gaining critical acclaim and outstanding reviews. Described as a “ powerhouse performance that delivers on every [...]
Tickets £15.Doors open 7.30pm, starts 8pm.This show is for a seated audience.A Double Bill of work in progress shows from two great comics - catch their Edinburgh show before the festival-goers do...Rob Auton Following on from his 2025 Edinburgh hit show CAN - The story of a man called Can, writer and performer, Rob Auton [...]
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